saddam's role in the history, saddam's role in military victory, saddam's philosophy, saddam's interpretation of the religious things. they created the institute of saddam for the interpretation of the holy quran and so on and so forth. and that becomes really the ideology, and no one talks about the old ideology. >> i would like to know what's the role of aziz in the government exactly. and i want to know also what motivated the u.s. invasion in 1903 -- i mean 2003. okay. is this to introduce a democracy as they said? because if they did, the rulers who came as a result of that invasion, al-maliki, is not any less democratic. he prevented the family of saddam hussein to visit -- [inaudible] >> thank you. um, the role of aziz is very, very important. he actually was up with of the people who really -- one of the people who really believed in the ideology of the baath. he was a true baathist from the beginning. he knew how to survive, and he kept his distance, yet saddam knew he can rely on him 120% and on his loyalty. and there was no doubt about this at any point, that he was very, very supp

saddam was a nasty piece of work.his was international aggression. >> our armed forces fought with honor and valor. i can report to the nation, aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> operation desert storm was considered a success. lasting just 43 days. >> the indomitable spirited that is contributing to this victory for world peace and justice is the same spirit that gives us the power and the potential to meet our toughest challenges at home. >> meanwhile, he and his administration continued to tread softly, dealing with the shrinking soviet union. >> we tried to move at a pace which would not endanger gorbachev. eventually, there was a coup, but by then, it was too late. and yelsin pulled them out from gorbachev. >> president bush told us, wait a minute, i don't want any gloating. we have a lot of business still to do, with the leaders of the soviet union and i don't want to see us, anybody in my administration, sticking it in their eye. >> gorbachev resigned december 25, 1991, and the soviet union dissolved t

even then, as we now know, our success in destroying saddam's nuclear and chemical weapons capability was limited. and we can't be sure that the efforts by inspectors of the international atomic energy authority to prevent saddam putting several nuclear power to military uses have been any more successful. we may reasonably suspect that they have not. what then can we do? there is no mysterious diplomatic means to disarm a state which is not willing to be disarmed. as frederick the great observed, diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. arms control and non-proliferation measures have a role in restraining rogue states but only when combined with other measures. if america and its allies can't deal with the problem directly by preemptive military means, they must at least diminish the incentive for the saddams, the gadhafis and others to acquire new weapons in the first place. that means, my friends, the west must install effective ballistic missile defense which would protect us and our armed forces, reduce or even nullify the rogue states' arsenal, and enable us to

an invention of saddam hussein. stalin realized that ethnic minorities even in senior positions couldn't constitute a threat for the regime given their lack of a power base. in iraq the asyrians have the reputation of being very tidy and punctual and having no political ambitions, and thus, they were a natural group to employ. the real concern for the country's leadership, however, was the people who were on the inside whether in the army or the security organizations including the sso, and this applied to those in senior positions as well. thus, the insecurity of the masses was sup mr. supplementedy the insecurity of the government elite who surrounded the dictator. the files of the sso are rife with example of sso employees being monitored, arrested and punished. many had their telephone tapped

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but the test came when iran's saddam hussien invaded neighboring kuwait. >> when saddam first attackedo nata and go to the un to. talk to friends and allies about the international coalition. >> so when tough roads needed to be taken as it related to desert storm the president of the united states could touch back bais with the president of france. >> once again, americans could step forward to share a cheerful goodbye with families before leaving for a strange and distant shore. and at this moment, they serve together. in the dream of a new world order. >> bush had drawn a clear line in the sand. he was able to put together a coalition of 25 or more countries unheard of in modern day. soley on personal persuasion and resolve. on his own experience and knowledge. >> that coalition was quite unprecedented. i mean it was almost all of the rest of the world against iraq. >> one team formed international coalition he faced an agonizing decision. how the 41 president confronted the dictator saddam hussien. the employee of the month isss... the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gi

. >> stephen: leading through brave vision, so would you rather have saddam hussein still in power. > rather we have-- yz. >> stephen: yes or no, i am not going to let you we are right-- rewrite history, madame. do we know how close iran is to a nuclear weapon r they like three areas away from being like five years away or one year away from being seven years away. >> well, you tell me. since 1990 or 1992 people have been saying they aring to get it next year. look, the long ferr goes on, the more the west and israel believes that iran is simply index orably marching towards a weapon. iran keeps saying no we're not. >> stephen: they just want nuclear power, that's alls with. >> that is what they say, but nobody believes iran. >> stephen: are you one of those people that says we trust we should trust them. >> nobody believes i ran. what i think is look, sanctions haven't yet worked. they're biting. they're definitely biting but they haven't yet worked in terms of causing them to capitulate. >> stephen: you know what would really work is driving a motorcycle up next to an iranian scient

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note that saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait took place after the ussr was gravely weakened and hadeased to be iraq's protector. the soviet collapse has also aggravated the single most awesome threat of modern times. the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. these weapons and the ability to develop and deliver them are today acquired by middle income countries with modest populations, such as iraq, iran, libya and syria. required sometimes from other powers like china and north korea, but most ominously by a former soviet arsenal or unemployed scientists or from organized criminal rings, all by way of a growing international black market. according to stephen hadley, formerly president bush's assistant secretary for international security policy, and i quote, by the end of the decade, we could see over 20 countries with ballistic missiles. nine with nuclear weapons, ten with biological weapons and up to 30 with chemical weapons. according to other official united states sources, all of northeast asia, southeast asia, much of the pacific and most of russia could soon be threa

there was a state that had been on the terrorist list, saddam hussein's iraq. but the reagan administration want today provide aid and assistance to saddam. so they removed iraq from the terrorist list and proceeded to provide aid and assistance right through his worst crimes, denying the crimes. and, in fact, rather strikingly when saddam was tried, it was for crimes that he committed in 1982, by his standards pretty minor crimes, excluding the major crimes -- i presume because those were all supported by the united states and, in fact, even denied by the reagan administration. well, there was a gap in the terrorist list because iraq was removed, had to be filled. so it was filled by a cuban. cuba was added to the terrorist list partly in order to give some justification for outlandish claims about why we were entitled to support murderous terrorist regimes in central america which left a couple hundred thousand corpses. much worse thanks to our involvement. so the argument was, well, they're being supported by cuba, so it must be a terrorist state. fabricatio

the author of the book, "between two worlds" her father served as saddam's personal pilot. elise jordan, former speech writer to condoleezza rice. and for the first time, my friend and colleague, jeremy skahill, one of the greatest reporters on national security we have. national security correspondent for "the nation." he just got back from reporting in yemen and has the cover story in the magazine's current issue. you definitely want to check that out. let's start with syria. the syrian city of homs continues to endure shelling by president bashar al assad's regime. syrian activists say close to 200 people have been killed in just the last two days. this is a satellite picture from friday of homs where the syrian military has been shelling and a pipeline has exploded. this week, the united nations issued a report saying bashar al assad must be held accountable for killing his own people. some of the stuff documented in the report is just appalling, from torturing children to mass executions. on friday in tunisia, secretary of state hillary clinton suggested a syrian milit

doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at saddam say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's that seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaida in there apparently. you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well as arabs in there i think this is why i'm against plunge putting weapons in and aiding the anti as

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outthrust still somehow saddam and it somehow and added a few of our show has of what has most aquatic sky. by 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m., light rain. we will have perhaps a stray showers late morning early afternoon, but breaks of sunshine and increasing high clouds late into the afternoon as another weather system president for the tomorrow morning in the forties. the highest moral are still on the chilly side. >>vicki: three skiers are dead after an avalanche. there were swept up in a snow is live. authorities say they're all experience. the woman who survived had an avalanche safety kit >>vicki: barbara hall shows as whitney houston the base, iodine the mother is a lot of pain. the pain is the suddenness of hard transition. >> in guests like oprah winfrey and you're looking attended a take gathering immediately selling the ceremony. bob brown continues to pay his respects despite beating properly kahane and of events or private, fans still commemorate her life. skf tomahawk what caught the aha that at and how she is a different address for investigators trying to learn exactly what caused

you can use that military, saddam hussein totally outplayed his hand. khadafy overplayed his hand. they see that in iran and it's going to happen to them unless they come to the table. if you had the right leader, you would have them at the table without having to waste lives and billions of dollars. >> greta: assume that we did have them at the table, what in the world do you think it is that we could offer them to persuade them to convince them to scare them, whatever, for iran to step down on nuclear weapon development? >> guest: survival, it's pure and simple. a horrible thing, it's survival. they won't survive. i mean, they are in deep trouble if they carry it out. i think obama will go to war with iran because i think he views it as good politically. it's pretty sad thing to have to say but he will go to war with iran. he views that as a positive from a political standpoint. she just waiting for the right moment. i think iran better be damn careful. they are overplaying their hand just like khadafy and just like saddam hussein. >> greta: ronald iag ran won the cold war by bas

hussein they despise saddam hussein and iran supports the support of the opposition in iraq but iran was opposed to the war because it was unprincipled and against international law in this case as well actions of the turks and the dictatorships in the persian gulf region along with the red western regimes are against international law and that is why iran opposes these actions based upon the same moral principle professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran live in beirut thank you for joining me today. greeks are venting their anger at even more planned the cuts which the e.u. is demanding in return for vital funds after a tough multi-party deal the parliament it's exposure to vote on the package on sunday but a junior coalition party says it won't back then you plan greeks who have already suffered the austerity rulings are once again passed with police today who were plied with tear gas some protesters threw stones and molotov cocktails that's it's union strikes brought the country to a standstill eurozone finance ministers say they want to see concrete action before t

we got rid of noriega, a fasist, we got rid of the taliban and za saddam hussein and i can't shed any tears about any of them. >> next week on history bookshelf, toni morrison talks about her book "remember" for younger readers depicts school segregation. history bookshelf airs on american history tv every saturday at noon eastern. >>> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a ten-day bus tour from north carolina to austin, texas. the group stopped at several historic sites along the route. one of the stops was the 6th floor museum at deally plaza in dallas, texas. the museum is located in what was once the texas schoolbook depository. from the sixth floor, lee harvey oswald shot president john f. kennedy on november 22, 1963. >> what we set out to do was to basically tell what happened, and not draw any of our own conclusions about what it means, but to present what history has told us. and there's been several investigations and various developments over the years and most people according to the public opinion surveys have never been satisfied that it was just lee harvey

and the diplomatic corps seems to want nothing to do with this group because this group worked with saddam hussein carried out attacks on americans carried out attacks on iranians while that was the control of saddam hussein and therefore has no credibility inside iran an illegitimate president so it's something the u.s. would want to get behind but at the same time this group is paying major figures in the united states a bipartisan coalition former homeland security director tom ridge former f.b.i. director louis freeh former new york mayor rudy giuliani former democratic presidential candidate howard dean alan dershowitz the you know high powered pro israel trial lawyer all these figures have been paid to shill on behalf of the people's any k. which is now confirmed as a terror organization what they're doing is trying to get it removed from the state department terrorist list so the question is if these figures say it's not a terrorist organization just because they're being paid to and i'm not sure where that money is coming from it doesn't mean that it's really not a terror organizat

that he helped train kuwaitis to liberate their own country after it had been taken from them by saddam hussein and then told the crowd imagine not having your country taken from you and then having to fight to get it back while we're at that point here in this country. oh make it a comment comparing the president of the united states to a brutal dictator would normally be considered astonishing it's nothing new coming from deeper level mr anthony ariana's tea party friends learn that this type of vitriol and rhetoric has no place in america. and the very very ugly rick berman viewers the broadcast they have noticed a peculiar ad during the show an ad attacking the humane society of america claiming that only a small portion of donations made to them actually go to help one animal shelters take a look. at attention consumer protection alert if you've seen this bad or donate to the humane society of the united states you should know that only one penny of every dollar donated goes to local pet shelters be aware that the american institute of philanthropy gives the humane society of the u

two thousand and two who were persuaded by what i call reform in corporate media to believe that saddam hussein was working on nuclear weapons it's bizarre what do the defense ministers of america and israel say they say are the readings working on a nuclear weapon know if the marines were working on a nuclear weapon they would have to kick you at spector's he would know that and they don't want that at all they are not working on a nuclear weapon they have not yet decided to do so so the facts or the offense ministers both intelligence agency the way they say it is they have not yet decided to do nuclear weapons well that means to me simple english means they're not worth you know nuclear weapons going to war i mean if. contrived if you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about this is about a nuclear capability. it was about regime change. an ad campaign in the us paid for by the israeli government has angered managers americans throughout the country the commercials were designed to encourage israeli jews to return to their roots suggesting that americans jewish c

all saddam or to go violation or. caught change the regime. so i think who wish to respect the syrian people so. close to ration that i just ask you then very briefly very briefly hillary clinton has predicted a military coup will overthrow the assad regime how far do you think the u.s. is prepared to go. i think you see it is the international community. that iran girls the so-called friends of syria have been meeting in tunisia. and in that conference. recognized so called the largest emitter rights syrian national council and also the standard strong pressure syrian government. and other. lucian i think they're all one that is very dangerous that one not all the parties. are you white or participate to the conference so somehow as the russian foreign ministry said that it is one sided to me and that will not be helpful to solve the. second since a while though seen in syria you swore you wharves all party so i think you the government should stop military action at the same time the all other parties should also stop while those active wyle

loose wild animals on the agricultural land so they destroy the crops we've seen instances where saddam was run over palestinians with their cars and shoot at unarmed palestinians it's on the increase. guy batavia is an israeli activist who gave up his day job so he could volunteer full time to teach palestinians about the camera project he says settlers think twice when they see a lens pointed in their direction although it didn't stop him recently from breaking his arm and beating him all over his body at a protest in support of a palestinian farmer whose land have been stolen by a settlement but we were about fifteen activists in. and there's. about the camera actually. it's one of the people that they were with. on the ground there with their cameras. all the cameras not only did israeli police do nothing while bones were broken and one second attempted to knife or protester but it's really activists say police beat several of them up what's more for the first time israeli woman activists say there were sixty harassed and assaulted by both male and female israeli extremists but that

experts who had said that it would be quite difficult for any such case to be such a bob rather to saddam explosion rather to be staged in india without the help of locals so they do they are skeptical of tehran's involvement in all of this now to put it in context so iran had also been blaming israel for a series of killings of officials as well as scientists involved in a controversial nuclear program and we have to put it in the context of the international stage iran is right now facing harsh sanctions for that nuclear program coming from the u.s. and its allies as well as the e.u. and this tit for tat statement does increase that that tension that already exists and it is in this context that such car bomb incidents eyes today will be scrutinized and the implications. all right he's live with that. we will have more on these attacks and the investigation is proceeding from our correspondent in india later today and to discuss the implications of these incidents and join life from israel by journalist and blogger laurie endure for. thank you for your time so that claims that iran is r

say they said they want to go to war with the wrong date and say they want to strike roberts and saddam is going to worry about it i think is what people. that's different than going to war with them for what they're going to try to somewhere in the senate is not going to work with them really i don't know if we go to war with libya or obama you say i think so people in the strait of hormuz i mean he's being belligerent this point i'm not saying he's weak on this and i don't . but you know what you thought america we were going to bomb them at the same time that those on the table and i ask you some have to talk about because there are many in government as well there's repercussions if they do that ok more rubble right after the break that. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until she told the truth. i may confess and i am a total get of friends that i love traveling hip hop music and pretty. but it was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you she has played. the. guitar sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it