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using children, that reminds me of saddam hussein when he used kids. >> okay.overnor, remember when saddam hussein patted that little kid on the top of his head. it was one of the most sickening sights in history because he was a killer. this is comparing the president to saddam hussein at one of his worst moment. do you think it will sell? >> number one, this guy is deranged and i do not believe it will sell. and number two, john cornyn is a rock red conservative. he is almost as conservative as it can get. where do you draw the line? where do you draw the line and say someone's conservative enough? you know, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. if stockman gets significant support, then it is maybe the death now of the republican party. they can't survive if they keep acting like this. what they've got to do is freeze this guy out. make sure he gets no money and make sure that john cornyn has a fairly easy route to winning the primary. if they don't, it's literally self-destructive. >> joan, why doesn't the democratic party seize upon the fact that the rep

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in iraq, ten years too the day of the capture of saddam hussein. but let's start with robert levinson. i want to discuss the operation and then a.p.'s decision to run the story. eric, the administration is saying this was unsanctioned that this was a rogue group of analysts who sent him in to do spy missions and he didn't have the authority to do it. do you think the cia just giving itself from plausible deny ability. >> jay carney said he didn't think that leave -- that levinson was not working for the government when he went over to iran in 2007. i'm not sure anyone knows that. i would like to know how he knew that. the a.p. is reporting he did work for the cia in 2007. but the interesting part is the a.p. and the new york times knew about this for three years and they are looking for levin son, can't find the guy, they sat on him because the administration said don't go with this story yet because we're still working on leads. three years later said look, we keep trying and go with the story and the administration says how could you do that. you

it was covered with a hunk of styrofoam and saddam hussein was down in that hole.disoriented. what a story. i know it's going to be a movie, and who is going to play you? >> robert pattinson will be playing me in the movie, steve. >> that's fantastic. that is awesome. >> yeah. >> do we know when it's going to come out? >> they began filming this spring so i'm not in the hollywood world so i will wait and i have no idea when they'll actually hit the screen. >> well, you know what, he's got a lot of fans and you've got a lot of fans for what you all did ten years ago right now. eric maddox, today is a civilian interrogator for the department of defense. sir, thank you very much for your service and thanks for everything. good luck with the movie. >> thanks, buddy. have a good one. >> you as well. all right. great story. >>> all right. 19 minutes now after the top of the hour on this friday. some schools making the flu shot mandatory. is that a good idea? medical a team is going to separate fact from fiction coming up next. >>> and they promised transparency so why is

and really fascinating about saddam hussein's decoration were these weird sort of satisfied dough massstick paintings, 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

that hussein is ready to say that the iranians will agree. it gives us as much of that time as we need and as much transparency so we know what we are losing that. as an arrangement out there on the table, do we want to give that away in hopes of getting something that is slightly better, but not worth the price f admission? it might well lead us to a military conflict. >> he is the expert. >> iranian hardliners have benefited from sanctions. will they support a comprehensive agreement? >> no one has benefited from sanctions in iran. i have been at iranian administration at the time the uclear crisis came up. i never had radicals. this is a very religious thing. think iran has issued a religious fatwa. you cannot imagine the two followers of the leader that would go against the actions. f the base is going to be npt, or confidence measures, it would be acceptable because it is iranians that proposed from 2003 two 2005 confidence building measures like enrichment below five percent. these confidence building measures in order to remove it from

well, i wish there were more leaders out there stupid as saddam hussein but i'm concern there had may not be. because, you know, saddam hussein was obliging putting them in the tanks in the desert with the "hit me signs." there are not other leaders willing to do. i expect they are learned from the experience of saddam hussein who wound up getting kill forked the troubles. i suspect they have learned it's smarter to fight with a regular tactics. my concern is that's what we're going to see a lot more of in the future. and i'm worried that the army and mat -- marine corps. are in for a nasty surprise. i'm concerned they're going to forget the lessons they have learned. i would like do you stay in place for him to get out the door. he's got another appointment he's got get to. he's time sensitive with it i give you the final two minutes to wrap it up. leave us with closing. >> well, i would like to leave you, essentially, with where i started. which is by reminding you the way we think about unconventional warfare is missed up. it's the norm. not going away. adopting new ways to attack

government in baghdad well since you brought up saddam hussein in iraq iran is much stronger internally a lot more unified than iraq was in case of a conflict it will not be a pushover and everyone understands that when the u.s. talks about a military option there is it really ready for another tough thing gates meant in the region is it even in the country's interest. well i don't think a war with iran would be in the interest of the united states at all. and i hope and pray there is no conflict between the two countries but i think you're somewhat mistaken when you say that iran is more unified if you take a look at iran the core center of iran is persian but there are baluch baluchistan in the sound system baluchistan there are secessionist movements there there are arabs in the southwest there are kurds up in the north east and there are zero three in the north made at the end of world war two stalin of russia in the red army was in that area and had to be forced out of there in a war between the united states and iran i think would be a disaster for the world a disaster for the wor

activist gejdenson says the situation's worse for many now than it was under former dictator saddam hussein. six months after the bombings in ninety one there was electricity there was telephone again there was a fair distribution. russians so people didn't die of hunger people did die because there was no no not enough clean water and so on a lot of diseases go about a sanctions imposed by the united states but there were basic services that people have to work and it's not like the situation now where after ten years. your patient eleven years and. there are no basic services. it's exactly one twenty five am here in moscow you're watching r t international company tonight hopefully i'll see you again some point next week. it will be news next know ahead why some of africa's economies are still up against the wall despite years of large scale foreign aid which one of the most questions the next. just imagine of foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin to shoot up an anti e.u. protest and greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian cus

capital that later an activist speaks to us tells us how it compares now to life then under saddam hussein. emerges last week this sweden is in on the n.s.a. spying game what's more it's accused of peeking through the kremlin's keyhole to swedish t.v. reported fresh leaks from edward snowden that stalker would fed intelligence from russia's leadership and also from some energy giants to the united states this is what the chief editor of the news program that broke the story told us earlier about their findings we have revealed that. the very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and american counterpart n.s.a. and. according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. that they're talking about unique intelligence they're talking about classic intelligence and they're also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments but. when a

shop across the capital and activist speaks to us and tells us how it compares to life under saddam hussein a bit later this. emerged this week that sweden is in on the n.s.a. spying game what's more it's accused of peeking through the kremlin this keyhole to swedish t.v. reported freshly made snowden the week that stockholm fed intelligence from russia's leadership and also from energy giants to the united states this is what the chief editor of the news program that broke the story told us earlier about the findings we have revealed that. the very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and their american counterpart n.s.a. and according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. that they're talking about unique intelligence they talk about classic intelligence and they also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments bert. wh

and peace activist and says the situation's worse for many than it was under former dictator saddam hussein. six months after the bombings in ninety one there was electricity there was telephone again there was a fair distribution. russians so people didn't die of hunger people who did die because there was no no not enough clean water i'm sure on a lot of diseases called a sanctions imposed by the united states but there were basic services that people have to work and it's not a lot of a situation now where after ten years. your patient eleven years and. there are no basic services. international next though after the break xander boy could talk so does a spokes person about the role of commerce in kick starting the peace process with israel. next. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and so

monastery in the region and the son to take when necessary who is hussein some to take love is a disciple of simple and you put the blame squarely on the rebels and it turns out last of course they do it they have done it and they appeared on the video is such . a shame to do so. that was mother agnes mariam to loco founder of james the mutilated monastery in syria. and today presidents prime ministers celebrities and thousands of south africans gathered to say farewell to nelson mandela died just last week at the age of ninety five and guided south africa out of apartheid and into a multiracial democracy as the president of the country thereby becoming an international icon of peace and reconciliation artie's policy or is in johannesburg and brings us more reaction from this historic memorial day was one of the most important days in south africa's history as tens of thousands of south africans an international dignitaries from all corners of the globe turned out to pay their last respects to nelson mandela it was one in a series of memorials that are being held throughout the week that

perhaps the best example of this involves saddam hussein. in april 1990, the united states expelled an iraqi diplomat involved in a incident in the united states, and in light of this, an iraq versioning weapons program, u.s. newses and world report rendered saddam the world's most dangerous man. some of you may remember the cover. still, proponents of engagement refuse to give up. senator spector traveled twice to baghdad to meet saddam, and so impress the with the sincerity, he helped block military sanctions on iraq. there's an opportunity to pursue discussions with iraq, he said two mochtses later, and i think that it's not the right time to impose sanctions. less than two months after that, iraq invaded kuwait. only after several years did he acknowledge that saddam exploited him. they acknowledged that they transformed their 48 hour embassy sit-in back in is the 79 into a 444-day crisis once they read a boston globe article in which a carter national security staffer leaked that military operation to be taken off the table. now, they t

when saddam hussein was a man they thought was that saddam hussein was first captured, one of the questionsthis really saddam hussein or was this a decoy? welcome the dna had been extracted from his two sons earlier that year. in a dna profile was created from the suspected saddam hussein compared to his two sons and there was a match between the sons for a number of dna locations helping to prove that this was in fact saddam hussein. just last month, this article was published where the last victim of the boston strangler dna was identified on the victim who could be traced through a family member to albert, the man accused of being the boston strangler but was killed in prison before he was tried on the sturgis. and of course, we have a famous example, the world's most famous navy blue dress, the one on which a dna sample turned that he said she said case into a presidential impeachment. so dna evidence has served a very important role in a number of high-profile cases and in everyday crime as well and i will talk more about that. so, what are we actually talking about when we try to iden

king hussein of jordan. it was designed by a lady named frankie welch who had a boutique in virginia. this also next one also is a welch dress and this she wore for her official portrait as first lady. this is a dress that next one that some people right recognize. vezz and she wore this gown for a portrait that was taken of the family and featured on the cover of time magazine. but she loved practical design as well. and a fellow from new york designed a number of dresses and gowns for her, very practical and inexpensive but for her very functional. she would wear these out fits both of which are albert pieces to arrival ceremonies for dignitaries and to the hair dresser and church, on trips for campaign events. they were the ones she could get the most comfortable n. this is a piece that she wore for the 60 minutes interview and so she faced morely while wearing this dress as she fielded his many questions. we know a lot of this because one of the things mrs. ford was careful about as organized as she was

peter york says the most flash of the class are the out and out dictators like the late saddam husseinyork has dedicated a book to them called dictator style. >> it's bling. 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 talk about the money. >> what matters to dictators are things that are glittery, big, sexuality that is outsized also. >> dr. keith ablo is a fox contributor. >> if you need to feel that flashy you might be dull inside. >> what are some of the characteristics? >> chand leers, mirrors and fake 18th century furniture, not real. >> which they could afford. >> because it looks old and it's not shiny enough. >> the shrine of shine is the monaco yacht show. recently we went there to check out the bling on board. plenty that sit for a dictator. >> the interiors are more opulent on the yachts than they are on the owner's houses. >> looking for a spot to park your super car -- >> we go up to

saddam hussein, she said. so, of course, saddam hue -- hussein was obsessed with stalin. and when he was an ally of the soviet union in the '60s and '70s, he said i want to see every single house of stalin's. so he is the only other person apart from me who has been round every one of stalin's houses and seen how he lived. >> host: simon sebag montefiore, what are your current and near-future projects? >> guest: well, i've got a novel coming out in september which is exciting. set, you know, in a family in russia. and it's really a book about lo. and it's based on a true story as well. but in history i'm researching now a history of the roam novembers, the whole dynasty from 1613 to 1917, all those czars ending up with nicholas and alexander and rasputin and all that. and i'm loving doing that. it's really exciting. and be, of course, it's a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. >> host: you also have another project coming out after that? >> guest: ah, the world. >> host: the history of the world. a biography? >> guest: yeah. i'm going to do a history of the w

hussein kanji for talks and ventures. coming up, it is just days to go before christmas.going to the streets of london for a look at u.k. retailers. stay with us for that. oxford street, the mecca of shopping. ♪ >> i am manus cranny in london. this is "on the move." the holiday window displays at selfridge's have become a must an and this year features entire gender bread village. bloomberg spoke to the display's minor -- designer to find out how much work goes into those winter wonderland. >> hello, i am the creative designer here at selfridge's. if you think of the windows as the cover of a magazine, it is the thing that people see that entices them and we hope it brings them into the store. something like this christmas window, we have got these versions of our best gifts. we hope that is exciting to see. it might be something that people really want to buy. may took us ahind long time to make. it is made from real gingerbread. andave to build the models cook and make the gingerbread. then it was ice and all of that was put together in the window. the work that goes in

interested to see what hussein has to say. >> facial recognition, we are just at the beginning.the full potential and how it can be used to market. >> very early days. i look at this as facebook -- to extend the platform. they allow you to log into the website -- and now the same thing in physical storage. >> it will go beyond facebook, right? we are hearing that some people stations try to recognize you so they can have catered ads. history so purchase retailers can make informed decisions. amazon can do it reasonably well based on your tracking history online but retailers don't have the same kind of information and they can't merge it with what they are doing -- you are doing online. a way to fuse off-line and off -- online. it is minority report -- "minority report" in 2013. >> how far away are we from this technology providing more than gender and age? we played around with facebook -- it thinks george washington was my grandfather and my grandfather and george washington did not look anything alike. how close are we to having good technology? >> i think we are early days.

general and the 38th chief of he is best in known for a moment in the 2000 surge and capture of saddam hussein0 years ago. i am pleased to welcome general odierno. >> thank you. it is great to be here. >> take me back to that moment, and what that meant. >> at the time it was important. we had been looking for him for about six months. we started in june of 2003. we figured out early on that we were going about it the wrong way in the beginning. we have the cards and the faces on the cards. and we thought they were somehow related. we realize the award. it had a lot to do with family, worked with.e we started to put the puzzle together. we probably did 30-40 raids thinking we were close. finally, on december 13, we got him. we got a good lead. i remember getting a call that number one.red at the time it was important. we went in and toppled his regime. with him so out there, it was a question of what that would mean. it was important for us to capture, to make sure that he would never be able to come back . >> what did we learn from him? >> i'm not sure how much we learn. i think we learned ab

yes, saddam hussein was a dictator, but they had free education. iraq is a former shadow of itself now. i feel the american people need to know what state iraq is in and what we did to that country. >> what auspices were you under when you went to iraq? how did you get in? >> we were a group of women. we put out a call to people around the country saying, who would like to go? we did not know if we would get in or if the u.s. would bomb at the time. it was a scary time to go. we got a group of about 11 or 12 of us. we flew into jordan. we do not know if we would get into iraq. we drove across the desert. i'm jewish. we got to the border and a border guard took my passport and said, benjamin, is that jewish? i started shaking like a leaf. i thought, uh-oh. i'm in trouble. the tensions between iraq and israel were very high. a half hour i was waiting and waiting and he came back huffing and puffing and said, i brought my notebook. i have been studying hebrew. i was wondering if you could correct my grammar. that was the border guard. i asked, why are

saddam hussein, she said. so, of course, saddam hue -- hussein was obsessed with stalin. and when he was an ally of the soviet union in the '60s and '70s, he said i want to see every single house of stalin's. so he is the only other person apart from me who has been round every one of stalin's houses and seen how he lived. >> host: simon sebag montefiore, what are your current and near-future projects? >> guest: well, i've got a novel coming out in september which is exciting. set, you know, in a family in russia. and it's really a book about lo. and it's based on a true story as well. but in history i'm researching now a history of the roam novembers, the whole dynasty from 1613 to 1917, all those czars ending up with nicholas and alexander and

that hussein is ready to say that the iranians will agree. it gives us as much of that time as we need and as much transparency so we know what we are losing that. as an arrangement out there on the table, do we want to give that away in hopes of getting something that is slightly better, but not worth the price of admission? it might well lead us to a military conflict. >> he is the expert. >> iranian hardliners have benefited from sanctions. will they support a comprehensive agreement? >> no one has benefited from sanctions in iran. i have been at iranian administration at the time the nuclear crisis came up. i never had radicals. this is a very religious thing. think iran has issued a religious fatwa. you cannot imagine the two followers of the leader that would go against the factions. if the base is going to be npt, for confidence measures, it would be acceptable because it is iranians that proposed from 2003 to 2005 confidence building measures like enrichment below five percent. these confidence building measures in order to remove it

eric, what did you think of the saddam hussein shaikh mohammed? >> so on the week that this video comes out, the earth recorded its coldest temperature by far, 135 degrees below zero. after that came out, the chicago bears played in negative nine degrees windchill. which is, if i remember right, back in the day of soldier field, the toilets used to freeze. and guess what, they still freeze 25 years later. 75% of the country is blanketed in below-normal temperatures right now. the problem is that greenpeace went with global warming again. remember two years ago when they realized it may not be warming, it may just be changing and they went with climate change? but they went with global warming. they kind of screwed up. if they had said the climate's changing, then maybe they had an argument. >> and they equate -- if i could pick up on that point -- they equate terrorism with global warming. what they are doing in terms of using that picture of the saddam hussein look-alike or the khalid shaikh mohammed mug shot, that's the equivalent for them. >> t

he did say that each was sentenced today in other hussein say the momentum is online and join team lead in the ninety dollars without a sound has been given night. it is. it's in the woods and he said it did to much that i would never lead to peace in the dish and deeper trying to influence the good and nice using the name of religion to do this. once it possible to put him out. model to look to put it in a shed. choppers just to compete. do it. but don't know. it started. i'm childish. changing state department spokesperson mighty hushed said the bomb the bass response teams were very sensitive moment i g o apologies to use all of their differences peacefully. sayed a better team spokesperson of india's external affairs ministry said that mine has a jacuzzi and was a pot of obligations in dona judicial process but also the differences will be sorted out into the school on time. the proceeds the guiding nations that bob levy. on the principle is upbeat and respect. due to that effect. non independence and it's funny that the sovereignty i did nations the bond levy a broad based and incl

. >> i barack hussein obama do solumly swear -- >> an opportunity for them to remember a day on whichtor was defied. >> with a farewell bow, the power transfer in china is complete. >> ukraine's government has lurched into its biggest crisis in almost a decade. >> let me stop now, peter, because we are seeing smoke coming out of the chimney. white smoke, the conclave announcing that they have chosen a pope. white smoke. [ cheers ] [♪ dramatic music ] >> the attack on the boston marathon shocked all of america. >> we are at the [ inaudible ] airport and we just saw a plane crash. >> spanish 3450edia reports the train was travelling at more than twice the speed limit. >> my daughter is in there, she has been working this the garments industry for three years. >> 17 days beneath thousands of tons of wreckage. >> lampedusa is now the island which people risk everything to reach. >> typhoon haiyan swept through the central philippines early friday morning. >> the water started going up, and before we knew it we were been the ceiling clings for our lives. >> it's a journey into the personal

saddam hussein was a brutal dictator. but we supported saddam hussein through all his worst atrocities, the u.s. government, american politicians, right? we gave him the means to develop and deploy chemical weapons. what he was put on trial for, we supported him through. we talk about liberating the women of afghanistan, and we are currently allied with one of the most oppressive goths in the world -- governments in the world, the saudi arabian government. so there's some contradictions that make us wonder or, okay, what are some of these politicians really doing? i'm talking both democrat and republican. the question and answer session we can talk more about those contradictions and how the war system can use a lot of those, a lot of that goodbe -- goodwill for its own purposes. third form of distance is mechanical distance. mechanical distance means the farther away you are, the easier it is to kill people. the farther away you are, the easier it is to kill. so it's easier to kill people at 10,000 feet with a bomb than

soldiers liberated the invasion of baghdad by climbing up the statue of saddam hussein and covering hisonze mustache face with the stars and stripes, a gesture that was unfortunate as pr and in proper etiquette. [laughter] it was to spend the morning at the historic cyclic pearl harbor one tattooed on the american memory and the afternoon at another historic sites we have forgotten entirely about a groundswell of outrage over the invasion of iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of american ideals. the subtext of the dissent was this is not who we are. but none of you are standing where i was. it was hard to look at the palace tour guide when she talked about the american flag flying over the palace and not realizing that ever since 1898 from time to time, this is exactly who we are. and what's more, hawaii is just as peter roosevelt predicted crucial to the american empire's military presence in the pacific. pearl harbor is still the headquarters of the u.s. pacific command just as it was for all three of america's 20th century wars in the pacific with japan, north korea an

but since saddam hussein was toppled, that member has have, because -- has been cut in half, because many have left the country. christians have lived here for centuries. they are not part of the sunni- shiite conflict over power, but they have found themselves victims of attacks by sunni extremists, like those about qaeda, and subject of intimidation by militias. it has been too much for them. x egypt's former president -- >> egypt's former president mohamed morsi is now considered to be a member of a terrorist group. is the latest from the interim government following an attack on tuesday that killed 16. here is news from cairo. is what the egyptian cabinet statement said. yesterday,massacre which left 16 dead and more than they will declare the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. the cause for this action has egyptiansgated among of all classes and sex for maybe two months ever since the office that was in support of the hominid morsi. it is no wonder that egyptians of this decision was a lot relief that could be sensed at once on social media, especially twitter. antigov

. >> in many ways it was a conscious reenactment of the toppling of the statute of saddam hussein. which was a little weird. the agreement was about europe and then it was everything about the president and his legitimacy. many people saw as a bit of a diversion. >> i have to tell you, i thought it was humorous. who cares about a statute of lenin? for the west, this is some moment. this is the west projecting. this is not the soviet union. the soviet union is long gone. >> toppling down of lenin is western media. postsoviet world, while for the ukrainians lenin is something from the past. of course there were some glorification when lenin fell down but definitely by the international media the story is overdone. >> but that's what happens when the global media parachute into a story in a country they know little about. perhaps the post-cold war narrative wasn't any part of an agenda but what one seize as context one already sees as context in an international history. time has moved on even though western journalists think they are back in ussr. >> yanukovych is president of ukrain

. >> i barack hussein obama do solumly swear -- >> people very pleased that sharif declaring himself >> with a farewell bow from the outgoing president, the power transfer in china is complete. >> ukraine's government has lurched into his biggest crisis in almost a decade. >> let me stop now, peter because we are seeing smoke coming out of the chimney. white smoke. they have chosen a pope. white smoke. [ cheers ] >> the attack on the boston marathon shocked all of america. >> we are at the airport and we just got in a plane crash. >> my daughter is in there. she has been working in the garment factory for three years. >> rescuers have called off their search for survivors. >> lampedusa was a sleepy place but now it is the island which people risk everything to reach. >> typhoon haiyan swept through the central philippines early friday morning. >> the water started going up, and before we knew it we were by the ceiling clinging for our lives. >> it's a journey into the personal tragedy of millions of filipinos. ♪ ♪ >>> i'm meteorologist dave warren, we're about to start the new year,

taught any lesson to the rest of the world with the invasion and occupation of iraq it was that saddam hussein was a fool for actually disarming because by disarming all he did was make it that much easier for the empire to come in and destroy the entire country so the lesson we teach to the world is that the best way to defend yourself is to get yourself a nuclear weapon and of course the biggest culprit of using nuclear weapons and producing nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction is my birth nation of the united states and i find it absolutely insane that we sit here and talk about iran's supposedly clean weapons program when you know the united states is producing every kind of weapon under the sun is spending more than every other military on the planet combined and it's involved in more war and more death and more suffering than every other nation combined and yet it's sitting there on a pedestal talking about other nations developing weapons of mass destruction it is insane that we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united st

-- andake any action saddam hussein was very aggressive.e was giving money to the families of suicide bombers for -- he was playing games at u.n. weapons inspectors. bush that i cannot let this go. what the united states had another 9/11? is easy to look back and say president bush should've done it that her job, but that doesn't give president obama any kind of excuse for cutting $1 trillion from the defense budget. mini go back to defense cuts for second. -- let me go back to defense cuts for a second. guest: i had a column earlier were account about how the pentagon must reform the acquisition process. they are two generations ahead, possibly, and they take 10 years . and they go nowhere. it is basically a better strategy to make incremental improvements. i have read about that too. i think the defense department user ofbeen the best taxpayer dollars. they should not have $1 trillion. let's hear from gary, a republican. everybody keeps praising that man between what he stripped out of the military and with the break he got bubble, the te

we actually hire ld as a company the chief prosecutor of iraq after he had prosecuted saddam hussein. he was hired to go and meet with each of the families to handle the payments, the condolence payments under direction of the state d., and when some of those people sought medical care and the bullets were educate tracted, it was found they came from from an ak, not from a u.s. pep weapon. be -- u.s. weapon. and i just want to, you know, parallel that to an event you may not be aware of. october 3 in washington, d.c. this year, there was a 34-year-old woman driving her car, and she got into a bit of a traffic altercation outside of a federal building, and the secret service opened fire on her a lot. and eventually, she made it to capitol hill where she was gunned down, ander baby was in the back of the car. so that's -- she had no weapons, she had no car bomb, she was just a woman having a bad day driving. and no media outcry. she actually got a standing -- the security officials got a standing ovation in the house of representatives. so i can't even imagine the human cry that would h

cambodia tribunal, we see duns prosecuting -- countries prosecuting their own leaders like saddam hussein, they're talking about prosecuting assad after the crisis -- >> judges in spain who want to prosecute george w. bush. >> but before world war ii, nobody even thought about that. so that was the paradigm shift. and then you had the major nuremberg trial, mini trials conducted by the occupying powers, then you had the u.n. pass a resolution that universeally endorsed the principles of nuremberg. and these are principles we all sort of are familiar with. one which we're talking about is that leaders can be held responsible. just because they're the president or the king doesn't mean they can escape liability anymore. other ones is you can't use to bead yens to orders defense. others are that there's universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes. that's why in spain they go after george bush, for example. and then one of them is that when you prosecute people in an international tribunal, you can use a principle that is similar to the united states' conspiracy or pinkerton rule