(laughter) iraq you awarded all your oil contracts to china, iraq. i mean come on, man. we launched a sustained shock and awe bombing campaign on your country. we reduced your already stressed infrastructure to rubble and unleashed sectarian conflict that even now cost your country hundreds of lives per month. and this is how you repay us? (laughter) you ungrateful-- china thinks oh, we spent $2 billion, rebuilding iraq infrastructure. big [bleep] deal! when we were in iraq we spent $2 billion just looking for the other $9 billion we lost. apparently we shipped it to iraq in a contain their said $9 billion and someone ran off with it. well, mission accomplished. (laughter) what does that say? that actually looks like a cutout of george w. bush. would we have to cut him out? i think we actually have that picture of him just with a different sign. i don't know by the way if that actually says mission accomplished in mandarin that actually could say something about general caoi. i don't know. it did cost us at the show $2 billion. anyway. it's not fair that china gets all t

army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth after nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. remember the guard got a no but if i may i did it members of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. a. cease. being a little. april twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq and so on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with khaled and his taxi. family the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world. but iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups kurds sunnis and shias. it is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north of travel down through l b let some ammonia. tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighte

but god will save iraq . sorry. he had to draw yet they want to make iraq a wretched country at the not be. glad when they assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel who kills a religious man in economic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outs. to kill our best people that any of us. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it was saddam hussein. idealist come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. who also on april second twenty twelve. a holiday in a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. was until. i a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a su

to invade iraq. once you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put into place that's a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off for part of it. the syrians would like to have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play it over for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of governmen

go to war with iraq i think that we saw a rack and saddam hussein as enemies there may have been some you know peripheral intelligence that suggest that they could have had weapons of mass destruction but look there's a lot of other countries that you know fit their profile and we didn't go into those countries but we did go into very oriel richard wreck so it seems to me very logical to suppose that oil certainly was on our minds when we did enter iraq and not on our minds is you know what a quagmire would. it would result in well some might be surprised but china is now purchasing around one point five million barrels a day that's more than half of the iraqi production you know how is it that china is the number one and beneficiary of iraqi oil well you know you could ask the same thing about afghanistan i mean when we were fighting a war in afghanistan i mean i guess we still are a little bit but when we were going full fledged china was mining copper in afghanistan and they had their own militia military militia there to protect them and you know we were probably helping them and

what do we do, and the spector of iraq looms large. >> of course the spector of iraq looms large andy kind of intervention. after iraq there's so much skepticism in this country about getting involved and in syria, you have to say, this point, maybe if there had been involvement a year and a half ago. maybe if the west had collectively been able to decide to arm the syrian rebels in some way. they may have been able to overthrow the assad regime in a fairly quick way. that hasn't happened and now it's become a lot more complicated. and because exactly of what david was saying, the prospects for long-term destabilization are very high. when you have a minority who has been, or a majority that's been oppressed by another group, the potential for hatred and the potential for long-term ramifications are there and you're right, that's where it affects america's national security interests. do we want in that region of the world, to see sunni/shia split, a v violent sunni-shia split. you have iran piling on the shia side. what does that mean for american national security interests? >> zai

invade iraq. once you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government that money can put into place that's a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off for part of it. the syrians would like to have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play in front of them for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of gove

go to war with iraq i think that we saw a rack and saddam hussein is enemies. it may have been you know peripheral intelligence that suggests that they could have had weapons of mass destruction but look there's a lot of other countries that you know fit their profile and we didn't go into those countries but we did go into very rich a brac so it seems to me very logical to suppose that oil certainly was on our minds when we did enter iraq and not on our minds is you know what a quagmire would it would result in well some might be surprised but china is now purchasing around one point five million barrels a day that's more than half of the iraqi production you know how is it that china is the number one beneficiary of iraqi oil well you know you could ask the same thing about afghanistan i mean when we were fighting a war in afghanistan i mean i guess we still are a little bit but when we were going full fledged china was mining copper in afghanistan and they had their own militia military militia there to protect them and you know we were probably helping them

be kept saying on the news that there were rebuilding iraq you're working to rebuild iraq. i was kind of sick of hearing c.n.n. and fox news like barking each other about one say oh it's. you know the horrible things they are iraq and i kind of wait to see it for myself you know. join the military when i was a teenager nineteen in basic training. like halfway through my tour i told my unit that i was willing to kill any human beings . i certainly. ask them is one question are you willing to do your job if i was a say no it would have been like oh this guy's be insubordinate throw in jail you know i mean so like i came to conclusion like they're basically in slavery we here i have to say yes you know i'm actually walking the town with a rifle but instead of using the camera. this is one of the girls and it's her town. one boy they don't know where the other bullet hit a little girl on the shoulder and she ended up dying from that shoulder injury. it was the last leg bit a happiness i had i was who a breaking point i was i was you know near suicidal yeah. and during that peri

be kept saying on the news that there were rebuilding iraq you're working to rebuild iraq. i was kind of sick of hearing c.n.n. and fox news like barky each other about one say oh it's things are going to. know the horrible things they are iraq and i kind of wait to see it for myself you know . joining the military when i was a teenager nineteen in basic training. like halfway through my tour i told my unit that i was willing to kill any any human beings. i start major said. ask him this one question are you willing to do your job if i was a c no it would have been like oh this guy's be insubordinate throw in jail you know to be so like i came to conclusion like they're basically in slavery we hear i have to say yes you know i'm actually walking the town with a rifle but instead of using the camera. this is one of the girls and it's her town. i don't know where it went but you know the bullet little girl on the shoulder and she ended up dying from that shoulder injury it was the last. well i did a happiness i had i was who a breaking point i was i was you know near suicidal

this is our iraq. >> it is not our iraq. >> we created it. >> obama washed his hands of it. >> iraq is a good lesson in what we do not want to have have been in syria, in some ways. >> just a fact, and that is the architect, a champion of going to war in iraq, paul wolfowitz, made the case that if we went, the war would be paid for with iraqi oil funds. news? iraq is producing oil. the biggest consumer? china. so we went to war so that china could have oil. anybody that talks about the status of troops agreement with the iraqi government, which is now in bed with iran, is delusional. >> i thought we retiring about -- were talkg about syria. >> the reason it is under iranian influence is because the american president -- we were the ones who were going to train the forces. we had complete control of iraqi airspace. it is now under iranian control, essentially. obama washed his hands. you can make your argument about whether we should have been there -- [crosstalk] when obama got into office, war was won and he walked away. >> he wanted to stay but we needed to have a status of forces ag

troops from iraq because george w. bush when he was president may go she aided a status of forces agreement to withdraw u.s. troops by a certain date and obama tried to extend that date to keep the u.s. troops in iraq because the year rocky's had seen some of the things that bradley manning had leaked to wiki leaks including things that revealed the commission of war crimes against the iraqi people they read huge to give the u.s. military troops immunity from criminal and civil prosecution if they remained in iraq past this date and so obama was forced to go to withdraw the us troops from iraq so for this reason it's very important that bradley manning week what he did

war ok david here the specialist manning has and the iraq war i would venture to say that. we haven't seen the end of the iraq war certainly the civil war and civil strife that's going on there to agree but i think that your point is well taken one sense but i totally disagree with you i think bradley specialist manning was basically use of the duped by wiki leaks and i think that they took advantage of him i don't think he had be expertise in terms of being able to decide nor did he have the authority to decide to release hundreds of thousands of pages of communiques of the united states he simply didn't have that we're going to see a war crime you don't have to. this is good in this is not ok with me if you want to believe it when you go ahead go ahead go ahead. david when you witness a war crime you don't need expertise to show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a reuters reporter was killed by our helicopters and that they were flippant about how t

operations in iraq and afghanistan we can all talk to a bend griffin a former british so u.s. soldier who refused to continue serving in iraq good to see you today thank you for sharing some of your monday morning with us here on r.t. i'll get straight to it why why do you think it's taken three years for the whole court martial process to get started. well it's unprecedented money spent the longest time of any u.s. soldier ever in pretrial detention what manning has done is he revealed the irrational immoral and illegal nature of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and as a result of that he's been persecuted and part of the reason for dragging out this this pre detention pretrial detention is to punish him now do you think there are many if not many certainly some of the media saying that manning is a traitor who risk the lives of u.s. citizens are you buying that no not so manning had access to a huge amount of information as did and do thousands of other employees of the united states government he saw that information within that information actions and activity that were il

my first trip to iraq was only six months so that's a year my second trip to iraq was a year the trip to afghanistan was a year my last trip was fifteen months this was a dream. is to. me i'm oldest boy whose mom. and. my mom are somebody. i'm very proud that i have been in the military i'm proud that i've been to war but however good people do get hurt and i've hurt good people. and. there's a reason i'm getting out of the army retired cop that's the reason. i have a. chronic p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder. to be honest with you i just got out of a mental institution a couple weeks ago. i was there for thirty days. to help me with my p.t.s.d. . and it's from the stuff i've gone through for the stuff i've done and iraq. how serious just because we go to live in the institution the producers. all the people in that place with me they were all military. everybody else there except me had tried to kill themselves i was getting ready to go kill other people when you get ready. to get in my car and drive up and start killing people. instead i grabbed my wife and we drove up to the

i couldn't self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymore. what we as a nation were doing in iraq.gure out who i was as a human being and what i wanted out of life. and what legacy i was going to leave for my children. i struggle every day, every day i struggle. >> this is a situation where we could and should have done a better job of protecting innocent life because this is not only a war of territory, of physical destruction, this is a war of hearts and minds. clearly if you're killing civilians in the process of trying to secure a city, you're not really winning that battle. >>> coming up -- soldiers returning from war. some of the most memorable homecomings we've ever seen. when "caught on camera: combat" continues. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing... had made you play. and that... had made you smile. [ announcer ] beneful. play. it's good for you. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] for dad's first job as dad. nissan tests hundreds of child seats to gi

civilian casualties in short an unvarnished view of america's wars now known as the afghanistan and iraq war logs in may arrest seeking approval for his actions manning began a dialogue with a hacker named adrian levo chat logs that turned over to the government leading to manning's arrest and subsequent confinement now what came next was what proved to be one of the longest military pretrial detentions of a u.s. soldier since the vietnam war bradley manning was held in maximum security solitary confinement in a cell his attorney says was no bigger than six by eight feet and as the number of charges grew against manning to twenty two he was allowed to plead guilty to ten lesser charges this in exchange for a maximum sentence of sixteen years now by december two thousand and twelve when he took the stand to testify about the conditions that he endured he had been in confinement for more than one thousand days now the freedom of the press foundation broke court perscribe rules it released bradley manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley ma

we know for sure he's going to iraq. that can change it any minute you can go to afghanistan and kind of hoping he stays in iraq it's safer somewhat savor. your clothes. you're one of us. here your breath. now for breakfast i was about and i usually make him breakfast in the morning but he got home kind of late today so he's probably going to go to the fact which is the cafeteria. is hard some. mornings like this. i'm sorry. it's. not even morning and usually. or it may. or in the middle of the day. just he's so busy right now where the training schedule. and getting ready to leave so he's got a lot of stress on him. she . i want a baby before he deployed speakers if something were to happen god forbid i would have got part of him here with me. being the. little boys. girls. some with direction normal teenage thing. i see people trying to find their way and a very wicked world. it's like leading the lambs to slaughter you know they don't know. do i admire them and respect them and have great pride in knowing them and int

new to the iraq war ok david here the specialist manning has ended the iraq war i would venture to say that we haven't seen the end of the iraq war certainly the civil war and civil strife that's going on there to agree but i think that your point is well taken one sense but i totally disagree with you i think bradley specialist manning was basically used as a do by wiki leaks and i think that they took advantage of him i don't think he had the expertise in terms of being able to decide nor did he have the authority to decide to release hundreds of thousands of pages of communiques of the united states he simply didn't have that we're going to see a war crime you don't have to say this is good and this is not ok but sorry if you would be ok i believe it when you go ahead go ahead go ahead. david when you witness a war crime you don't need expertise to show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a reuters reporter was killed by our helicopters and that they were flippa

>> this week on christian world news, iraq explodes in violence. hundreds of dead in sectarian attacks. the tiny christian community is caught in the middle. >> wendy: plus preaching the gospel in the world's largest muslim country. this egyptian american evangelist went and hundreds came forward to except christ. >> george: and a lost boy finds his home. he spent his youth fighting for south sudan independence, and now he is helping build new leaders for his country. ♪ >> wendy: as sectarian violence rips iraq apart, the country's christians fear for their future. hello, everyone, i'm wendy griffith. >> george: and i'm george thomas. iraq is awash in violence. more than 1,000 people were killed in april and may. while the war pits sunni verses shi'a muslims, it pits the christians. greg is just back from iraq. earlier in the week, i spoke with him about this situation there. greg, it is truly spiralling out of control. 500 iraqis dead just in this month alone. is iraq falling apart? >> yes, i would say so, george. i mean civil war can happen at an

but i think iraq is a battlefield for a ray of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. and as for the month i live in al i don't hear a sunny district i finished it in two thousand and six i was all for. it was a. at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stopped. you know me the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out i'm out of you know that i deserve a new the battle raged for seventy two hours you know. the army the militia everyone was functioning. i banged and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me just like the apathetic about. living in baghdad mean surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten da

as we all know this became the basis for granted against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear material nor chemical weapons so how can we trust these empty phrases at the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the us that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for a military and has certainly a striking resemblance to iraq a scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest in a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized oppo

operations in iraq and afghanistan there are even some who say they are counted as a catalyst for the arab spring uprisings about griffin the former british so u.s. soldier you told me earlier why he thinks manning chose to leave the information and of the former soldier also showed his experiences that he went through in iraq . some of the media are saying that manning is a traitor who risked their lives of u.s. citizens are you are you buying that no not at all manning had access to a huge amount of information and did and do thousands of other employees of the united states government he saw that information within that information actions and activity that were illegal and immoral and he thought he should do something about that he was the only one to take action on that he thought that if other people could see what was really going on in iraq in afghanistan and in the relationships between u.s. government and other governments around the world that something would happen and something did happen you know the arab spring was informed by information that manning released now usurp

in iraq when bush and cheney are brought to justice. george w. bush had to come still his. first trip following the admission in all to bogus decision points. waterboarding should away from switzerland of the swiss m.p.'s worked on a warrant for his the wrist was new york center for constitutional rights to seal senior attorney joins us thanks a lot for coming on now the code responses oh bushels context no one can touch him for you what with lawmakers roman globe was you know cautious of traveling anywhere close how distant bench against torture so most of the globe is that location to invest it in and punish george bush actually the obama team reached out to switzerland and sure and says that george bush when he prosecuted and the swiss response was we have an independent prosecutor an independent judiciary we can't make that promise you can't be a republic with six ways the bush going has to follow the law list two hundred pages over one health crimes you also over the book is former head of the national lawyers guild moultrie cohen

of libya we're seeing kind of a similar approach to syria now moving on and we saw what happened in iraq completely be stabilized and unfortunately the international community has failed. in many ways to to plan for something that comes after a conflict i mean we've seen nato being extremely effective in using power to destroy or to. subdue or to june but they have consistently failed in planning for the post conflict period i mean we've saw that in afghanistan resort in iraq we seeing it in libya where they. pulled out very quickly without really the benefit of trying to sort of held the new emerging state to build institutions and i think clearly that might happen in syria yes so what was the intervention really about because i've heard a lot of people speculate that it was about the gold dinar that single gold currency that gadhafi was trying to launch across africa do you think there's any truth to that claim no i mean i think i mean i i did the intervention i think was very clearly an attempt i mean a response to a popular appeal on the ground in libya i mean much of the population