and groups represented within the government yes of course and your political refugee under saddam hussein's regime how does life there now compared to life you had to lead then. one for most iraqis who are not pretty politically active i was active against saddam's regime i campaigned against. horrible human rights violations but for most iraqis who were not politically active or not known to be. there i don't want my life you know people have families and children they had

informed or educated about them the way it ought to be, then there will be confusion. >> briefly, hussein, where does this leave us? is this progress from the pakistani government pro forma and in a few weeks we'll be back to normal? >> i think we will be back to some kind of a relationship. prime minister sharif's visit to washington recently was the third attempt at a reset in relations between pakistan and the united states since 9/11. and i don't think he or his government want that attempt to completely fail. i think they will implicate public opinion for a little while, but they will come back to talking to the u.s. because at the end of the day, renegotiating with the united states is far more important for pakistani's leaders than negotiations with the taliban. and when they do negotiate with the fall ban, and if they do--do they really want to take pakistan into the 21st century. >> hussein, james, fascinating conversation. we'll be back in touch. up next, what in the world has the united nations come up with a way to actually end wars? it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the alawite it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the austria-hungary an empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed in the two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five to forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in ord

well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the allo why it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the austria-hungary an empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed in the two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five to forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in or

well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the alawite it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the australian garion empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed into two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five the forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in order

and really fascinating about saddam hussein's decoration were these weird sort of satisfied dough massintings, but they're very kinky indeed. >> "fox files" tracked down the artest at her home in upstate new york. it was news to her that copies of her work ended up in saddam's baghdad townhouse. >> once you do a painting, heaven only knows where it's going to end up. he would probably identify with the heroic men. and he would love the sensuous women. >> hard to imagine amidst all the killing and repressing saddam had the time and state of mind to have this replica of the flintstone village bedrock built for his grandchildren. adolf hitler built his own retreat in the bavarian mountains, berghoff, his place to entertain and unwind with his nazi friends and mistress, eva braun, as seen in home movies. >> it's meant to be a sort of manly german hunting lodge sort of place. the truth is that the taste on show is very -- lots of dinky 19th century sets of china filigreed clocks. almost lady-like. >> during his 20 years as dictator of the philippines, ferdinand marcos is believed to have st

president bush claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium to build weapons. >> saddam husseint quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush included bogus material in his speech. this week the white house admitted the claim was not true. >> well, now, congressman king says that president bush's debunked claim which bush admitted was incorrect was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program yesterday, the congressman made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address which they said was a lie and they're still attack him for that. janua jan i'll tell you what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth and he's being punished for it. if you want to know what evidence they have to prove he was right, he could prove iraq was seeking uranium, why wouldn't if he spoken up? that's "hardball" for now. coming up. "your business." with j.j. ramberg. the opportu. he's seen it. it's all over. nothing but daylight. yes i'd love a cookie. [ male announcer ] make a powerful first impression. the nissan sentra

we have anorak today that is better than it was under saddam hussein.will get a lot worse if we do not act. we can act with a lot less cost than what we have had to do until today. >> better than under saddam hussein with the sectarian violence? >> absolutely. saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. there is nothing like that going on now, even with al qaeda. >> james jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us. staying in iraq, this is an image that few could forget from the war, a british soldier, his body in flames as he escaped his burning vehicle in 2005. what happened to him? after 100 hours on the operating table, he has taken up a new challenge, learning to fly. caroline wyatt went to meet him. >> the soldier is learning how to fly. that is something he never thought he would be able to do eight years ago when he suffered terrible burns to his face and body serving in iraq. he was just 17 when he joined the army, 18 when he went on his first operational tour during the iraqi war. of those inside this warrior armored vehicle that was petrol

president bush's state of the union claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellow keg uranium to buildar weapons. the problem, of course, is that it wasn't true. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush did include bogus material in his state of the union speech describing how iraq was attempting to get nuclear materials from africa. today the white house admitted that claim was not true. >> well, now congressman king says that president bush's debunk claim which bush himself admitted was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program, he made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush, he was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address that they said was a lie, and they're still attacking him for that. and i'll tell you i've had hands-on evidence that what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth, and he was still punished for it. >> if you're wondering what evidence king has to prove that bush was right all along, you're probably not alone. the question is i

we have anorak today that is better than it was under saddam hussein.will get a lot worse if we do not act. we can act with a lot less cost than what we have had to do until today. >> better than under saddam hussein with the sectarian violence? >> absolutely. saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. there is nothing like that going on now, even with al qaeda. >> james jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us. staying in iraq, this is an image that few could forget from the war, a british soldier, his body in flames as he escaped his burning vehicle in 2005. what happened to him? after 100 hours on the operating table, he has taken up a new challenge, learning to fly. caroline wyatt went to meet him. >> the soldier is learning how to fly. that is something he never thought he would be able to do eight years ago when he suffered terrible burns to his face and body serving in iraq. he was just 17 when he joined the army, 18 when he went on his first operational tour during the iraqi war. of those inside this warrior armored vehicle that was petrol

peter york says the flashiest of the class are the dictators like hussein.dicated a book to their tastes called "dictator style." >> dictator is glitz. it's over the top. it's designed to give off messages to their own populations which say, i'm great, i'm invincible, i could eat you alive. >> not only do dictators control their people, but they spend their money, too. >> you've got to start with a lot of money. >> what matters to dictators are things that are very glittery, big, sexuality that's outsized also. >> dr. keith ablo is a forensic scientist and a fox news contributor. >> calculate that and say, look, if you need to be so flashy, you might feel dull inside. >> what are some of the key design principles? >> big, glass, chandeliers, mirrors and fake french 18th century furniture. not real fake french 18th center furniture. they don't like it because it looks old and it's not quite shiny enough. >> recently "fox files" went there to check out the bling on board. lots here to keep the super rich happily afloat and plenty fit for a dictator, too. >> if

in the basement of saddam hussein's intelligence headquarters. if the relics of iraq's once thriving jewish community. experts from the national archives it's been years preserving the texts they are finally on display to the. us soldiers were trekking through hussein's flooded basements looking for weapons of mass destruction. but they found something else entirely history of one group of people floating in water and left to rot. periodically in our line of work in foreign affairs. we have the opportunity celebrated to accomplish that doesn't happen all the time. but in this case from the rubble of war we have the recovery and preservation of a sample the iraqi jewish heritage that flows from the historic to the mater. preservation is from the us national archives were flown in to assess the situation. the materials or frozen to protect them from further damage. when he arrived back in washington that's ten years carefully cleaning and mending the two thousand seven hundred bucks and tens of thousands of documents. and they are books and documen

the hussein family will be informed about communication within ten days of arrival to seventy years of republican social protest coleman's him of his crease the st cathedral. he went on hunger strike to protest against the detention conditions interest in september. i don't know about the prison service said she would be me. after all says the issue the rabies in the tel cricket and the light of the disease which is potentially deadly to humans is no known treatment to cure the infection if it has taken hold. european health officials a wedding on to prevent further outbreaks. in the uk the governor's recently relax controls those aunties but what can explain and his dog can travel to the uk. can you imagine quite deliberate and handling meat imagine me being in britain the greatest information video was made reference to scare every piece was so high that the animal coming into the country to enjoy six months in quarantine fast rabies is a killer. we must keep rabies. also they got from him when britain was forced oi union's pet travel scheme. i really can't stand the upcoming race do

gone are kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime live with us on the line from london thank you very much for your time. well the pakistani taliban has vowed to avenge the death of its leader who was killed in a u.s. drone strike and pakistani officials say that the assassination has derailed peace talks with the militants hears islam about british journalists and you'll rashid with the latest. security has gone and there is a lot of security in major cities off pakistan in the heart. because of course so far the statements from the government have been very grim and leaders have been saying this is bin and not there at them to sabotage the peace talks between pakistan's government and the taliban interior minister of pakistan he has stated that only david for yesterday in the march was talking about peace talks and they were almost underway right now yes today's event of another drone strike that killed. the country is again a conflict as to what should be the next step what to expect from the taliban as far as the government by stance government is concer

you go back to iraq, we've talked about this over the years, he was the one who said that saddam hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. no doubt, to use against the united states. he kept talking about the lie that mohammed atta had met with iraqi intelligence officials in prague. he talked about the aluminum tubes. he said there was no doubt there was strong evidence of strong connections, between al qaeda and saddam hussein. he lied repeatedly. and he really, for all that, should sort of be drummed out of polite society and out of the media. but unfortunately he's not. those lies actually were done, i think, maliciously to get the american public to back a war which they might otherwise not support. and then, so the fact that he can come out there now, and act like a statesman, pronouncing judgment on somebody else, when, you know, obama, you know, misspoke, made a mistake, lied or was inaccurate, he was doing it in pursuit of bringing health care to tens of millions of americans who aren't otherwise covered. that's a lot different than trying to bamboozle a public into supp

analysts from high five from god wants the current iraqi novel is the foreign prisoner of saddam hussein's regime has also contributed to the guardian newspaper thank you so much for joining us. i guess it wasn't the first of all greatly relieved. back in two thousand and three when the interface to beat down and us forces affecting the one you're free now. jess said. the question to check on him even to a warrior relieve back in two thousand and three when the invasion began and the u s forces effectively when your freedom on took us all know it said i mean we italy and distance from the beginning to make many iraqis than that including myself that this is not the idiot attention assist the nickname this is a convention and there's a difference then between all politics and downs eighteenth condo keep eyeing off your own country. so ten years on that. what's your assessment of the security situation right now. well it's it's absolutely terrible because it is affecting daily diet and from morning until night and had to single out one of the day people up and feeling unsafe to do an easing

strikes against the we're going to take out saddam hussein used against iranian population in soldiers as well as civilians it was primarily provided to him by european countries netherlands germany france i believe to some extent but the u.s. actually was involved we know about because the cia document that just came out about a month ago that showed how the u.s. was involved in. helping coordinating some of those attacks in turn not just to a blind eye to the fact that the saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the mt of the iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of this saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that the saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them. very public in ir

and we need to clarify and those missing are because of the policies of dictators of hussein and there and we have the problem of those missing. the previous ones with iran and kuwait. the problems here we need international support when it comes to technical aspects in order to help the institution working with this problem. >> reporter: and paul it's a sad reality that people disappear during conflict, but there seems to be a great number of people going missing now than before. is that right? >> well, certainly the number of people being reported missing is greater now than before and there are a variety of reasons as to why people are missing. it's not just conflict. we can talk about natural disasters. of course there are international wars, internal unrest as well within a country and civil war effectively and there is also you know crime gangs which obduct and murder people and bodies never to be recovered and it's interesting there are figures from unicef which show the changing demographic as well of the missing. looking at the figures at the turn of the century the majority o

strikes against the are going to take out saddam hussein used against iranian population and soldiers as well as civilians it was primarily provided to him by european countries. and there's germany france i believe to some extent but the u.s. actually was involved we know about because the cia document that's just came out of. about a month ago that showed how the u.s. was involved in. helping coordinate some of those attacks and turned not just to a blind eye to the fact that saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged it and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the manner that iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely a very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of the saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them very public

insurgency in the country this year sonny ramadani joins us now a political refugee from saddam hussein's regime who's now a senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university sir thank you so much for joining us now. their defiance there has rich reach levels that they were in two thousand and eight not something anyone wants to see happen why is this happening now and what can be done to tackle this sort of a situation. where there are a number of factors really for this. situation in iraq what sparked off it is due to a very very intense power struggle between various political forces with this so-called political process forces the represented within the government they are. struggling to get more of the share of power and this. there is also a conflict between the central government. could just regional government. and then. it is also the presence of several terrorist organizations. including the so-called islamic state of iraq and the love and syria this is a group affiliated to al qaida terrorist organization they are very active in syria as well as in iraq and the con

will be tougher more not ease its pressure on iran during next week's nuclear talks i spoke to said hussein was serving the needs in the rain and policy makers who used to be on iran's nuclear diplomacy team during negotiations with the i he says france's behavior shows double standards. france has a block peaceful because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i. five thousand the inspection of it your in your nuclear program and frequently has announced there is no evidence of dave toward the end is asian this is clear but i really dealt with the real concern of france is a nuclear bomb because france has a strategic relation with israel worry israel is not a member of n.p.t. and possess about four hundred nuclear bombs therefore france should not be concerned about nuclear bomb france help israel to master nuclear bomb france has. nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record. thanks for being with us let me go back now to the breaking news story to start a company boeing seven three seven is crushed during landing at cousin international a

within 10 days she had a state dinner with king hussein of jordan.here was something she had to prepare for in her role as first lady. she hit the ground running. first lady betty ford. monday live on c-span. >> next from the lyndon baines johnson presidential library, a tour of the white house from 1968, narrated by lady bird johnson. >> rather small room. [indiscernible] when i was the wife of a brand-new texas congressman, i never imagined that one day i would live on the other side of that fence. like many tourists, i had the distinct feeling that this house belonged in part to me. i think that is a feeling that everyone who visits here shares. just like the thousands who come by the majesty of the pride of the stream of history that ran through each of the rooms. what the passerby doesn't always realize is that there are two sides to the white house. the official side that remains in the public eye and the private side that the public rarely sees. living quarters for the president and his family. this is our living room. actually it is the west

and hussein ibish, senior fellow at the american task force on palestine. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> brown: robert satloff, let's pick up on that last part, the iranian element. how large a shadow does that cast over any potential peace talks between israel and the palestinians? >> it castaise very, very broad shadow. we are in unchartered waters in the u.s.-israel relationship today. >> brown: unchartered waters. after all these years? >> after all these years, after all the different ups and downs, this is a new scenario in which the united states and israel are at loggerheads over an immediate national security initiative of the united states-- namely, the negotiation of a first step agreement with iran. the prime minister of israel says it's dangerous-- not just for american interest but for his interest. the united states president and the spokesman for the white house has said that if you are opposed to what is being put on the table, are you a warmonger. and so this is a clash unlike any i've seen in 30 years in washington. >> brown: an

. >> [playing music and singing] >> i founded a small ensemble called ghazal, with shujaat hussein khan and swapan chaudhuri. [music] you know, i--i have been trying to do different kinds of music, so, um, because i think the music has to be, uh, fresh for myself first to--to be attractive for others as well. [music] the brooklyn rider is a string quartet. they're brilliant musicians, they understand music in a superb way, and i have always enjoyed to play with them. and they're active, uh, as, uh, a part of the silk road ensemble as well, so we tour together, and we're trying to develop more new music to play together. [string music playing] i think the best place for me to live at the moment, and have my base is iran, because i always felt that i missed something when i was outside all these years, and then suddenly you're 37, and--[laughs] "oh!" you know, "where am i?" you know, "i'm a musician, but i don't have anything else in my life." >> [laughing] [speaking in farsi] >> i live in a suburb called, uh, karaj, 30 kilometers from tehran. i live there with my wife. >> [speaking in fa

in iraq which the united states government set up shortly after the invasion that overthrew saddam hussein so he would have been involved in frequent strategy meetings about how to sell the iraq war and part of selling that war would have also been to attack the critics and to make the critics look bad and if you look at the roster of any of the top lobbying in public relation firms in town they're filled with former members of congress for murder ministration officials former cia officials increasingly journalists are going the same route. and. we now occupy an era of extreme reputation anxiety among leading companies around the world because they're very aware that corporate reputation which they may have built over fifty years or so can be shredded in a matter of minutes so when a company feels that it's on the potential attack you try and divert attention from the real story or you have a snow dump of good alternative information so they will go out there and say listen we've got this story about reputations being on the files by this disreputable swedish filmmaker acting for a lawyer

within 10 days she had a state dinner to entertain king hussein of jordan. this is something she had prepared for in her role as first lady lady as she hit the ground running. betty ford, monday night at nine eastern on c-span. >> it is a great pleasure to be here in oklahoma. yes, even an august when i left my beloved summer home in maine to come. i am stunned at how many people are here and looking forward to the best part of one of these events for me which is comments and questions from all of you. after i make my introductory remarks. i -- some people probably were surprised when they saw the name theda skocpol attached to a talk about the politics of climate change. heads andhing their said what did she know about that? that is a good question. a couple of years ago, i was approached by the dean of columbia school of journalism and the had of a small as afeller foundation little offshoot thing. what they me to do said would take a month. you should always be very suspicious. they wanted me to take a look at what happened in 2009 and 2010 when there was

except for the american revolution and the end of slavery and the death ofomes hitly, saddam husseinhitler and saddam hussein and osama bin laden and enablingon, the freedoms of many.ms about these uniforms -- >> that was good. >> thanks. >> and he has a gluten allergy. he has a gluten free diet. >> don't even know the guy. p where am i? kg, it is friday and i am about checked out at this point. >> i can tell. i'm >> what do you think of the star-spangled banner played atte games and the uniform?feel >> i love it.star i am a patriot through and ga through. i love everyone who fought for? the country and for them freedoms we enjoy and for people like that to spout off. >> that's a daring comment, kg. >> i like to goou out on a ledge at fox news. who will join me? anybody? >> i will push you off the ledge. >> it was going so well. i >> julie, you say you hate freedom. >> with the fiber of myt being. >> how do you feel about recruiters being at the game?u >> i am good with it.ters if you want to sign up with the military, and i have friends in the military god bless. ob if you don't wan

sadam hussein had the weird sad doe mass cysts. >> they tracked down the artist at her home in up state it was news to her that copies of her work ended up in sadam's baghdad townhouse. >> once you do a painting heaven only knows where it is going to end up. he probably identified. >> hard to image when he saw the killing and repressing he had the state of mind to have this replica of the flint stone village bedrock children and grandchildren. adolph hitler built his own pal lashian retreat. it was a place to entertain and unwind with his nazi friends. his mistress eva brawn as seen in the home movies. >> it is meant to be a manly german hunting place. the truth is it is very -- lots of 19th century china almost lady like. >> during 20-years as dictator of the philippines he is accused of stealing millions of dollars. former beauty queen is best known for her shoe collection. >> how many d inves-- she have? >> thousands. >> could they escape from the compound? [ male announcer ] this is brad. his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, want to trade the all-day

>> but they're being compared to hitler. >> but we should not go to war with saddam hussein. >> that's a different question. but you're mocking the idea of taking someone's rhetoric seriously. >> i'm not mocking the idea of taking people's rhetoric seriously. strategic calculations of what someone's going to do. people can have bad rhetoric and actually use that rhetoric for domestic purposes or political purposes. but the rhetoric being taken seriously when invoked in the context -- >> i do not necessarily think that all the rhetoric coming out of iran is an indication of ma their desire is in terms of their nuclear program or their designs on israel. >> no one says it is a design or -- >> benjamin netanyahu says that all year. >> i'm not here to argue benjamin netanyahu. i am here to say, since you started this on that foot, to mock the idea of taking threatening rhetoric seriously is a literal mistake if you like. hitler is close to unique. fair enough. >> close to unique. but here's the question, what does taking rhetoric seriously mean? i think you and i in the abstract can agree,

comparisons to saddam hussein? you can't make this stuff up. >> no, you can't.if you think there's something on tv, you should see him live. we hung out saturday night with the ford boys and doug actually hinted at this. he said that he and his brother are declaring thermonuclear war against all their political opponents. they think they have enough true believers in the ford nation, fiscal conservatives like themselves, that they can run in each ward around the city using their style of populist retail politics and unseat everyone who voted against them. they actually got three allies on this last vote, in the last vote last week, to strip his emergency manager in powers. it was 41-2, rob and doug were the two. so from the outside, these guys seem like complete political outcasts. when you follow them around the so-called ford nation, you can see where they get their courage. they are beloved in housing projects, in blue collar neighborhoods, even in some rich fiscally conservative neighborhoods as well. but this is unlike anything we have seen. >> bill, we wil

sudan hussein banned the ceremony. they would hide away and worship in secret. the ceremony once again occurred publicly, but has been far from peaceful. every year, armed groups mount attacks here and across iraq, and every year the security presence gets bigger. >> it is a massive operation, some 35,000 troops have been deployed out on so the street, and check points ring this entire area, this is the biggest operation that the iraqi army has mounted in nearly ten years. >> it is up to this man so direct the operation, and make sure things pass without incident. >> i'm confident that this period will pass without incident. we have mounted a sophisticated operation with several agencies and we have brought in intelligence gathering and extra troops. this is all to counter any attack, and it's affiliates. >> despite that conversation, things are worsening here in iraq, already there have been suicide attacks across the country. this is been the bloodiest year for the country since the height of sectarian violence in 20008. this year 7,000 people have died. so wh

zambrano hussein banned the ceremony when he ruled. for 20 years, they would worship in secret. in 2003, after sadaam, the ceremony once again occurred publicly, but it's been far from peaceful. every year, armed groups have monumented attacks here and across iraq and every year, the security presence gets bigger. >> security is a massive operation. 35,000 troops have been deployed on to the streets and check points ring this entire area. this is the biggest operation that the iraqi army have mounted in nearly 10 years. >> it's up to this man to direct the operation and make sure things pass without incident. >> i'm confident that this period will pass without incident. we have mounted a sophisticated operation with several agencies and we have brought in intelligence gathering and extra troops. this is all to counter any attack by al-qaeda and its affiliates. >> despite that confidence, things are worsening here in iraq. already, there have been suicide and car bomb attacks across the country. this has been the bloodiest year for the country since 2008. this year, 7,000 people

security is it true in the holy city packed with worshipers commemorating the death of imam hussein, the grandson of the prophet muhammed. we are there. bring us up to date with the latest on those attacks. >> that's right. there have been several over the last 24 hours, a understand what we've heard, there have been 54 people killed and 115 injured. now, they haven't, the attackers haven't managed to get to the big cities, which have seen and unprecedented security operation. they've targeted smaller towns in the province south of baghdad, using car bombs and suicide attacks to get to these shia processions that are going on. take a look around me. ashoura's been going on for 24 hours. there is a huge cleanup, you can see the trucks going past me here. there's been a massive supreme court operation, the biggest mounted in 10 years. 30,000 troops are out on the streets. into the city, it's basically a ring of steel with several checkpoints you have to go through. also, there have been helicopter patrols regularly throughout the day. it's been very, very crucial for the iraqi governme

supported chemical weapons used in iraq in the 80s and even provided money and agents for saddam husseinthis is not an honest claim for getting rid of chemical weapons in syria. i think that chemical weapon issue deserve it's own program, the fact that the region is plagued with this issue, and the major victims of chemical weapons not only syria, but also in iraq in the 80s. that issue has not been dealt with. there was no closure to this issue of chemical weapon use against the population. i think that's a different subject. >> let's bring it back to the rebels and their perspective. do they have a buy-in in the investigation and ex-pour of the chemical weapons? >> with just to comment on the u.s. policy towards syria. this is maybe the first time that the u.s. says something and do something different. secretary kerry, he three times pledged before going to geneva we need to change the calculation on the ground. none of these promises have been met. and this is make huge disappointment, and the failure of the u.s. policy laments, this is why the syrian opposition feel that even if the

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of the more recent war is a dilemma because if you think about the monopoly of the force, saddam hussein certainly monopolized the force in his state and a brutal manner it was a state in which torture was widespread and people were gassed. he was a torturer. he monopolized trade one could argue there are things people fear more than a brutal dictatorship and its anarchy in which it's every man for himself and chaos, which we see to some extent in libya now and to some extent iraq and that isn't well that means things would have been better if we left saddam hussein alone, that it is something that people should think about a little bit more before they casually say while, we as americans it is our duty to fight the dictatorship and bring freedom and liberty for us to do so. they had ubiquitous torture and care for. >> it is a dictatorial order for most people and is probably still to be preferred for the violent anarchy. and violent anarchy in many ways you have until 1945 until the order was reimposed. >> ideology. the period 1940 to 1945 is the second war. but there was no religion on

president bush's state of the union claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellow cake uranium to buildeapons. the problem, of course, is that it wasn't true. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush did include bogus material in his state of the union speech describing how iraq was attempting to get nuclear materials from africa. today the white house admitted that claim was not true. >> well, now congressman king says that president bush's debunk claim was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program, he made this stunning assertion. >> george w. bush, he was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address that they said were a lie and they're still attacking him for that. and i'll tell you i've had hands-on evidence that what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth and he was still punished for it. >> if you're wondering what evidence king has to prove that bush was right all along, you're probably not alone. the question is if he really possessed info