and also create this is a war there's no intervention without a cold war. and so it can be very hard crust passed over control of the french were through the british because this war needs. certain things that happen in order to move forward and only the united states can make those things happen well let's talk about what those things would even mean and you know there are reports that four thousand marines have now left off the coast of virginia and are making their way towards the mediterranean and they haven't really said anything they just said there there is backup for operations but there's ease on what does that mean and how those who are really into those four thousand marines are standing up and active ready reserve means they're going to be doing grid squares are going to be on a boat actually just going around in circles in the med waiting for the call to get uplifted i would i would call to go go boots on the ground the reason india is because i mean if you look at every single intervention by a foreign country so going back to eight hundred si

i do not think we have a constitutionally declared war since world war ii.s far as the money goes, i know the arab league is behind the scenes, but what is the actual amount of dollars? we have the technology with the printer drones and all that stuff -- with the predator drones and all that stuff. how much were they backing us financially? they pay off their own citizens so they do not go off into the streets and revolt. i think it's the equivalent of $50,000 per person. it's unbelievable. dictatorships -- we threw off taking in 1776, but we support the biggest kingship. how much are they chipping in? host: henry on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: i did not listen to the president's speech last night. i was reminded by was secretary gates said, to be cautious about what's going on in libya. politics supports a vacuum and i think we are creating a vacuum. finally, a foreign policy that involves a lot of wars -- usually a distraction from the very weak domestic policy. i am a democrat. why was the president so apparently weak on a domestic policy? w

didn't approve the war debate the war even hold hearings on the war how are the american people supposed to know what the purpose of this war is and how to win it and without these answers are we in danger of facing another military disaster regular rock joining me now to answer these questions as congressman charles rangle from new york congressman rahall welcome back to the bridge thank you sir you are you yourself are a doubt decorated war hero but you've been there you've done that you have an understanding a war that that i think many of this generation in particular of americans lack how worried are you that this in gauge with libya could become the next iraq or vietnam or pick your metaphor. this is country on my mind because you may know it's mostly people do know that when i went to korea the president at night they cleared war against career in that united nation of a geisha is something that has been very difficult for me to explain but you know when you get to the bottom line and someone is involved in some a mission like this as they have for eight years been involved in the

war still and that's why you only go to war when it's an absolute interest to your national security it's one reason why coalition forces do battle with an information war to fight alongside the real one playing out on the ground in afghanistan for example so it's not widely known by these milestones the longest war to american history we have surpassed the soviet campaign there we have spent sectional a lot of money but instead carries this message good morning afghanistan welcome to the new day of hope and reconstruction in the war torn region which would each conflict with loans for peace that's the nato version told in this promotional film it was given to international journalists like myself at the annual nato summit presumably to spread the message public relations after it's like these are nothing new and commander of the nato forces the united states spends billions of dollars alone to market its version of the war to the world including p.r. at home and abroad u.s. funded media as well as psychological operations for example a leaked classified cia document revealed a plan

and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have a productive english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back and the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including v.d.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more viewers across the world tuning in to various foreign media to get a fresh take on events clearly the united states feels on the fences in part because it can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there there are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view or should be the only point of view r.t. presence on you tube is one example almost three hundred million views

we are in an information war and we are losing that war hillary clinton asked for extra funds to spread u.s. media propaganda abroad as a growing number of people turn to other countries news outlets to get a fresh new on world events. and u.k. citizens are wary of the upcoming nationwide census and its connection to a foreign armies manufacture this program calls for a boycott will boycott personal data calling into the wrong hands. it's five pm in moscow time that treasure bring you today's top stories and a lot back at the week's news here on our t.v. our top story begins in libya where those reports of greater soldiers have been seized by anti kadafi forces as more western warships and planes move closer to the country the eight special air service officers said to be involved were in the eastern part of the country escorting a diplomat who was supposed to negotiate with the rebels the protesters said they were outraged by the incident see it as foreign intervention into libya's internal affairs this as the country slips closer to civil war with fighting intensifying with reports of

ray bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension he is also a d. you victim. troops. he's so c.h. and hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the day you is the cause of many veterans illnesses fifteen years after the first gulf war veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people by no say. what. depleted uranium it was actually used who had to follow areas where. really bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for do you poisoning but the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations so committees declare that. it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. and discriminate destruction because if they at first health of facts. it will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i would suck him out some somebody pay no criminal. it's much worse as is it what happened with asian origin me t

more difficult if it is a war such as the war in afghanistan for example will be it will help you war where it was not of a popular war and if we just started having the rows of soldiers deciding on their own that they were no longer going to become a member of the united states military apparatus we have a problem and so there are very harsh penalties to laws. including the possibility of their. mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andrea say even the major corporations like a big season and then what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial it would go against the government line it would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the backlog he's launched claiming there was no just a vacation for the war in iraq which he had meets he's honestly pretty slim extended virtual r.t. but now i'm teams in germany. pickering's you have to drink from the news desk arties moscow program is coming your way to first let's talk the business news with dimitri after a short break. in a warm welcome to business the arctic expl

war in afghanistan for example will be your war aki war where it was not a popular war and if we just started having rows of soldiers deciding on their own that they were no longer going to become a member of the united states military apparatus we have a problem and so there are very harsh penalties to wife including the possibility of death. in mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to get andrea say either the major corporations like the b.b.c. some and then what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial or would go against the government line we would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the battle of his life claiming there was no just a few cation for the war in iraq but he admits he's honestly pretty slow extended version of our team there now in germany. it's coming up to twenty one minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world protesters in syria plan to hold a day of dignity on friday to expand demonstrations across the country but once calm despite president

war pension he is also a do you victim. troops. this so ca sion hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the dui is the cause of many veterans illnesses fifteen years after the first gulf war veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people rhyno say. what. you preach dear amy i'm was actually just who had to follow aries where. ray bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for d'you poisoning but the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations some committees declare that. it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. indiscriminate destruction because surf the health effects. they will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i would shut them out so somebody you know criminal. is much what it is and what happened with asian or in germany then i did for a long time and then they sudde

a larger scale military operation and as we've seen in recent wars. allies in foreign military forces against libya and justify it in a way to safeguard civilians one humanitarian expert says it's the perfect excuse for the forces to target the he's been ostracized by the work community for decades . i think it's you know it's another. thing to figure it's an. enemies of most european poles and also the arab league and of course all of the people in the film think. so. miscalculated the beginning i think because this is a distant dimension to school intervention in the west which has been going to cause a little interest in so much. in afghanistan and iraq to come back in just to make . your intervention can be a loose a perfect kid because it's a villain it's not the friend of the list and the it isn't doing. any sitting a number of the kids will claim to intervene on many encounters because of the. reminder again of developing these forty eight people have reported being killed and one hundred fifty others wounded after international coalition force

one of the chief costs of that war to the u.s. economy was the damage that it did by causing oil prices to go through the roof and if you look at places like afghanistan where there's not significant oil reserves even being in that country is costing four hundred dollars per tank of gas for the u.s. military so it increases the demand for oil was drives up you know the price for it but it was this broader concern with the united states trying to find what it amounts to a military solution to every part problem around the world and we just can't sustain that on the budget that they're telling us we have to live in the united states now what do you make of this sort of let i guess in the obama administration because i'm sure if they were president bush going into libya the left would be up in arms and yet you have you know a lot of folks that sort of cut their teeth on the bosnian crisis where they suddenly discovered that there's such a thing as so-called humanitarian award is right so you don't have as much of the criticism from t

even going back under kosovo war. i guess one big problem i have with this particular intervention is that it's being sold as a humanitarian intervention but at the same time it appears that we some of the coalition partners are interested in regime change and they really want to get out so it's not going to protect civilians you know. and it's unclear and i'm not supposed to be the humanitarian mission for the war but it's unclear how the war until is supposed to be achieved humanitarian effect we're going to create a partition in libya or to throw it are you working do something else. that my biggest problem in terms are referring to this as a humanitarian by now i think we should honor to take everything with a grain of salt however they try to label it for us right we found out there are no w m d's in iraq you find out that there wasn't necessarily genocide there was a civil war going on in kosovo and here also you have to question yeah quick point i mean there is a great lawyer within the american political tradi

war in afghanistan for example war in iraq war where it was not a popular war and if we just started having droves of soldiers deciding on their own that they were no longer going to become a member of the united states military apparatus we have a problem and so there are very harsh penalties for wife and clothing the possibility of their mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andriy a say either the major corporations like the b.b.c. c.n.n. what would happen is that if i say anything that was controversial or would go against the government line he would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the battle of his life claiming there was no just a vacation for the war in iraq but he had meets he's honestly pretty slope. archie but now i'm keen germany. business is next here in our. day with us. thanks and he said the arctic exploration an asset swap deal between oil majors b.p. and russia's state run rosneft announced in january it has been blocked by a so-called arbitration tribunals the case was brought by a.a. are the russian shar

arms manufacturer profit every single day there is war in times of war they profit of course it's in the interests of b.p. who have huge interests in the region having a another thing about imperialism is it doesn't just invade countries it actually makes maps so in terms of dividing the country and keeping the country divided time when there are genuine revolutions in genuine are praising is happening next door in egypt and tunisia and imperial presence in the country and an indefinite foreign presence in the country will really work as an influence and in effect attempt to co-opt the revolutions which are taking place next door which have taken place on the still in the process of developing next to the so what's going on libya is definitely quite a difference from the arab spring and the actual revolutions that we've seen going on you know throughout the middle east and north africa versus bunning are way into it but what do you make of the idea of arming the rebels of course it's a little funny to start arming rebels when it was western governments that aren't khadafi to begin wi

it's larger than the budget of any war that we fought with the exception of world war ii. yet we are supporting the force that is roughly one-tenth the size of what it was in world war ii, but as recently as vietnam the air force fighter forces is less than half the size or not have the size of world war ii. the navy is about one-third of the size it was, the army is probably 40% to 40% of what it was in vietnam. i'm sorry i was comparing it to vietnam. in vietnam, we were flying on the order of thousands a day or so at the height. in iraq and afghanistan, the highest we've gotten is maybe to between 140 a month. yet we are fighting the war in iraq and afghanistan. our forces are getting older. the up-tempo are minuscule compared to vietnam and korea and we've broken the bank. the military is literally stretched thin and you have people in washington talking about starting another war in libya right now. we don't have the resources and you can see the pentagon is dragging its feet big time, they don't want to go in and there's a reason. there isn't enough to go down and th

official is now drawing new battle lines in the war of information. and since the international media seems to be winning that war the us starts its bid to catch up and get back to quote doing what it's best at so what exactly is that. what so problematic with what the f.b.i. did is that it came in and destroyed the community cohesion it destroyed the functionality of the community and because of that claim the a.c.l.u. and care are launching a lawsuit against the f.b.i. here how one american muslim community says they were unfairly targeted and even tracked because of their religion. it's thursday march third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for now and watching our team. well it is the war of words and according to secretary of state hillary clinton the u.s. is losing losing to whom you may ask well according to her really losing to international media like al-jazeera and yes even our team is a far cry from the good old days the good old days according to many during the cold war when the u.s. one the war because they simply her best propag

our three wars and iraq and afghanistan let's not go to war in another country you know we did this in afghanistan the first time around but of supporting those rebels there were no fighting this time around when we've gone back for another expensive war. i'm a conservative who was against nation building in both iraq and afghanistan i want to go and cut off the heads of the government and leave and leave a note saying whatever emerges from the march remember how you got here we'll be back if you mess with us again so i'm certainly hazard and i agree with jamie completely that he's going to send troops in harm's way i'm going to support him fully but that being said he said two weeks ago three weeks ago you must stop and i don't think i can ever recall another time when the u.n. acted with greater speed and determination than the united states and it happened here and that to me this is the whole point of the u.n. is that we are not under attack if the united states is under attack we have every right to defend ourselves his or the u.n. libya has not this is with us except for our oil

secretary of state hillary clinton has been talking about another war recently a war of words and according to her the u.s. is losing losing to al jazeera international media outlets even our team that's a far cry from the old days when the u.s. won the war because they had the quote best propaganda artie's guy in a chicken has more on the word words. war declared the us is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often run in contrast to the coverage of events by the us mainstream media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back and the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including c.d.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more v

we are in an information war and we are losing that war. the u.s. state department says it needs billions of dollars to fight off the old school with global media outlets that simply getting. funded all russian series will take the needs of the ancient city of yaroslavl which has a story taste to draw. a very warm welcome to you this is seen live from the international criminal court is launching an investigation into the actions of libyan leader moammar gadhafi and some of his supporters for alleged crimes against humanity the first time the court has launched a probe into an ongoing offense meanwhile the battle for the oil riches continues with reports of as strong as they are the town of rageh wherever. claim they took one hundred percent hostage during the fighting began three witnessing the most deadly of all be arab revolts with over two thousand reported killed during more than a fortnight of fighting the international community has condemned the harsh methods used to crackdown on the opposition this can bring us deploys troops to warships al

me is sally not or is a war excuse me going to discuss with sally mcnamara senior policy analyst in european affairs at the heritage foundation and scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine i want to thank you both for joining me tonight now let's get something clear here right if we look at this entire operation and we look at the fact that it's turned into more than just a no fly zone we also now have some of these low flying. some of our own low flying technologies on the ground which are helping the rebels so it's no longer just about saving civilians i think initially the immediate reason for going in it looks as if the end goal is he was going to fall it looked as if the opposition was going to be totally overrun and we have ten twenty thirty thousand dead bodies on the street and the u.n. took immediate action they passed the resolution and there was this no fly zone but if you think about it i mean i think of all this was one of his weaknesses he needed to be honest from the start what is the point of trying to restore a st

we are turning around the war in afghanistan. are we really and which way is that another question why is the united states even there. so you want to get off the streets or. to do it and life after afghanistan and iraq we're going to take a look at a battle that more better and seem to be fighting this one is homelessness. good evening it's tuesday march fifteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy coughing up in of course you're watching our team now we're keeping our focus of course on the breaking situation out of japan officials have confirmed that radioactive material leaked into the atmosphere following the state an explosion and fire at a reactor at the fukushima nuclear power plant. now the fire is said to have damaged an area that's used to store spent nuclear fuel and dangerous radiation levels have forced to panta order some of one hundred forty thousand people to seal themselves indoors now meanwhile the united states has seen a tumbling of the stocks world stocks in fact tumble in a global selloff so just how

very dramatically is that the image people had of the war as a simple case of villains versus victims with the service of the villains and the codes for liberation army of the victims was overly simplistic and that the serbs were indeed villainous but the kosovar of the kosovo liberation army wasn't that much better and they also engaged in terrible massacres and ethnic cleansing and recently the european union has issued a report implicating the leadership of the kalay in the possible trafficking of human organs taken from slaughtered serbs. so what you had in kosovo is a situation where neither side came off very well and backing the kosovo liberation army the united states and the european union made itself complicit in mass ethnic cleansing and other atrocities. i fear that that's a possibility in libya and that we don't really know that much about the opposition and ghazi clearly moammar gadhafi is a very unsavory and brutal leader we know that but there is a danger there are three opposition may also commit ugly atrocities and then backing the opposition which again we just don'

one of the most deadly and effective weapons in the first gulf war they are a kind of metallic arrow or bullet and are called penetrators they were launched by american tanks planes and helicopters and the result was that saddam hussein's armor was destroyed in a matter of minutes. the penetrators are not explosives they are flechettes or bullet like spindles of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator on impact means to you rounds cut through tank armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d.-u. penetrate the crew compartment and incinerate everything in their path. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois doug a retired major in the united states army underwent an operation to remove cataracts from his eyes he's a veteran of both the first gulf war and the war in vietnam very clear that uranium munitions would cause injuries and i damage so what extensive exposures that i have and again the uranium dust settling on the i as a consequence over the years of develop a

a war which itself followed a war to end all wars. now once again we stand poised at a precipice, forced to the edge by an administration which has thrown caution to the winds and our constitution to the ground. it is abundantly clear from a careful reading of our declaration of independence that our nation was born from nothing less than the rebellion of the human spirit against the arrogance of power. more than 200 years ago it was the awareness of the unchecked arrogance of george iii that led our founders to carefully and deliberately balance our constitution, articulating the rights of congress in article 1 as the primary check by our citizens against the dangers they foresaw for our republic. our constitution was derived from the human and political experience of our founders who were aware of what happens when one person took it upon himself to assume rights and privileges which placed him above everyone else. but where, asked tom payne, in his famous tract, "common sense," where's the king of america? i'll tell you, friend, he

we are in an information war and we are losing that war and winning hearts and minds abroad hillary clinton asks for more funding has brought us message overseas as more people turn to alternative sources for news. and the russian law enforcement gets a make over in a bid to regain public trust major reforms see the force renamed and officers retrain. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our g we're glad to have you with us take a look at our top story first to libya where british soldiers were released after being seized by gadhafi forces as more western world ships and planes moved closer to the country at least six special air service soldiers were in the eastern part of the country escorting a diplomat who was supposed to negotiate with the rebels the opposition leadership said they were outraged by the incident seeing it as a foreign intervention into libya's internal affairs this comes as the country slips closer to civil war with fighting intensifying and reports of airstrikes and heavy weaponry. as more. on saturday the libyan leader moammar gadhafi launched

inwalovely little war grenada? >> that came on the heels of the explosion of the marine barracks in beirut. >> that was a harmless, pretend a little show war. you show your strength every once in awhile, but there was no cost. but you don't do the big ones unless you are serious. >> that is the real issue, is obama is serious? look, i had all kinds of questions about getting into this and the first place, as did obama, as did secretary gates. obama, in the end, made a decision, we are going in, but now his objective is that america ought to leave and have the war on going. he wants to give up -- it is process over bad policy. you just heard him say in that at the exit strategy is executed this week. >> what is the exit strategy? >> the u.s. has special capability that will still be at us and that war. >> there are two parts to this, the easy part, the no-fly zone, and the other part, continuing to protect the civilian population, which apparently we have. >> gaddafi tries to test the no- fly zone. one fighter shot

military intervention in libya will be limited but that's not stop comparisons to the lead up to the iraq war in two thousand and three. the majority of americans to the polls the polls show the majority of americans oppose the u.s. involvement in the intervention for more on this joining guy nation so again in just a few minutes. six pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our team treasure the arab league has criticized international strikes in targets in libya following reports of dozens of civilian deaths your organization was seen as key to gaining international support for the u.n. back no fly zone america says u.s. and allied forces have now halted an offensive by colonel moammar gadhafi forces against rebels in benghazi but fighting is still reported elsewhere or he's powerless. as the latest from the capital tripoli. we are hearing reports of new airstrikes that are being carried out on the ground we're also hearing reports that military planes are being loaded with weapons at american bases in issue eight and that which is planes are on their way to libya now the american army

we're turning around the war in afghanistan are we now and which way would that be and here's another question for you why are we where in the first place. you want to get off the streets or. the work. and life after afghanistan and iraq we're going to take a look at a valid up more veterans seem to be fighting this one about homelessness. good evening it's tuesday march fifteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of anyone watching our t.v. now feeling our focus on the latest situation out of japan officials have confirmed that radioactive material materials leaked into the atmosphere following an explosion and a fire at a reactor at the fukushima nuclear power plants there now the fire is said to have damaged an area used to store spent nuclear fuel dangerous radiation levels have flourished upin to order some one hundred forty thousand people to seal themselves indoors now just how this crisis will unfold remains to be seen but when you fear and scrutiny over nuclear power is of course certain but what happened to investment in science and innovation indeed it seem

it is one way or the currency wars because the. us was kind of blaming china for manipulating its currency and then the brazilians the bric countries said no it is the quantitative easing in the us. because of manipulation because by reducing interest rates through intervention money supply you can influence the currency rates as wrote so i think that was the sort of debate between the countries and the term currency wars was used but i think we'll have turmoil in currency markets basically we have more instability in sterling is because of high place in the u.k. . and expect an interest rate rise in the u.k. is going to come on the i think pressure in some markets and we have uncertainty in europe about the debt problem in greece is not really sold people are talking about whether priests should. whether it's going to default or restructured there and the problems in ireland and portugal and so on so you will be under pressure and the code and sort of instability uncertain oil prices will not help you either and us as well increas

is losing the information war and among those media who are winning that war hillary clinton named r t we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive mrs clinton says she's leading an effort to spread u.s. propaganda through new media with twitter feeds in arabic and farsi but on global stage the u.s. trails when it comes to television she basically said the u.s. should stephon propaganda efforts and get back quote and they gave of doing quote what we do best here is more we are engaged in an information war you know during the cold war we did a great job in getting america's message out after the berlin wall fell we said ok fine enough for that you know we've done it we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it and our our private media cannot fill that gap in fact our private media particularly c

we are in a fourth war here a fourth priest got a compact plus iraq and afghanistan. we do these wars and the united states does not have unlimited power we should be trying to find a way to effect. with the muslim community worldwide which means getting out of afghanistan out of iraq out of. away from the explained current and pakistan doesn't mean ceding to terrorism and work with the world community and this is a massive intervention already in the name of a no fly zone which isn't like telling people you just can't park in this space it's really a massive attack on the defense structure of a nation we're in a war. history of u.s. involvement in conflicts over the years suggest the future is bleak for colonel gadhafi and matter whether the libyan people bumpus or not that's one opinion voiced and peter novell's to pay child cross talk coming up in around twenty minutes. our mission is to remove gadhafi either dead or alive let's face it that is the deal by then is in the atlas guys if the u.n. resolution though see this is what i'm getting it's not the u.n. wrote y

during the cold war and there is. that force is the front for the national salvation these are also part of the so-called rebels and they're backed by other western agencies like the national endowment for democracy works and personally there so this is really a very manipulated so-called conflict with the people of libya the real true free popular uprising people of libya are going to suffer the most and it won't be very long once they don't get out the before the people true popular uprising realizes they have no control over their country because the united states france and italy . or russia has described the international military action as graphical foreign ministry using. everything they can to stop civilian suffering and to create an immediate cease fire because all of the cross reaction in moscow. russia has expressed regrets over this international intervention into libya and a statement by the foreign ministry they called on all sides to stop violence as soon as possible well russia has been against interna

> because you see no spirituality in war. combat does not, for la of a bett wor expose you to the opportunity to serve the lord. >> reporter: after he lost his faith, he lost his wife and his home, and now he's trying to help other veterans at the los angeles mission. >> i don't know if you've ever been in a position to say to yourself if you have believed in god, you think god has abandoned you, that's what you feel in combat because you feel there can be no god with this type of carnage going on. >> reporter: everyone we spoke with agrees that an important factor in the turbulent return of some vets is that much of the country has not shares the pain of two wars they have been fighting. >> there's lip service to the service and saluting the service, but does the public really understand in a deep way em pathically what the moral burdens of war are? i don't think so. >> reporter: good news is the department of defense instituted a reintegration plan for vets calls the yellow ribbon program. >> we tried y see them as soon the

this is a war. who says it isn't a war? everybody talks about the afghan war. was the war declared? of course not it wasn't declared. there was a resolution passed that said the president at that time under the emergency of 9/11 could go and deal with al qaeda, those who dealt and brought upon the 9/11 bombings. but al qaeda's not there anymore. so we're fighting the taliban. the taliban used to be our allies at one time when the soviets were there. taliban wants -- their main goal is to keep foreign occupationers out. they want foreigners out of their country. they are not al qaeda. yet, most americans, maybe less so now, but the argument's -- but the arguments here on the floor is we have to go al qaeda. it gives incentive for al qaeda to grow in numbers rather than dealing with them. the money issue. we're talking about a lot of money. how much do we spend in a year? probably about $130 billion, up to $1 trillion now in this past decade. later on in the day we are going to have two votes. we're going to have a vote on doing something sensible, making sense out of our foreign poli

of war are we looking at a form of propaganda here. i say back in two thousand and one tillman was coming off the best year of his career he was picked for sports illustrated's all protein and he just turned down a nine million dollars contract to stay with his team the arizona cardinals pat tillman was tough and he was loyal then came nine eleven. had respect for the unfolding tragedy the n.f.l. postponed a week of games but tillman went further than that he joined the army rangers my great grandfather was a pro harbor and a lot of my family has given up and i have been a strong foreign wars and i really haven't done a damn thing this was the real deal a pro football player giving up a lucrative career to serve his country in the field of battle a true patriot and a true american hero news of another american as republicans to attention to me obstruct replies and service. will be able to a multimillion dollar contract in professional football has been killed pat tillman was dead his memorial service was aired on national television th

i mean for example we want to put it that way to stop the war in mark ryan but they're stopping the war in iraq or. in my face i mean to me on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to stop the war buying to mean on the side of the rebels i mean the whole the whole position seems to me completely untenable. and full of holes. keith harman snow a war correspondent and former u.n. investigator says the coalition is defending a rebel forces which promotes western interests president sarkozy from france today the libyan people must be able to choose their own destiny and they have to these attacks. hundred ten tomahawk missiles in the free flights air flights the air attacks they we can return to diplomatic activity there was no good plan diplomatic activity this is an absolute of aggression it's just another war and if the world should really be frightened about the nature of nato and american power and attacking their own dictators there's a popular uprising components of the uprising where the rebels attacked libya but there's also genuine genuine dissonance bu

where we are living in an era of perpetual war the garbage dollar wrote the book perpetual war for print for perpetual peace well we we have to realize we've been sold a phony bill of goods on this global war on terror which gives the government our government the ability to go anywhere in search of dragons to slay which we were warned about from the inception of this country and so we have to look at the wars we're in the war in iraq based on lies war in afghanistan based on a misreading of history the incursion into pakistan dangerous really dangerous the attempt to destabilize other governments in the region the failure to look at the plight of the palestinian state the concerns that about the american try and america's policy trying to encircle russia we have really done it wrong everywhere and so we have to move away from the rule of force we have to move towards a model of cooperation and diplomacy of equality of recognizing that all nations have a stake in equality we cannot try to grab world resources using our military power that may have been done in another area can't be done

now bag that has a for now for more on these stories and war that we've covered go to our t.v. dot com slash usa and check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america and of course feel free to follow me on twitter as well it's lucy at capital going to see you in a half an hour with more. of the impact. he needs. and the media radium invade. in similar numbers over the years because he's afraid that our. most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known difference he did so produce is so much of the engine then he changes. and suit. by being out of the deal since the fall. you don't have to have a college degree going to have to have a pretty education to understand. if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem. hey tom are in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. the official auntie affleck ation on the phone on called touch from the i.q. sounds to. watch all she lights on the go. video on demand she's mine old girls and already just

one the myths of war the u.s. is also no doubt in the middle of an economic crisis and one man i spoke to earlier says it's due to corporate interests being that above all else and behind it all as a group he says well in drug cartels now there you don't have to love i'm not endorsing it but we do think it's important to hear what you have to say here is part of my conversation with dr matthias rath of dr rath research. you have drawn parallels between what's going on here today in america in two thousand and eleven to what's happened what happened in germany in one thousand nine hundred thirty three we put together some bullet points of your argument and i want to lay them out and have you then explain them now you say there is a concrete strategy to turn democracy into a corporate dictatorship and evidence lies and things like corporate interest taking over the economic crisis that we saw rising unemployment financing of the takeover confusion preaching hatred deception and politics now you say these events are

yourself and that's why you only go to war when it's an absolute interest to your national security the pentagon sells it to mainstream media advertising and the public buys it but do the people have buyer's remorse when it comes to read more. and more money may create more problems and one of our world without currency one man things that would solve a world of problems we'll take a look into this right guys movement. and it's been asked before how do we not see the economic collapse coming well i'll speak with a man who says he's got the answer and it all comes down to capitalism and what we weren't talking about it. is friday march twenty fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for working our team. on out of the situation in libya where after six days of intense negotiations among its member states nato has agreed to assume control of the no fly zone there this was of course authorized first by the u.n. security council resolution one nine hundred seventy three and is known as operation odyssey dawn now over the last day western warplanes have continued airstrikes in the lib

of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his predecessor until now the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution but the bands and to the violence against its. it authorize the use of force in the timeline of recent history there have been some glaring similarities when it comes to the use of force by u.s. presidents none have been in response to a military attack or even threat of an attack on u.s. soil none have ever been formally declared wars we have to protect thousands of innocent people who kosovo from a melting military offensive we are determined to knock out set of hussein's nuclear potential we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities self defense is not only our right it is our duty the definition of duty often changing the result eerily parallel thank you god bless you. thank you very much christine for south r.t. . well u.s. congressman dennis kucinich said it's time for wants him to think of diplomatic methods to ease tensions in the muslim world rather than cultivate more conflicts there we are in a fourth war here fourth front