we're looking back at iraq war. we have assembled a superb panel to look back and consider the implications of the iraq war. i cannot think of a better moderator than kimberly dozier. she is an associated press reporter for intelligence and counter terrorism. she covered national security for pbs news in washington from 2007-2010. in her 14-year overseas, she covered at least in europe, the bbc. she was wounded in a famous car bombing in iraq in 2006. her memoir recounts her attack and recovery. jews very gracious to donate proceeds to a charity. -- she was very gracious to donate proceeds to a charity. please welcome me in welcoming her. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that many people have come back to sit down for the panel in the middle of the afternoon. we have a great group of people here. three of them were last minute additions, the ambassadors have all had to drop out of last minute to engagements. i will introduce the panel in chronological order. we have stephen cambone at the far end. he was twice

but they did not say they object to all parades to mark the end of the iraq war and welcome home iraq veterans. in fact, the pentagon says it likes the idea of doing that across the country for iraq veterans. except they just don't want it in new york. and, in fact, cities across the country have kept doing it. since the st. louis parade, there have been parades to mark the end of the iraq war, say welcome home, thank you to iraq veterans in houston, in tucson, in fayetteville, north carolina, in melbourne, florida, in richmond, virginia, in new hampshire, austin, texas, and then this weekend, there was another in the twin cities. minneapolis and st. paul, minnesota. >> and as an adult i now have the ability to stand up and do something for our community and for our military members to actually stop and say thank you. and why not? why not do that? >> i think that's important right now. people are finally recognizing that you need to welcome these veterans home. >> the parade in the twin cities this past weekend to mark the end of the iraq war and welcome home iraq war veterans seems t

iraq was their enemy.alistair friend of a back-and-forth, back-and-forth. iraq in gulf countries don't get along well at all. they quite profoundly disagree about whether iran is good guy or bad guy. so how would you imagine here we've engaged, tried to modernize the military, made this huge investment in bringing iraq institutions back online. how would you imagine the iraqis playing in a contingency with respect to iran? >> guest: that's a completely unanswered question. iraq is in a transition. and there's hope that eventually the gulf states will come around. there is a sunni shia issue, which is the fundamental divide in their mistrust of iraq. but on the other hand they are arabs, not persians even on malki, prime minister malloch e. has been somewhat supportive where ryan crocker is sitting with them and said, did you -- they're watching a think president ahmadinejad, the iranian president on tv and says, he needs a translator. he spent a lot of time in iran during the iran-iraq war in the 1980s and

then he was the aide during the invasion of iraq and 2003. so here he was in afghanistan commanding a battalion and was the first time he has a special relationship with the hundred first because he commanded them during the invasion of iraq and in 03 it was his first combat command. so during his last command it just so happened the 101st was in afghanistan deployed together for the first time since 2003. and again, david was one of the three combat leaders we write about and it's clear that he's here and dug was the senior civilian officer to the commander of the 101st in eastern afghanistan and also has a kind of special relationship to petraeus and the surge in iraq in 2007 when he was with the first calvary division. i think if you read the book i think that you'll enjoy that interplay between the dominant character and secondary characters who are coming you know very different and very interesting and very, very tough with a brutal war. writing about them from my vantage point from afar is interesting and inspiring to me to see the kin

in iraq, we are not popular. maliki to hold on to his support cannot be too pro- american. even though we did all that for them. it is this something we have to understand, but we then keep putting money in. less money now. but it's to try to make people understand an effect that money does not by you support. you've got to understand the politics of that country. and in a lot of countries in the middle east, we were not like before. we are not like now. although, we have helped them. and part of it has nothing to do with our help. as to do with their politics and the underlying a lot of the middle east is the arab-israeli problem. and our siding with the israelis. host: is anybody watching this expenditure? guest: a lot of, when it comes to defense, very few people. there is an argument about, they have actually cut $487 billion over 10 years but that is a reduction for one year. nobody has analyzed the cost of this army we have created which is all volunteer. and it has cost an enormous amount of money. host: j

or international financial sanctions, in iraq, or anywhere else. "the new york times" also reports high-ranking officials in the iraqi government are profiting directly from smuggling and other trade with iran and they quote a former senior intelligence official who now does business in iraq as saying al-maliki's government is right in the middle of this, jamie. >> jamie: yet another concern, thanks so much. >> eric: after the blood, the sacrifice, the dedication of our country, for the iraqis, the american spirit and soul costing the lives of 4488 of our own servicemen and women, with more than 32,000 americans wounded, is this the thanks we get from baghdad? for more on this, fox news contributor and former u.s. ambassador, to the united nations, john bolton joins us as he does every sunday, about this time. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, eric, glad to be with you. >> eric: good to see you. is this an unbelievable slap in our face, an astounding insult to hurry country. >> it is certainly that but is also, with all due respect to the

in iraq it's called a disastrous profession or a deadly profession. because wherever journalist goes death is always lurking within. the us and there's an obvious one will it be a one shot on the. internet that are you know that. i'm not. good. for you recchi journalists reporting and surviving are dramatically connected. the shocking thing is that i've seen that the person who. will make this explosion or his as a pleasure was in my jacket and then afterward i have notes that i've been injured in my hand but. i was worried for my assistant because his brother also killed and. in those days by some killers you know the sad thing in this point that my cameraman. was safe in this accident he got killed after six months in his place in his home. many iraqi journalists lost their lives because their killers did not agree with their views and as a tragic result sometimes in the streets of baghdad coffins passed each other by. independent journalism faces both friendly fire and the blind fanaticism of terrorists and journalist giuliana sgrena victim of abdu

iraq. they named streets after him. can't tell you how many people would give up their children and riches to thank him for what he did for the country. afghans, not so much. the life after was the an try level position in a country with a more complex terrain kind of insurgency i don't know if you can say more complex insurgency. a complex area. he had visited but certainly did not have at depth of knowledge, the networks, you know, not only of the terrain but the enemy, of the architecture there that he would have to work with. of the forces, if you will. and green forces and blue forces. so i think he felt he to prove himself -- and this is testament. a lot of people thought he talked about iraq all the time. many people with the afghan experience is thinking this is not iraq. but in his mind, at the end of the day there were many principles and lessons we could take it's not transferable. we can't take what we did there and do it here. obviously. but i think he never really gained the rapport that christ m had with

>> he was raising a question about iraq. he went with the people who took the dark side of it. >> did he say why? >> how is he today? >> if he had his druthers, he would like to be in public life. he is in private life doing well, working for allen and company. i think he would have much rather have been in public life. >> let's pretend you are at your desk. you have two different phone calls. given what you have told us are your own feelings about war -- one of them is about somebody -- from somebody who is anti-iraq and wants to leak you some information and the other is pro-iraq and was to lead you information. which one would you take? >> not to be difficult, but people do not call me up and tell me things. i read something and i call people. i talked a lot about leaks. leaks are not part of government. i teach at stanford. stanford has a washington program. i have taught there for 10 years. we teach a pro tem of it as a class called oversight of government and media -- we teach a class called oversight of government and

source for the iraq budget.e secretary. -- it was affected by wars, sanctions, and bad management for decades. as a consequence, oil exports fluctuated. there was a delay in the investment programs for both oil and gas, especially for the guests that was being burned. -- the gas that was being burned. the oil played an important role in the iraq economy. it funded 95% of the iraq federal budget and employed more than 100,000 people. it is the glue that sticks the country. let's talk about some numbers. in 2003, crude oil production reached 1.5 million barrels per day. it rose to 2.2 million barrels per day in 2008. it reached 2.5 million barrels in 200011. a growth of 85%. an average for the first half of these years was 2.7 million barrels per day. the area of the exported oil -- we were exporting around 1 million barrels per day. that has increased to 1.8 million in 2008 despite all the damage basic oil exports happened after the war -- before the war during the sanction. then it was 2.3 million barrels per da

i think iraq is in a transition period. i think there's hope that eventually, you know, the gulf states will come around. there is this sunni/shia issue which i think is the fundamental divide and their mistrust of iraq. um, but on the other hand iraq is not iran, you know? they are arabs, they're not persians. even in this maliki, prime minister maliki who's been at various times actually somewhat supportive of the iranians, there's a great incident i recount where ryan crocker's sitting down with him, and he said did you, um, and they're watching, i think, president ahmadinejad, the iranian president, on tv, and he's speaking in many farsi. and he turns, and maliki needs a translator. and maliki spent a lot of time in iran during the iran/iraq war during the '80s. he says you don't know what it's like to be an wrap -- an arab in a persian country. so that tension is there. it's too early to tell how iraq fit into the larger strategic calculus. no, it's interesting. but unfortunately, right now, if we look at the syria cri

into iraq? it was not to bring democracy at the point of a gun, it was because iraq was supporting terror, we thought it was pursuing wmd, it instrayeded its neighbor and oppressed its people. this is the iraqi people doing that today? no. >> rose: but other than your administration have argued you could not have done that if you didn't have the argument of the weapons of mass destruction, you would have had no public argument. >> i think it would have be very difficult. >> rose: right. >> second we want an iraq that can sustain i itself and defend itself and an ally on the war of terror, box checked, this is an iraq that is governing itself,s t is increasing oil production and a revenue stream and defending itself and internally and externally without a u.s. presence and fine think while it is imperfect, it is a government where sunni, think items and kurds are, shiites are and kurds are working together, uncomfortably t to build a futu, we feel that iraqi nationalism will trump shiiteism. >> i

whether iraq is always going to be called the iraq war as opposed to the republic of iraq will dependthe future, what happens in iraq, how our policy goes forth with iraq. right now we have a very dicey situation there. sunni arab states want to restore rule and there are the iranians who want to keep it as the only shia and redstate. this is the issue. we jumped into it, so i think we have a responsibility to stay engaged. i think it's up to the diplomats. >> let's get back to we decided to invade. the number of troops, the plan, does the u.s. does not understand how to occupy a place? is it a knowledge we have lost? >> first, on the question of curveball and intelligence failures, it was -- it turned out to be a notorious enough mistakes to cause the revamping of the intelligence community. so i don't think anybody questions that it was a series of mistakes. on the question of, you take the invasion as a given and you have the issue of whether there were enough forces. this is fairly characteristic of the way we get involved in some of these conflicts. two of us are veterans of the

combat role in iraq. the reason he is at fort bliss is because over the past several years, some 300,000 service member have served have been deployed, and redeployed in both iraq and afghanistan. they had served well. let's listen to the president. >> thank you very much, everybody. general, thanks for the introduction and your leadership, leading our troops in iraq and taking care our soldiers, now, as they are at home. at the top, let me say our hearts are with all the folks in louisiana, in gulf coast, dealing with the aftermath of hurricane isaac. our prayers are with those who have loved loved ones and i directed the federal government to do everything it can to help our partners at the state and local level. as a country we stand united with our fellow americans in their hour of need. i want to thank the general and all of your great commanders for welcoming me here today. i want to give a shout out to the sergeant major of the army, ray chandler. also, command sergeant major ronnie kelly. these gu

some are actually refugees from iraq. with all of these trouble going on, are these christians running out of safe haven? >> they are. like in 2003 when the iraq war started, the muslim against christian violence, thousands left. some of them fled to syria. and now those christians in syria don't know where to go. some may be going to jordan, which might be the last safe haven. but, on the other hand, many christians are staying. they're what they call m.b.b., who were once muslims and now are christians. they plan to stay and preach the gospel to those muslims. >> you mentioned iraq, and you recently talked with a man called the victor of baghdad. tell us about his church in baghdad and their experience. >> it is a remarkable story. since the war in 2003, he has had maybe almost 300 members of his congregation killed, murdered, or ambushed or kidnapped. it has been a horrific thing. but in the midst of that, he says that god is, with signs and wonders, showing himself strong in a remarkable way. they have a peace and a j

might be teaming up with it with in iraq in the west. and over in europe we're also seeing a negative session of that down around half a percent the footsie is feeling a bit bad sir and i want to talk about is the i.p.o. of manchester united f c it's not going as planned it's going cheap fourteen dollars pushchair well the expected range was sixteen to twenty and some of the fans are really really hoping for a failure of the i.p.o. because the glazer family are now choosing to keep the money and use just to pay off debt rather than all of it and also standard chartered is down one and a half percent as the bank is fighting accusations that it's been laundering around two hundred fifty billion dollars for iran and basically the bank is saying that. we've lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges the bank's troubles of kicked off a transatlantic spots with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputations of financial hard but british m.p. john mann a

you kept training up those iraq.he last american troops came home including the fourth brigade combat troop from bliss. [ applause ] after nearly nine years our war in iraq was over. today iraq has a chance to forge its own destiny. there are no american troops fighting and dying in iraq. on this anniversary we honor the memory of all who gave their lives there. we salute all who serve them. when i was here two years ago i told you something else. we have more work to do, including taking the fight to al qaeda. there too i meant what i said. we've taken out more top al qaeda terrorists at any time since 9/11. thanks to the courage of our forces all al qaeda is on the road to defeat and bin laden will never threaten the united states. [ applause ] i told you we'd keep up the fight in afghanistan. i know that some of you recently got back. on behalf of a grateful nation welcome home. some of your buddies are in afghanistan right now. our thoughts and prayers are with all the troops from bliss around the world. i know s

into iraq? it was not to bring democracy at the point of a gun, it was because iraq was supporting terror, we thought it was pursuing wmd, it instrayeded its neighbor and oppressed its people. this is the iraqi people doing that today? no. >> rose: but other than your administration have argued you could not have done that if you didn't have the argument of the weapons of mass destruction, you would have had no public argument. >> i think it would have been very difficult. >> rose: right. >> second we want an iraq that can sustain i itself and defend itself and an ally on the war of terror, box checked, this is an iraq that is governing itself,s t is increasing oil production and a revenue stream and defending itself and internally and externally without a u.s. presence and fine think while it is imperfect, it is a government where sunni, think items and kurds are, shiites are and kurds are working together, uncomfortably t to build a futu, we feel that iraqi nationalism will trump shiiteism. >>

iraq government seemed to like us? why won't the prime minister give a better treatment to the government officials whose military freed the country from saddam hussein and his employees are trying to make this country better? why are we giving more than $1 billion next year mostly to the military, which, while its oil income has soared putting the baghdad regime in surplus?" guest: i mean, this is part of might -- i get worried. i sound more and more conservative or isolationist. this is where the understanding that having created a createdin iraaq, we are not popular. malkiki to hold on to his support cannot be too pro- american. is this something we have to understand, but we then keep putting money in. less money now. to make people understand an effect that money does not by you support. you've got to understand the politics of that country. and in a lot of countries in the middle east, we were not like before. we are not like now. although, we have helped them. and part of it has nothing to do with our help. as t

and i think you will see that even most of the shia politician information iraq believe in iraq as iraq and not to be beholden to iran. >> rose: said in another way if you look at iraq and cheerily that is a country in transition as well, it is more important to look at the nationalism there. >> absolutely. >> rose: than to look at whether they are shia majority an next door to iran which is a shia majority, the important thing is the nationalism that exists. >> yes, there is no doubt that the iranians want to influence iraq and with their perceived loss of syria there is an attempt to have influence in iraq, there is also their attempt to make more influence in afghanistan on the other side, plus other areas of the peninsula and, as well as africa but i have noticed with shia leaders, really more of a determination to make iraq, iraq, and so there is this push back. >> rose: is this your hope or your experience? >> what i have been seeing and my hope. >> rose: both? >> and again it is work in progress. >> rose: whatever the arab spring is, or whatever the transformation taking place, t

>>host: we have a iraq between pro-american and pro-iranian but iraq was our enemy and our friend. they don't get along well at all but disagree if they are bad guy or a good guy. we make this huge investment to bring iraqi institutions back on line. >> that is a completely unanswered question. there is hope coldest dates who will come around but on the other hand, they are arabs, not persians. even mr. al-maliki the support of the iranians. and they are watching president ahmadinejad. and al-maliki needs a translator. he said i am surprised you did not learn for see. you do not know what it is like. but it is a strategic calculus. >> unfortunately but with that sectarian nine that it is quite interesting. at the very end of the george w. bush presidency, a curious incident where they were captured and taken to q'uaran. with the apostate crisis, the brits are the closest ally. how did that to play out with the u.s. military forces the government back in washington? could that story go different way? how the crisis was resolved. >>guest: it is a pivotal moment. there is a british na

helicopter firing down on innocent civilians on the ground and iraq while this is a huge victory for us on to the ordeal isn't close to being over this is the u.k. there and to arrest the son and the moment he steps foot outside of the embassy and the u.k. has reportedly threatened to raid the embassy to arrest a son and this is sparked outrage among us on just supporters you can see here protesters outside of the at the dorian embassy in london leading to some arrests r t spoke exclusively today to a songes mother christine here's what she had to say as you think of the last twenty four hours since the previous government meeting of the u.s. was. three measures in breach international law that wasn't sure how it was good but i knew that the. that we were on of both working in the. secret fix which was proof. that most things. and i was told. by the that were doing government was willing to look into it and they turned the truth does that now for the very latest on this case r.t. correspondent laura smith is on the ground in london. the reaction from us and his supporters here was un

was ever -- is always going to be called the iraq war as to the republic of iraq is going to dependn the future. what happens in iraq, how the policy goes forward, and right now we have a dicey situation today is the object of a great gain among the states that want to remove the sunni war and the iranians that want to keep it as the only shia arab state. this is really the issue. we jumped into rate, so we had a responsibility to stay engaged and i don't think that involved the second lieutenants on the negotiations. so it's kind of up to the diplomats. >> before we get to that, let's get back to we decided to invade the number of troops that chose the plan. does the u.s. just cannot understand how to occupy? is it a knowledge that we lost? >> i would say first of all on the question of curveball intelligence failures it turned out to be a notorious mistake to cause the reform of the intelligence community. we talked about that yesterday. so why don't think anybody questions that that was a serious mistake. on the question of you take the invasion that is given and you have the iss

west qurna is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which is now explored by luke or iraq's north wales company. second look at currencies right now and the euro and the dollar are pretty stable against one another while the russian ruble continues his job is dropping a round hole five percent versus the dollar and bit less than that versus the euro and on the russian market was still seeing a negative picture with my six feeling slightly better than the obvious and weaker ruble and the indices are dropping on a weak financial sector was very busy driving around one and a half percent this hour. now over to europe where we're seeing the footsie and the dax of flat to negative standard chartered is actually gaining back some of its last positions indeed it lost around twenty five percent recently now what's happening right now is of course the troubled lender is fighting back on charges that it's been laundering a quarter of a trillion dollars for iran now the bank argues that only fourteen million dollars could be considered dodgy hours according to u.s. regulations now the lender