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donald rumsfeld, let's put up the classic picture of donald rumsfeld shaking the hand of saddam hussein a week before hussein used chemical weapons on the -- let me finish. used chemical weapons against the iranians, chemical gases that we probably supplied and for the man who had led such a disastrous effort in iraq to be passing judgment on this commander in chief is a moral obscenity. >> okay. >> i want to get this red line business straightened out. obama's original red line statement, to refresh our collective memory, here is what president obama said about a red line and syria just over one year ago in august, 2012. >> i have at this point not ordered military engagement in the situation, but the point that you made about chemical and biological weapons is critical. that's an issue that doesn't just concern syria. it concerns our close allies in the region including israel. it concerns us. we cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people. we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other players on the grou

is that true or is this just the latest donald rumsfeld fantasy. >> the donald rumsfeld seems like he'sse segments showed. he's been confused for the last couple days. >> last decades. two decades. >> yes. >> keep going. >> part of the confusion comes from the fact he's not really litigating syria as he's talking about this issue. he's relitigating iraq and talking about his legacy and the brush administration's legacy there. there have been a lot of comparisons made over the last few days. he wants to remake the case ta going into iraq, spending years and years on nation building and you know, replacing the regime was the right move. that's what he's talking about when he says we need regime change or do nothing. those are the only options. i don't think you can apply the exact same less ones from iraq to syria but he's going to try. >> krystle, would you ever try and defend iraq if you were donald rumsfeld? >> he's making his best attempt. one thing i would say where he's right is that this president is very different from the last president. the last president was all too willing to

. >> donald rumsfeld is against action in syria because it doesn't go far enough? >> i would hate to think that i ever agree with donald rumsfeld, but there are great unknowns. you can't be sure of anything and he deserves credit in that regard. >> you voted against. >> we have had 40,000 people going to dontattacksyria.com. and there is an outpouring of people that want peace. people are tired of war and understandably so. the war in iraq cost four dollars trillion --$4 trillion. it cost almost 1/10 of our entire national wealth. for what? there weren't even any weapons of mass destruction there. the american people understand we should concentrate on health care, jobs, the economy, education. we can't afford to spend $1 billion being the world's policeman, much less the world's judge, jury, and executioner. >> you members of the subcommittee's. does the u.s. have a good grasp on what is going on in the region in terms of tribal sectarian violence? >> we spent $50 billion a year on intelligence, and we certainly do our best. there are unknown unknowable's. one is

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. >>> the meeting notes show donald rumsfeld looking for one good enough to hit saddam hussein. >> we all looked at each other like what are they talking about? saddam hussein? osama bin laden hates him. >> the word goes out to the cia, the fbi and all the intelligence services, find the connection. first, though, the war on terror goes to afghanistan to capture or kill osama bin laden and destroy the taliban regime that supports al qaeda. by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into mountains. but while osama remains at large, the attention turns to saddam. >> desert storm has always had various planning with respect to iraq. >> operation desert storm. also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s.-led coalition of 34 countries, drives saddam's forces out of kuwait and decimates the iraqi army in six weeks. but despite that overwhelming victory, president george h.w. bush faces criticism at home for not going all the way to baghdad to rid the world of saddam hussein. >> i made very, very clear from day one, that it was not an objec

. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11 showed donald rumsfeld tasking a top aide to find the best info fast. good enough to hit saddam hussein. he asks the aide to get evidence from wolfowitz of a saddam connection with ubl, osama bin laden. >> we all looked at each other like, what are you talking about? who the hell -- saddam hussein? bin laden hates him. he's a heretic. there's no connection between saddam hussein and al qaeda. >> the word goes out to the cia, fbi and all the intelligence services. find the connection. >> first, though, the war on terror goes to afghanistan. to capture or kill osama bin laden and destroy the taliban regime that supports al qaeda. by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into the mountains and across the border to pakistan. but while bin laden remains at large, washington's attention turns to iraq. to saddam. >> i think the united states, since "desert storm" has always had a, a, a various planning with respect to iraq. >> "operation desert storm." also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s.

believe it or not, the righties like rick santorum, marco rubio, michele bachmann, and donald rumsfeld, mr. expert, they are say nothing to an air strike on syria. i agree with them, but of course for completely different reasons, folks. the republicans, they don't hate war. they hate this guy, barack hussein obama. they just cannot stomach the fact that they might be agreeing with him, because they would have a lot of trouble back home. they have fought this president, obstructed this president, their whole focus is to make him a failure. how in the world can they support him on going up against syria? the level of spite in conservative hearts for president, is the only reason they are against war for the first time ever. donald rumsfeld, the man who lied our nation into a baseless bloody eight-year confrontation in iraq, is opposing military action, because he doesn't like the president, bottom line. here's what mr. faulty intelligence said earlier today. >> it's exactly the reason that there is not a large coalition wanting to support the president. it's a reason that the congress i

donald rumsfeld and others criticizing this administration. first i asked him about "the new york times" video. mr. secretary, thank you for making the time today. i appreciate it. >> happy to be with you. >> there's a shocking video by "the new york times" posted today. it's syrian rebels executing captured assad soldiers, gunshot to the back of the head, naked. if the u.s. attacks syria, do those men in those videos become by definition our ally? >> no. in fact, i believe that those men in those videos are disadvantaged by an american response to the chemical weapons use because it, in fact, empowers the moderate opposition. we all know there are about 11 really bad opposition groups, so-called opposition. they're not -- they're fighting assad. they're not part of the opposition that is being supported by our friends and ourselves. that is a moderate opposition. they condemn what has happened today. and they are -- and we are busy separating the support we're giving from any possibility of that support going to these guys. >> how confident c

well my goodness you know to think that i would ever agree on anything with donald rumsfeld but he was right about one thing in this case there are great unknown unknowns rumsfeld once said there are known knowns known unknowns unknown knowns unknown unknowns the only thing you can be sure of when you're talking about war is that you can't be sure of anything and he deserves credit in that regard now in may two thousand and ten you were introduced the war is making you poor act which is a bill that would require the president to fund the wars from the dependent this the department of defense is based budget you are also the same person that voted against the d.o.d. appropriations of authorization act in two thousand and fourteen so tell me how money plays into this well the people understand this very well that's why we've had forty thousand people come to our web site don't attack syria and why there's been such an outpouring on the part of people who simply want peace we've heard over and over again even from the proponents of this resolution that the american people are tired of war

let me play, though, a bit of what donald rumsfeld said this morning on the "today" show. he's been quite critical of the president and the administration's actions up until this point. let's listen in. >> either you do something that's worth doing or you do nothing at all. the danger of doing something that's not worth anything that results in nothing, that leaves assad standing, it seems to me is that it makes the united states look like that's what we prefer. >> joel, i think even people who have been critical of donald rumsfeld might see some validity in that question, perhaps not his presentation, but the question of the goal here, if it is not to take out assad. you leave him in power, and do we end up perhaps, as has been pointed out in it the past, a situation as with gadhafi when he was bombed before and then eventually the inevitable happened. his regime was toppled by his own people but with assistance from the united states a decade later. >> well, that's a reminiscent line of the knowns and unknowns. one goes into wars with army they wish they have. it's reall

bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld connelly's or rice colin powell and paul wolfowitz is that these six defendants planned and waged a war in violation of the nuremberg principle against aggression so she's alleging that the war was planned starting in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight small nonprofit called the project for the new american century which donald rumsfeld dick cheney and paul wolfowitz were members of and that after they planned the war they these people use nine eleven as a cover as an excuse to scare and mislead the american public and the international community to support a war and then she alleges that the war finally when it happened did not have proper legal authorization under various treaties including the u.n. charter the caliber and packed in the nuremberg charters so that's the heart of the case and it we you know the case was filed in march and as you mentioned in august and the pardon of justice filed this westfall acts are to fit cation which is a request to the court that these six defendants be essentially immunized from from civil proceedings ok and

and this is the big one, donald rumsfeld. ng the president's plan. again, it's a tough moral decision, but this trend on the right is all about one thing, president obama. joining me now are dana milbank and maria teresa kumar. thank you for being here. >> dana, you can certainly disagree with the president. but trying to fund raise off of it? what do you make of that? >> boy, there is a real profile in courage, isn't it? i think you can call the republicans right now the contrary caucus. what it is it doesn't so much matter what the issue is if president obama is for it, they're against it. so he needs to start using some reverse psychology the way you would with a child. if he came out and said i really want some more tax cuts. they'll say no, no, no, we won't support any more tax cuts. maybe he needs to do this in reverse. at some point they have to know they're voting against their interests, voting against the national interests just so they can say no to this president. >> but we're talking war in dealing with this, mari

. >> we're heading to st michael's maryland where donald rumsfeld, former secretary of defense keeps a summer home. we want some answers from one of the men who was key in setting up the prison at guantanamo bay. >> to this day only 7 of the 779 men the us has held at guantanamo have been tried and convicted by a military tribunal. the tribunal's chief prosecutor has said the government is unlikely ever to put more than about twenty on trial, less than 3% of those detained since the prison was opened. currently, there are forty-six "indefinite detainees" who are considered too dangerous to release, but impossible to try. an obama administration task force has said either there isn't sufficient evidence against them, or what evidence there is, is tainted. >> mr. rumsfeld, hello, mr rumsfeld, it's wab kinew with al jazeera. >> yes sir. >> i'd like to ask if i could speak to you for a minute. we're doing a documentary on guantanamo bay prison. >> you make an appointment with my office and see what happens. >> we've tried to contact you thru your office and they haven't (door slam) gotte

this is what membership does. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been a strong critic tont obama's approach to the crisis in syria. we asked rumsfeld for reaction to the statement that the president didn't set a red line for syriasyria's use of chemica weapons, the world set that red line. >> it's a stunning comment. it conjures up the thought of the uncertain trumpet or the trumpet that provides an uncertain sound. who will prepare themselves? it's exactly the reason there is not a large coalition wanting to support the president. it's a reason that the congress is confused because he has spent so much time saying what he would not do and what it would not amount to that i think people are confused. the essence of leadership is clarity and providing a vision. he has not done that. i think as a result, it's perfectly understandable that people in the congress are getting arranged to oppose what he's proposing because they find that it's uncertain and lacks clarity. >> don't you think a big obstacle, especially abroad, is the legacy of how we got involved in the iraq war,

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donald rumsfeld has said your leadership on this issue, the president's leadership has been feckless. you have seen architects of the iraq war from the bush administration coming out and criticizing the administration, criticizing the policy. how do you respond to seeing the architects of the iraq war come and criticize you, personally, criticize the president? his answer when we return. citemt but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media can be a challenge. that's why we partnered with hp to build the new nascar fan and media engagement center. hp's technology helps us turn millions of tweets, posts and stories into real-time business insights that help nascar win with our fans. ♪ we go, go, we don't have to go solo ♪ ♪ fire, fire, you can take me higher ♪ ♪ take me to the mountains, start a revolution ♪ ♪ hold my hand, we can make, we can make a contribution ♪ ♪ brand-new season, keep it in motion ♪ ♪ 'cause the rhyme is the reason ♪ ♪ break through, man, it doesn't matter who you're talking to ♪ [ mal

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or donald rumsfeld. but that being said, it does feel like the ghost of iraq is looming over this. in that i think people feel, again, even though i may agree that the intelligence in this case is sound, that we are a war weary country. there is a lot of anxiety about things that need to get done here at home and we are hearing stories about, you know, things that have to get sort of pushed down the list on the agenda of the president's second term agenda. how does the president address those concerns? that we are talking about a limited strikes. that's his words, not mine. but that this is not going to derail all of these other priorities that we know and we have heard over and over again in town halls, people are so concerned about. >> first, to respond directly to what karl rove said about getting congressional approval and impact on strikes, we can have an impact on military targets in syria. even if we wait for weeks or a month. that something important to the president. he asked the joint chiefs that specific question, if waiting would harm our ability to do what we needed to

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invasion in two thousand and three he was selected for the job by donald rumsfeld and he made a lot of very terrible decisions that would not make a lot of sense for someone who's trying to help a country for example this being the iraqi army so forth but rumor has it many other very interesting features about it since it's three he was named time assistant and retention to severe who was selected by which to lead the nine eleven commission originally he was also a tear or ground again this. throughout the nineteen ninety s. he led out of commissions and commissions that were transferred out of soviet you know interior terrorist attacks into a threat of islamic terrorism so unfortunately none of these commissions were able to. report the incidents that were had already been revealed that are known as operation gladio operation worth words in the gulf of tonkin event which were state sponsored plan so what's most important about bremer is on nine eleven he just happened to be at the world trade center as an executive for a company called marsh and mclennan and that was just for a short

table but as you say it's never going to happen because i think what we're executing is that old donald rumsfeld plan seven nations in five years really were you know the schedules a little bit off we're going a little slowly but we are i think ultimately trying to isolate iran here and getting rid of the assad regime which is an iranian ally potentially then hizbullah and lead with would totally isolate iran and would allow us to clear the field for a build up of an attack against iran's nuclear power capabilities phillips said don't make the possibility of an essential return to your mind you can try this scenario eastern all knowing do you just heard this scenario from jay sadat is going to pick up on it so let's go ahead it does it does make it does make the possibility even greater and this is partly because israel has only recently come into the equation supporting a strike against syria which they had not been supporting earlier largely because the regime both hafez al assad and bashar al assad despite all the rhetoric about resistance and this and that have actually been very useful to i

designed to deter or prevent another chemical attack by the assad regime former defense secretary donald rumsfeld he says it's better to do nothing if you're not going to do something consequential you get assad on t.v. you expect this kind of a mustache twisting villain he looks like a very homely muppet you know kind of a very nice guy and then you make all these horrible threats a master manipulator trying to scare the american people this is why obama wants to do something this whole thing was set up by putin to make obama look like a monkey that he what a shocker and coulter saying something just controversial enough to make the rest of the conversation completely irrelevant but you know this really speaks to how the corporate press has been covering the syria crisis so there's a regurgitation of government talking points or using syria's civil war as filler still avoid having to talk about the many other important issues happening in the u.s. that actually affect our lives i'll start with what congress has been quietly trying to push through all all eyes have been on syria provision on the

designed to deter or prevent another chemical attack by the assad regime former defense secretary donald rumsfeld he says it's better to do nothing if you're not going to do something consequential you get assad on t.v. you expect this kind of mustache twisting villain he looks like a very homely muppet you know kind of very nice guy and then he makes you all these horrible threats a master manipulator trying to scare the american people this is why obama wants to do something this whole thing was set up by putin to make obama look like a monkey that he. won a shocker and coulter is saying something just controversial enough to make the rest of the conversation completely irrelevant but you know this really speaks to how the corporate press has been covering the syria crisis so there's a regurgitation of government talking points or using syria's civil war as filler still avoid having to talk about the many other important issues happening in the u.s. that actually affect our lives i'll start with what congress has been quietly trying to push through all all eyes have been on syria provision on t

donald rumsfeld will be coming up shortly. >> gretchen: in the meantime, can you believe it's alreadyber 11 anniversary. that will be next wednesday already. still really haven't made any arrests or had many questions answered about the four americans killed there. there are two gentlemen who have written a book and they joined us in the last hour. brian asked fred burton and samuel cats whether people knew it was a terrorist attack from the beginning. that was the essence of this entire discussion. >> as soon as the first round was fired -- >> brian: did they know in washington? >> absolutely. that information was conveyed back from the tactical operations center in benghazi to the u.s. embassy in tripoli and conveyed back. >> brian: does it bother you we weren't told that? >> being surprised that politicians would spin something for their own benefit is no surprise. all the political debate that happened after the fact is wasted because the effort should be beforehand to see what you can do to provide the state department and diplomatic security service agents with the tools and res

international criminal court a court which he himself supported the establishment of of course donald rumsfeld can travel to europe big for fear of being arrested and. into the egg because of war crimes tony blair has a similar cloud or not yet he has a toxicity about him in britain which for example was the reason david cameron lost the vote on the proposed syria war blair was hovering there like a donkey right there george allen because you're in the house of commons that close vote on the syria war was close. and very close and you know you're in the house of commons your way of thinking after years of anti-war demonstration that a lot of people said went nowhere finally with you in the house of commons and a lot of other like minded folks there was a defeat of a war initiative really the first time in hundreds of years so you're on the so much say the margin how ever when it came to that vote in the house of parliament it tipped against that war so now you and your like minded m.p.'s have redirected this the history of this country quest or not since seventy nine eighty two has a british p