early in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks i don't think we ever should i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested get the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy in reporting did a. study of two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion before major nightly newscasts m.t.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews down around war only three were that they were leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was supposed to be invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme. in the drums for war a recent new y

took more than one hundred americans as hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a national hero. then that hero heard president george w. bush make this statement in the two thousand and three state of union address the british government has learned saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true their level of corruption. demonstrated from the top down is staggering to the american people so he wrote about it in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house coolness robert novak tried to discredit wilson by writing a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia sent him on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she works there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that did what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use or not. did not say sh

be to have a conflict between iraqi diplomats were to time and time and pictures saddam hussein quit his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true awesomely talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most of mine an issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is a smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. only in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks and i don't think we ever should least i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq and no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy reporting did a. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and t

where are you the big brute just like saddam hussein caught in the whole new market doc he was a bad guy well you know what they say if the believe that it leads and that was the case with gadhafi and the mainstream media welcomed the news with open arms and celebrations but what about the scary precedent his death sets for neda. it's wednesday october twenty sixth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. well the occupy wall street protests turned violent in california where police resort to using pepper using force poppers spray ends here gas to subdue the mobs of demonstrators. dozens were arrested last night in the city of oakland a police response to orders to crack down on demonstrations the movement which has spread across the nation and the globe continue to escalate over a month after it sparked as its effects show that much of america agrees with the movement's message they are rallying against corporate greed in a system that they say favors the top one percent while the. lect in the interests of the middle class and everyone else a new poll sh

absolutely it's going to be even worse let's not forget that saddam hussein his country was invaded and destroyed over what a half million people dead because in november two thousand and two only six months earlier he had decided to sell his or euros or not and dollars and i think one of the reasons why gadhafi has his country has been of libya has been made and he has been killed because he had planned to introduce the gold dinar as a golden currency that could very easily have become a major currency at least in north africa and in the oil market don't forget libya has the ninth largest oil reserves in the world and the main oil reserve in all of africa so i think this definitely smells of oil definitely smelt of greed on the part of western companies as exxon british petroleum and toto and that they are just using this new speak as i say to try to justify that they have supported the worst terrorist probably because of the white house had to palliate easy in france and in ten downing street we also have very high class terrorists and mafioso running those countries and the better pa

you knew where hussein stood when it came to iran. will the operation turn to be foe, not friend? >> you have to have that concern where they will align themselves, as far as their interests, if you don't have any type of u.s. presence there that can be the honest broker. i'll be the foirsedirst to admi have gone about the nation building occupation building warfare in the wrong means. we should have been focused on the enemy and conducting a strike operations. i think you see us getting to that 4 in last two, three years but i don't want to see us becoming so quick and hasteful that now the next thing is we're going to set ourselves up for a tougher situation later on, because you have an iran seeking to expand its influence in the region. i'm concerned about the cuddish people to the north if they see us as abandoning them as they saw after desert shield, desert storm. >> there could be an agreement down the road to leave several hundred troops there. among the proposals, maybe naval exercise, maybe finding a third country, maybe kuwait to train maybe in their country. do you se

. >> i remember when the kuwaitis paid for the liberation of their country from saddam hussein. kuwait lake libya a wealthy country. i ask the question because there has been some suggestion that before the u.s. were to transfer the $33 billion in assets it deduct $1 billion for expenses and deduct other expenses that nato allies may have had. would that be smart? would that be legal to simply deduct whatever it costs? >> i don't think it's either legal or smart. they are a coverage nation. they have a government that's recognized basically throughout the world. i think it would generate enormous ill will if we carried out such activity. i don't know who would suggest such a thing. >> there have been those suggestions. among others, i've written about it myself. that's just me. >> okay. >> so for what it's worth on our blog, that's just -- >> that's not our money, wolf. it's their money that's been frozen. it's not our money. >> i know. by the way, the obama administration takes exactly the same position that you're taking that it shouldn't -- the u.s. shouldn't simply unilatera

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saddam hussein and changes happening. have people emeratis that were instrumental to help in particular with the military activities in libya. a lot of things have come to play. i do agree that now we saw end of one chapter, a dictator for 42 years. what are the next chapters going forward? i read an interesting piece and i'm not sure how i feel about it. the question is this okay with us in the future? it's okay for people to rise up against you and topple you as a leader? there are interesting questions. >> bob: libya is different. military reasserted itself in egypt. that's caused protests and more arrests. the iranians splitting in half between the revolutionary guards. you have ahmadinejad that is now on his way out for sure. the situation is unstable. the good news is it's not all centered on israel and palestine. >> greg: the tough job is the guy at the cemetery. how do they spell his name on the tombstone? >> bob: gaddafi? >> greg: yeah. "q" or "g "g." >> eric: gitmo, you bring in a detainee. >> bob: you're bringi

very rich just like saddam hussein's court a little hole to mark a doctor he was a bad guy well you know what they say of a believe they had leads and that was the case with the dolphins death the mainstream media welcomed the news with open arms and celebrations but what about the scary precedent his death sets for neda. it's wednesday october twenty sixth five pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well occupy wall street protests turned violent in california where police resorts using force pepper spray and tear gas to subdue the mobs of demonstrators dozens were arrested last night in the city of. birth and dozens were arrested last night in the city of oakland as police respond to orders to crack down on demonstrations the movement which has spread across the nation and the globe continues to ask the late after over a month after its spark so that six show that much of the america agrees with the movement's not said they're rallying against corporate greed and a system they say for. here's the top one percent on the glass in the interest of the middle clas

hussein. hussein. how many hundreds in this town told him not to do that right? but he said no that's my name, that's my name. it stands for china's. hussein, put it on the ballot. he didn't care. he didn't care. he had the guts to do that. i want that guy back. i want that president that's why voted for, that's who we all voted for. the man who had the guts to put hussein as his middle name right there on the ballot. as what i want to see happen. >> host: and from "mike's election guide 2008", six modest proposals to fix a broken election, one, hold on elections on the weekend. number two, every citizen is automatically a registered voter. >> host: 30 seconds. sorry, we're running out of time. >> caller: that's all i need. i compliment you, c-span, for bringing us people like michael moore to us. as a mother, mother in quotes, i believe that who you are michael, was what you also experienced growing up in the family god chose for you. and my last thing is god bless you, michael. and i pray that you are protected by the god of all people. if you ever need a gray-

saddam hussein was not caught until december of 2003.it was expected that gadhafi could hold out a bit longer than this. >> so, ben, the fact that, i guess here's my question. if, indeed, he's dead, how much was he able to do while in hide with regard to his money, the weapons, building up stronger forces among those that were still loyal to him? is it possible -- if, indeed, he was dead, what does that mean in regard to the violence from here on out and the existence of loyalists and how much power they will have? >> well, i think perhaps his role as a leader of the anti-sea insurgency may have been somewhat overstated. i was in parts of libya where i spoke to lots of people who were opposed to the new rulers of libya, but not necessarily great supporters of moammar gadhafi. there is a worry that this new regime in libya will be very slow, if succeed at all in moving to democracy. there's a worry that there's going to be a lot of revenge, a lot of, basically, lawlessness. so, some of the times when we were told that these were gadhafi l

where i tell you that these are big data is very very original just like saddam hussein caught a little hole to mark yudof he was a bad guy well you know they say the believe it leaves and that was the case with gadhafi is that the mainstream media welcomed the news with open arms and celebrations but what about this area president his deaths out for nato. it's wednesday october twenty sixth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching artsy occupy wall street protests turned violent in california where police resorts using force pepper spray ends here gowns to subdue the mobs of demonstrators. dozens were arrested last night in the city of oakland as police respond to orders to crack down on demonstrations the movement which has spread across the nation and the globe continue to escalate over on land after a spark that if excel that much of america agrees with the movements not said they are rally against corporate greed and a system they say favors the top one percent while neglecting the interests of the middle class and everyone else a new poll shows that forty three

scenario might have put could out in the awful rejection leader's truth or those of iraq's saddam hussein but a trial over comments about he didn't pan out here and even more controversy that there's the fact that he was very congenial for defeat european powers for the u.s. if you went to the hague you would spill the beans about all the dirty deals there are this for real politic it's we in the west in a developing country like libya nobody wanted that median transitional government official say funnel to doubt he was born adding up the grain underneath the road in open country site near the city of sirte please don't shoot was allegedly heard at the site many going out similarities to the capture of saddam hussein he was discovered in a small underground pulled concealed next to farm buildings near his own hometown but unlike sadam who was captured alive by u.s. forces colonel gadhafi was reportedly shot dead by lead in france national authorities not without the help of the u.s. an american defense official claimed a u.s. predator drone along with a french fighter jet hit could obviou

don't shoot was allegedly heard at the site many when asked similarities to the capture of saddam hussein he was discovered in a small underground full crew sealed next to farm buildings near his own home county but unlike sadam who was captured alive by u.s. forces colonel gadhafi was reportedly shot dead by lead in transitional authorities not without the help of the u.s. and american defense official claimed a u.s. predator drone along with a french fighter jet hit could alpheus convoy thursday morning as they were trying to escape effectively handing them over to the lead in forces on the ground there are still unanswered questions about what happened to the colonel qadhafi how was he killed all to be guy but clearly i think what a lot for external intervention and all of nato. wells in benghazi may not have been able to achieve their objective nato's when mandate was to protect libyan civilians but it quickly became to get rid of gadhafi and prop up a government which is now in power only thanks to this. support of the allied forces and i think we'll see. not a new democracy in libya

hussein, he was acquitted of the material, but he was convicted of the immigration violation. >> guest: it was a mistrial on whether or not he violated the immigration law and the fury of that is that he was not genuinely student because he was also working with the islamic assembly of north america and they said he was violating, that he wasn't really a student. to give you examples of the kind of wishful thinking that goes on, one thing one agent said that was suspicious his furious he wasn't a serious student and he was only in the country because he was on the terrorist pretending to be a student. so one agent i think it was pointed to the fact that he switched his dissertation in the middle of the year. they said that's suspicious nobody does that that must mean he is not serious about his dissertation. it turns out if they look harder his adviser had cancer and switch of pfizer's because he was striking to finish his dissertation in he was almost throop when he ended up in jail, he ended up agreeing to go back to saudi arabia. the shift away his wife and children while he was sta

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the bronze buttocks from the statue of saddam hussein toppled in baghdad after the u.s.-led invasion will be auctioned off in england. the former english soldier who grabbed it at the time hopes saddam's rear-end will sell for as much as $15,000. where would you put that? on the mantel? i'm just not sure. >>> coming up, the cardinals peck away at milwaukee. hockey's flyers remain undefeated while the columbus blue jackets can't catch a break. plus, one of baseball's most excited plays is a play at the plate. last night this one was make or break for both teams in the american league championship series. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we're watching a collision in the middle of the country. that's where storms are in the forecast. they're all heading east. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, including the preseason, after roughly 200 games, the texas rangers stand just one win away from baseball's world series. here's nbc's fred roggin with an

the parallels with suddam hussein are there. he and gadhafi both went back to their hometowns and found in the underground trapped in the most kind of extraordinary fashion. here i think the difference is we've got multiple videos of gadhafi being captured and more is being brought to light all the time, piers, there are different angles showing essentially the same thing from different mobile phones. what really happened? was he really caught by crossfire as they tried to take him to the hospital as the ntc claims or was this out of control and someone decided to execute him on the spot? >> thank you very much. ambassador, a very happy day, i imagine. >> thank you. it is a happy day in my life and happiest day for the libyan people. and also the americans share with us the happiness. the end of dictatorship. it's a great thing that happened and i'm very happy to be alive on this beautiful day. >> ambassador, you represent the united states on the national transitional council, clearly a success for the force that was there. but

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and al qaeda to each other and linking saddam hussein and al qaeda to a wm d program. the fbi could not give that evidence because it did not exist. the evidence came later from al qaeda associates. not al qaeda member but an individual who associated himself with the organization. after torture he admitted that al qaeda and osama bin laden were working together. after we went to iraq and found out he was lying they came back to him and asked why he provided that lie that ended up in the security council where secretary colin powell mentioned it in his speech to justify the war in iraq. he said you were torturing me and i gave you what you needed to hear. so i discuss these things in detail and all this stuff has already been declassified by the united states government. the story of the link to the iraq war, the falls link to the iraq war has been declassified by the senate armed services committee for example. >> host: maine, you are on booktv. ali soufan is our guest. >> caller: good afternoon. i look forward to reading your book. could you discuss if you know anyth

a couple of days after saddam hussein was pulled out of a hole.. >> and the bush administration -- >> so he said -- >> the bush administration and the supporters of the iraq war would often point to the decision by gadhafi to give up nuclear arms as a concrete example of the benefits of this intervention. of course -- >> and it was one. >> and, of course, gadhafi ended up going from ally -- do we have the john mccain tweet? i love this tweet. >> interesting. >> yeah, there's this period in which gadhafi is essentially a u.s. ally. john mccain reporting late evening with colonel gadhafi at his ranch in libya. interesting man with an interesting man. he was a buddy and then a few years later we have what we have, which is our firing on his convoy leading to him being killed. i want to play gadhafi a few years ago essentially predicting this exact scenario while he was a ally of the u.s. this is him addressing the arar league. >>> he was right. >> that was gadhafi exactly predicting the arc of his relation with the u.s. we'll talk more about that. we

medias of belfast and laughed at similarities between his character in a ditch and that of saddam hussein all the cheering about qaddafi is killing in the eye of the public effectively or raises the bad taste after the nato campaign no mention of sleep in civilians killed in nato strikes none much talk about that the structure in the country caused by those strikes could up his killing is presented as a triumph a triumph which can create a perception that somehow it's perfectly ok to invade a country and help its leader be lynched but if it's presented as such a success doesn't become more tempting to try the same methods somewhere else i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . columnist for u.s. based think tank of foreign policy in focus says the west should be outraged rather than pleased by the way gadhafi was killed i think that there were tremendous size of relief all over capitals in western europe i don't think it was misspeaking when hillary clinton the u.s. secretary of state said that he should be killed or captured in forty eight hours forty eight hours later he