, thank you for both of you, and it's in the middle of the night in iraq right now. you get up and go to work and get the kids to school, and how do you do this day in and day out without being paralyzed by the fear of something as simple as going to the grocery store and dying because you were in time? >> you know, it's very difficult to live in iraq by this situation. especially when you have your kids with you, or without your kids. every time, when we go out and when they go to school, or when i go to my business, i keep my find, they say, and are they very good? before two days, i take them with me by the car, and they say, oh, father, we are bored, can we go out in and i say, okay, no problem. let's go get some gas for the car, and suddenly, after 10 or 5 minutes, a blast, bombed car in the road, and suddenly, it's very rushed and crowded, and then the ambulance seens an sird then the firemen, and how can i come back to my home? and my wife is calling me, and couldn't get the number, and then i stop for a moment. and i said, oh, same thing. tomorrow it will be b

this is american generals in iraq. i guess that would be tommy franks, planning out their campaign on the calendar, as you noticed that every day this is still something needed. it really says something about the american army in the beginning of the war. it's very often silly focused, very tactically and operationally excellent. and they did know a lot about counterinsurgency. so the idea that you go out and kill and capture insurgent terrorist operatives and it would be rates after raids after raids, and not a lot of thought putting into the other aspects of counterinsurgency that we eventually became very good at but not in 2003. we were there now and things were spiraling downward, although not rapidly. what were we going to do? that was a good question. i don't think we have a good answer to it. we lacked a strategy to guide the way forward, and down at the troop level and outlined brigade commander lacked the concept that drove operations in a uniform and coherent manner. and we lacked enough resources, certainly

charge in iraq. >> ambassador goes with the full blessings of thisn and the full confidence of all of us in this administration that he can get the job done. >> at the top of the list for bremer is oil. >> i had been told we had to get the oil going because it was an oil-dominated economy. this was fairly straightforward. unless you can get the oil going, you can't get the economy going. >> what bremer and his team find when they get into iraq is an oil infrastructure decimated by decades of war, sanctions, and corruption. >> i was shocked when i got there about how undercapitalized it had been, how neglected it was. >> the oil fields were being held together by baling wire and duct tape, in some cases literally duct tape. >> the day after bremer arrives, guidelines -- privatize state-owned enterprises in iraq, including the oil industry. >> oil was the lifeblood of the iraqi economy. you got to get the oil going if you're going to get the economy going. it was not something we were going for selfish american reasons or because we wanted more oil on

that is in the kurdish region of iraq. it is in the middle of the night in iraq right now. hayder, you get up, go to work, get the kids to school. how do you do this day in and day out? how do you do something as simple as going to the grocery store and dying because you were in the wrong place, in the wrong time? how do you do this without dying? >> especially when you have your kids with you or without your kids, every time when we go out and when we go -- when they go off to school or when i go to my business, i keep in my mind, are they safe, are they come back, are they very good? before two days, i take them with me by the car, they say, oh father we are bored, can we go out? i say good, let's go someplace wrwith the car. after ten or five minutes, a blast bomb car on the road and suddenly, to us, very rush and crowded. and then, the ambulance sirens and the fireman and i just couldn't make -- how can i come back to my home? and my wife, calling me and couldn't get the number, and then, i stop for a moment, i said oh, same day. tomorrow will be better. it's our life. >

here is a graph of the violent incidents in iraq. you can see that as the surge begins in january of 2007, the number of incidents is at an all-time high and stays that way for several months. june of 2007, after a lot of surge troops are on the ground, does violence begin to ebb and ebbs substantially. the surge begins rights here. violence had not ebbed. the aawakening was a reason for the insurgeance. well it was a huge part, yes. and i think i described this, it is general petraeus' push that he gave to the awakening that allowed it to expand beyond the confines of ramadi, iraq. myth three, all we did was put the insurgency members on the payroll. i think i mentioned this. there are the original closes. we only paid them $16 million a month and that is cheap at five times the month given the mount of security they gave. at the height, there is 103,000 sons of these men of iraq. that is added at a fraction of the cost of united states troops. it wasn't a strategic shift is myth number four. it was a strategic shift. it strategy is

iraq in 2012 produced more oil per day than it had at any point in the previous three decades. d's second largest oil exporter behind only saudi arabia. >> this idea that iraq mattered because it had oil was important, if not central to the decision to invade the country. >> anyone who controls the strait straits hormuz can control the structure of the u.s. in my view, taking out saddam hussein was a very important thing, so i -- my view of the war was yes, it was about oil. >> in the decadade since the invasion, declassified documents have revealed private deliberations about iraq's oil in the u.s. and in the uk that were unknown to the public at the time. deliberations that were never part of the public case for war. with the revelation that saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction, with the collapse of the public case for war, those involved in the war effort have also now begun to reflect on what transpired in private, behind that public case. what was the reason for the invasion? what was the reason for that near decade of war? why did we do it? >> if you know the re

here is a graph of the violent incidents in iraq. you can see that as the surge begins in january of 2007, the number of incidents is at an all-time high and stays that way for several months. june of 2007, after a lot of surge troops are on the ground, does violence begin to ebb and ebbs substantially. the surge begins rights here. violence had not ebbed. the aawakening was a reason for the insurgeance. well it was a huge part, yes. and i think i described this, it is general petraeus' push that he gave to the awakening that allowed it to expand beyond the confines of ramadi, iraq. myth three, all we did was put the insurgency members on the payroll. i think i mentioned this. there are the original closes. we only paid them $16 million a month and that is cheap at five times the month given the mount of security they gave. at the height, there is 103,000 sons of these men of iraq. that is added at a fraction of the cost of united states troops. it wasn't a strategic shift is myth number four. it was a strategic shift. it strategy is

mention should take them all sit on the sun going to start with the security situation in iraq. it's there in testing the scale of one thousand casualties everyone to know god has acted up in the pms to two thousand thirteen was the busiest year since two thousand and eight. talk is it possible to contain the violence in iraq one up our plan. the show from the no on this quilt is indeed a security conditions which is rather complex in iraq. and you rub is that on the phone later. enough of the personalization. one of the doctrine of some movements. the paparazzi religious movements. three sectors contributed to this situation. all right already present. you know the kind of civilization into my space in the nelson city and also impacted the situation in iraq. goes to create the longest to get to see her and rock you and that is the so called political move the tree. the fund set up some countries in the region realization. while they go plus much more. locally the use of the iraqi army to advance to the members of the tribes in anbar region to which pulled its forces that's all t

the problem in iraq in particular it really is true of iraq and afghanistan that would be in as swift military victories quickly degenerated into thought and grainy noirs. in the case of iraq, it was always believed that would be a short-term commitment. i think it would be interesting to ask those who are participants in the decision-making had they known in march 2003 that the country would be at war in iraq for six or seven more years whether they would've made the the decision they did. but this assumption that the war would be short or that it was right around the corner of flick at the department of defense as badly as it did the decision-makers themselves. and because everyone assumed that the war would be over quickly, there is a great reluctance inside defense to spend significant sums of money on equipment that might be needed to protect the troops, but that might be useful only in iraq or afghanistan. as i describe it in the book, the department of defense is organized to plan for war, not to wage war. so the services dedicate all of their efforts, pretty much all of their

in iraq, sadem didn't let the people use any cell phones. and in burma, we learned sim cards were $5,000 which is a fortune there. they were lowered after we were there to $5 and the system fell over capacity. >> on the military side of it, we interviewed a group of navy seals that were on bin laden raid and asked what technology they needed and they said we don't need new technology. we need cycles to change so we can bring our i-phone out into the battle and keep track of our friends. a friend said when he has to jump out of a plane they have a battery attached that last an hour and a half because they can not use over the counter technology in combat. and we talk about the military industrial complex, we have a real challenge in the sense that cyber security isn't achieved out agility and it is compromised. helicopters and traditional systems, tanks and various weapons, when do we get a point where providing cyber assistance by being attacked by people many c c continents over. >> what should we do about the army that is organizing cyber a

there absolutely quiet about legislation in iraq that is taking us back in time centuries. legislation drafted by the minister of justice is treating the women of iraq in the mentality of centuries back. it is allowing the rape of children, female children of iraq. and although civil society is standing up against it and we are finding ourselves disempowered in the face of a government that has become terrorist and it disempowers the sunnis and alienates the women and also other ethnicities. we're totally divided because of a political formula that was put 11 years ago. we are trying to work against it, but the job is becoming harder and harder. and when the center for constitutional rights and builtd the iraqis the case jointly with the iraq veterans against war and represented it and forwarded to the commission for human rights, the hearing was denied for the second time. those foring to hold the perpetrators -- >> i would like to bring in joyce wagner into the conversation. joyce, could you comment? you deployed twice to iraq. how did your perception of the war change an

johnny, we thought was still in iraq, and our book came out, "american sniper" came out, and chris was actually doing this book signing, i think, in california, and johnny went out and just showed up, and chris, as chris told the story later on, chris said, i thought he was dead. called him up, and made him stand up in front of the room and told everyone the truth that johnny walker -- chris kyle is known as a man who save the a lot of seal and iraqi lives, and chris told that crowd and toll me, told everybody that he could that johnny walker saved more seals and more americans and more iraqis than chris ever could. he's just a remarkable storiment i don't know if it was the next day, but soon after, chris got hold of the publisher, our editor, really had been a big help, and said, peter, you are doing this book, boy. this man is really important. that's kind of where we started. johnny, tell us a little -- you were born in a city, in iraq, tell us bout that. >> so, like, first time, i want to thank all you guys for all the support, and i apologize for my broken english, but i will exp

so what went wrong in iraq, the subject of the first very long chapter in the book. the bush administration made some assumptions going into the iraq war that it would be a war of liberation, that the iraqi people by and large would support taking down saddam hussein, a very brutal and hated dictator. and that since they would cooperate with the american forces, the government and the infrastructure would largely remain tact intact and, therefore, the united states didn't need to plan for a long occupation or an extended rehabilitation for the country. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld also looked on iraq as a laboratory to test his theories and to validate, really, the revolution in military affairs; the idea that high-tech forces with precision-guided munitions and robust intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets could collapse an enemy state relatively quickly beginning at the center of gravity and then wind up the war fairly rapidly and with fewer casualties. and that, this was the sort of wave of the future, the revolution military feared that the u

the alms for front and i since the group which operates in both syria and iraq. clean break means baghdad on move in an interview falls and gets iraq's shiite prime minister nuri al mummy keep bluntly accusing both saudi arabia and that are directly back in the sunni uprising in anbar province. finally as the saudis fret over a possible detente between the west and shiite iran the us president's preparing to visit saudi arabia later this month will see me and visit. we ended our visit will sooth saudi jitters today are in the postman pat debate. we're looking at saudi arabia upping of the tournament is to talk about it from abu dhabi fi so i'll yell fire chief thomas a daily newspaper the national thank you for joining us also with us. longtime syrian descent hide some of the president of the scandinavian institute for human rights. macs are not welcome as well do you guys whose books include thirty years that rocked the persian gulf. he is with its sister station radio france international. an awesome journey as analysts in legal counsel are divided on your slimy

when we look at now syria and the ukraine how has the iraq war afiktfected the policymakers down in washington right now? >> there's a huge presence of the lessons that have been learned through the iraq war, through our presence in afghanistan. and rightly so there is a lot of care and attention being put into the decisions that we make into any future conflicts. the decisions that we as lawmakers have in a huge way to be responsible for sending our troops into harm's way again. there are few critical elements that have to be considered as we look at potential u.s. involvement. is what are the objectives we are trying to achieve, and are those objectives in the best interest of the american people the united states and our interests. so whether it was syria or whether we looked towards what's happening in eastern europe these are the questions that have to be answered. >> this week, there was another wave of attacks in iraq. when you look at it much of the anwar province has fallen to radical islamists. is the country of iraq better off today than it was before the invags invasion 11 years ag

over the last eight years, she has interviewed hundreds of contract workers in iraq and afghanistan. >> debt will make you work anywhere. it doesn't matter if it's a war zone, doesn't matter if you're given a good food or good accommodation. these men are ready to sacrifice. >> govindnagaram is a village of six thousand people, several hours from the closest airport. locals estimate that eighty to ninety percent of men here have worked in iraq or afghanistan. >> if you have a regular job, you might get 5000 rupees - that's $100 dollars for a month. but what the agents promise, you will get $800 dollars for a month. even i will think of moving there to get a job. >> we visited a small tea shop, and word spread that we were looking to talk to people who had worked on bases. it turned out this man serving tea himself had been recruited for a job in afghanistan - with supreme, a contractor that supplies food and fuel to nato. >> whether they made it to afghanistan or not, everyone here had a story about how they had been cheated. this man, nagaraj, paid three thousand dollars to an agent

what made them think they could do that to iraq? >> inhink the answer we've come up to to why we did it helps us understand that. part of what they wanted to do was get into iraq in the first place. they wanted saddam out of the way. they wanted structural changes in the way that iraq's economy was organized. and they didn't much care what happened to iraq in the long run. i mean, anybody thinking strategically, you're totally right, chris. anybody thinking strategically is going to say, ah, in terms of us and iran, better for them to have iraq on their neighbor -- as their neighbor rather than a shiite-led government that's, you know, at this point allegedly buying arms from iran. strategically thinking in those ways, national security terms made no sense to get rid of saddam. but in economic terms, in the way they wanted to rearrange the world, all that mattered was saddam was gone and the rest they figured they'd sort out later if they sorted it out at all. they planned for the invasion, not what would happen after. >> everybody who wa

the front line, if you'd like, is- is outside their front door. >> in recent and ongoing conflicts like iraq and afghanistan, the- the highest death toll, if you'd like is indigenous journalists, particularly in the case of iraq. we've lost colleagues who were local journalists, filming alongside or close to insurgents. >> on the battlefield, in the heat of the moment, someone who- who looks different from the model of a foreign correspondent is even more at risk. because even if he is carrying a camera, even if he is carrying a tripod, the assumption seems to be that they could be hostile. what happened in 2007 to the two reuter's journalists in iraq was a terrible tragedy and one that was brought home to all of us when we saw the footage that wikileaks released. and i think that really brought home the horror of modern war and why it is so dangerous. >> what you had there was apache helicopters firing on a group of people from at least 500 meters away, maybe a couple of kilometers away. you have the assumption that everyone in that group is of a type. you have the assumption that because t

the front line, if you'd like, is- is outside their front door. >> in recent and ongoing conflicts like iraqnd afghanistan, the- the highest death toll, if you'd like is indigenous journalists, particularly in the case of iraq. we've lost colleagues who were local journalists, filming alongside or close to insurgents. >> on the battlefield, in the heat of the moment, someone who- who looks different from the model of a foreign correspondent is even more at risk. because even if he is carrying a camera, even if he is carrying a tripod, the assumption seems to be that they could be hostile. what happened in 2007 to the two reuter's journalists in iraq was a terrible tragedy and one that was brought home to all of us when we saw the footage that wikileaks released. and i think that really brought home the horror of modern war and why it is so dangerous. >> what you had there was apache helicopters firing on a group of people from at least 500 meters away, maybe a couple of kilometers away. you have the assumption that everyone in that group is of a type. you have the assumption that because the

so there's a -- you've done this a documentary about why we went to war in iraq.saying, "those who forget -- no "those who revisit history will get sad. ". [laughter] why did you do this to yourself? why did you dwefl back into the -- delve back into the morass, the abyss that is the iraq war? >> it is history but i feel like it's a really unanswered question in the modern history which is why we went to that war. i did a documentary a little more than a year ago about how we we lied to, the administration's case about why we had to go to war in iraq wasn't true and they sold us a false case? >> jon: what? >> it leads right away to the next question: if the case wasn't really why they wanted to go, why did they really want to go? two million americans lived there and 4,000 americans died there. we owe it to to them to know where they served there. now then it's ten years on there's a bunch of people that wouldn't talk before and a bunch of documents we now have. >> jon: what is it about that ten year period? i would think that ten years is still recent enough that

military strategy shifted in iraq war. and how was executed in the army and earnings per the author talked about his book at the new america foundation in washington dc. this is an hour and a half. >> welcome. i'm part of the security program here. with great pressure that i get to welcome the author of this stunning new book. one of the key books about the iraq war. and we have so much of the key events with the real history and an element. he was executive officer to general petraeus and he has a phd in military history at ohio state. so we are pleased to have you here. and as he gives his presentation we will have a part of this. and we will produce some responses with the operational studies with the u.s. army. he is studying for his phd at texas a&m and i think the part of the american experience and i'm really pleased to have both of you here. we're happy he's giving this presentation now. >> 10 or 20 years down the road i wrote yesterday about the iraq worker but a couple of years later i was at a conference with a v

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to continue on with the violence chart, we would see it creeping back up to probably back to 2006 in iraq. probably in the early part of 2006. so, you know, hopefully, some sort of forces will intervene to keep it from going where it was at the end of 2006 because at a certain point it is corrosive and there is nothing to stop it. but you identified the things that need to be done to prevent that outcome and unfortunately the dynamics are moving in the opposite direction. >> that segways into how you ended the talk which is is it entirely fair to sort of blame the obama administration for the lack of the delta keep american forces in iraq. the negotiator made an effort to make it work but the iraq p parliament was a problem. how would you address? >> i would say president bush personally got involved with s discussions on a weekly bases with the ambassador and theobam never did that. he give it to the vice president the iraqi's know the difference between a president and vice president. but if you backtrack before that, the reason we were not able to extend the sopa goes back to the elect

. >> surge in iraq. >> the surge in iraq which allowed us to win the war, at least in iraq. the army -- let's not forget the army was too small back at the end of the first bush administration. that's why we had to fight the iraq/iran wars sequentially. we never could conduct a proper counterinsurgency. the administration says this is an army sized for the kind of strategy we have. in geo politics you don't get to only fight the wars you like to fight. >> they are saying, we are investing in cyber. big threat. everybody agrees on that. we are pivoting to asia, to invest in the navy. the marine can get to places fast. you don't have to have the same infrastructure to be in logistics to bring them over in the tens and hundreds of thousands. what's wrong with that strategy? >> let me take you back 14 years. bright new defense secretary donald rumsfeld says we are going to have a revolutionary in military affairs because we are not going to fight these low grade counterinsurgency fights. we need a much lighter high-tech force. that is what the pentagon was going for. a bunch of

in the province in iraq and the syrian side. so this will be squeezed in syria they tend to focus more on here on the cruise. whatever the deep profound quote depictions of my picks for the both our government in iraq which the almighty. nevertheless it so it's a funny twist of history. we found in the united states and britain having regime change the previous government of iraqi puppets go insane. you don't just cause it's the only reason science or conviction. this is an invasion in two thousand it's only a strategic units the green waste from what strategic. i mean that's you're wrong. also the one that the government is assisting the sitter and go it's just so quick to add that what is being done the bad this will make these can be taken in american special traits are training on bay and counterterrorism training of time for iraqi and jordanian foresees some teasing that will be affected so we'd seen in the soap in the short rendition and so will lose to democracy reforms uncertainty of it for now with the maliki government

. >> the surge in iraq. >> the surge in iraq which at least aloud to us win the war in iraq.t the army was already too small. under the first bush administration, that's why we had to fight the afghan and iraq wars essentially sequencially. that left us weaker. the administration says this is an army size for the kind of strategy we have. but in geopolitics, you don't get the fight. you only fight the wars that you -- >> wait a minute, they're saying, we're investing in cyber. cyber is a big threat. everybody agrees. and seeming to invest in the navy. the marines and special forces are expeditionary forces. they can get to places fast. you don't have to have the logistics to bring them over in the tens to hundreds of thousands. what's wrong with that strategy? >> let me take you back 14 years. defense secretary donald rumsfeld said we're going to have a revolution in the future we're not going to be fighting lower-tech fights. we need a high-tech force. and that's what happened when a bunch of guys with box cutters went on planes. we don't know, the responsibility of the supe

will only increase. >>> the united nations releases monthly updates on the number of people killed in iraq outside am bar prove incident. the united nations says more than 800 people were killed in january and more than 700 in february. there are 9,000 people killed last year, most civilians. >> that's the highest death toll since 2007 when nearly 18,000 people died in violence across iraq. >>> let's bring in joseph ka kay shashan, a senior fellow with the king feisal research center. j joseph, did mr. maliki give any evidence of how qatar and saudi arabia are n his words, declaring war on iraq? >> he did not give any evidence because there is -- there isn't any. i think that the axzation is now stale. it has been given so many times. i think that there is a really internal problem in iraq and mr. malaki, prime minister malaki has an intern problem. he is not able to reconcile the differences. at a time is easy to blame other countries. but at the end of the day, really, the killings, as we just reported, have been going on for the past four or five years, non-stop. this is not the work of

had we planned to stay longer for afghanistan, had we still been there in iraq, believe you me we would have spent in a money and that spending we would have spent that money and that spending would have been very, very real. the cbo says this bill would have increased the deficit. if you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought in it. joining me is the chair of the senate committee on affairs, the senator from vermont. they said the multi-billion dollar bills face to make necessary reforms. what do you say to that? >> i say they're dead wrong and so does virtually every veterans organization in the country representing millions of veterans. chris, what i have learned since i've been chairman of the veterans committee is the cost of war is much deeper and more significant than i think most people know. we're talking about hundreds of thousands of young men and women coming back from iraq and afghanistan with ptsd and tbi. we're talking about 2,300 of you're soldiers who suffered wounds so that they're unable too have babies. we're talki

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that were facilitating foreign fighters going in to iraq. these foreign fighters coming from yemen, from pakistan, from afghanistan were going from syria in to iraq and killing u.s. soldiers. when we told the syrian government this is happening, and we named names and say arrest these people. they said don't worry it's our way of infiltrating and keeping them under control. when we knew of certain certain things that were going to happen. attack of the as a result of the people that supposedly the syrian government controlled and they wouldn't do anything about it at one point secret raid in to syria now all over the media. got all over the media right after, in fact. it was a raid by u.s. forces in to syria to kill this guy. you can find it in wikipedia and places like that. that is because we knee exactly what he was up to. we told the syrians and the syrians wouldn't do anything about it. so this was a case where american lives were districtly touched by bashar links to al-qaeda and sponsoring certain branches of al-qaeda. >> there are now

[laughter] obviously, iraq matters enormously in this discussion. the shadow of iraq looms very, very large over syria. specifically what i mean by that is i think there probably would have been an intervention in syria by now had it not been for the iraq war. .. >> so we are talking what is going on with respect to syria today. and i would just say that the differences between a rock and syria are vast. think of it this way. and i'm sure that there are people in this room with a very different position. in the case of iraq, as brutal as saddam hussein was, at the time of the invasion was proposed in late 2002 and 2003, there was no ongoing real-time unfolding genocide or mass atrocity in iraq. there was a brutal state, but it was not an unfolding humanitarian crisis area the case had to be essentially engineered and fabricated and some would argue rather deceptively. we don't need to relitigate what has happened but just comparing that to syria. and then in syria you have the office. you have the worst humanitarian chastity in recent history. you ha

achievements in iraq artie's and takes a look at the narrative being put forward by the white house. in president obama's view while protesters at my dung did have a right to overthrow a democratically elected leader each of us has the right to live as we choose the people of crimea did not have the right to vote on their future together we've condemned russia's invasion of ukraine and rejected the legitimacy of the crimean referendum according to president obama the u.s. was a mere observer to the revolution in kiev make no mistake neither the united states nor europe has any interest in controlling ukraine one wonders if u.s. officials got the same message when they descended on the streets of kiev to cheer on the revolution and when members of the obama administration were deciding in private who should be in the ukrainian government and who should not i don't think leetch should go into the government i don't think it's necessary i don't think it's a good idea in terms of they're not going into the government just let him sort of stay out in doofus tradeable hallmark and stuff pre

. >> bruce bastian was an army medic in iraq. ng man dedicated to saving lives in combat, but when we met him at the limon correctional facility in colorado, he was serving time for the mayhem he and a friend caused on the streets of colorado springs. >> when i approached bruce, he was outside of his cell, and i said, bruce, you know, i'm with the camera crew, what do you want? i know why you're here, and we'd love to get your story. he said, well, why wouldn't you want my story, look at me. i'm like a movie actor. >> bastian accepted a plea bargain on two murder charges that resulted in a 60-year sentence for accessory and conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated robbery. the crimes occurred over a four-month period and were committed by bastion, who was home on leave, and a discharged army buddy. their two murder victims were fellow soldiers, one of whom served in their unit. >> it just kind of came out of nowhere one night really. i mean, we were sitting there, we were drinking at my house. so we decided to go out and leave t

over reunification with a move obama says is worse than america's intervention in iraq. in the american people each time we have a new generation to fight another war the experts lay bad the double standards in obama's speech with his. small ones in particular raising eyebrows. the international monetary fund agrees to a multi-billion dollar emergency loan from ukraine but some of the harshest austerity conditions. the u.s. sanctions drive cooperation with russia on tackling the booming illegal drug industry in afghanistan a problem moscow believes washington is responsible for. the italian region follows a push to break away from look at the rise of separatist movements across the european. you're watching international coming to you live from moscow it's now seven pm here in the russian capital. barack obama has praised the ukrainian the coup as a victory of democratic ideals while slamming crime is right to rejoin russia as. the us leader also called moscow's actions in crimea a brute aggression saying it's worse than the u.s. invasion of iraq. takes a look at some con

contractor presence in iraq certainly is still massive and of course a lot of course i do want to jump in really quickly have a minute left but but as an antiwar activists an organizer with march for and what's your message to young people today we're thinking of joining the military and where can they go to find out more resources about how they can lead. well march forward dot org is certainly a great resource for soldiers to come and find out how they can resist and how they can refuse to fight if they so choose and it is our right to do that it's our lives and it's our right as for the young people i would say joining the military is not an option right now there's already enough going on trying to find homes trying to get access to health care trying to get access to education so going in fighting a war in iraq or afghanistan or libya or syria or wherever the u.s. government is going to send us to fight is is second to the fight that's already being waged here at home absolutely thank you so much incredible ryan endicott iraq war veteran organizer mark ford really appreciate you c

miserable and to be sad and to experience more pain to get through it and to get to the other side. >> in iraq, it's in the afternoon, and i am on the no-name route driving through the city. i see the women and children are all heading back into the >>> has this virtual reality treatment helped you in terms of coping with the ptsd? >> i knew it wasn't going to be all of the sudden boom, cured, but i knew i was being given tools to help me evaluate what the anxiety was about. >> what was the specific horror that you couldn't revisit? >>ists having a lot of guilt over the situation. i was confront with the question of, what could you have done different? do you think you are superman? do you think you can just put diesel fuel out with some dirt in your hands? that made me confront the fact that i really did everything that i could and there is nothing to be disappointed about my own actions and what i did. >> what we find is that by helping a patient to confront and process difficult emotional memories rather than avoiding them is the key to getting over ptsd. >> the military, to its sdmrfrmths

they were part of the pretext in iraq. they were part of the false start, part of what was not true about iraq, not what was actually happening there. the cia may be good at a lot of things, but over time, they are an agency that has built up a terrible record of letting american policymakers know what's really going on in the world and what is likely to happen next. when tim weiner's book "legacy of ashes" came out in 2007, became an instant "new york times" bestseller, it was a devastating critique of the agency. that book came out in 2007. the next year if 2008, the cia did it again. 2008, russian troops rolled into the nation of georgia to brush back the western-minded leaders of that state and support separatists inside the nation of georgia. again, in 2008, the cia completely surprised. had no idea what was coming. the analysts "missed it" on georgia. "we had plenty of warnings in 2008 russia would provoke a confrontation with georgia and end up invading, but we still didn't think he'd actually do it." the cia and the