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was senator mccain and senator lieberman saying we need to go invade iraq. before president bush even got to power. so he can try to dress it up any which way he likes about the weapons of mass destruction. the key thing that he and lieberman pushed so hard was that iraq was an imminent threat. it was top of the national security pyramid for them. you cannot rewrite history. he's not just off the rails here. he's lost a bit of his memory there. >> okay. his faculties. he's short on it? >> i think he's being erratic. >> okay. susan rice, there is no evidence that she misled the public. in fact, the white house has been very clear, the president was clear in his press conference that she had the same material that the congress had. why is mccain so adamant about discrediting her? >> i don't know about his personal motives here. i mean, i do think there's a striking pattern of critics of this administration. i don't know whether it's john mccain, but them going after prominent african-americans in this cabinet. number one. number two, susan rice doesn't have li

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the rally was against the pending invasion of iraq and obama was there to speak against invading iraq but he was uncomfortable because this was an antiwar rally and familiar anti-war types from the chicago area who show up at every anti-war rally, and he felt out of place because even though he was opposed to invading iraq, the point of the speech was he was not against all wars, some were necessary, just, and cited instances in history where he thought that was the case and felt the appropriate target for the united states were the leaders of al-qaeda, the men who planned the attacks on this country in 2001, and he said i would take up arms against al-qaeda myself. well, at that point, maybe he had dreams then in 2003 of someday becoming president of the united states, but he could not have envaitioned -- envisioned how. to the extent that no american president had perhaps president bush at the end of his last term. you know, the president of the united states is directly involved in the fight against terrorism and against, in particular, al-qaeda. to a degree, i think, he could neve

i did not totally convinced we would not invade iraq if out or president. -- al gore were president.think the initial invasion was corrected. i think the initial strikes against those who attacked us or necessary and just to pursue a and other countries where people wanted to intervene. the prior to 911 was casting about in search of a solution to a problem the political class was not certain how to solve that. >> will hide want to ask you, based on what he said, during the bush years, the focus was born policy. there is something yet animated the hatred on the left for the right, it was for civil liberties. we have a president to the has now only continued the foreign policy, but has expanded it and where is. the campeau people aware without due process. obama has won up to bush by saying we can imprison american citizens without due process character of them in jail with out any questions asked. how dec foreign policy from a liberal perspective seeing that obama has considered many predecessor's policies and expanded them. >> i do not accept the premise. obama has not interpreted i

that is that there was no such thing as al qaeda in iraq until george bush and john mccain deto invade iraqnator obama became president obama, the partisan rhetoric didn't stop there. instead he has constantly undermined the president and his policies. back in 2010, mccain had a list of complaints over health care reform. one of his issues, the negotiations were not being broadcast on c-span. heres at president responding. >> let me just make this point, john, pause we're not campaigning anymore. the election's over. >> i'm reminded of that every day. >> let's bring in jonathan alter. jonathan, i don't think the two like each other. it just seems john mccain is looking for any opening he possibly can to make problems for the president and the country. your take on it. >> well, the reason was president was so ticked in the press conference today is he learned just before the press conference that john mccain and lindsey graham were intending to fill busser should she mean. if you turn back the clock to when condoleezza rice was taking all she was george bush's secretary of state because she

i mean, i've been thinking about what happened after we invaded iraq, for example. we weren't prepared to govern the country. it was utter chaos. it was civil war. it was anarchy in baghdad, and the american people had been assured that once we get there that the shia will cooperate with us and we can put it back together again. it was a disaster for two years running, and the death count went up more than it should have. that didn't get the same type of examination. it doesn't take way from the benghazi and i'm looking at what goes on in washington under the new intelligence umbrella. did the cia have something and didn't get to the nsc? do the director of intelligence been more proactive about what's going on there? >> there's a lot of angles. >> if you saw the roots of this libyan revolution, the first thing you would think about is how do we secure our people? >> right, of course. >> you say in the second term you're your own man. a lot of second terms have not gone so well. >> that's because they get used to the idea of being president. they take their eye off

is that there was no such thing as al qaeda in iraq until george bush and john mccain decided to invade iraq. >> and when senator obama became president obama, the partisan rhetoric didn't stop there. mccain abandoned the idea of becoming an elder statesmen, a key republican ally, who could help broker deals and move the country forward. instead, he has constantly undermined the president and his policies. back in 2010, mccain had a list of complaints over health care reform. one of his issues, the negotiations were not being broadcast on c-span. here's the president responding. >> let me just a make this point, john. because we're not campaigning anymore. the election's over. >> i'm reminded of that every day. >> well, yeah. >> let's bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. jonathan, i don't think the two like each other. good to have you with us tonight. but it just seems that john mccain is looking for any opening he possibly can to make problems for the president and the country. your take on it? >> well, the reason the president was so ticked in

national security, and that gentleman who doesn't think miss rice is very bright thought it wisdom to invade iraq when they had no weapons of mass destruction. >> well. >> also according to them, told to them by the cia. just wanted to note that. >> the last piece is, if rice doesn't get the secretary of state position, maybe kerry goes there, if she does, kerry in defense is not something i think a lot of folks maybe thought would happen and there's some question, governor, as to is john kerry, who's been eager to get out of the state for a while now, better served by staying in the senate in this particular moment in time, some people would make the case that look, he can be incredibly instrumental in this moment on things he's cared a long time about, climate change being one, should he stay there and not take defense. some have questioned whether he's qualified too head the defense sector. >> john kerry merits being secretary of state as does susan rice. something john has always wanted. i would leave the senate for that opportunity if i was john kerry. i don't think i would leave it for defe

that's what i'm not totally convinced we would have invaded iraq if al gore had become crazy. you've had a lot of interest though in people were casting around trying to find a solution to every do think the initial invasion of afghanistan was correct, whether that means we need to be there for 10 years or until afghanistan becomes connecticut is another matter entirely. by think the initial strikes against those who attacked us were necessary and just, but then takeoff and pursue regime change in other unrelated countries that people wanted to already intervene in, prior to 9/11 was simply casting about in search of a solution to a problem that the political class was not really certain how to solve. >> time to start off by saying libertarianism was fiscally conservative, social liberals with will get back to the middle point. i want to ask if they so what he he just said, the left during the bush years, bush-cheney, the focus was foreign policy. guantÁnamo bay, patriot act, civil liberties. if there's something in america hatred on the left for the right it was specifically

the rally was against the pending invasion iraq and obama was a to speak against invading iraq. but he was uncomfortable because this is an antiwar rally and they were familiar antiwar types from the chicago area who show up at every antiwar rally and he felt out of place because even though he was supposed to invading iraq, the point of the speech was that he was not against all wars, did he believe some wars were necessary and just and he cited incidents in history where he thought that was the case. and then he said that he felt the appropriate target for the united states or the leaders of al qaeda, the men who planned the attacks on this country in 2001. and he said, i would take up arms against al qaeda myself. well, at that point, maybe he had dreams even then at 2003 of someday becoming president of the united states, but he certainly could never have envisioned how about office he would have essentially his finger on the trigger to an extent that most american presidents or no american presidents had except president bush at the end of his last term. the president of th

as well as air assets in september and october the president was getting together a coalition to invade iraq and at the peak we had over 700,000 american troops in that part of the world. sure, we have some uncertainties in the middle east right now, we have conflict going on, but there was an exploding issue, which absorbed the tension away from this fiscal problem. and lastly, the white house was in the hands of the republicans. congress was both houses were led by democrats. the failure within congress was clearly going to be one party's responsibility. right now the situation is uncertain. also, you know, those in charge of congress worried about congress' reputation and how the american people viewed it. where we are right now has a baseline for how americans feel about congress. it's not much further down to be. that's different. reaching the deal, it was easy? the answer, as many people pointed out. no it wasn't. it was long, it was arduous, it was a lot of time it was wasted. the effort began in early may when the president brought the leaders together and said, you know, we have to

but there were a lot of ideas as to how to cast foreign policy in response to 9/11, such as invading iraq and people were actually advocating this well before we had the 9/11 terrorist attacks. making regime change in iraq the official policy of federal government actually occurred during the clinton administration when the iraq liberation act was passed in 1998 and signed into law by president clinton and supported by many republicans in congress. it had bipartisan support. vice president gore was a supporter, that is why i am not completely convinced that that is a counterfactual point. we have a lot of interest and people were casting around, trying to find solutions. and i do think the initialization of afghanistan was correct, whether that means we need to be there for 10 years or until afghanistan becomes connecticut, that is another matter entirely. but i think the initial strikes against those were necessary and just. but then to go out and pursue regime change, prior to 9/11, they simply casted in search of a solution to a problem with a little class saw. >> libertarianism was fi

the president was getting together a coalition to invade iraq.t its peak we had more than 700,000 american troops in that part of the world. sure, we have uncertainties in the middle east right now and conflict going on, but this was an exploding issue which drew attention away from the fiscal problem. lastly, the white house was in the hands of the republicans. congress was -- both houses were led by democrats. the failure in congress was clearly going to be one party's responsibility. right now, the situation is uncertain. also, those in charge of congress worried about congress's reputation. how the american people view them. where we are right now as a baseline for how americans feel about congress is not -- there is not much further down to go. that is different. reaching the deal, was it easy? the answer is no, it was not. it was long and arduous. there was a lot of time that was wasted. the effort made when the president brought people, the leaders together and said, we have got to solve that. they were then months of meetings and -- on th

weapons or any evidence of a nuclear weapons program although iraq complied with inspections the u.s. abandoned diplomacy and decided to invade the country on march nineteenth two thousand and three so why am i talking about iraq well because history repeats itself in the same way that the us government led an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign oil rich country in two thousand and three the wheels are in motion for a similar attack against the sovereign or the rich state of iran the media and political stablish men would like to have you believe that iran is the biggest threat facing this country but who is a threat to who when in fact the us has played a large and in many ways sinister role in shaping modern day iran for a lot of americans u.s. iran relations are highlighted by the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis where fifty two u.s. diplomats were held hostage by iranian university students into iran for four hundred forty two days but the truth is the most important date to remember is nineteen fifty three this is the year the u.s. overthrew iran's first democratically elected leader and installed the shah a p

centralized and perhaps even autocratic what do we do about it are we supposed to invade again and spend another ten years in iraq trying to get them to some point it's i think you know one has why the length of the carriage and why oh why do americans have to. take root only from the bottom up why why does america have to get people to a certain point ok why peter you know i like to challenge a little bit the way you've been talking about the subject you keep constantly for a minute is american democracy promotion the interesting thing is that almost every establish democracy in the world whether it's brazil india korea spain australia canada engages in different kinds of international support for democracy there's a tendency i think particularly from the russian point of view to see this sort of democracy promotion subject as a particular american obsession or preoccupation in fact almost every establish democracy contributes in different ways through diplomacy and through a sincere but time do they used to do they used to be i want to see it in the military so do you use the military at the same time all the o

thing we should be really scared about is the best move for israel not to invade gaza but to attack the dog's owner, namely iraq joe, i know you're going to sing the praises of better housing. and you'd be right. housing is better. you can't have a real recovery. do you know that core capital goods investment today is lower than it was in 2007 and lower than it was in 1999 and 2000? why is it that businesses won't make long term investments any more? that tells me this is a so-called recovery. >> you guy will try to make me defend the administration's policy and the fiscal cliff and i'm not going to do it. business spending has been weak. a lot of it has been due to what transpired over the spring and summer with europe. as we moved towards the election, sentiment has gotten weaker and there has been a shut in of activity. housing has been really strong recently and that was the missing lichk through much of the early recovery phase. the economy won't be booming but it will be better. >> i'm not sure what will trigger it. in the election, i think the improvement in the unemployment rate helped barack obama a lo

>> in the worst ones where we all know something bad is going to happen, in 1990 with iraq invadi invadingbefore, it did not come after. we have to keep monitoring to see when we are seeing heavy discounting. look at lockheed-martin, 5% yield, that's not going to be so great after taxes. one of the worst companies to be hit by the defense side of the hit. i'm looking at l & t, l and t. >> a little bit of turmoil at the top job there. it's overshadowed by petraeus, but they have had their own problems at lockheed-martin. >> there was lots of them. >> we'll let you get away with it. >> now you're saying there could be turmoil at the top. >> guys, we'll see you in just a few minutes, thank you. >> coming up, we're going to get the last word from george p. bush and join me for "squawk box" office hours, you can do this on facebook.com/squawkcnbc. i'll see you guys online right after 9:00. >> tomorrow on squa"squawk box, dualing fiscal cliffs. we'll ask virgin america ceo david cush, how he's planning for the end of the year. don't miss tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern. ♪ [ male announcer ] the wa

the next day, israel was invaded by jordan, egypt, lebanon, syria and iraq. but the fledgling country survived. the u.n. passed resolution 194 in december 1948 which allowed ref are geez who wished to live peacefully the right to return home at the earliest practical date. nearly 20 years later in 1967, israel pre 'em tifl struck egyptian forces after the access was blocked to the port. israel gained control over areas including the west bank and gaza strip and east jerusalem. for arabs, this was the beginning of a period of occupation by israel which remains at the center of today's conflict. now, there would be another air rob israeli war in 1973. before that, there's the formation of the plo or the palestinian liberation organization which would be defined by the likes of yasir arafat. in 1978, u.s. president jimmy carter helped to broker the peace accords between saadat of egypt and prime minister ba begin of israel which paved the way for the 1979 peace treaty between those two countries. the lalt '80s saw the formation of hamas in the west bank and gaza

asking secretary of state james baker to hold talks with iraq about getting saddam hussein to pull his troops out of kuwait not long after they had invaded kuwait. that's the right analogy for these fiscal cliff talks, believe it or not. at the time we, investors, traders, actually thought could you make a deal with saddam. we believed you could sit down with tariq aziz and hammer out a compromise. for some ridiculous reason we thought it would have to be done over the weekend. short sellers have been making a killing since saddam invaded kuwait that summer. dow dropping from 2900 to 2350 as the stalemate dragged on. the shorts feared these aziz/bush talks. they didn't want to see the juicy top get obliterated. i would reel in or bring in my short positions friday morning unlike those who came in at the close so i could sleep soundly over the weekend. so i didn't have to wake up to a headline saddam agrees to pull back, u.s. rebuilds kuwait. you had to believe he would do something rational like that. did saddam think he could beat the united states in a war? many thought he was actually a rational human being who would reach the conclus

iraq war veteran get into a routine marijuana raid but no drugs were found. get and his wife says he grabbed a pistol thinking the deputies were home invaders feared for his children's lives that you don't always on your own you see this man it's dark you know they're in wearing black you know the way they're coming in they don't even know time to really think things through social justice advocate alex sanchez has seen increasingly militaristic tactics used during raids in his neighborhood because they feel threatened they kill you you know and we see it often enough and they go some punished i.r.b. us or grand jury march one of the few times that a police officer has been tried for shooting and killing an innocent person but many were shocked at what they considered a very lenient sentence if oscar grant had gone down mr mesler. i don't think a reasonable person would suggest that oscar grant would get a one year sentence with serving in a county jail and then would walk away scot free and nothing happened he'd get the death sentence for years community activists have blasted be increasingly brutal tactics an officer using a taser to chase down a fourteen year old