president george w. bush has put off a visit to switzerland signing security concerns but human rights groups say they've prepared a criminal case against him on challenges on the rising tour and that he's simply scared of arrest for more on this as cross live now to london speak to german national. many thanks for being with us here on our say so what exactly is the case against george w. bush. it's difficult to know where to start my understanding is the center of a complete constitutional rights has a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it's an entire car drew of people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanam

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george w. bush, what do you think would be the shortcoming is mentioned, what was achieve? >> well, i'm 78 years old. i've lived a third of our country's history, and almost every republican president was considered not very swift. dwight eisenhower play too much golf they say. he had a poor syntax. my goodness, gerald ford they said play too much football without a helmet. [laughter] didn't matter that he going to yale law school. did matthews one of the world's leading experts on u.s. budget having served on the appropriations committee. >> not to mention the best athlete at the white house. >> exactly. they contend he was a stumbling him. you go from one to another. ronald reagan. he has been characterized as an amiable dunce here and then people read his letters and saw that this man was thoughtful, knowledgeable, and while not a micromanager, a strategic leader. and a superb and highly successful strategic leader. george w. bush was described as not curious, not knowledgeable, and he had g

and the boldness of what george w. bush did galvanize the situation. >> and made it more successful. >> they deserve a lot of credit. >> how much should they be judged by success? if lyndon johnson the vietnam war and did? would we look added great war leader? haq who heads ecap taka. >> guest: it seems to me that wars are a series of catastrophe ended by success or victory. they're untidy, difficult, hard, the enemy has a brain and eisenhower said the plan is worth less. planning is everything and the plan is worthless. >> host: that is rumsfeld roles, it is a rule that i quote from someone who is more intelligent than i am. >> but it is true. every time you try to do something every offense has a defense and a defense has an offense. i think we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with a clarity of world war ii because of the nature of the world we are living in. it is asymmetric, and ever-changing and it is a challenge for our leadership and challenge for our country. with a growing finality of the weapons, w

he said 200 years later, they will still assessing the first george w. george washington in that current year. he said they are going to be assessing me for a long time. i can't worry about it. another point the caller made with contrasting him with bill clinton. there's a story that mark mckennon tells with john kerry. john kerry meeting the strategist for president bush. kerry says to mckennon you can a great job with the campaign. my team messed it up. although he used a saltier word. it's amazing that he said that, frightening that he heard it, and in a public way. i think he's also willing to take the blame in new hampshire. he didn't fire people in 2000 when they lost the primary to john mccain. he said this is on me. let's fix it for the next time. >> yeah, so i just wanted to sort of say a little something about that point of president clinton. i think what you are getting at is what was brought up earlier. these books do reflect the very different men. i think that president clinton, who he is is someone who is very interested in understanding. h

i think george w.h -- administration comes in for more criticism i think in my book, but both administrations did not respond to the uss cole. mike sheehan who was ambassador for counterterrorism famously said after the cole attack what's it going to take, al qaeda attacking the pentagon before we respond. at the lame-duck clinton administration didn't respond, and the new bush administration didn't respond part because it didn't happen on their watch. and osama bin laden, some and took lessons from the. when they were preparing the 9/11 attacks, one of the things i try to say in the book is 9/11 was a strategic failure for al qaeda. at the time it seemed like a big success. it didn't achieve any of the goals within the organization, but one of the things al qaeda has said many years later is 9/11 was cleverly conceived to get you and i says to invade afghanistan, we believed them to what they really expected was the united states to pull out of the middle east, you know, the saudi regime and the regim

president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns but human rights groups say they had prepared a criminal case against him on charges of authorizing torture and that he's simply avoiding arrest journalist afshin rattansi believes it's unlikely bush will be held to account by an international court. my understanding is the center of the can constitutional rights has a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it into a car driven people it's dick cheney it's filled as dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memo was this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a canary satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in going to animal for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old died a few days ago after being gone time of a nine year.

bush did not invent the freedom agenda in fact george w. bush the reformers in these countries many of them went underground after the iraq war started they became associated with democracy and democracy for a time was a bad word in the arab world it should never be a bad word we should be proud of democracy but the reformers were afraid and there were instances as well where they would come out into the streets in particular in cairo in two thousand and five. and the bush administration turned its back to the many democracy activists got sent to prison so while the vision yes democracy nearby world they did talk about they did not create it and certainly when it came to implementation there's nothing on the record that looks like what just happened today do you think that what did happen today also kind of proves that we don't necessarily need to interfere and start preemptive wars and go into other countries that if the people really want it they will find tomography on their own that's the real lesson here is that we need to support the

the relationship that george w. bush had the chains lore was -- chancellor was not based on the fact that george w. bush -- it was based on the fact that germany as a nation has interests. they do not fully coincide any longer with nose of the united states. it's impossible to pretend we're in the middle of a cold war and this relationship continues to exist, and if you take that president down and put a different president in, they wind up with the same relationship, and it's not a personal relationship. it's not that they get along or they don't get along or like each other, but germany is a nation of many people. the united states is similarly a nation. the president is the end product of that. at times he leads, but he leads best when he's going to the place we're going anyway, and obama is perhaps a clinic in the limits of foreign policy. >> host: yep, that's right, or certainly in rhetoric, there's no question about that. >> guest: you can turn the rhetoric into many, many volumes of policy papers. his essenti

the relationship that george w. bush had with chancellor merkel was not based on the fact that george w. bush was at last there came a been. is based on the fact that germany as a nation has interests. they do not fully coincide any longer with those of the united states. it's impossible to pretend where in the cold war, and if you take that present out of a different present in, he's going to wind up with the same relationship and it's not a personal relationship. it's not that they get along or they don't get along or they like each other. germany is a nation of many millions of people. the united states, similar nation. the president is the end product of that, that at times can lead but he leaves that's what is going to the place where we are going anyway. and obama is perhaps -- >> host: are certainly the limits of rhetoric. there's no question about that. >> guest: he turns rhetoric into many, many volumes of position papers and policy papers. is a central assumption i think at the beginning was that u.s. germ

chris: but confuse jeb with george w. after you met the guy for five minutes? >> in 2008 we talked about the dynasties. nobody would confuse hillary and bill clinton. chris: are brothers as tight as married people? >> obama has already run against a bush once in 2008. and i think he would win again. and i think jeb knows that. chris: -- >> i don't think the establishment is hungry as it is for an attractive man who can unite the party will convince jeb bush to move up his timetable. 2012, he thinks, and i think he's right. chris: there you are. is that a statement he doesn't think they'll win and that's why he's not running? >> right now obama is strong much that this would be a suicide mission. chris: does he read it that way? jeb bush as smart as he is reading this right? >> that's his read on it. there's opportunity there for a good republican. obama's not invulnerable. chris: find him. >> or her. chris: that's the treky part. because my suggestion to you and you're the expert because you do nothing but write about this, john, is that when you are really say

and in 2006 it was george w. bush's state department that removed libya from its list of nations that sponsor terror. gadhafi had agreed to end a suspected nuclear program, and turned his equipment over to the u.s. he also agreed to pay millions of dollars to the families of victims of pan am 103, bombed by libyan agents in 1988. it was a diplomatic truce after years of hostility. in 1986 libya was accused of bombing a berlin nightclub frequented by u.s. soldiers. ronald reagan retaliated, ordering an air strike against gadhafi's tent, accidentally killing his young daughter. gadhafi escaped unharmed. >> today we have done what we had to do. if necessary, we shall do it again. >> reporter: all through the 1980s, the u.s. said gadhafi was letting plo and ira terrorists train in libyan terror camps. his hold on his people was absolute. gadhafi's iron grip began when i overthrew the king in 1969. now gadhafi himself appears close to being on the losing end of another historic change. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washi

titled known and unknown it charts how he served on the two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush were brought back here from the antiwar answer coalition says the book is an attempt to shift the blame from himself and save his own reputation. the bush administration figures starting with bush and now with rumsfeld are trying to create a new history based on a fiction the fiction is that the war in iraq was justified that they did the right thing that they spent these hundreds of billions of dollars perhaps up to two trillion dollars in a war that took the lives of of a million iraqis it's only because he's been given a great big megaphone that he that his voice is even heard at all i mean i think he in particular he was the one who raced to war he was the one who felt that there was no need for a post opposed invasion plan that regime of the bush george w. bush was such a catastrophe all of them were arrogant managers rumsfeld the most arrogant of all a reckless person someone who most people in washington and around the world consider to be nothing but a thug a thug in a p

dams, nuclear power plants and targeting former president george w. bush. president obama was briefed on the fbi's plans before they moved in to arrest him, and pierre thomas set out to learn more about the saudi arabian and his plans today. pierre? >> reporter: diane, the sources i've been talking to on the phone all day say this case is scary. exactly what they are worried about. one official said the suspect is, quote, the real deal. a bona fide threat. >> reporter: the fbi says the evidence is clear. this man, khalid aldawsari, a chemical engineering student from saudi arabia, was planning a murderous campaign. >> this guy appears to be very serious. >> reporter: the potential targets? president george w. bush's dallas home, referred to as the tyrant's house. streets in new york for possible car bombs. nuclear power plants. dams in california and colorado. backpack bombs for a dallas nightclub. and even, the fbi says, studied how to turn dolls into bombs. in his apartment, the fbi said it discovered a bomb-making factory. a hazmat suit, lab equipment, w

president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns and came after human rights groups threatened protests and called on the swiss government to tame bush for authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists journalist option returns he believes it's like it's unlikely bush will be held to account by an international court. it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it into a car drove people dick cheney it's call romas filters dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old guy a few days ago after being going to her for nine years also without charge of course and tortured by the international law has proved pretty useless when it comes to torture will any of these come to pass

agenda is and for that you have to go back to george w. bush's time after september two thousand and one when he proposed to the g. eight a greater middle east project and the greater middle east project he likened to the economic transfer transformation of russia and the former eastern european economies in the soviet union a major liberalization free market introduction across the. arab world or the northern africa region going and the greater middle east keep in mind wasn't simply the middle east it was a map that went from gibraltar the borders of morocco all the way over to the borders of china tibet and and compassed a swath of land that would simply cut off the oil rich lands of africa and the middle east both from china and also the economic flows to russia so it would be a major geopolitical strategic development and that's that's what we're seeing on the fold now it was put on hold after the us invasion of iraq and afghanistan but the iraq afghanistan ploys have to be seen as part of this greater middle east project it's a major

the university will be the site of the george w.ush presidential library scheduled to open in 2013. r. gerald turner has been president of southern methodist. >> is it true that you have a saying that the truth will set you free? >> that is the model. >> what does it mean today to you? >> i think it means that the truth will set you free, that means that the basic goal of the institution is to try to find true whether that is in our research efforts, teaching, or that human experiences. ultimately, the goal is to find what is really there. >> what is the toughest part of the new president today and what is the best part? >> the toughest part -- i tell people what my job description is, it is the coordination of incompatible forces. truthfully, that is pretty much the case. if you are in business, you have one basic goal and that is to increase your value and make a quarter to quarter and so on. you can be brief about it. here, we have so many goals. the truth shall check your free. -- the truth shall set you free. you have people wh

. -- george w. bush presidential library, scheduled to open in 2013. >> dr. gerald turner, president of southern methodist university. is it true you have a slogan, "the truth shall set you free. that is the motto. >> what's it mean to you? >> i think it means, if the truth shall set you free, the basic goal of the institution is to try to find truth, whether if our reserge effort, teaching, human experiences or whatever. >> what's the best part of a president and the toughest part of being a president? >> the toughest part of being a president, i say -- when people ask what's your job description, i say it's the coordination of incompatible forces. that's the case. if you're in business, you've got one basic goal, to increase shareholder value and make it quarter-to-quorter and so on. you can be focused about it. whereas here we have so many goals. the truth shall set you free, you've got to sponsor research, recrutement of the best students you can get who can come in and learn what we do know, past and present, and hopefully pointing toward the future. you

have a world order in which the murder laws are enforced in which the bush doctrine isn't forced george w. bush's doctrine said if you arm a terrorist namely someone who kills civilians you are a terrorist i agree with president bush entirely but by his definition he himself was a terrorist as is the current us government because when you're arming regimes that kill civilians you're breaking the law politicians can still get away with that today there are no international institutions the work of the international criminal court won't step in and arrest mubarak or arrest obama so the people have to do it themselves and that's what they're starting to do in the streets of egypt this is very inspiring ok it's not just a lesson for the arab world this is a lesson for americans for people everywhere stand up for your rights revolt and stand up if your government is depriving others of their rights ok me media want to reply to that yeah i mean you know i think that that's the that's right what you've just said i mean that is to say it's important that. you know we observers people in the media

now even though george w. is no longer in the white house doesn't mean that he's safe from trouble do you remember all of that illegal torturing of get most detainees that happened while he was president turns out several activist organizations want to make sure that he's held responsible when word got out the w. was scheduled to make a speech in switzerland demonstrations were planned there were threats of legal action against him and several european activist organizations and new york center for constitutional rights called on people to protest outside of this event in geneva switzerland and even filed a complaint against bush asked the swiss to open up a criminal case against him once he arrived in the country so it seems that the former decider in chief had a change of heart saying that he was actually going to cancel that speech after all and state his home in texas now bush's p.r. people claim that the threat of protesters is what made him state help but i think we all know what really kept him from spe

president george w. bush has canceled a visit to switzerland over planned protest of the visit and calls for a warrant for his arrest human rights groups have been calling for the swiss government to arrest bush for the authorizing torture of a suspected terrorist and going tobe a journalist if she were tons he believes it's unlikely bush would be held to account by an international court. my understanding is the center can constitutionally writes has a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it's an entire car drove people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old d

like, you--when--like last night, when i did stand-up, and as soon as i mentioned george w. bush, some arms got folded. some heads lean-backed with the old, "okay, don't say-- this is bush country." what does that mean? what does that mean? "you--i want you to tell me "why you're a dyed-in-the-wool republican or democrat, because there's no discernable difference." most people only do things because it's habit. everything's a habit. your patriotism could be habitual. your religion is habitual. your desire to marry and have children is habitual, all of these things. so when you do stand-up, you run the risk of meeting a lot of the resistance of habit, if that makes-- if that's a phrase i can use. i just don't know if that makes sense. but you are-- when you speak of politics or anything that is questioning the status quo, you hit a wall of habit. "okay, i'm a republican, and i'm catholic." "why?" "because my parents were." "why?" "because their parents were." "but why?" "i don't know, and if you make me answer that question, i dislike you." you know what i mean? like, there's

middle east you know you look at our policies around the world you recall the freedom agenda of george w. bush the god damn it we will bring democracy to these people no matter what it takes we will barge in interfere or starve wars kill civilians lose our own and democracy will come well today i believe the people of egypt proved that freedom agenda wrong no we don't need to interfere we don't need to tell the people of other countries how to live their lives or who to choose as their leaders no matter how good our intentions are you know we could not prop up their dictators give them billions of dollars in military aid every year but that's an entirely different story of course it's nice to wish democracy onto others but you can't force it so we need to stand back and let people make their own best. all right it's friday and that means that it's time for happy hour now this week we're going to do a little bit differently because we're just going to focus on one issue and that's because the biggest conservative party of the year is c pac is going on and thus there is just too much to ma

yeah i mean it's known in washington as a revenge memoir of the regime of the bush george w. bush was such a catastrophe all of them were arrogant managers rumsfeld the most arrogant of all a reckless person someone who most people in washington and around the world consider to be nothing but a thug a thug in a pinstripe suit so now that they've had this catastrophe on their hands they're playing the blame game colin powell will blame rumsfeld rumsfeld will blame everybody else but himself and of course i think this only makes the administration look what it really is as as a bunch of fools arrogant part of an imperial empire thinking that military supremacy and it alone could dominate world events when the rest of the world is unwilling to go back into a nineteenth century mode except being themselves as nothing but pawns in a geostrategic chess board led by an american empire so rumsfeld has a problem i think it's the blame game i think it will fail ryan backer of the antiwar answer coalition thank you very much for your analysis. thank you well business is next here in r.t

i mean george w., not george h. w. there was, i think, a significant shift between george w. bush's first term and second term on the unilateral verses multilateral dimension. obama has to some extent continued the multilateral condition. i think the top in negotiating with north korea, iran, we need a combination of unilateral and multilateral. dna the multilateral because you need other countries to be part of the equation. for example, with ron if we are going to have a carrot and stick the character being engagement and the state being isolation and sanctions we need the international community to stand with us. in general we have got them. the sanctions that are being applied are biting a run in a way that they have not, but you also need the unilateral. at the end of the day to run is scared of the united states. pyongyang is scared of the united states. so if there is going to be a deal on the nuclear issue in either country that ultimately requires an understanding between the united states and the government of iran and north korea that deals with their security issu

the relationship george w. bush had with chancellor merkel wasn't on the fact that george w. bush allowed then, it was seized on the fact germany as a nation has interests as they do not fully coincide any longer with those of the united states. it's impossible to pretend we are in the middle of the cold war in this relationship to exist, and if you take that president and put a different president in regardless with the intent tensions are he's going to wind up with the same relationship and it's not a personal relationship, it's not that they get along or they don't get along or the like each other. germany is a nation of many tens of millions of people in the united states and the president is the end product of that, but he leads best when he's going to the place you're going anyway. obama is perhaps a critic in the limited foreign policy. you can turn their rhetoric and to many volumes of position papers and policy papers. his assumption at the beginning was that u.s. and german relations could have been with the work 20 years ago had not been for the unilateralism of ge

it's equally interesting to look at george w. bush and raise the question to what extent did he have the options that we like to do. we like to view our presidents with magical powers that they make decisions in a vacuum and create policies and people who speak to the president are semi magical and so on and so forth. pardon me to avoid the demagogues of washington it's extremely important to understand how little choice obama had. the relationship that he had with chancellor merkel was not based on the fact that george w. bush was [inaudible] it was based on fact germany as a nation has interests as they do not fully come inside any longer with those of the united states. it's impossible to pretend we are in the middle of the cold war in this relationship continues to exist. he's going to end up with the same relationship and it's not a personal relationship. it's not that they get along or they don't get along or the like each other. germany as a nation with tens of millions of people, the united states is the nation. the presi

i mean george w., not george w.h. and there was a significant between george w. and george w.h. bush's term. on the unilateral and multilateral dimension and obama has to some extent continued the multilateral tradition. i think in negotiating with toughies, north korea, iran, we need a combination of unilateral and multilateral. you need the multilateral because you need other countries to be part of the equation. so, for example, iran, if we are going to have a carrot in a stick, the carrot being engagement, the stick being isolation and sanctions, we need the international community to stand with us. in general, we've got them. the sanks -- sanctions that the u.s., the russians, europeans are biting in iran in a way they haven't. you also need the unilateral. at the end of the day, tehran is scared of the united states. china is scared of the united states. if there's going to be an issue, that requires an understanding between the united states and the government of iran and north korea that deals with their security issues. that can come only from washington. it can't come

george w.. and there was a significant shift between george w. bush first and second term with unilateral versus multilateral and obama has continued multi lateraled tradition to some extent. and negotiating with north korea, i ran, we need a combination of unilateral and multilateral. we made those to be part of the equation with iran, if we have a carrot and day stick we made the international community to stand with us. they are fighting in a way that they haven't you need the unilateral because at the end of the day to run is scared of the united states. slow in either country the understanding between the governments of iran to deal with their security issues can only come from washington not brussels for moscow or anyone else. that is why you need the multilevel and unilateral working hand in hand. >> talk about the four and five factors that a very important and wondering comment on what is happening in europe and which of those are especially responsible? and what do expect the story of european integration and the piece of world war ii w

president george w. bush made a decision when he first came into office that he was concerned about the fact that iraq was firing regularly at united states and united kingdom aircraft that were supporting the united nations no-fly zone and patrolling in the northern and southern portion of iraq. the plans were being shot at almost every day. the only country in the war that was shooting an american and british aircraft. over 2,000 times they were fired on. the joint chiefs of staff advised me and the president that they were concerned about the fact that eventually one of our planes, a british plane on our plan would be shot down. killed were taken hostage. the third being the unit is this department of state had listed iraq as one of the country's on the terrorist list. there were a series of things like that by way of background. it next, the united states intelligence it is the spent a great deal of time and determined that they were convinced that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction

a couple weeks ago we did a program with george w. bush sitting in that chair. laura bush is on your report? >> -- laura bush is on your board? >> ray hunt is a famous texas named. who does sarah were lake? >> she is an alumni. she is married to ross perot, jr.. sarah is an alumnus so we are very pleased to have them a part of the family. >> how big is your board? >> it is 42. they had a number of official members. they had a voting student that boats for everyone else. we have three bishops of the united methodist church on the board. it turns over every four years. there is a term limit of three- year terms. there can be exceptions but -- 42 is a good size. it obviously has to govern the university andy encourage others to be a part of it. >> go back to the first moment he thought about trying to get george bush to bring his library here on this campus? >> the first time i set it at -- -action when he said we were running. we did not do anything until after the florida vote. after that vote i walked in to my director of executive affairs and said what do you k

launch a terrorist attack and its potential targets include the dallas home of former president george w. bush. the in wisconsin, the state assembly passed a bill which strips most public workers of collective bargaining rights. if that bill still has a long way to go. if no other states are taking up the fight over union rights for state workers. samantha hayes has the latest. >>reporter: the nextel is the state senate. a process that is expected to become more contentious as 14 democratic senators opposed to the legislation, republican gov. scott walker urged be a while lawmakers to return of the capital. >> i am asking is for 14 state senators to do with their colleagues and assemblies have done in the last several days and that's come back. >>reporter: state workers' protests and inside the capitol building shouting shame after the measure to pass the state assembly friday. the budget repair bill would require most government workers to cover more of their health-care premiums and pensions. in washington at the national governors' association meeting, the democratic governor criticiz

so, don't ask me about george w. bush. ask me about boone pickens when it comes to natural gas and comes to power in general and he has made an awful lot of money and -- in natural gas and things of that sort and he's my expert in the area. >> this is an e-mail from david l. smith, editor of the cassandra chronicles and cyclical investing. in mr. tyrrell's december 4, 2010 op-ed piece in the "wall street journal," you write: gene kirkpatrick and irving crystal and for a time daniel patrick moynihan were in crystal's words, liberals when were mugged by reality. then he goes onto write to you, the reality they were mugged by was the reagan revolution with the commitment to low taxes, minimal regulations, and strong defense, which have dominated the political agenda for two of the past three decades. long enough to evaluate the results of such policies. the data clearly reveal that the rich have gotten super-rich and the poor have become poorer and the middle class have mugged time pursuing the american dream, piling up mount