and you didn't even the bill you don't blame those soldiers oh i'll tell you so they were getting they want told anything about the society they didn't they were told they were communists they're out to kill us they didn't they went and they couldn't figure out these kids were not talking about the crime deal or crime of america these are their working lower working class kids met them or lowered the standards they normally would be bright enough or have not about brains about education they want to get into the army so what did they know one of the problems they had is my god these people didn't have refrigerators. i mean i talked to forty or fifty that before i wrote my you know after i wrote a book about this afterwards and i went i spent six eight months just flying around america talking to kids some slam the door some did talk to me but many did and pouring out their heart they had a problem in vietnamese society when they evacuate one of the planes one of the things we did in the war was we would remove families from their lands that had been ancestral fields for their protection it was called the movement of what we

call fortified hamlets which enabled us to declare the areas that they cleared free fire zones you could shoot in anything and when they had villages there were people you could do it so we had evacuated and say it's where they're good and put them in the little armed protected areas with fences around them away from their fields i mean they would do but choppers did and in vietnam society a mother would never let a child go into a strange threshold first they would go first and the soldiers would say ok when they lined up these kids the same group they would evacuate a village and they would say to the woman no children go first and the woman would not only english would would resist and they would beat him with their rifle butts and say look at these crazy woman want to go first leaving the kids behind not knowing the culture and so how can you they were as much victims in a way as as those they killed so i would still be there in this going underground special after the break.

they're not going to come down on their. luck though that not out of the mouth of the money they'll let someone. else. this was a good time to. try to move there i. don't want to get my money not why not. why it generated the old people we believe this will be here. a lot of my kids i don't want them up with johnny but i already know the moment i looked out of motherhood there is a little i'm a little white community older let's pull out the. most of the muslim brotherhood.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back we're still here with his latest book reporter a memoir is out now in the past forty eight hours israeli jets of targeted damascus

i mean the war seems to be continuing over curry and you said that there are actually two suspects for the chemical attack. that news of which was beamed around the world is the reason why i say britain should bomb syria why do you think money journalists would just go there is only one suspect the assad government and well that would happen is with the you're talking about an incident in which. syria bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people in east which is a turkey that was in two thousand and thirteen the obvious was a very real from his point a reactionary force there was very hostile to his his presidency and of course it was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and isis later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had

a war and was an awful war and you fought awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it was government funding the white helmets right now that say it's one sided here it's the only can we trust you there's no question there's a look there i'm sure there are some people in the white home with that were very actually doing what you know trying to save lives but the it's pretty clear now that they're basically the major funding also i think america was indirectly supplying some money certainly the brits were and so certainly it was a hedge it was a propaganda organization to along with possibly doing some real good relief work but too many times you seen the same child in photographs you know year after year always covered in dust i mean there's been a lot of actually good reporting on it that they do and gauge anti assad but it's very easy here assad is hated and i get a lot of criticism criticism for saying having a different story for example about the use of sarah and i could publish what i wanted about him in america had a publisher here in the london review now all that happens is in june of two

thousand and thirteen there was a very important all source intelligence report put up by the american defense intelligence agency to include it but made it. for me i got a copy leaked i guess you call it and it had a lot of signals intelligence and the one reason i sort of stay alive i only ten i don't want to write i don't want to cross up any intelligence operation that's reasonable legitimate so i there's a lot of stuff. in this particular document i didn't publish it because i didn't know how much of this stuff is is very competent we're doing us good learning some stuff about the other side i just didn't know so what i had a report that said there was tremendous concern in the community because both turkey that through their good amerie their paramilitary police units were driving truck folds of the chemicals that when mixed together make a nerve agent it's called kitchen sarah and it's very crude the syrian army has a very sophisticated stare and that has additives that make it more lethal more

toxicity more penetration much better weapon in fact it's so toxic nerve agent you can once you meld it once you make it taken or. phosphate and. alcohol i mean certain specific and you mix them and the additives you have to put in a weapon because it will burn through a weapon in a day even a congress deal with and so it's use it or lose it if you milled it and so we and the israelis used to monitor the syrian chemical arsenals and we could for once we detected a melding it that we were going to attack and israel was in this with us to israel knows the story i'm telling you and we also knew then the syrian army had a very sophisticated weapon and we also knew from this intelligence report that saudi arabia turkey were supplying the basic chemicals to al nusra which is isis was in there then i was the cutting edge and so there was

a tremendous yes well absolutely. we always think everything because there was a law passed in two thousand and two after the invasion that said any time the president could do what he wants with congress so we always called everything. i mean everything everything around him in libya it was al qaeda in africa because that gives you the cover of the law congress passed that stupid act he even push the right to. intervene anywhere without going congressional authorization it's amazing piece of legislation talk about dumb anyway the point is this report troubled everybody there was a study done about what can we do about it how many people american soldiers we should we didn't want to have there's a nerve agents sunday comes this attack and we get a sample from the russians and it's taken to serve peter wall who is the director jeff the head of the british military the sample is taken to his people down here they go take at the port down where they conclude we know what the syria has serious been signed in

a signatory to the geneva convention and chemical weapons we we know what syria has we know what it looks like and what was used in that place was not the same as in the syrian military this is told obama two times by the chairman of the joint chiefs before the recent. memory the red line when when the attack took place. so when the attack took place it allegedly forty nine there was one tenth as many as matter when the attack took place and people were killed and the world said. my government said that the government knew they knew from this very important intelligence report that cause a huge site about what to do but it would take sixty that side about what to do but it would take sixty thousand troops to get into the war we were thinking of maybe sending troops on the side of a shot really to get rid of this stuff we don't want these guys to have it and of course there was too many troops and it didn't happen but they knew there were two suspects that knew a noosa had the stuff in syria the stuff forget about having it analyzed they knew

right away and they only talked about one and so i wrote an article saying while let's hold on folks what i also learned because i was ready once later is that the material that was taken by russia russian and challenges which is quite what can i tell you russian intelligence in damascus i mean without russia i don't think he could have survived i think they saved them a couple you fifteen he was in trouble he might decide to anyway the army was holding forth there wasn't collapsing as much as people thought that he was having trouble. anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight with same way he's not he doesn't do anything differently than we do the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb on hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everyone dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody ho says is it war criminal for fighting the war the saves in

a war or war and by all accounts the casualties are almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important to the brits had it only which is a laboratory we in america respect for the skilled chemical weapons it was delivered to account was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman dempsey dempsey takes it i write this categorically in the london review i write this i don't say who the source is but i say he takes it you don't hear him denying it you hear nothing said about this takes it to the president and says mr president you can't you don't have a case it's not clear it's not clear bashar did it the same day we learn later years later two thousand and fifteen. obama does a long interview with a man named jeffrey goldberg of land a monthly magazine one of his people he liked

a lot twenty thousand word interview in the middle of the interview he says about that incident the red line the head of national intelligence a general named clapper air force one comes to see me and he says mr president. it's not a slam dunk which is you know like they considered to be the that libya perhaps no it's not that you know it so he didn't do the bombing because he didn't think he could win the case in the public arena that's why he did do the bombing not because there was a deal made on getting rid of weapons he lied and so i write this stuff he didn't tell the truth syria wanted to get rid of the. what pushchairs i want to i wrote in two thousand and three for the new yorker quoting mustapha to last the head of the fence of a. defense minister of syria even defense minister for ten twenty years wrote a lot of poetry with stuff and i quote him saying at one point there was a worry that america may take syria and i said what would you do then he said what could i do and i said well you could use a chemical weapons and the call of was in the new yorker and it was read to him and

you know the new yorker check stuff he approved this was in english he speaks english and he said to me. he said those things chemical weapons he says those things those use this things that the old band pushchairs father want it off us he thought it was a deterrent against israel cost us a fortune we have to protect them it's a big pain he said if we use those weapons america could incinerate us with nukes and they'd be right that's our crazy would be to use those weapons i said what would you do then and he said well we let him are let the americans call that they come to damascus so let's see what happens i said what are you talking about he said just like in baghdad you know and when they when they when they when the knights of malta came in the thirteenth century the rivers would be full of their blood he said we have a resistance and so i remember going back and telling my general friends in washington you know this is not textbook you talk with the defense manage this it's not he's not going to defend the country is going to let you come and kill you when

you get there they're different i remember saying you're not going to have it's not going to be like the fight against not going to have a defense perimeter and you're have to fight your way into the city he's going to let you in and get you when you're there it was very interesting but then he was prime minister here was telling us it is. the british troops should be involved we're getting huge amounts of persuasion here. i mean is syria now on syria up until say you know the drive is over now is the kurds to cut a deal with bashar assad it's over and drums or change just policies because when it comes to doubt we've been having here a thing where russia has been accused on a regular basis in the british parliament of assassinating people in britain well that's the case is sort of falling apart there's been several courting from europe and i should say the books as you get older you start researching on w m d contexts for stories for decades now you've. got to be of do you have for example there was a story and let's get let's get to the let me just say this there was

a story in the press where syria was using chlorine in. the endgame in the isis and you know this spring there was an endgame. and there was a story that they were using sarin gas in chlorine together and so here's why helmets and footage. in the fifty's koreans are very volatile gas and it's of great interest to the it's not a lot of work for egypt and there was a story just the other day about syria drop the u.n. report going to drop this chlorine gas pond there's no such thing it anybody's arsenal a korean bomb you have to how much chlorine can you put into it cory's a gas it dissipates quickly it moves quickly it's not lethal you can breathe and keep on what it's not it's not a war for agent there's no such bomb but even more important because chlorine so reactive in the chemical corps in america when they develop those nerve agents in the fifty's they thought let's see what happens if we meld chlorine with it maybe with soup it up make it even more more efficient as a killer and it turned out that chlorine immediately first thing it did in their

fuel reports is published documents in the field corina immediately would go and grab all the hydrogen molecules from this era denuding disappeared so worked exactly the opposite in other words sarah and drop of chlorine seven would become just another use this gas it would be much less lethal the korean would make it weak so that you can't which is in the way it was record you can't use sarin and chlorine together just the way we know that he does any homework this script and we had geoffrey robertson q.c. one of the world's leading human rights barristers on russia as a positive on this killing live in a go here the m i six by. we were told in this country i mean clearly this was a little military grade. nerve gas as if you have to population you that you can have no idea a military grade military grade v.x. . you could wipe out half of london with one bomb and it's really it was well we'll call this story you'll take a look i've written about it so yes my something i have written the story i always

had about it from my friends in america is. those two were helping your the british intelligence services with information about the russian mafia. that's what they were doing here in other words the people that would high on the list that would want to hurt them would be the russian mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about the screwballs well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same actual same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee modoc davies i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that isn't the russian government all i would say is i think i mean tell me what i was told but i haven't done any reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian

corruption in and you're not in russia again you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions of all who wanted to further . let's say for one of your favorite shows from this season we'll continue to show you a family that's just into way back for the season but we'll see if there's a template still to come through that's what the social media used to. you know provision out of my pocket i wanted to. get. there so you know i lost his boss because i just you know got the. resources you know. anybody among those in prison but that's honest i don't mean any of them

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think we were you know a little bit of a civilization that's a bit not i but. i've . had lines here on our street wants a house intelligence the jihadists in syria's provinces preparing to state a chemical attack and lay the blame on the assad government. u.s. senators agencies reportedly complain the kremlin so. amid a spate of media stories based on unnamed sources about russian. nationals are sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting. to members of a california based group terrorists.

stories here were not against. the syrian government says it is ready to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in the country. a damascus has been deploying additional forces on the frontline of the enclave still willing to pursue a course of reconciliation however it was snubbed by the key militant group controlling the area. the group's chief has warned other factions from taking part in any talks with damascus.

meanwhile the russian defense ministry has warned the militants in preparing a provocation moscow says it has intelligence that jihadists are getting ready and intending to stage a chemical attack and then to lay the blame on the assad government. a strike on capers eiter using poison laden missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours that some players outside the region are preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there and undermining the positive dynamics of the ongoing peace process. more the missive warns that it's the white helmets pro rebel group that will be there first with cameras and tweets as they usually are whenever there are rumors of chemical attacks and we reached out to them for comment and as is also usual the u.s.

and its power stabbed ready with guns drawn we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and with. we are obviously. about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly it's getting very hot in the area and merica has just pulled up another guided missile cruiser packed with tomahawk missiles the weapon of choice when attacking syria also u.s. strategic bombers heavy duty stuff have just arrived in the neighborhood the russians also acting moving more and more ships to the mediterranean room it's a submarine and it's cool dreadfully reminiscent of what happened

last time. we ledge pledge provoked a british friends and us. well mia weeks before that the russians warned the rebels were preparing to stage a chemical attack now they're warning it will happen again which begs the question why. oh why would i ask who has almost won this war why would he launch a chemical attack and invite disaster now there is no value for syria or its allies in using chemical weapons against any of the

terrorists syria is already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed terrorist and clean up time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the prevent prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. american media outlets are claiming that us intelligence is in the dark about russia's supposed have plans for the us midterm elections as the cia's kremlin kong types of suddenly gone quiet don't know hawkins picks up the story. less than two years after the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the russians are at it again the end words this time it's the u.s. mid-term elections in the crosshairs of kremlin meddling it's

a russia is already not trying but actually meddling in our twenty term elections another russian attack on our elections a serious warning about russian meddling in future u.s. elections there are also hacking or attempting to hack political campaigns russia is at it again it's clear for all to see what happens after all how can one refute such a mass of sources intelligence sources tell and b.c. news there is no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election a source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. . sources two sources with links to that counter intelligence community anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source now we may not even have those through a lawyer according to the new york times they've gone to ground gone quiet what's happened there could be a couple of reasons it's ok the times reassures us they've not been killed and risk

yet although says the article putin is intent on killing traitors and the russians are willing to kill sources perhaps they say the assassination attempt on double agent so i guess script file has affected flows of intelligence as with the meddling accusations minimal evidence was also enough to expose the kremlin's hand in that case russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations' elections as well we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states intelligence blackout could also be down to a fall in u.s. . numbers in russia the russians kicked out a whole bunch of our people laments a former cia officer a reference of course to moscow as retaliation after dozens of russian diplomats were first expelled from the united states the russian meddling saga even has the

us president himself worried i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump but those are named officials can explain the logic the kremlin doesn't want to specific outcome any more broad chaos is apparently the aim despite no hard evidence of meddling past or future it seems the narrative is getting old unnamed sources can only sound convincing for so long no no the rusher informant's they were definitely in the u.f.o. crashed or was a meteorite this is so confusing what the media told us imagineer of france whisper in the ear of the new york times sources say moore times makes up stories

now what if as endless anonymous sources allege russia isn't busy tilting elections sowing discord or spreading chaos what if russia isn't doing anything at all that would never make a thrilling read. to us nationals in vietnam have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting a coup they were among twelve people sentenced all of them members of the provisional national government of vietnam which was declared a terrorist organization by the countries or dorothy's back in january of course the war in vietnam ended more than four decades ago but apparently for some the struggle is ongoing. the vietnam war one of the world's bloodiest conflicts and the american army's biggest defeat to ideologically opposed blocks in two decades of fighting came at a cost of fifty six thousand u.s. troops in a bid to overthrow the communist regime of north vietnam but the casualties among

civilians were much greater at least two million people died in the war after hopes of tightening a democratic grip across the vietnamese state slipped away and up to one hundred forty one billion dollars was spent on military operations the us folded to what had been an exhausting war at home and abroad. in one thousand nine hundred seventy three thousands of antiwar protesters would later contribute to the end of u.s. military involvement and two years later the south surrendered with vietnam forced to unite under a socialist flag. however it would take years for vietnam to heal from the wounds of the us campaign. napalm bombs and toxic herbicides left the country scarred. and its citizens suffering. fast forward to twenty eight and us benign relations have turned a new leaf.