a lot of people who supported the war in iraq actually believe that iraq had the capability to fire missilesthat could reach the united states carrying payloads nuclear or chemical or biological weapons. iraq has never had the capability to do that they didn't have it in the first gulf war they didn't have it in this. war in iraq and they don't have it any way of getting it in the future what the bush administration did was try to round up as many people as they could who would make the case for what the white house wanted was the cia to give it talking points to justify this war already made up its mind massive intervention by people particularly from vice president cheney's office and vice president cheney himself in the process and i think the intelligence analysts found themselves really up against it when they tried to argue that those connections were as tight as people were suggesting intelligence director of the department of energy simply ordered his experts who had raised questions about the evidence being used on the nuclear and of it as the news accounts say to sit down and shut

i fought in iraq. i am giving back my global war on terrorism service medal because i realize that it was just nothing but an idea made by a bunch of politicians, money hungry politicians who will do nothing and have a complete disregard for human life and will do everything in their power to just make more money. now, if it is just an idea, then it was just an idea that's part two more than i had to fight in, and i do not want any part of it anymore. i'd choose human life over war, militarism, and imperialism. >> i am an iraq war veteran. i am turning in these medals today for the people of afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, and all victims of occupation run the world, and also, for all of the service members and veterans, you are not alone. >> my name is christopher made. i left the army as a conscientious objector. we were told that these medals presented democracy and justice , hope and change for the world. these medals represent a failure on behalf of the leaders of nato to accurately represent the wil

to stop the full scale invasion of iraq that had catastrophic consequences. the weapons inspection process was little more than a game they can see all denied to see the return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever to eliminate by inspection is quite frankly a fool's errand on the contrary there is a great danger that it would provide false comfort that saddam was somehow back in his box reality is that between the original unscom inspections and the unmovic inspections you destroyed with those inspections ninety two probably ninety five percent of the iraqi arsenal the first gulf war destroyed almost nothing and you know post-war u.s. battle damage assessments confirm the weapons inspectors were effective they for saddam to get rid of this stuff. they had that country under control by nine hundred ninety eight at the latest those inspectors had discovered most of the weapons of mass destruction and the iraqi programs at that point were essentially at an end before the war in iraq the united nations inspectors told us. that saddam hussein. did n

iraq cannot be governed by americans i don't care what the intention is i don't care if. if we truly want to build a democracy there it cannot be ruled by a foreign power the only tool in the tool box of the bush administration is military force military force is a very blunt instrument it just doesn't work we've created more terrorists in iraq and we haven't even solve the problem in afghanistan one of the more ironic effects of the attack on iraq was. to buttress other countries in the conviction that the famous remark by an indian general after the first gulf war when he said the lesson of this war is that if you if you have to fight the united states you better have nuclear weapons and you don't want your president to be seen as a hot dog and when when your president gets into a job suit gets in the back of a jet and lands on an aircraft carrier and then waddles out with this little straps between his legs and that's not when you want a sign of out of maturity and testosterone blasting through when you're talking about. things so fundamentally important as sending a n

that's exactly what al-qaeda in iraq began to do.it began to lose support in provinces like umbar that takes us to pre-surge in iraq. i would say what you really see in 2005 and 2006 is less large numbers of american forces fighting al-qaeda in iraq, but supporting iraqis doing it themselves, you know, with special operations, with conditional army marine, and with intelligence units providing a lot of support. local iraqis doing the bulk of the fighting. >> host: the local iraqis doing the bulk of the fighting was, again, zahiri's behavior. >> guest: exactly. >> host: he had not only been sponsoring attacks against civilians, but can you walk us through some of the things he was putting the local communities through? i remember hearing at the time on everything from he's trying to force us to marry off our daughters to him. he won't let us smoke cigarettes and on and on. >> guest: well, there was one awful case, one that's in one of the chapters of the book, where al-qaeda in iraq kills some local civilians, and as the tribal leader

led war in iraq a battle in fallujah stay with us. i continue my inquest in champagne illinois two hundred kilometers from chicago and home to dog run. for dog rock the presence of uranium influenza comes as no surprise this former high ranking officer served more than thirty five years in the u.s. army in particular during the first gulf war at that time he had a research program into the consequences of a new uranium based weapon after testing on behalf of the pentagon he became its first victim he now suffers from several cancers and renal problems. what i'm doing is blowing up the shootin and burning up but what you see is the direct impact on the iranian missions iranian impact but the uranium the brace up burned and burned and burned and burned and burned for a long time you see how long it lasts he claims that your ania has been used in american munitions since one thousand nine hundred one in missiles shells and armor plating for military vehicles. and when i shut up wood for by force man it works great this stuff is good ok i

counterparts about this appalling legacy of the iraq war. in two thousand and ten the british ministry of defense finally admitted the use of depleted uranium in iraq and supplied the united nations with information on the zones targeted the u.s. allies beginning to voice its doubts on this weapon. only belgium ireland kosta rica and new zealand have formally banned uranium in their arms but today no international convention even mentions depleted uranium and its texts. this allows the u.s. administration to continue using it without fear of reprisals. at the illinois law faculty francis boyle claims that the usa can be hauled before a tribunal this lawyer and harvard graduate has an international reputation agent orange in vietnam gulf war syndrome or trials or specialty today francis boyle is locked in a new battle to have the use of depleted uranium recognized as a war crime uranium munitions violate the hague regulations of nineteen zero seven and then you also violates the geneva protocol of one nine hundred twenty five. so if they are

that's exactly what al qaeda in iraq began to do. it began to lose its support in the provinces like anbar which takes us to the pre-surge in iraq. i would say what you see in 2005 and 2006 is less the large numbers of american forces fighting al qaeda indymac but supporting the iraqi side do it themselves with special operations with conventional army and marines and with intelligence units providing a lot of support but for local iraqi is doing the bulk of the fighting. >> host: the reason they were doing the fighting is again, al-zawahiri -- zarqawi's peter. so, he had not only been sponsoring attacks against civilians but can you walk us through some of the things he was putting the local communities through? i remember hearing that the time everything from he's trying to force us to marry off the daughters come he won't let us smoke cigarettes and on and on. >> guest: there is one case in one of the chapters in the book where al qaeda and iraq tells some local civilians, and as the tribal leader in that area is trying to get the

then comes the united states invasion of iraq. in particular, large numbers of american forces over the next several years seem to encourage greater radicalization. part of the book i spoke to -- i spoke to a range of senior leaders but that the cia and at the u.s. core organization of the fbi. >> i can tell that people are starting to answer these questions. >> also british intelligence. the domestic intelligence agency, individuals with whom i spoke, said there is no question that the invasion of iraq and the participation of a range of nations like the british and spanish -- radicalize their own populations and contributed among other things to high levels of violence in iraq. also, the bloody attacks in madrid, which al qaeda was -- they were involved in at least on the outskirts. they weren't involved in operational stuff, but their goal specifically was to get spanish forces in iraq. they succeeded. >> and hundreds were killed in the series of bombings? >> right. there were multiple attacks on train stations. the next year,

also in iraq nowaday. >> well, this isn't equipment. this is just pictures of equipment. >> yeah, but you can prove it if you wanted to. nobody want to prove it. that's the problem. >> we took all of cattan's documentation, had it translated into english, and gave it to jane's, one of the world's leading authorities on military hardware. at the time, john kenkel was the senior director of consulting, advising countries on military purchases. >> if you had $1.2 billion and you were going to equip the iraqi army, would you have bought what they bought? >> well, that's the big question, 'cause nobody really knows what they bought. kenkel told us the documents were so vague that he couldn't tell what had been ordered, or whether it had been delivered. >> i think the biggest thing was that you couldn't identify what the equipment was that was actually being delivered. to say that you were being delivered a gun, doesn't necessarily mean anything in terms of what you're getting. >> can you think of another government in the world that would ha

it was finally becoming iraq's iraq. and they were working to make sure the u.s.y would be okay when it happened. i needed to see that. >> pelley: of all the troops, the man most determined to see the scene of his battle was steven cornford. >> cornford: my whole life, since i came home from iraq, has been hell because of that night. >> pelley: perhaps it's impossible to understand if you haven't lived it. cornford scoured maps and strained to see. he was grasping for something, eye contact, with the night his nightmares were made of. and touching it again let him begin to let go. >> cornford: i feel a little more relaxed with myself, because one of the things i deal with on a daily basis is i don't even like being myself. i... i want to get out of my own skin. i... i don't like being me, because i feel bad constantly. and it's starting to go away, a little bit. i feel a little more comfortable with myself and with what i've done in my life. >> pelley: when you go back to the states this time, how do you think you'll be different? >> cornford: i know i'll be a lot

chevron dutch shell they're not based in iraq and most of the profits will be leaving the country so the iraqi people are really going to benefit from having western oil companies in there in their country this is the reason they were pushed out in the sixty's in the seventy's and they've been trying to get back in for the last few decades it's only since the illegal war in the illegal occupation of iraq . the worst of all companies have been rubbing their hands with glee knowing that they'll be awarded all these can contracts but even developed economies do rely on foreign investment but you'll see that iraq definitely the people will not benefit from this the interest from western oil companies. there may be a few even the the oil workers themselves most of them actually left the country during the occupation during the war so the all workers that there are there and the security service is there protecting the all workers of all westerners at the moment there's very few iraqi oil workers actually benefiting from this directly as i say most of the infrastructure that gets builds wi

under his watch, gates oversaw iraq's troop surge. president-elect obama asked him to stay in the job. he became the first defense secretary to serve both a republican and democratic president. in the obama administration he played a pivotal role in shaping u.s. policy in afghanistan. he was a key player in the decision to send additional forces into the country. he was at the center of the debate on the raid to kill osama bin laden last may. gates stepped down as defense secretary in june, 2011. here is what president obama said at gates' farewell ceremony. >> what you see is a man that i've come to know and respect. a humble american patriot. a man of common sense and decency. quite simply one of our nation's finest public servants. >> reporter: i talked with bob gates in williamsburg virginia at the college of william & mary where he accepted the post of chancellor, a post held by gorge washington, margaret thatcher, sandra day o'connor and many others. here's a conversation with bob gates. it's a pleasure to be at william & mary.

war in iraq. question of torture things that immediately outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of doing web cams back home. you can go in. to focus on of war. and not war preparation is to simply shovel after the elephant one has to look at the war preparations that are going on around the world which military bases are central to feel if one doesn't pay attention to that then again we can only deal with the symptoms which is which is warfare there's a saying that goes when soldiers come war comes a i. feel . will feel . in the past when the american soldiers came. out. graeme yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life if you will not culture our history and everything else such a thing cannot be tolerated. and they say the bases are here to guarantee world peace so they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in iraq. in war people die but it's obvious now

iraq and so on the irony in iraq is the americans overthrew saddam hussein but ultimately elections there produce a regime that is actually one of the few regimes in the arab world friendly to damascus after all the prime minister of iraq was saved from saddam hussein's tender mercies by assad spoke of the giving him a future. if i can ask if mark brings up a really good point why can't we accept it's a civil war and if it's civil war why is the west choosing a side ok this just makes the war worse longer bloodier more violent. yeah i mean i think to some extent there is an acknowledgment of syria as a civil war the question is why why does d.c. feel like it has to not only back a certain party of the opposition and i should clarify a statement i made earlier i do think the opposition as a whole has legitimacy you know as an anti said movement the problem is certain aspects of the opposition particularly aspects that have gained western recognition and the problem is d.c.'s need to legitimize a specific group within that subset and specifically the armed component of that subset and there

invasion of iraq. what al qaeda is able to do that did not have is establish a foothold after the invasion led by in december, about 2004 al qaeda really gets an affiliate. >> rose: right. >> abu musab al-zarqawi pledges allegiance t b lden and we see a major increase in attacks by al qaeda in iraq and then we see in 2004 we see the madrid attacks done to get the spanish government to pull its forces out of not just anywhere but out of iraq. then we see in 2005 mohammed siddiqui kahn in a range of four individual pakistani british conduct the attacks on london. so we're getting a surge in activity and a lot of the radicalization happens because of the war in iraq. all the senior f.b.i. officials i talked to said they begin to see a massive increase in radicalization in the u.s. because of the iraq war. well, by 2005 and 2006 al qaeda in iraq overplays its hand and we see an interesting trend. was what it does is starts conducting a number of civilian casualties, not just embassies and that undermines i

there on me throughout iraq at their. own if we all stay united in the struggle i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot argue that there are if we don't speak out against the fact of our lands we will never be able to change the world. that we. meet you're here. and about it we have to keep our camp there. that's the only way we can prevail. my biggest strength and. our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what if that group they are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school that people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and out there will be a point we're ok for is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions any of thing else to get everything you needed. to. the.