center of gravity in iraq, baghdad and iraqi politics. that's a very difficult terrain right now. >> rose: if you could define the question that should be debated in the political campaigns, what would it be? >> well, i guess i would want to get an understanding of, again, the real strategic thinking on dealing with threats posed by extremist organizations. >> rose: on the part of each candidate? >> yeah, and i'd want to get that sense. this has to be beyond bumper sticker slogans and we're going to lead and -- although, just the fact of we are going to lead is a very important one because, as i said earlier, lesson number two as opposed to arab spring period is there's no substitute for u.s. leadership. >> rose: and you believe u.s. leadership has not been a parrot. you are by definition critical of the obama administration for not doing enough and not showing enough urgency. >> no, look, what happened, i think, is that, in the wake of iraq and afghanistan, if you will, and as they were still going on, the recognition of the enormous cos

south of the baghdad are shiite, they control a third of the country.spills into syria is sunni land. this is where isis has taken control, this is what it has turned into, a de facto islamic state. iraq ends here but only on maps. the border between iraq and syria, drawn arbitrarily by the french and british after world war i, has become meaningless. most inhabit this area and the islamic state controls large swaths of it, as well. so any boots on the ground fight against isis would likely have to be in both iraq and syria. all of which leads back to one question, can we fight isis in iraq? when there really is no iraq left. >> at the end of the day, we can't put that country together. >> and as iraq falls apart, the blame game escalates. president bush or president obama. >> the person i blame is barack obama, not george w. bush. >> when we return, the finger pointing versus the facts. if you misplace your discover card, you can use freeze it to prevent new purchases on your account in seconds. and once you find it, you can switch it right on again. ♪

dollars in huge amounts to baghdad on a regular basis. why are we doing that? >> basically the iraqky economy runs on cash. because of the fact that it is a war-torn society, credit has been a little difficult to come by. iraqis prefer to deal in dollars. this is the denomination, currency most countries like to deal with. it is something that people trust, the greenback is that way everywhere, in just about every war zone. this is kind of the one of the lingering aftereffects of war. jenna: so the new york federal reserve. holds these dollars. these are not u.s. taxpayer dollars, right? >> right. jenna: these belong to the iraqis? >> purchased through iraqi oil. jenna: we're sending money on regular basis? why not keep it in iraq? why not keep it at new york fed? >> they're actually buying these pallets of cash. our understanding they're shipped over there in fairly large sums. and then they're auctioned off. so you have got large business, small businesses, individuals taking out loans. this is the way that the economy has been functioning. jenna: so then, co

they don't trust baghdad and they don't trust us. ♪ charlie: what can the iranians achieve?their involveme in both iraq and syria, where they have been? mr. morell: they were the original savior of assad, so in the fall of 2012, assad was in a very difficult situation. the momentum was not running against him, his own people were talking about the end being near. the iranians came in early 2013, and a very significant way brought shia militia they had trained in iraq, brought hezbollah in from lebanon, they propped him up any significant way, so they have been his savior. in iraq, the shia militia there have been the most effective fighting force in protecting baghdad and shia areas, and taking back shia areas that isis had taken. they are not going to go any further than that. charlie: gates said on this program, one of the things i have not heard anybody talk about is the potential for what the western services, including the cia, could do on the ground in terms of infiltrating, sabotage, and other activities to make life harder for isis. there are a lot of things we can d

oldest civilizations on display at the iraq museum in central baghdad.nd corridors of this gallery are adorned with stone carvings dating back to the time of the severe vinnies and babylonians, societies that predate jesus christ by thousands of years. they has worked at the iraq museum since 1999. she says in the weeks leading up to the 2003 u.s.-led invasion, she and her colleagues warned iraqi and american officials that the museum was vulnerable from mob listened. >> more than 50,000 pieces were stolen just from this m museum. they damaged other things, furniture and everything. >> reporter: almost immediately officials began effort to his get back the relics. objects were unoathed from private homes, covered in raids and some simply repeater on the museum's shelves. others were seized from international antiquities market in jordan, lebanon, syria, kuwait, saudi arabia and as far as away as new york. including this piece known as the statue. the 150-kilogram bronze relic dates back to the ancients mess pa train vinnie a indicate vinnie period and is

. >> i'm at the iraq museum in central baghdad, where thousands of antiquities were looted at the start of the 2003 u.s. led invasion. >> france's penalty has met britain's prime minister david cameron for talks about the strategy to defeat isil. france has intensified strikes on isil inside syria and is now looking for greater support. it's just one of many meetings holland lined up with western powers in a bid to gather support to combat the group. he'll head to washington to meet barack obama. wednesday, he's meeting germany chance angela merkel to ask for her support. >> at the start of the week, the french president seeks commitment for support in his war against isil. it started with a solemn moment. the two men, a dismal scene of killing at a rock concert where 90 died. they both paid homage to the dead by laying a single rose. cameron promises more military support and hopes to get parliamentary approval for airstrikes against isil in syria. he hopes there won't be a repeat of two years ago when he failed to win a vote for bombing syria against assad forces. >> later this week,

i believe that: would be delivered by ambassador jones in baghdad. mr.cotton: bulgaria accepted it. general dunford: decline the request. mr. cotton: and let russian air >> they have limited air capability. >> if the united states government requested airspace over russia, surely they would assist iraq. >> it is a sovereign decision by iraq, we are not an interested in it. you raise an important question. is iraq going to cooperate with -- wrongheaded approach in syria. from the primed no uncertain terms, the statement that he will not work with the russians. to bel not allow them partners with iraq in that regard. we are the preferred partners of iraq. the prime minister has repeated those pledges. i only say that because we feel emphatically about receiving those pledges. we intend to have been implemented by private history body.- prime minister of >> i raise it both with the mr. and france and private mr.. -- and prime minister. nots assured that they had extended that invitation. they don't intend to extend an invitation to do that. our request rene

so they don't trust baghdad and they don't trust us. >> rose: what can the iranians achieve? >> only -- >> rose: they have involvement in both iraq and syria where they have been. >> right. so they have been -- they were the original savior of assad. so in the fall of 2012, assad was in a very difficult situation. the momentum was running against him. his own people were talking the end is near. the iranians came in in 2013, in a very significant way, brought shia militia they trained in iran, brought hezbollah in from lebanon and they propped him up in a very significant way. >> rose: earning his indebtedness. >> earning his indebtedness. so they have been his savior, right. in iraq, the shia militia there which are iraqi shias, right, but still trained and supported by the iranians, have been along with the kurds the most effective fighting force in protecting baghdad and shia areas and in taking back some shia areas that i.s.i.s. had taken. but they're not going any further than that, nor do i think the sunnis want them to as he talked about earlier. >> rose: bob gates sai

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. >>> iraq museum in central baghdad where thousands were looted at the start of the 2003 u.s. invasion. ♪ welcome to the program, the french president francois hollande trying to build international support for coalition to combat i.s.i.l., on a visit to paris today the british prime minister david cameron said francois hollande he is in favor of attacking targets in syria and will discuss strategy with the u.s. president barack obama and on wednesday he will meet the german chancellor angela merkel asking her for more help too and andrew simmons from paris with the latest. >> reporter: francois hollande with prime minister cameron and talking about the war and the two men at the bataclan and a mass killing at a rock concert, 90 people died and both paid homage to the dead laying a single rose and promising more support in a second attempt to get parliamentary approval to extend the air strikes of i.s.i.l. into syria. >> later in week i will set out in parliament a comprehensive strategy for tackling i.s.i.l. i firmly support the action that president francois hollande has tak

everyone accepts now that if it wasn't for them, not only baghdad but the entirety of iraq would have die diesh. >> how many men have been lost so far. significant number, more than 2,000 mortars in this war. >> more than 2,000 militia fighters and thousands more iraqi police and soldiers, the faces of the deadline the streets of the capitol stretching for blocks. it's one of the first things we noticed as we drove around the city. many of these men killed by isis fighters using a weapon so lethal, general told us the americans have given it a name, frank an truck. >> they're something you see in a science fiction movie. these are vehicles that they've welded, metal plates too loaded them, put a suicide bomber inside of them and set themselves off. that is their precision weapon. >> you can see more of lara's report on our web site, cb it seems that every year, we have to watch out for different types of germs. which is why it's important for your wipes to kill a broad spectrum of germs. lysol wipes kill 99.9% of germs, including 8 different types of cold and flu viruses. to help prot

and we're heading out-- through baghdad to go to amman, jordan. from amman, jordan i was supposed to go to houston, texas, where my brother was getting his ph.d. in biochemistry in u-- at u of h. so, we stop in baghdad. my mom looks out. they're breaking suitcases. and she's becoming very nervous about the last little bit of money that she was a little lazy with. so, she's smiling and talking to my sister, like, "okay." 'cause my sister has zero gangster skills. she's, like, ready to sell us all out. she's the rat. so, my mom told her to get off the bus, take me with her. she had a plan. as we're walking off i see out of the corner of my eye. my mom is messing with the suitcase, and messes with the clothes. we're all waiting outside. everybody starts getting back on the bus. this soldier sees my mom. he gets furious with her, jumps on the bus, starts yelling at my mom. his superior officer sees him. becomes very upset. he runs in the bus. starts yelling at him. he goes, "hey! how could you yell at this woman? look at her face! this is not a face o

the one to reclaim baghdad for sunii his mom but dacia are less than dirt you're better to be christian or a jew he wanted to kill all of shia said his plan was to blow up the mosque's they will radicalize this table, and after the sunii and kill us and torture us into all the horrible things that we remember from the iraq war that is the entire population of iraq. that was his plan for al qaeda and iraq but isis has adopted the plan and expanded in a grim and brilliant fashion and the reason they are successful successful, looking geopolitics united states essentially goes into hands of iraq to iran. lead advocate is a cohesive unified state but it has evolved you have shia and sunii and kurtis tim. in terms of the government ministries. but the sunii said why are they doing this? this is strategically stupid for you to do so today what do they say? united states to not accidentally do anything as part of a global conspiracy the united states is in bed with assad in syria that is why they did not topple his government and they're working with the iranians and look at this objectively t

everyone accepts now that if it wasn't for them, not only baghdad but the entire iraq would have been over run by diesh. >> how many men have been lost so far? >> significant number, more than 2,000 mortars in this war. >> more than 2,000 militia fighters and thousands more iraqi police a a soldiers. the faces of the deadline the streets of the capitol stretching for blocks. it's one of the first things we noticed as werove around the city. fighters using a weapon so lethal, the general told us the americans have given it aname, franken truck. >> franken trucks are something out of a movie, something you see in a science fiction movie. these are vehicles that they've welded metal plates too, loaded them with high explosives put a suicide bomber inside of them and set themselves off. that is their precision weapon. >> you can see more of lara's report on our web site cbs news.com. the overnight news will be right back. the final coudown! if you're the band europe, you love a final countdown. it's what you do. if youant to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to gei

has released such carnage in beirut and baghdad but now it is a war that last reached into france. david chater al jazeera, paris. >> amateur video has been released of the moment when the incident was unleashed at the bataclan concert hall. bataclan concert hall was the worst of the six attacks. 80 people were killed when armed men burst in. the u.s. rock group eagles of death metal were playing at the venue. let's bring in navy barker. who is at the area. i wouldn't imagine this was easier digesting the horror. >> no it's not and as video footage of the attacks emerge of course it is a bitter reminder of what the city has been through. the city is essentially traumatized by what it experienced the last 48 hours. this is a second day of mourning in france, the tributes at the place de la proouk republic, mad it difficult to stop people from wanting to come here to exchange stories, to share their emotions and to desperately try to make sense of what happened here in paris. certain key spots within the city are still sealed off. the bataclan night club is still an active crime scen

everyone accepts now that if it wasn't for them, not only baghdad but the entire iraq would have been over run by diesh. >> how many men have been lost so far? >> significant number, more than 2,000 mortars in this war. >> more than 2,000 militia fighters and thousands more iraqi police and soldiers. the faces of the deadline the streets of the capitol stretching for blocks. it's one of the first things we many of these men killed by isis fighters using a weapon so lethal, the general told us the americans have given it a name, franken truck. >> franken trucks are something out of a movie, something you see in a science fiction movie. these are vehicles that they've welded metal plates too, loaded them with high explosives put a suicide bomber inside of them and set themselves off. that is their precision weapon. >> you can see more of lara's report on our web site cbs news.com. the overnight news will be right back. the final countdown! if you're the band europe, you love a final countdown. it's what you do. fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you

there can't be any feeling in baghdad or damascus or aleppo that they will be welcome in germany.o there may, realization to these people that i might be better off in belgrade in spite of everything than berlin. i might be better off goodness knows where, turkey. i'm not in favor of sending bad messages, but these people can read, use the internet. they are seeing that they are not welcome here in germany. they would have to react. >> are they really not welcome here in germany? -- news surveyie out that shows that three quarters of germans, the most in europe, are still saying that we are happy to take in those who have a legitimate claim. it is remarkable how public opinion has been maintained. you have various parallel sections of the society, political elites quite divided over this, and german chancellor angela merkel's conservative bloc is wavering. there are state elections coming up. you have the older people, but to be fair, all the people in germany feel uncomfortable with this, the older generation, that the comfort zone has been punctured. then you have a younger gene

. >> logog: general gersten toto us into the war room in baghdad, where iraqis and americans have been sitting side by side for more than a year. thousands of calls for u.s. and coalition air strikekehave come through here. who is bringing the intelligence that feeds these calls? >> gersten: we have our own intelligence. we have national intelligence. everything's fusing in different parts of this building and coming to this strike cell, and that's where it's checked and coordinated and approved. >> logan: on their screens, live feeds from drones that record every minu of the war, and scenes froroinside islamic- state-held territory, like this one in a town in western iraq that gersten and the iraqis were watching on september 11th this year. general gersten confirmed were from the same scene. in the town square, 12 islamic state fighters we preparing to execute this m m. >> gersten: they brought small children and brought them to the very front of the crowd. and we sat there helplessly. calls are coming for a strike. "we strike now. let's go after these 12 individualal they'r'rgoing t

history and relics from the world's oldest civilizations on display in central baghdad.he walls and corridors of this gallery are adorned with stone carvings dating back to the syrians and babylonians. societies that pre-date joke by thousands of years. they have worked at the iraq museum since 1999. in the weeks leading up to th the 2003 u.s.-led invasion she and her colleagues warned that the museum was vulnerable. but no one seemed to listen. >> more than 50,000 peopl 50,000--pieces were stolen just from this museum. furniture and everything. >> almost immediately officials began efforts to get back the relics along with u.s. support, a recovery department was set up. objects were unearthed from private homes recovered in raids and some simply reappeared on the museum shelves. others treasures were seized in jordan, lebanon, syria, kuwait, saudi arabia, and as far away as new york. including this piece known as the statue, the 150-kilogram bronze relic dates back to the ancient mesopotamia period and one of the few recovered objects put back on display. some of the mu

, and also the iraqi kurds, and the increasing autonomy of the iraqi kurds from the government in baghdade turks seem to fear that the power of those kurdish groups presents a greater long-term threat to them than isil. and that's why they bombed the kurds a few months ago. this makes the sheer complexity of these overlapping rivalries which are ethnic, religious, historic rivalries, returning to the middle east, and it's complicating, frankly, efforts to try to end this war in syria. >> ambassador burns. is the conflict in syria and iraq reaching a level of international involvement that creates more common cause, more unity of purpose, more in the way of shared goals, or is the widening conflict raising the odds of something going really wrong, lengthen the risk of potential isil targets? world war 3.0, it's the inside story. ♪ >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. ♪ >>> you are watching "inside story." i i'm ray suarez. we're looking at the increasing

. >> peter hawkins, unicef director in iraq joins us from baghdad. just how concerned about you about this outbreak and where are most of the cases in iraq concentrated? >> thank you very much. we're very concerned about the outbreak. we had the first on the 15t 15th of september. it's been screesing since. we now have 2,217 confirmed cases throughout the country. the issue is exacerbated by the fact that the infrastructure has collapsed, the water levels are low, but also over the past few days, excessive rainfall has meant that flooding has taken place in baghdad, and within the governance around. we are with the w.h.o. and authorities are mobilizing as quickly as we can to meet the needs. >> precisely what measures are being taken to make sure that this outbreak is contained? >> there are three things we're trying to do. one is ensure that families have access to clean water, we've distributed potable water, improving water storage for 15,500. we've made available 820,000 rehydration salts to help children recover when they have diarrhea. i think

th is baghdad. i don't know. >> there's new pictures of president hollande when that first explosion was heard at 9:20 realizing that the city of paris was under attack and at 9:40 terrorists entering that popular bataclan theatre. this insta grachl taken inside the concert where thehe ameririn playing. suddenly you can hear the music. the trorists holding at least 100 hostages. witnesses reporting the akbar. they were also heard saying syria and iraq. we now know there were three teams of terrorists cord authorities say seven attackers died, detonating identical suicide belts. whilil overhe weekendndn brussels authoritiesay a car leading them to make lee arrests in relation to the paris attacks and among the 129 dead, 23-year-old california state university student nohemi gonzalez, studying design and spending time abroad, a professor calling her a shining student. while here on the trees of paris this sunday, many here cannot t those images out of ththr minds. just ten months a aer the attacks on

protesters in central baghdad protested to sack local officials. the green zone where the government and parliament convenes. >> where is the oil money, 1,000 billion iraqi denars. >> the people of iraq are not treated fairly. we've seen nothing serious from all the politicians, the economy and services are deteriorating. the people are suffering and the politicians don't respond to people's requests. >> prime minister haider al-abadi has announced reforms. but the reforms have been blocked by parliament. because he announced them without seeking approval from legislators. that stalemate has also stopped the cleric, who has warned people against block anticorruption reforms. >> translator: we have to firm that the need to circumvent or delay the reform steps. >> activists are already calling for more action against corrupt officials. but far from improving conditions on the ground. osama ben javad, al jazeera. >>> policy on refugees, thousands of supporters at the alternative for germany movement were met with hundreds of counterprotesters. at leas

this is baghdad. this is -- i don't know but this is not paris. >> reporter: there are new pictures emerging of french president hollande in that stadium when the first explosion could be heard at 9:20. realizing the city of paris was under attack. and at 9:40 terrorist s s entering that popular bataclan theatre. this instagram taken inside the playing. suddenly you can hear the gunshots cutting through the music. 100 hostages. witnesses reporting the attackers were yelling allahu they were also heard saying syria and iraq. we now know there were three teams of terrorists coordinating the attacks. authorities say seven attackers suicide belts. while over the weekend in brussels authorities say a car arrests in relation to the paris and among the 129 dead, 23-year-old california state university student nohemi gonzalez, studying design and spending time abroad, a professor calling her a shining student. while here on the streets of paris this sunday, many here cannot get those images out of their minds

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. >> are and the arms that go to the kurds, go through still baghdad? the u.s. does not provide the heavy weaponry of the kurds or the peshmerga, the fierce fig fighters ash and the u.s. is not providing them weapons currently? >> that is right. that is wone thing that we trie to fix in the national authorization act to fix that. >> and what does the administration tell to you, give them the e weapons that they need, and they are are close allies of the u.s. and led the battle in sim jar for recent days, and what do they say? >> they share with us the shia who run the government of baghdad object to it. we know the government of iran does, too. >> and you are talking about the prime minister of iraq? >> yes, the prime minister of iraq and iran object to the idea that the united states would arm the kurds, the yazidis and the shiites who are running the government of baghdad there, and after two years of us failing to get any cooperation there, they tell us that they need, and they must have that artillery, the an an- they have battalions fighting against isis, b

and syria and elsewhere >>> you mentioned baghdad, as ined correctly -- as i understand correctly, youe in iraq when the attacks happened. >> that's right. >> and they are accustomed to so much bloodshed on their own soil. what was the reaction there when news broke about paris? >> i was getting on the plane as the news broke, but it was one of sympathy, as the news cycle started to go, my iraqi colleague turned to me and said i understand this is new to the parisians, they were understanding this, but couldn't they just mention for 30 seconds in this hour-long covering that we had a suicide attack killing 20 in baghdad attacking a funeral. there's a little of do we matter too, and we've been going through it for a long time, but there is sympathy. >> doug oliphant, thank you for joining us. >>> and straight ahead on al jazeera, fears of a backlash. how the muslim community in france is coping with the attacks. and world leaders turn their focus to i.s.i.l. will they find common ground on the conflict in syria. >> shot dead and the government does nothing. >> they teach you how to elim

you can see the area of cloud over baghdad. that one gave us major problems in baghdad. the water doesn't look as deep. getting around is a bit of a problem. and we are seeing major disruption. baghdad has seen more rain, two weeks ago, and that system, you can see it there, working to the east. it looks like it's beginning to break up. you would be mistaken. this is what we are expecting in the forecast over the next few days. sunday, it looks scattered. some are over tehran and one or two dotted elsewhere, then they pull themselves together. looks like on monday we'll see rain. when we see that, it floods. if we head to the northern parts of africa, around trip receiver, we have seen lively showers. these caused us a problem. that's from 32mm in two days. there's more in the way of showery weather to come on sunday. >> still ahead - we look at the changes refugees face as they try to start a new life in the united states. the contentious project to bring canadian oil to the u.s. becomes just a pipe dream. and for baseball and golf fans, this could be the perfect marria

the 71-year-old died of a heart attack at his baghdad home. he helped persuade the u.s. that sadaam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but much of what he presented as evidence turned out to be false and the bush administration later distanced itself from him. a former u.s. diplomat was his friend for decades and says his legacy should not be tainted by his claims in the leadup to the iraq war. >> he will certainly be remembered as the man who persuaded the united states to invade iraq, and i think that's true. if he had not lived, i do not think the united states would have invaded iraq in 2003. for this, he will be blamed by many people, but frankly, that's unfair. he was in an iraqi patriot. he had no resources of his own. he had no army, he had no real political support and so he figured that the road to baghdad, the way to get rid of sadaam hussein went through washington and cultivated americans on the left and right. of course it was the rights that power, the neoconservatives. he persuaded them toe going into iraq would be easy, it would be over quickly. i

. >> dickerson: joining us from from baghdad, iraq, republican senners to john mccain and lindsey graham. we'll have analysis on the politics of the war on terror then finish up with our annual thanksgiving book panel this year we'll talk about some new books on presidents past. all ahead on "face the nation." captioningponsored by cbs good morning, welcome to "face the n nion" i'm john dickerson. republican presidential homeful ben carson is in the middle east amman, jordan, you visited sear syrian refugee camp, what did you learn therere >> first of all i was very impressed by the outpouring of humanitarian effort on behalf of the jordanians. this has been g gng on for many decades. but they have really reached out to the syrians in a very big y. i had an opportunity to talk with many of the syrians. that w w very eye opening. asking them, what is their desire. what is tir main desire. their main desire to be repatriated in their homeland. i said, what kind of things could a nation like united states do to help. there was a pretty uniform answer on that. that was they can support the e