there are al qaeda in iraq saddam hussein. cohorts with terrorist secretly and without fingerprints he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists. or helped them develop their own well the war really had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism there was no connection whatsoever between iraq and the secular regime there and the religious fanatics who perpetrated nine eleven they wanted to believe that there was a connection but the cia was sitting there the f.b.i. was sitting there i was sitting there saying we've looked at this issue for years for years we've looked for a connection let's just no connection saddam wasn't. our goal he was a terrible felon yes but he was not willing to sacrifice his own life. just that it ensures terrorists completely antithetical to used outside it has had total contempt for saddam hussein himself he's been a socialist he's been very harsh he's treated islamic leaders misleaders extremely harshly rock and we have very good intelligence on this was not part of the picture of terrorism

that saddam hussein. did not have nuclear weapons capability ironically the major effect of the invasion of iraq in terms of weapons of mass destruction as to be has been to show that the inspectors were right all along the inspection regime worked. it was the most intrusive inspection regime in history and it worked and i think on the day that's another reason why we went to war for not. these maniacs. urging our enemies weakening our troops resolve and confusing the american people you should listen to these protests because they're obviously hoping saddam hussein who would have guessed that you could build a massive international peace movement on the protection of sadam hussein the media is culpable for the misleading of the american public they bought into the bush administration's rhetoric they don't understand that there is moral violence and immoral violence we use moral violence god bless this president he is truly a great man reducing troop morale confusing the american people involving our enem

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anything in between there, suggesting what, saddam hussein, if he stayed in power was going to have a nuclear weapon and hand it to gadhafi and gadhafi could use it last week? >> favorite cheney tactic, his philosophy, you pick the questions, i pick the answers. his answers are the type that appeal to the cheerleaders that he has in this country amongst the neoconservatives and others who disturbingly, in my mind, continue to show they are in favor of torture and anything that will protect their security. we're no longer, at least in part, a nation of patrick henrys who say give me liberty or give me death. there's a lot of people that say protect my life at any cost, including my civil liberties and torturing other people to do so. >> you can ask him a question and he will say words after the question, but that doesn't mean you're getting an answer. >> absolutely. >> let's listen to what matt lauer asked cheney about a portion of his book in which he criticized your former boss, former secretary of state colin powell. >> one of your most pointed criticisms about him is this, "time

three weeks into the war, saddam hussein fled baghdad.on the battlefield kept the public behind bush's global war on terror. that included a host of nonmilitary measures to protect america from further terrorist attacks. eavesdropping on terrorist phone calls. tracking their money. locking them up indefintely at guantanamo bay. using enhanced interrogation techniques to make them talk. it add up -- it added to an extraordinary an of presidential powers, aggressively pushed by cheney and his staff. >> the power to win a war, was not and is not an unusual view, cheney's view of the president. is it traditional view. >> it certainly has it limits. >> bret: one of the first major decisions to try foreign terror suspects in special military tribunals. a decision pushed by cheney, shared with few in the administration itch >> the military tribune thats were authorized by the president in an order -- in an order that i have not seen. went to the president and i said mr. president, if that happens again, somebody is going to have to resign. >> br

the americans toppled saddam hussein's regime. and many iraqis never took ownership of it.of iraqis frankly put their hand out and said why aren't we living a better hand immediately. since the libyans had to fight their way, literally fight their way into the center of their own capital, they've been taking more ownership of this, that could be a very positive sign going forward. >> richard, as you come upon 7:00 in tripoli, let's remind our viewers what has unfolded on this extraordinary day where we have live pictures inside the compound of the looting, the celebration, the black smoke. an area that would not be at all penetrable as recently as yesterday is now run over by civilians and rebel leaders. richard, describe what you're seeing. >> reporter: i'm in the compound surrounded by high walls, folks are streaming out. in front of me is a man smiling. he is carrying at least four maybe five assault rifles. another person is coming out with a new car. there are still some explosions. people are carrying rpgs with them. there is some degree of unexploded order nabs in he

once already please come up if you have twelve years of that which is what we had with saddam hussein and you then come to the point where you say this is your final chance and he still does not comply then it's important that you take the ultimate sanction after that what about what happened afterwards there in both iraq and afghanistan the real violence began after the dictatorships were toppled do you see that happening in libya i think there is a danger of this and what you saw was certainly in iraq was a complete failure of the occupying powers then to stabilize the situation and they let the the iraqi army keep their weapons but they disbanded the army and they said you must go back to your villages but you can keep your weapons this was insanity absolutely insanity and we must not be in a position where what we've done is created greater instability in libya that is absolutely clear. but nonetheless equally must avoid is becoming an occupation force i think afghanistan is a very good example russia has very bitter experience of afghanistan as as does britain of being an occupyi

saddam hussein had refused to reveal as some was obliged to under chapter seven of the united nations resolution whether or not he had got rid of the clear chemical. biological weapons that he had and we knew he had previously about he refused and even as late as every hans blix was saying we do not know whether he still has these he listed a whole load of v.x. nerve gas mustard gas different agents chemical agents so we didn't know and he was not willing to allow. other countries to come to interview the scientists to see or to trail's to know whether he got rid of them or not in that situation it would have been ludicrous to have had a million strong army that was on the doorstep of iraq simply go away when the resolution fourteen forty one had given iran given him a final opportunity to comply with his obligations how the world done that and what would have happened if he would have simply rebuilt those programs with impunity knowing that he was absolutely untouchable and the world would not do anything against him we would have then been precipitated to a far more major conflict i

the war in kuwait, a very stupid act by saddam hussein was the thing that kept them from getting that last step that they needed. after the war, the persian gulf war, the fact that the united states had been making these materials available to saddam hussein became known to the saudi government, and they were highly enraged about this because they said we had violated our friendship that went back to world war ii, the special arrangement between presidents roosevelt and kinks out, and that they were going to announce our duplicity unless we would he helpful to them. now, had have taken that set of facts and suggested that maybe the form that help would take would be the form that our help to saddam hussein had taken that his assistance in gaining access to a weapon of mass destruction. now that is a fictional statement but i don't think it is a long leap from what we in fact no. i am very distressed that the facts that underlay the kings to the kingdom have been so effectively withheld from the american people and there have been some serious consequences of that withholding, one of w

the tearing down of statues and the symbols of power have drawn comparisons to saddam hussein's iraq in 2003. it took eight months to topple the iraqi leader. the big question is where is colonel gaddafi who had such a highly personalized rule and domination of this country? libyans say they cannot truly celebrate and say that the iraq is over until he himself is either put on trial or dealt with in some way. we will continue to keep you updated. >> the eyes of the world are on tripoli tonight. what is happening in the rest of the country? we have to underline that there is still pockets of resistance in other parts of the country. when we tried to come into libya from tunisia, there was a coastal road, a direct route that we could not take because we were told there was fighting along one stretch of the road between colonel gaddafi's fighters and the rebels. there was negotiations between the two sides. some of the drivers were saying to us come out they were worried that there was still fighting close to tripoli. we were able to come through without incident. there are parts where

. >> they had rights in spite of saddam hussein. [everyone talking at once] >> any wisdom on women's rights? >> well, yes! i've learned from great experience, not from bitter experience. there's no -- both societies were discriminating against women and these were authoritarian societies. and there's been a revolution about that and it's certainly true in egypt. >> you wait until the muslim brotherhood is run in egypt to see how well women >>> issue three, the big 50. ♪ my kind of town, chicago is my kind of town ♪ it has all that jazz ♪ >> the president celebrated his 50th birthday in his political hometown this week, chicago. it was officially there for a fund-raiser, and the obama second term political fund. at chicago's historic aragon ballroom, the president addressed a crowd of 2500 guests, paying up to a cool $35,000 per ticket. his former chief of staff and confidante, now mayor rahm emanuel, was on the scene. so was herbie hancock, the band okay go, and jennifer hudson, who also sang happy birthday to the honoree. ♪ happy b

>> i was very proud of my service not only in iraq but before saddam hussein went down, i worked with the iraqi opposition, the democratic opposition to saddam hussein under president clinton and secretary albright. my job was to help organize and support, invigorate the iraqis who were working for a post-saddam future. it was a privilege to be part of that. i did that to the best of my ability and openly worked with members of the congress who were keenly interested. if there are particular questions, i'm not sure -- i'm sure i must have antagonized members of the iraqi opposition. i worked very closely in egypt with not only the government but very much civil society and the theory of the case we had was, we had to press on all fronts, starting with the very stubborn president mubarak, who was committed and set in his ways with the people around him, with his government, with his state and very much with civil society. i was privileged to go to the headquarters of opposition movements to continue the flow of funding provided by the united states through usaid to civil society groups

have turned out if the people of iraq if there if they had had their own up arising against saddam hussein and then we had supported that certainly america and i'm not bashing america here ok but certainly america wouldn't be in the same spot that it's in iraq now so it is it is it's kind of the other side of the coin we went into iraq to get rid of a dictator there was no overthrow the people there did want to get rid of saddam whereas in libya and in egypt to the people sort of had their own uprising and we didn't see the people in iraq deciding the fate of saddam hussein should the same do you think happen in libya or do you think if and when gadhafi is caught that he should be sent to the hague to the international criminal court. well you know i personally i don't really i was there when when saddam was was tried in hong. my personal feeling is that that it wasn't so much the people of iraq that tried in hong i'm it was. i do i think he to serve the what he got don't get me wrong he was a bad actor. but i do think the west was very very much behind that in libya. i think you know the