in iraq, saddam's is the one that has the ring of truth. >> the people really believed saddam who said he had w.m.d.s were the iranians. and if you look at the i.a.e.a. reports, when iran was thinking about weaponizing, of building a nuclear weapon, it was before saddam fell. once he fell, 2003, iran quit its weaponization program. >> rose: some people... back to this interrogation by the f.b.i. my friend tom friedman has said this and others have said it. was iraq the way it was because saddam the way he was or was saddam the way he was because iraq was the way it was? >> i go iraq was the way it was because of saddam. >> rose: right. >> personal opinion based on reading a couple thousands of pages of interrogation, the force of personality can be a terrible force with a bad personality. >> rose: so he w a baduy but smart. >> smart, cagey, savvy. but ultimately one of those handful of most self-involved people. >> rose: megathat nigh cal killer. >> yes. >> rose: and how did he view that? >> he viewed himself... he viewed everything he did-- including the mass murder of kurds-- as nece

. >> this is democratic post saddam -- iraq kurdistan. -- this is democratic, post saddam kurdistan. >> tokyo was buzzing and the rest of the world could not get enough. then japan's bubble burst, the stock market crash sent the economy tumbling. they call the next 10 years the lost decade, a time of slow growth and unemployment. other countries are worried as they are destined to follow japan posture tikrit and what lessons must be learned to avoid it. we will talk to a japan watchers who questions the entire premise of the lost decade. >> japan does not look like it has been stagnating for 20 years. the streets are bustling. many of the women have a luxury handbag. there are nearly four times more michelin restaurants in tokyo than in france. this company has doubled its work force since the bad times began. they produce panels that control the machines that make the exports that japan is famous for, cameras and cars. their jobs have never been under threat. >> have you have ever had to let anyone go? >> we have had a salary let down. >> you have reduced the salary. how come you ha

there was no mention of the united states overthrowing saddam hussein. iraq, like egypt and other countries undergoing dramatic changes, faces immense challenges in the years ahead. we met an iraqi american who spent much of her life in war zones who firmly believes the key to lasting peace is in the hands of women >> i grew up in war, and i grew up in not only a war but a-- iraq was led by saddam hussein. so it was fear and terror. >> reporter: zanea's father was saddam hussein's personal pilot. her family's ever move controlled by his iron hand. >> the fear-- i wish i can can explain that fear. it was like a poison gas leaked into our home and we all breathed it slowly. i was about 10 years old when the iran-iraq war started. and at a very young age i learned there is this other side of war that sort of no one talks about, and that is what women go through and what women live in war. and it was the women who ran the schools. it was the women who ran the factories. and it's women who keep life going in the midst war. >> mitchell: you're saying it's a st

do what i just did but it's better than complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current guy there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfurling we're out of time comedian and filmmaker since math and new york city. also had its the eternal sunshine of the military mind as the pentagon approves a study for the pell designed to make soldiers forget the horrors of war we asked the question is ignorance really bliss. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. just lindsey lowe and. the preaching about these women that people are suggesting she's. you know she says she's a stock. let's talk now about a reality of our time that's most likely been a reality for decades if not centuries but it's one that's starting finally to not be ignored talking about post-traumatic stress disorder and robs it was simply because it couldn't be ignored any longer i'll give you some numbers twenty percent of the soldiers who ha

just telling you is the least thing he's tweeting us a big that's not to do it's like a it's like saddam hussein tweeting all right thank you we are all right i don't know you did you just know where killed less people did you just compare rupert murdoch to saddam hussein i'm sure you didn't know who i just did but it's better the complete comparing a minute later i think i may saddam hussein is like this current that you know ok there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smith in new york city. also had here on r t and the horror of war is something not easily forgotten or maybe it is when we come back at the pentagon tries to find a way to help soldiers cope with the traumas of combat but we ask the question is ignorance really bliss. lindsey lowe and give me the fleet about islam and the young people are saying just the longer you know she says she's a star. the way. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you get something else here so y

all right it was we did you just compare kill less people did you just compare rupert murdoch to saddam hussein i'm sure he didn't know who i just did but it's better the complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current ok there you go with what is actually more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smashed and new york city. so had on our take the blue pill and forget everything that ever happened forget the horror of war and the reality american soldiers face every day take the red pill and hear the truth that story coming up next. you don't believe the rough. but what do you want to ask nobody seems to know. that never ever sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. welcome to the capital account mr. harcourt. i think. we have a. safe. freedom. let's talk now about a reality of our time that's most likely been a reality for decades if not centuries but it's one that's starting finally to no longer be ignored i'm talking about post-traumatic stress disorder and

like it i just did but it's better the complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current ok there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smith in new york city. well speaking of a lack of civility in journalism i want to take this time just briefly to address something we told you about last week radio host and paid c.n.n. contributor dana lash agreeing with those marines in afghanistan remember the ones caught on video urinating on dead militants on a radio show last week dana said that she dropped trial and do it too those are her words but when our team put a link from the audio from her show on to our web site she tweeted us and accused us of not doing our job of gathering news and spinning what she said even though we simply posted the audio from her show her words she also said we didn't reach out to her which we actually did using several different methods and she never responded oh she did tweet back a few times also right words website big journalism

saddam, i told you, i don't need you anymore. you can't leave me, satan. nobody leaves me.es, i can! graaa! [ coughs ] oh, you little prick! goodbye forever, saddam! what are you talking about? you can kill me, but i'll be back tomorrow! not this time. i asked a favor of an old friend of mine to let you in. let me in where? what the -- hey, what the hell is this place? hello, and welcome! we're glad you made it, brother! who the hell are you? we're just about to do a play about how much stealing hurts you deep inside. come join us! you're here forever! no! no-o-o-o-o-o-o!! -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com captions paid for by mtv networks >> january 4, 2012. from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: hi, everybody. welcome to the show. what a wonderful display of enthusiasm. our guest tonight, author elizabeth dowling taylor. [cheering and applause] nice. wow. such hard name to pronounce. obviously tonight we'll be dealing with iowa and our up-to-the-minute coverag

on the other hand saddam's regime gave permission to many journalists to remain in baghdad they tried to control them very tightly and at the same time they kept giving them false information even hours before the american troops set foot in the iraqi capital. we would have thought that them all good and bad that their dog would be here to go look the war correspondents in baghdad were only the one side of the story but in that war there was another but journalists were embedded in the allied forces. what imbedded journalists could report it was in most cases predetermined severely limiting their point of view. this is if you like putting together a part of a jigsaw if we have relied just on embedded journalist just to report on their one hundred meters of desert then we would have been producing an incomplete picture of you right there that got the work of the embedded reporters became much more difficult due to the growing dependency they developed with the soldiers who they were following but you do get very close to them but you have to remember and i remember before i embedded th

little coverage following the government's conception a large number of the american media demonize saddam hussein and discredited all those who are against the war some american sadly not interested in victory and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic well it's not. for media organizations and it's people the war did not start with the invasion in iraq but from the very moment president bush demanded the withdrawal of all journalists from the area of operations. for their own safety off foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave iraq immediately. the message was clear for all reporters and media personnel who had come to baghdad from all around the world they did not want them to move around and report freely without being monitored. what goes on in a war you know is deeply unpleasant people violate other people's rights people act in very cruel and inhumane way the last thing that military leaders want is to have independent observers of those sorts of violations and that's one of the reasons why you find the journalists are targeted becaus

some saddam's government is sending the army and police to an area at the center of the violent tribal conflict the town of bieber was a target by thousands of fighters from the rival tribes who torched buildings stole livestock and for schools to flee u.n. troops deployed in the region were unable to enforce security and recent months ethnic infighting caused by cattle rustling has just left about thousand people dead. south korea's president says he's ready to launch nuclear talks with north korea claims if the north demonstrate sincerity and new era on the korean peninsula can begin the commons come up to beyond young vowed in a new year's message that it would be all states military and defend the son of the late leader kim jung il into death and has been installed as supreme commander of the armed forces and as ruling party leader follow his father's death in the middle of december. and u.s. president barack obama has signed into effect a law which means any person can be detained indefinitely without charge the major defense bill is aimed at dealing with terror suspects and with

program of iran is just a pretext in this case of the same way it was a pretext and peaceful iraq when saddam hussein was blamed for developing destruction weapons program. proved to be absolutely false and then i'm afraid that in this case and peaceful for and these accusations may become exactly false of the same men that they were both iraq but. it would be too late to to to to to. they're easy because the regime would be so forcefully moved to hate by now let's get to our last question here and forgive me i'm running low on time. u.s. british french warships are already loitering around the iranian border some might sense they waiting for perhaps a possible form of provocation at the same time thousands of american soldiers are being positioned in israel what's next is it war hopefully more because it will have disastrous consequences for iran for security in the region for the security of the united states and other participants in this military operation so i believe the call for this is just the method dorsett additional pressure on iran but i do not believe that the united states seri

every intelligence service in the world believes saddam was dangerous.of saddam getting -- >> but if you're president in a year's time, which you may be, and you're faced with the same compelling evidence about the new leader in north korea, for example, what would you do? are you going to accept that level of intelligence again? >> with hindsight or without hindsight. >> i'm talking about with foresight. >> if someone walks in and says, the iranians are two weeks away from using a nuclear weapon and we have reason to believe that ahmadinejad would use it. i think that no american president, i can't say this about obama, but even obama, would not tolerate an iranian nuclear weapon. >> when would you do in that circumstance? >> by then you've been pushed into a corner that only military action is capable. the reason i site reagan and eisenhower, you want to shape the eventually by taking steps now that alter the iranian regime nonmilitarily. i would say the same thing in north korea. our ultimate goal is to get past the dictator. >> but america can't look

saddam is head of the mukhabarat, the secret police. he stassen with loyal members of his drug and launches a systematic campaign of terror designed to limit the opposition and intimidate the population. >> he created a second layer of government. in every single ministry, there is a desk that reported directly to saddam hussein. >> [spaeking farsi] >> all the security personnel were his people. the money he gave them and the cars and prestige and power. people had never had any of that. >> in early january of 1969, a scene starke reminiscent of nazi germany, saddam her as a public event to demonstrate the policies of the new regime. thousands court part -- thousands graduated in liberation square. >> that is the point -- condemned the spies. you want to say there is an external enemy, you said despise the the problem therefore i have to suppress and implement certain policies. you see that around the world in a variety of counter intelligence states using has been us as an excuse to suppress dissidents and establish power. some of us m

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tsks naphtha with school this thing if saddam paul >>pam: if you're headed to candlestick park tomorrow, you'll notice more officers. security will be increased. a number of officers will be increased by 25 percent compared to a normal day. swiss >> the lights here at candlestick are working. the teams are ready to go and officers are ready to get to work to make sure things go smoothly during saturday's playoff games. >> they are family events. we want to maintain a family atmosphere. >> this is what they're aiming for at candlestick park on saturday as the 49ers take on the saints. >> samara, officers will be on the lookout for anyone attempting to cause trouble. on average there are around a dozen arrests during a 49 a game. officers will be in uniform and undercover. >>pam: hundreds of city employees are waiting to find out if they will lose their jobs. this comes after a decision by the governor and legislature to eliminate legal of the agency's. here is a look at some of the departments and programs that could be affected. public works could take longer to fill potholes or fleas s

saddam is coming. he's under your bed. he's outside your window.a smoking gun -- you could feel the heart beat of the nation and the vote was taken in the congress a week before an election. now, who's going to stand up nine, ten, months after the towers were knocked down and say, no to a war when we had the administration convincing some very bright people that it was saddam who took the towers down. false. but we went to iraq. we over 4,000 american uniformed personal were killed. 4 million refugees, a massive >> phil, it's been a real pleasure. great to meet you. >>> when we come back, mitt romney won iowa and leads in new hampshire. we'll talk to a top romney supporter about whether he can keep the lead and lock up the nomination. [ male announcer ] for sore muscles use new bengay cold therapy, it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse who cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a $3

saddam is coming. he's under your bed. he's outside your window. a smoking gun -- you could feel the heart beat of the nation and the vote was taken in the congress a week before an election. now, who's going to stand up nine, ten, months after the towers were knocked down and say, no to a war when we had the administration convincing some very bright people that it was saddam who took the towers down. false. but we went to iraq. we over 4,000 american uniformed personal were killed. 4 million refugees, a massive blunder and it looks like now we've got the guns out because iranian are blocking the straits of hormuz and i want to know why president obama pick up the phone, call the other people whose oil will be diminished if this blockade is successful and say to the president or chief of any other country, what are you going to do? let's talk any way, instead, the guns are out. rick santorum can't wait to go in there and show how tough he is. that's how you get elected. that's how we keep getting into war after war. this is maddening and tragic. >

they were brutally repressed from the founding of iraq until the day that saddam hussein was overthrown. today they now run iraq. they are not pro-american. in fact, baghdad is now tehran's closest ally in the world. but that really reflects what the shiite population wants. and another 20% of iraq's population are kurds. they have dreamed from the founding of iraq to the present moment of having their own independent state. and today, they basically do. they have their own parliament, their own army. their own judicial system. you don't need a visa to go to kurdistan, but you do to go to iraq. it is, except for having a flag at the u.n., it's an independent country. so they're delighted. of course, they were also spared almost all the violence. it's a small segment of the iraqi population, the sunnis, and even only part of them, that are worse off. but the question is for the united states. was this worth $1 trillion? 4,000 dead and many thousands more permanently injured? to do what? to go into iraq and to leave a situation where we have a government in baghdad that is closely alied w

. >> many say the iraq war was fought on completely false premise, that saddam hussein was on weaponsf mass destruction and he wasn't, and therefore let's not use the word illegal, a pointless war that cost a lot of lives and money and would have been much better off not involving american troops the way it did. given what you experienced on the battlefields, given what you saw, if you had been the commander in chief, with that decision about iraq, would you have taken that decision? >> well, there were two decisions. there was the decision to go in and then there was the decision to stay. i mean, you can look back in hindsight and say a lot of things. every intelligence group in the world believed saddam was dangerous, given the real danger of him getting weapons. >> president in a year's time, which you may be, and you're faced with the same compelling evidence about the new leader in north korea, for example. what would you do? are you just going to accept that level of intelligence again? >> you mean with hindsight or not. >> with foresight. >> somebody walks in says we have reaso

intervention and the overthrow of the first dictator, saddam hussein.any credit at all, the americans? >> >> i will tell you that the americans are [ inaudible ] governments supported au crattic regimes in the arab world. >> the neo conservative position stopped doing that and should change the game in the middle east and some ways that argument we associate with people like paul wolfowitzs has turned out to be right. by overthrowing saddam hussein a domino effect set itself in motion. >> the actual path to democracy in the arab world started from within the public, from within the people. it is an indigenous model created, deeply rooted inherited inside the system and the culture and the will of the public. what happened in iraq, it was imposed from overseas and rejected by the public. the democrat of iraq is not functioning because of the, you know, this kind of foreign element in it. in my opinion, what happened in iraq delayed the arab spring. >> we will have to end on that note, i think inevitably, iraq comes -- comes up again and people disagree o

saddam is coming, he's under your bed, he's outside the window.g gun will become, you can feel the heart beat of the nation. the vote was taken in the congress a week before an election. now who's going to stand up nine, ten months after the towers were knocked down and say no to a war when we had the administration convincing some very bright people that it was saddam who took the towers down. false. but we went to iraq, over 4,000 american uniformed personnel were killed, 4 million refugees, a massive blunder. >> i'm going to sadly leave it there because i could do this for a lot longer. it's been a real pleasure. i can't go without asking you how am i doing? i'm replacing an equal legend. >> you know what, i noticed it right away. you do not float a battleship of words around a rowboat of thought. you're pretty focused and direct and i think that's a real secret of, you know, get that question in. don't give them options. do you think this or do you think that? let him make the decision, or her. and it's fun. >> phil, it's been a real pleasure.

. >> well, they can do the same thing as saddam hussein proved bustie pretending to have the program. didn't want to give up the fact he didn't have anything and let his neighbors realize he was weak in that way, and instead let us invade and start a ten-year war with him. >> you're exactly right. one thing we saw was that actually when we went in '91, saddam's weapons of mass destruction program was much further advanced than we thought in particular the nuclear program. and so then for the ten years, 11 years of sanctions we had a cat and mouse play, trying to fracture the coalition, everybody's patience wears then, you go back to the u.n. security council again and again. eventually we became convinced he did in fact have the weapon and then he didn't. >> i tell you one other quick point. libya, it turned out when we went into iraq in 2003, libya turned over their weapons program which helped us take down a back market for nuclear weapons. so there's a lot of uncertainty. no in the world, and you marry that with terrorism and other concerns we have today, it is an unstable situatio