he found that proposal intriguing he wanted to know if it was genuine were a promise to put it in front of the president i would call karl rove a dear friend. i've seen made a far sighted courage put america on a war footing. and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century no formal response was given to the iranians. i'm grateful to have been witness to history. and the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the iranians. even more could be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. in a way to sum up the arguments however a principle in the bush administration said that we simply do not talk to evil. and as tony zinni said former central command commander if you like the rock you'll love the wrong that is a 10 to 14 year 3 to $4.00 trillion dollar invasion at the end of which

the world western asia will look not much different than it does right now it'll still be in turmoil and still be in chaos and 70 plus 1000000 iranians will hate our living guts. i was in the pentagon and i wanted to see your inner circle very different the ideas that wolfowitz shared with me he and secretary cheney in 9192 packages now retooling are i don't want to know why dallas briefed people like presidents america needs a new strategy or force a regime change. so there's ideas brings back up again in 2001. i went through the pentagon in the remember of 2001 and one of the general said sure i got this memo on yes it's. going to go after 7 countries in 5 years. i said is that a classified memo to your. start with

a rock and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i think it's highly probable the administration has already made the decision to go to war against iran there are already u.s. troops inside iran want to repeat that there are already u.s. troops inside iran the u.s. has long had its eyes set on trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the u.s. doing with regards to iran has been on a covert level we've seen a report in a new yorker by seymour hersh that a u.s. source told him that u.s. marines who are operating in the blue key missouri and kurdish regions of iran have you ever heard of that report i've never heard of the report i've never read the article nor do i intend to have any interest as to whether or not as the u.s. ambassador i don't have any interest as to whether or not u.s.

marines are actually operating in iran right now and i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker if i gave you this article right now walked it over would you look at it i don't think so honestly congressman because i don't i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operation forces most elite commando unit it has been given executive authority by the president as many as 12 countries to go in and kill we're talking about high value targets. they're operating the way they go into a country outside of the war zone outside of afghanistan and outside of iraq without telling the american cia station chief for the american ambassador they go in sterile and they kill people. we have to work sort of the dark side if you will spend time in the shadows. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done

quietly without any discussion using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies. and. the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations lethal operations regardless of what international law says. what is president obama's response to that how is he going to deal with it he embraced the very covert shadow forces that a decade earlier had only been talked about in hushed tones in the pentagon not just as the implementers of a policy that said we should decapitate terror networks and engage in preemptive strikes but they became the policy itself.

president obama's administration have built up something called the disposition matrix is an algorithm for determining who should be killed or who should we seek to capture and one of the more sort of grotesque aspects of this is that there were actually meetings on tuesdays in the white house that have been nicknamed terror tuesday meetings where they're going through rosters of names to put on or take off the list maybe someone within that group has been in contact with someone that the u.s. is watching they went to the musée mosque is someone they keep ordering pizza from the same place as a taliban leader and you decide these guys are probably up to no good and so on this particular day we're going to remove them from planet earth that we're getting into minority report into the sort of world that p.j. did where it's justifiable homicide even though it's for that that might take place in the future it's ok to kill from a distance without a warrant without a trial without a jury and they execute. it takes place on the screen. where

appropriate we will bring the terrorists to justice. when. when we. do you want to answer. do you want and. we went on. your very. day his face there were no sign of. the horse of a woman. is worth paying attention to obviously i do not agree with much of what you said the president is not implementing policies that we need to see change for

example that he would stop the authorization of think interest rates which means killing people on the basis only of suspicious behavior that's led to the killing of many innocent people the question on my facebook page and asked them what they wanted to ask you when a lot of them said that you were hurting your own cause because one you appeared rude to the president of the united states and 2 you just seemed. a little crazy well i think killing innocent people with journalists is rude i think not apologizing to the families of innocent people who are killed is rude there are a lot of rude things about our policies i want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties for the most part of they have been very precise precision strikes against al qaeda how do you expect to be put off by this are not do have and be american sentiments when in and day out we had about doing that and that getting more innocent people in there and militant how do you explain

that well i do not believe that. there is any basis for your comment. so it's in. my money if i put it to live above. us month of blood and dump them in the astral collateral. yet he does feel the make yet give you don't let us make i. took a new. get us. on the. drawing board and they said lockheed martin boeing dime corp international computer sciences corp and aero vironment all told eric about 70 companies are interested in this $1000000000.00 contract as we look out for 35710 years this market remains

a very much a growth market. this the disease a permanent war the destroyer the battle waste. aslambek fundamentalism.

empower all of those who profit from a more politically economically and militarily. make no mistake a nuclear armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained it would threaten the elimination of israel the security of gulf nations and the stability of the global economy. at risk triggering a nuclear arms race in the region and the un raveling of the nonproliferation treaty. and how close is iran to getting. well let me show you brought a diagram for. here's a darter. this is a bomb. this is a fuse. where should a red line be drawn. a red line should be drawn right here.

the threat from iran is a political football what was interesting was that many israelis including people from the military said as long as there is an extensional threat somewhere somehow that is certainly helping us expand our budget in ways that it's not possible to do in the absence on anything that can be defined as such as if you were a rand what would you do i mean israel has what 3 to 400 nuclear weapons they're the ones who started the damn arms race in the middle east anyway they didn't sign a non player for asian treaty they built this program in secret. india and pakistan then went on to do the same thing and iran would you did sign a new if you let on cliff aeration treaty looked around and realized they'd done screw bomb administrating wants to sell bunker buster bombs which can penetrate 20 feet of solid concrete to the u.a.e. the deal is the latest us arms sale to members of the gulf cooperation council 6

nations that neighbor iran a foe it could be an atomic enemies but i called my mouth when i asked him what the war has become a commodity for several reasons one is because you need somebody to buy the stuff you bring us another. u.s. arms deal with saudi arabia is in the fight the biggest in history this deal alone just a pos is the entire global obscene already $57000000000.00. saw that he really does this enormous so is a recycling. but was also a business in another sense this is a business that uses war to get its ends established this is george orwell's 1904 was always going to be in battle and guess who's making out really well of course of the weapons dealers and the people involved.

joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only closely and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from.

isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being lead so. direct. morsy is great. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain we shall lose. without the president a constant dread. of the free money. we would have a day of reckoning and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand. and there would be a catastrophic trapdoor opening underneath the u.s. economy because the u.s.

won't do it for itself china will do it for the in the form of announcing as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed crypto currency this will kill the u.s. dollar better than a doornail. ultimate manifestation of the national security state is that it not only seeks a perpetual state of war it will even go to all the ins to create that perpetual state of war i'm always reminded for book at it long time ago. and that book has a beautiful sentence. i am going to be the good man not because they don't exist but because you choose not to see. the you know the family this is ironic and

eighties if you remember we had been on stage who were supporting the mujahideen to liberate afghanistan from the so gets. bled and came to thank me for my efforts to bring their merican our friends to help us against the atheist he said the communist. went on and also been locked in this camp high in the mountains of afghanistan with an air raid shelter built into the living rock of a mountain 2530 feet high. camps built by the cia later they tried to cruise missiles and of course they knew where it was they built it. no wonder but love and kept smiling no wonder he did. the american sol review put $1000000000.00 each to. training equipment

we are the ones who cleared all those people to go we had you. there must be something wrong with the way we think that we can say that the grandmother of the boss is operating today we have been pumping money a great deal of money without. congressional authority without any congressional oversight prince bandar of saudi arabia is putting up some of this money for covert operations in many areas in the middle east where we want to stop the shiite influence they call it the shiite crescent i think the arabic word is not civil war we're in a business right now of creating and some place the sectarian violence. situation because we're trying to destroy it. in mali have a crime to give all the training. area. it really has the world gone mad but not enough to realize how mad.

you really coming out and why. americans are living in this kind of world of no related. where on. today there are good terrorists and. the bad terrorists those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good those who are in syria the joke here is we've been there before i mean if you consider the of the honest on story they have learned nothing.

today. the saudis are giving money to groups in syria that are not only a looser i would also. if you want a conspiracy theory is what i'm just trying to. in the moment of the condemn pretty . dangerous. sounds insane. so what appears to have been a conspiracy at the time. to be true. we must address the cycle of conflict especially sectarian conflict that creates the conditions the terrorists prey upon in public they say we have to end terrorism

meanwhile this drive. of getting involved in conflicts still is the part which produces character. appeared to become. which is reinforced in the public narrative and then makes things like intervention ok. good morning everybody. last night on my orders america's armed forces began strikes against targets in syria #. just ahead of airstrikes in syria defense firms lockheed martin northrop raytheon and general dynamics corp all set stock price records their shareholders are making money off the unusually large number of conflicts around the world. every 2 years or so the early military attacks the gaza strip and right after there

is a trade show in which israeli weapon companies show their technologies. all of these israeli companies which are becoming increasingly important and very significant part of these ready on i'm going to depend on those wars the 1st thing that they say when they try to market we've already used i don't actually going to be. making that claim they're able to compete with weapon manufacturers from other countries. the united states is the biggest supplier of military aid to israel this attack on gaza is also trade show for the united states arms industry in. iran in our faces are competing for the crown of militant islam one calls itself

the islamic republic. the other calls itself the islamic state. both want to impose a militant islamic empire 1st on the region. and then on the entire world they just disagree among themselves who will be the ruler of that in for. in this deadly game of thrones there is no place for america. today after 2 years of negotiations the united states together were international partners has achieved something the decades of animosity has not a comprehensive long term deal with iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon this was a very difficult negotiations and part of it is because of the french and compounded mistrust that we have between ourselves mutually for the last 34 decades but i'm happy that the reason people diplomacy pretty great people exercise you

look restraint and patience and reason we are going to be automatic hope this will be a good beginning. as this nuclear deal goes through we're still dealing with the problem that the states of this region are collapsing and therefore that they will fail you will see more violence and you will see more weapons just important to understand that that's not a result of this deal that is a result of the paradigm not shifting towards demilitarize ation and collective security soon enough the saudis and the israelis are on the same page they worry about iran and then they do anything that's not new they've been worried for can they do anything about well they can get their own weapons. this is the region that has more arms per copied are than any other region in the world much thanks to the defense industry israel and some of the arab states are going to be able to buy more weapons and more advanced weapons. if the nuclear threat from iran is

decreasing why should these other countries get a chance to actually arm themselves more pakistan is a friend of saudi arabia pakistan has nuclear weapons are you with. russians with pakistan about perhaps getting a nuclear bomb from pakistan which you know wolf we've known each other for 25 years you don't really expect me to answer this question. we're not going to have a truly demilitarize asian in the reason unless israel's nuclear arsenal also is addressed. the significance of this peace deal is that it is a game changer in the region and it's going to be a question about the political willingness of leaders to whether they will pursue these opportunities or whether they will fall into the patterns of the past.

and once you start a war. you open a kind of pandora's box you don't control it or control geo. the use of that kind of violence has unforseen consequences that no one can predict and it propels you. in directions you never thought you control or does. so the images. are very carefully controlled and counter by the lies that are to some unaided through every institution in society schools government entertainment the press. when you shatter the myth

and when you understand especially what techno war industrial war is about which is really about murder ups water people would be so repulsed to be very hard. wait for . the bus. needed. to get to. the ceiling.

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when else so it's seemed wrong when old rules just don't call. me old but yet to say proud this day comes to educate and it gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path of shouting past each other it's taught for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. and what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich . that's a going to be crossing this is like the local tree in the morning can't be good

that i'm interested always in the lawyers in the house. sitting. front of the world and the bolivian people but a police official publicly said he was instructed to execute an illegal arrest warrant against me. deny claims by the country's opposition that there is an arrest warrant for even as he resigned this president denouncing what he calls ok. coming r.t. the syrian president bashar assad shares his thoughts in an exclusive interview with guards he is the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. because of all capturing the hearts. of the people and you cannot cut out all the people. that the syrian army was fighting the terrorists. and now.