let's talk about flu in fallujah how many civilians were killed in fallujah do you think by the us forces and no one thousand four have no idea why you should tell me when you should tell me you were in charge of the us military was doing the killing i was in charge of the us military and a senior commander on the us military scene during the olympics are in there ok i agree so how many people died in future how many people died in combat inside of flu how many civilians were killed by u.s. forces in fallujah intentionally know how many total killed i don't know. i certainly care every every going to loss of a civilian life in years to fight every loss of a civilian life is a tragedy i accept that everyone is a tragedy i'm saying how many died in fallujah i don't know why you don't that's a bizarre thing you go to war you bomb a city you don't bother to find out how many people you killed intentionally or unintentionally. we got out of the body count business years ago the numbers while relevant are not something that we quote nor do we keep in our back pocket different studies show sugge

how many civilians were killed in fallujah do you think by the u.s. forces and no one thousand and four have no idea why you should tell me when you should tell me you were in charge of the u.s. military was doing the killing i was in charge of the u.s. military and a senior u.s. military seen you in the audience are in there ok i agree so how many people died in future how many people died in combat inside a full week of the civilians were killed by you. us forces in fallujah intentionally known how many total killed i don't know if you can i certainly care every every going to loss of a civilian life in years to fire every loss of a civilian life is a tragedy i accept that everyone's a tragedy i'm saying how many died in fallujah i don't know why you don't that's a bizarre thing you go to war you bomb a city you don't bother to find out how many people you killed intentionally or unintentionally we got out of the body count business years ago the numbers while relevant are not something that we quote nor do we keep in our back pocket different studi

how many civilians were killed in fallujah do you think by the u.s. forces and no one thousand and four have no idea why you should tell me when you should tell me you were in charge of the u.s. military was doing the killing i was in charge of the u.s. military and a senior u.s. military senior in the audience are in there ok i agree so how many people died in future how many people died in combat inside a full accounting of civilians were killed by u.s. . intentionally know how many total would kill i don't know if you can i certainly carry every every going to the loss of a civilian life in years to fight every loss of a civilian life is a tragedy i accept that everyone is a tragedy i'm saying how many died in fallujah i don't know why you don't that's a bizarre thing you go to war you bomb a city you don't bother to find out how many people you killed intentionally or unintentionally we got out of the body count business years ago the numbers while relevant are not something that we quote nor do we keep in our back pocket different studies show su

forces in fallujah intentionally. how many total killed i don't know do you i certainly care every every going to loss of.

few months as long and long what also in fallujah just play in the big scale over quick and not me and no. and. so the rest on the just under one great sigh i heard that a lot of. faults or maybe it was due to the size. nation of. what it was also that use some when you say she was dentist maybe hold up and. it's all right krishna estrada much a right to for us thank you and. that tsunami struck without warning as we've just heard from our reporter there and we've got dramatic footage which has surfaced of the moment the war say hits joining an outdoor concert along the beach front. you can see the local group pop group seventeen performing as the wave suddenly crashes down on them and smashes into the audience. that video or the video rather off that indonesian bad seventeen being swept off stage is one of the most dramatic to image from the disaster zone it's put a human face to this unfolding tragedy in a country that has seen more than its fair share recently the lead singer posted an emotional message on instagram saying the band's bass player and road manager dave he said his wif

coalition have been killed in fallujah province coalition forces are trying to push the treaties from the hills to south of the town of dams there's also been fighting in the central city of ties a u.s. sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass in the u.n. general assembly the resolution didn't get enough votes to reach the required two thirds majority the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley told the assembly that it could make history and called him asked one of the most obvious and grotesque cases of terrorism in the wild the vote on the resolution got the support of eighty seven nations fifty seven countries voted against while thirty three abstained al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. this was one of the final acts of ambassador nikki haley before she leaves her post she put before the general assembly a resolution condemning hamas as a terrorist organization the united nations has never once passed a resolution condemning hamas never over seven hundred resolutions condemning israe

marine attack on the iraqi city of fallujah. in may of 2004, he ordered an attack on a wedding party near syria. 42 civilians were reportedly killed, including 13 children. we turn now to andrew bacevich, a retired colonel and vietnam war veteran. he's the author of several books, including his latest "twilight of the american century." his other books include "america's war for the greater middle east: a military history" and "washington rules: america's path to permanent war." he is professor emeritus of international relations and history at boston university. he also lost his s son in iraq. professor andrew bacevich, welcome back to democracy now! >> thank you very much. amy: if you could first respond to the resignation of the secretary of defense and then if this were president obama and he was announcing the pullout of troops from syria and half the force from afghanistan, wouldn't the feast movement be celebrating? what is your response? is an interesting situation. i have to think that trump mustt abruptpecected that th

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people video showed the attacker being wrestled to the ground and arrested in the eastern city of fallujah police say he took control of the bus armed with a knife more than twenty people were injured. a lack of food and other essential to venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands to flee to neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people but the tribe complained of the less than warm welcome. the reports of the border city of. standard bellies in this in the gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous yuko tribe who left in search of food they now call home a makeshift camp just over the border in colombia. there was a huge crisis in venezuela no medicine no food for our children we had no options but to leave. chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe faced arrest mountain discrimination. in recent months some of the you have clashed with police attempting to block their entry but. he now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two

when i was in fallujah right after the marines went in and eliminated -- fallujah -- i saw a texas flag flying on the back of a humvee as it's speeding down one of those streets and somebody had written on the side of a bombed out building, "don't mess with texas." i don't know who did that but we do have a -- we do have that proud attitude of texans who serve in the military. the enemy we fight today is not the enemy of the greatest generation. our country's under threat from volatile nuclear armed rogue nations like we've never seen. we have a leader of foreign nations -- we have leaders of foreign nations that are not only untrustworthy, they are outright treacherous and they want to cause harm in the world. we got lil' kim of the north korea. we got the little man in the sand in iran and these men pose an increasing threat to our security and everybody throughout the world. they are determined to cause trouble. they are determined to cause terror in the world. . as the chairman of the nonproliferation subcommittee, i brought threats to our country and global stability. manyf

that we also hearing some incidents in other parts of the country at a place called bira in fallujah he stated that yes there was some process today in a polling station. a policeman was trying to. crowd. we are hearing live when i show you sure you know why don't the voters where they process the stand on him and keep him to justice while i must say that it is extremely if you are not getting information from different parts of the country because this is a huge country with very poor infrastructure connected and this is a country casing what is already a very difficult election morris county is executive director of full friends of the congo he joins us from washington d.c. morris county do you understand do you understand the level of frustration that we're getting from the voters so many delays two years later than it should have happened. oh absolutely tremendous level of dissatisfaction on the part of the congolese people however there are two dominant themes that have come out of the elections today one is the incredible spirit that we see from the congolese people who are the

isis was able to vastly grow in numbers to take the city of fallujah and strike u.s. interests and assets around the world because united states withdrew and the iraqi security forces could not keep combating it. when we look at syria today, if u.s. forces with draw and the local forces don't have the capacity to fight an isis resurgence, we are just repeating lessons we should have learned. >> this was diplomacy by tweet or withdrawal by tweet. matt, you said the republican agenda was to cut taxes and kill terrorists and confirm judges. good line. do you think president trump knows more about killing terrorists than the generals? >> i think the senators might disagree, and lindsay graham has been a staunch ally, and they objected because of finding it via tweet. and they feel it's like destabilizing russia and other countries. >> is that a mistake? >> anytime you are not involving congress, i think it's something that you probably made a mistake, yep. >> let's hear from lindsay graham, how strongly he felt about this yesterday. >> they did the honorable thing to come

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stnding army that could basically invade and hold areas as big as mosul city and other places like fallujah course, famously, they have been pushed out of those cities, but that doesn't mean i.s.i.s. no longeexists in iraq. just on tuesday there was a car mbing claimed by a group on ohe northwest border near syria but inside iraq,.s.i.s. are still present there. what they've done is gone back to their insurgency roots, similar to how they were beore they were officially called i.s.i.s. or the islamic state,se rity operation against them cofnlt it's just a very different fight.th >> d iraqi forces have the ability, have th training from the u.s. forces and the wherewithal to take that fight to i.s.i.s. regardless to have the u.s. presence in the country? >> not regardless of the u.s. presence. the u.s. presence is important for the iraqi military, not just for what we know, we is, of course, intelligence, reconnaissance, air cover, but also for training. it's important to remember that the iraqi military took such heavy casualties. they never actually released the figures, but we know that t

candidates with equal opportunity to make the case, moderated by respected journalist, i was supposed in fallujahform we've got is debate. debates reinforce what people believe but that doesn't mean they are not valuable because the increased the level of active information we have about both candidates. on average across debate. the reason is it's an interesting finding because those of us who study politics, you think we will not miss anything that we do. sometimes you know when candidates position which are never the other. there are extraordinarily valuable. i wish we could find more venues like that in which we would come together and get people as much unmediated time to communicate with us as they could unfiltered so we could make her own judgment. i think i'm now at the time. appreciate the opportunity to talk with you. aikido folks are watching through the c-span book channel, and for those of you heading out into the cold winter night. thank you so much for joining me. [applause] >> thank you everyone, for joining us. there's time to mingle and purchase books from the bookshop. you can

three years islamic state reconstituted, had taken mosul, had marched down the mesopotamia to retake fallujahe had to redeploy thousands of american troops to win that territory back. we did the same thing in syria, where we had finally managed to reduce isis' physical footprint down to a fraction of what it had been previously. but the lesson of that experience is that you can't take your finger out of the dike and expect that the water isn't going to seep through and eventually burst the dam. so america maintaining what was really a relatively small military presence in syria, about 2,000 troops, very low levels of casualties in low single digits in the last year, is a bargain of a policy next to what we might expect once we leave. >> that vacuum is going to be filled by assad, by erdogan, by the ayatollahs of iran, who donald trump claims to be so powerful against, but is, in fact, enabling by russia. it's going to happen at the expense of the kurds who did so much to defeat isis on our behalf. it will happen at the expense of our allies in israel, who are now in much greater danger, again

intelligence and gave rise to isis the as we ten pedley went into syria iraq to kick them out of ramadi, fallujahstablize, it is not true. we could have the 82nd airborne there 18 hours plus flight time if we need 2,000 troops on the ground. we have isis forces in iraq that can respond very rapidly. we'll have air power there. steve: we're not in peril? >> no, not at all. the best thing about a great leader is that they leave behind a legacy in motion that will continue and carry on. steve: general, thank you very much for joining us with your expertise on the friday before christmas. merry christmas to you and your family. >> merry christmas to the entire fox team. steve: indeed. thank you, sir. 8:19 in new york city. louis farrakhan known for his rhetoric. >> the satanic jews. because you say white people deserve to die. steve: his group, nation of islam is using taxpayer money to preach to inmates. how they are defending that move this morning. plus we've got franklin graham. he is here to share a christmas message of hope. he is live next on "fox & friends." ♪ this is not a bed. it's proven q