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joining us, ambassador paul bremer. of course, ambassador bremer essentially ran iraq as the u.s.nvoy there between 2004. we do want to talk about iraq in just a moment but, first, you also have decades of experience in foreign policy as well. this information we're just getting from ukraine. the ukrainian president saying their troops were in direct confrontation with a russian military convoy. if that's the case, that seems to be awfully dangerous news. >> well, i'm sympathetic with the ukrainian position with this. they, after all, have sovereign borders with russia and the russians have stirred up althouall this problem in eastern ukraine. i think they are rightly concerned about this food convoy. and i read the stories this morning there was an actual military convoy coming across into different sites. let's see how it all develops. if the russians have crossed in with russian military forces into ukraine, it's the first time that's happened, really, since the end of world war ii, that a country has done that, and it's very serious problem for american foreign policy if it's

so paul bremer moved five hundred thousand people out of their jobs overnight not only did he also own the. industrial public sector industries but he also dismantled these industries which were also employing hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of iraqis with each one let's start each one of them had one. family of five or six people so about the fact that also the lives of several million people all of this contributed to. this frustration. contributed to the rise of radical forces such as i was this in all the groups. the consequences. of. the simple i mean i remember when the war was going on and they came out and paul bremer you know yeah we're going to do it. you know bath party is a terrible thing we're going to kick them all out and everybody's going the up build up and it's like here we are now it's just this is amazing more of tonight's special analysts question crisis in iraq right after the break. on marriage in the financial world. let's start to see them slowly take in the demand to trade is not going to get any economic but it's new life there. i look at. our

the simple i mean no i remember when the war was going on and they came out and paul bremer you know yeah we're going to do it we're going to do bad you know bath party is a terrible thing we're going to kick them all out and everybody's going to help build up and it's like here we are now it's just this is amazing more of tonight's special analysts question crisis in iraq right after. i marinate in the financial world. to see these developments i mean it's stunning to see the dems only take you know demand for credit is not going to get any economic benefit in life and there are jews. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different pretty. good though because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you g

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there was no police, there was no army, and bremer issued an order that all civilians had to turn inheir weapons or at least their automatic weapons. the sense of reality or the lack of the sense of reality that some of the people who believe in gun control seem to espouse is quite remarkable. i thought that was certainly not one of america's findest moments. finest moments. i mean, especially given our own tradition of citizen militias, where did we get a guy like bremer there? it's a rhetorical question. >> right, yeah. why don't we take one more, and that probably should be about the end. anybody dying to get a question out? >> yeah, right here. >> in the front. [laughter] >> two questions. they're kind of related. which supreme court cases cited your work, and then if you could possibly cop travis the -- contrast the reis sense of your deny contrast the reception of your previous books that possibly led to those supreme court cites of your books and then with what's happening with the reception for this book. >> um, well, whether this book will ever be cited in a supreme court ca

iraqi elections which were unfortunate in many ways because they had been organized by ambassador bremer to use proportional representation rather than single-member constituencies which is a virtually guaranteed way of producing parliamentarians who are extremists. but in any event, he made the best of the elections on the theory that once an iraqi political class had been created, there were at least personalities who would be in a position to negotiate the competing interests. he also abandoned any notion that we would be able to produce a swift economic recovery in iraq. his first priority were dealing with iraq's security problems. and in training an iraqi army which was trained. and i find it hard to believe that it was in the state of total collapse that it's represented as being in. it seems to me that the shiites are likely to be able to successfully resist the sunnis at some point. but in any event, his vision of the future of iraq was that it wasn't going to be easy. indeed, he told the bush administration something that it didn't want to hear in roughly 2004; namely that the

ambassador paul bremer under president george w. bush following the u.s. invasion in 2003, he worries that the administration may be underestimating the very real threats these radical jihadists pose for the region and for america. >> i don't think we can tolerate very much more time of these guys continuing to move south, continuing to bury people alive, crucify children and behead people. it is a serious threat, particularly since they've said we're going to come after you. in other words, they're planning to attack the homeland at some point. >> meantime, most americans don't think highly of the way the president is handling iraq. new fox be poll showing that fewer than four in ten approve of what he is doing there. 52% disapprove. i'm going to go straight to you, steve. again, welcome, i'm glad to have you on this busy news day especially given this crisis, humanitarian and, i think, terror that we're facing. do you think the white house has a good grasp of this situation, and what do you think their next step should be? >> no, i don't think so. they h

paul bremer did when they took when we took over iraq was they fired everybody in the army half a million men and some from home with their weapons and they fired all the police which you know was another hundred thousand or thereabouts and so you've got all the people who are really good at using weapons really good taking down armies really good at killing people really good at putting down insurgencies the slaughter the shiites in the south and george herbert walker bush said you know we're we will protect you go protest a protest of three hundred thousand dollars these are the key people who did the killing i mean these were this is hard you know and the first thing that the bush administration does is throw them out on the street on the unemployment line and those people are making up the core of isis right now at least in iraq and they've been and they've been an insurgency all along i think that so i think that's a point claim i enormously our intelligence did not yet know there. were twenty of the isis efforts and especially as they move into kurdistan which is a very stable area

they sent bremer over there and the first thing he did was kick out all of the sunni who are runningthe government and doing a pretty good job. maliki is in there, who is a shitte, he is aligned with iran. the sunni were the buffer for us. they were the more democratic part i would say. i don't think we should be bombing them. maliki just needs to get out. he turned the country upside down. i believe the sunni are the backbone of what iraq is. i will take your answer off the air. >> host: any thoughts? >> guest: those are great points. they were the stabilizing forcement i am not sure they were democratic but the prime minister blew the opportunity to bring togethers the state and bring it together. the shitte were on top with 60% of the population. in 2011, when he left, he had an opportunity to show the sunni and the kurds they had a place inside a new state and he didn't do that. based on my analysis he has done everything to further separate them. i am not sure the answer is another sunni state, but i think the shitte leadership could do more to be inclusive. >> host: was there a