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we're sitting down with douglas macgregor every tired army colonel who fought in the gulf war and was referred to by some officials as the best fighter the us army has got mr macgregor thank you very much for joining me good to be here president obama has put forward an ultimatum for iran either make progress with negotiators or face consequences consequences meaning war some say a strike may happen within the next few months in your opinion how realistic is that should we expect the war in summer topical question right now in washington d.c. i think the answer right at the moment is no president obama is not remotely interested in waging war against iran so let's be clear about that no one at the top of the united states military establishment is interested in waging war against iran and the intelligence community has made it abundantly clear that iran is nowhere near the development of a nuclear warhead or the capacity to deliver one so we had those things up it's

very very obvious that at least in the places that count at the white house the department of defense there is no interest in waging a war on iran and let me say something that's so great there is a great push from israeli influence groups that president obama just backed a potential strike and as you said they had ministration says the iranians haven't even decided to build a bomb so all this war talk is based on what is based really on i think the american israeli public affairs committee and it's a subordinate elements or affiliated elements they represent enormous quantities of money that over many years have cultivated enormous influence and power in congress and you simply are talking is just to appease the lobbyists well i think you've got a lot of people on the hill who fall into two categories one category that is interested in money and wants to be real. acted and they don't want to run the risk of the various lobbies that are that are pushing military action against iran to

contribute money to their opponents colonel macgregor some say these trade leaderships see this summer as that window of opportunity that they don't want to put two reasons one iran has very few friends in the wage and syria its closest ally is a mess right now and second presidential elections coming up in the u.s. some say israel is going to use their leverage over president obama and it's going to be very hard for him to say no what do you think about that window of opportunity if it's well well if you were to launch a strike in the summer this would cause a dramatic downturn in the economy just consider that we had a rumor that supposedly iranian commandos had destroyed a pipeline in saudi arabia other fanciful nonsense and eventually it was denied by remco the saudi arabian oil corporation but in that short period of time or oil

skyrocketed on the market up beyond a hundred fifty dollars a barrel but the point is just the rumor of action was enough to send the oil through the roof so we had a foretaste there of the dramatic economic consequences for the world if we move ahead and support israel in its desire to strike iran that's why i don't think president obama is remotely interested so they don't think that the israeli leadership sees this as a window of opportunity of the me but look don't count out the israeli population let's not assume that everyone in israel is anxious to see iran destroyed i think that's misleading there's more division of opinion in israel than we think so again how long can mr netanyahu and mr barak play this game of the century trying to bully president obama and push him into an action that he would otherwise choose not to take did ministration is basically saying all they need is evident. that iran has acquired nuclear weapons capability and here's what i want to ask you

about this capability issue because it's a very vague i mean it means being capable of doing something but not necessarily doing it yes how do you see it was deliberately vague it's deliberately ambiguous so the various people can define it as they like what is a capability to do something in terms of weapons nuclear weapons development well how much in rich geranium are we talking about is it just in rich in uranium does it involve packaging the enriched uranium does it involve a test of some type no one has been very specific and i think that's purposeful because you could if you're sitting in the white house right now and you're sitting at the cia n.s.a. or in the pentagon you can always say well we said capability we don't see it yet so is the purpose of that to to keep the u.s. way at least in this in vagueness well president obama is preeminent concern is to get reelected. and that's

a very dangerous proposition right now for him depending upon what the israelis do if they launch a strike but a say on their own without consulting us independent of us entirely and they do it say late october shortly before the election obama then can say well you know we're obligated we have to help our israeli friends and he looks good if they do it earlier then the consequences could be very profound for him because it would certainly tank our economy we would be in severe difficulty here in the united states if we have a very narrow will so only an interventionist elite inside washington that operates independently of the american people that thinks of itself as being morally superior and justified in taking action anywhere against anyone that it deems appropriate that's the problem and the iranians are justifiably concerned about that but they have not reached the point where they can weaponize anything they don't have that capability and we do have the ability to detect that know it and

respond to it they know those things what we need to do is move beyond this ridiculous confrontational setting that both of us are trapped in and that's very hard to do in an election year when everyone is pandering to various elements of the electorate for money and votes colonel let's say world powers p five plus one negotiate something but the results don't satisfy as well and the west and they do go to war in summer as some predict what kind of immediate backlash should they expect iran struck a chord is subversion. the ability to subvert so the retaliation would be in the form of terrorism it would be in the form of what i would call asymmetric attacks in other words high payoff low investment in other words use what you can beyond your borders in populations friendly to you to attack the other person's interests

now we should underestimate how much damage that could involve and remember we know the difference since hizbollah as well as other as iranian elements are here in the united states so we know that we would sustain losses here at home there would be damage here in the united states how many bombs would you have to explode in public malls to do enough damage to awaken everybody to what's going on my point is we you know those are the kinds of things that i would expect that a direct military confrontation would be a losing proposition for them they might be able to inflict damage on our air forces and our naval forces but not on the scale that would make any difference to the outcome they would sustain enormous damage and enormous losses what about long term the fact some say even if you were and haven't decided to build a bomb they sure will if attacked well i was something more important that we talk about what they will do if they are attacked i think we should look at the rest of the world what will the rest of the world do if israel attacks iran remember this

is an unprovoked assault. been the israelis can claim otherwise and insist otherwise and paint this picture of enormous danger represented to israel but the truth is no one buys that my view has always been that if you do this if israel does this that iran will very definitely have nuclear weapons they will have to build them they'll get them people will provide those to them they will have more help than they know what to do with any iran will grow more hostile and more bitter and more angry and more dangerous than it has ever been i want to ask you about syria the obama administration has kind of ruled out the military intervention saying it's too complicated what in your opinion. keeps the u.s. from attacking syria there are several things first of all there is a quiet recognition behind closed doors that if assad is removed however much people do not like hoffa's or assad that the government that succeeds in will be

a radical islamist sunni muslim government hostile to israel hostile to the west hostile to shia islam in other words. not a good development from the standpoint of the united states or europe. so i think that's understood secondly there's an understanding that syria actually has despite the fact it's much smaller than iran what twenty to twenty three million people i think very good armed forces it does have an integrated air defense structure that would take some time to dismantle but its ground forces are actually very good and it's of the arab forces i would describe the syrians as probably being among the best if not the best best disciplined best officers what would be the main argument that you would suggest for the u.s. not to attack iran right now we see iran through one lens in one way we see this as a unchanging theocracy that is very of the american anti

western incurable if you will know the words it's fatally stricken with this theocratic disease of religious fanaticism i don't i think it will change and i think if we can back away from this iran will evolve differently over the next ten years and we don't have to have this hostile relationship we're confrontation and that would be i mean are you that's one of my organs see another was don't look at you want to change for the better look at the future look at what is driving iran what is what is iran's principle interest internal modernization economic development what do its people want israel to focus of everyone's hatred in iran absolutely not most iranians could care less about it in fact most iranians are not very friendly towards arabs so the bottom line is why are we doing what we're doing we're looking at things as though they will not change my point is that nixon had the foresight to understand china was at the beginning of

a long period of change my point is that we're going to discover in the next few years that iran too is at the beginning of a long period of change thank you very much thank you. but did i kill innocent kid a was it a call of course and that's never a. moment song when the skull spoke with me i think of it every day. before i was fired from the memories and i assume i saw it a long time just here trying to tell him. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had been. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my arm i got my legs.

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if. you. the latest news the week in review on artsy rusher accused the syrian rebels of fighting on. the un brokered peace plan as a shipment of smuggled for the opposition is intercepted by eleven on it all comes as the u.n. is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt to oversee a cease fire. is chasing the vote of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential ballots to france with immigration. among the main rally. over twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of. series of bombs exploded there on friday injuring at least.

plus guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m p was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the polonium caused tension between the kremlin and downing street. straight into the world of sports do you follow if things are heating up with the top and bottom of england's premier league chelsea and spurs in action today both getting to the champions league places for next season while their opponents are fighting relegation so plenty to fight for are the latest just after this. they're welcome to the sport and these are the headlines big ambitions newly crowned russian champions any set their sights on europe are claiming another

premier league title. plus third time lucky to rap of a losing streak against a top seed as a rank in the final in stood. on the price of victory chicago beat philadelphia in the n.b.a. playoffs but lose k.-man derrick rose to injury. let's begin though with the english premier league where chelsea have kicked off against relegation threatened q.p.r. and chelsea already to know that it's time for a breakthrough just fifteen minutes gone daniel sturridge got the first goal john terry with the second q.p.r. desperate for points at the moment they are just above the relegation zone on goal difference what a win for chelsea would move them to within a point or fourth place newcastle that by the end of today it could be spurs who hold that last champions league spot they need a victory over relegation threatened black. so big games today but non bigger than tomorrow's potential target decider between leaders manchester united and rivals manchester city the red devils travel to the end he had stadium two points clear

with three games left to play and city boss man cine is adamant the visitors are the favorites. from up you know as the saying i do that. more than i was was the. mind and after we should play against newcastle that would be you go for game and after the united. swansea. doing that for them it would be too easy getting. now after successfully defending their russian prime elite titles and eight have now set their sights on europe. he says the club will invest implies over the summer to improve their chances in next season's champions league then he became russian champions for a third time in five years after a two one win over. the hosts taking the lead here through my share of calls before . a penalty five minutes later the top score alexander slotting home from the spot

to make it but they had to hang on alexandra to pull one back to denominate still in the first half and ten minutes after the break the senate had constantine's that he on off sent off for a second book about the fence so nervous moments was any but they held to one how it ended and the celebration started fancily today it seems achievement and as the champagne flags belletti praised his team's mental toughness over a long eighteen months season he also claims that he wanted to become one of europe's top ten sides were prepared to push the squad in the summer players are enjoying the moment midfielder getting teammates to sign his own shit head in memory of their latest title while fans make sure they didn't go home empty handed either. elsewhere tiscali folks part are interested after beating the arch rivals two one in the moscow darby spotlights audi was guilty of an all quit our own goal

midway through the first half the brazilian failing to clear a free kick was over and toss each but the red white made amends right before the interval lashing home an equaliser here however birthday boy toss each did find the winner he killed in a free kick to the. field where a double from sunday to so and mighty three one him a catch kolob also had a terrible start to this one putting into the same net after twenty five minutes however just seven minutes later the railway men who were level thanks to dennys plushie cost of it here but. so you turn the tables almost singlehandedly after the bright becoming striker first made the most of a defensive mistake midway through the second half. and then settle things with that dazzling injury time. and gigo face into the europa league places by look like they just stand side by straight. off to him

meanwhile bluejeans hopes to finish in europa league places with dented after they had to come from behind to draw one one at home to get banned marcus bizarrely breaking the deadlock at almost the net there with twenty minutes left before nacho converted a penalty in the closing stages to snatch a point for b u r seven. i am scared to tense because maria sharapova is hoping to make it third time lucky today she's already lost in two finals to world number one victoria as a rank at this season but has a chance for revenge of the poor grand prix in stood should wrap a vest setting up the showdown with a straight sets win over petrak of the to the on saturday the czech did save much point in the second set to force a tie break but sharapova sail through that seven three for the match and she will face a tougher task though against as a rank the better russian had an easy win this could advance in her semi and is the favorite the final victories over the russian strain open and indian wells.

while men's world number two rafael nadal will play fellow spaniard in the final of the barcelona open a little later in the dow with a straight sets win over finale basking in the semi's can three second title on clay this year after winning the monte carlo masters for an eighth time in arrived early this month. the n.b.a. playoffs have got underway with the chicago bulls enjoying one hundred three ninety one victory over philadelphia in the post season opener however the victory was overshadowed by. serious injury to the bones m.v.p. derrick rose he did top score on the night with twenty three points and nine assists he's like the pointer holding up a twenty point lead in the fourth but later in the final frame crumble here falling to the ground tearing and need ligament which will put him out of the playoffs news which took the shine off the comfortable win for the ball with the eastern conference. where the defending champions the dallas mavericks lost by one point

at oklahoma ninety nine ninety eight miami heat have the series lead against new york knicks there after the bron james hit thirty two points and orlando magic the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. now the failing to win a one hundred sixty three starts golfer jason dufner is on the verge of ending his title drank the american classic in new orleans while englishman luke donald looks set to regain the world number one spot dufner has been runner up twice in the p.g.a. tour before but is now two shots clear of the field in new orleans with a round left the play he had a five under sixty seven on the penultimate day graeme to live. coming out pair just behind him while loop needs to finish seventh to return to the top of the world rankings he is currently in a shot behind steve stricker. know

what he does like to win is. he got his maiden title in the european tour with a far short the three times championship in south korea the twenty six year old holding off a late challenge from scotland's richie ramsay. the three best rounds of my life the last three days and. just. tried not to make. it's pretty. funny boxing and japan's new book. says he intends to knock out russia's middleweight champ to me this week the pair fight on tuesday a russian public holiday machine that held an open training session here in the capital and says he's wary of points decision could swing in favor of local favorite. would put the result beyond any damned easy said than done no beating in his nineteen professional banks and the champ is well prepared for but the daniel reports. one of the brightest books and jones russia has still for and

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my boxing technique was all about speed and throwing lots of punches although i weighed just forty eight kilos that me but suddenly i started growing towards a very fast open that changed me a lot and i suddenly couldn't act the same way in the ring i was only seventeen when i had to adjust to the changes that he was i started taking on board some new thing i was good kept all that i learned before hitting that made me a very well rounded boxer meeting it is at the same time i was seeking my own style and although i watched tons of fight all of my friends were fighting me with different video i couldn't get enough water to get what i wanted to improve my left hook when i watched trinidad's fights and studied the way they did it all concentrated on may well as defense defined. that's how my style is developed. the iraq story sports career. but just. one hundred. twenty three years later. is one of the smart lawyers

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