i think american soldiers and the iraqi army should provide security. we're talking about helicopters, a fleet of helicopters so they can get around to the four consulates spread throughout iraq. we're talking about mine resistant vehicles bought by the state department. a mini-state department army. we've never done that before. that will fail. i'm urging the obama administration to work with the malaki administration in iraq to make sure that we have enough troops, 10,000-15,000 beginning in 2012, to secure the gains we've achieved, to make sure iran doesn't interfere with the iraqi sovereignty, and to develop this country. we can't do it with a state department army. i will not support that. this is a defining moment in the future of iraq. and the obama administration has the wrong strategy in libya, and in my view, they're going down the wrong road when it comes to iraq. >> schieffer: well, i find all of it hard to believe. we have about 20 seconds, senator. i want to go back to make sure i understand what you said about libya. you're ready to give

military presence in the country if the iraqis ask for it it's a plan obama has already approved and gates is now applying the pressure that the request needs to come soon politically can either iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki or barack obama afford to keep those troops there or discuss it with me is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger for black. gen think so much for being here tonight you know this is one of the things . that obama promised when he was campaigning when it comes to foreign policy closing guantanamo bay obviously that hasn't happened yet but really number one what helped him so much you know to push back against the bush regime was that he was going to end the iraq war as that go on that's not going so well so now if he decides to keep troops past this deadline how about his back and look what i think at this point he's perfected the art of forgetting brack obama the candidate you know and has come to the reality of something the commander in chief care i mean honestly it's been one of the few things that i can say i like ab

invasion was in the iraqi city of fallujah and i knew people there and i had interviewed people there because it was the site of one of the worst cases of civilian deaths caused by the u.s. bombing of iraq during the ninety one gulf war so i had spent a lot of time in fluids i knew people there i had connections there on march thirty first two thousand and four almost seven years ago to this day. it was seven years ago yesterday for blackwater operatives were in and they were ambushed and killed and their bodies were burned it became a very. iconic moment of the iraq war and their bodies were strung up from this bridge and what happened after those four men were killed was that it was reported in the u.s. press that they were civilian contractors. press reports that they were aid workers other press reports that they were. american support american civilians butchered and the way the bush administration responded it was to level for an eight in a merciless revenge attack. and swearing at his commanders over a video teleconference saying this is not going to be another vietnam and so t

of iraqis trained and ready to participate. the iraqi government had matured and was beginning to provide more skillful put the leadership in the country. but what he did, when he added i forget what it was, 20, 25,000 additional troops. it wasn't the additional troops that made a difference. he galvanized the situation in iraq by his boldness. when the congress was about ready to cut off the funds he made the decision to increase the number of troops. and it caused the people in iraq to say, oh, my goodness, he means business, he's not looking for a way out. he's looking to win. and that caused the political situation in the country to jail and coalesce. and the malachi government went into the south and took care of some of the dissidents. the army, the sadr army which was in an army, is a group of people that didn't get out industry to make demonstration. they went quiet because they did know what would happen. but the center of gravity has shifted from iraq to the united states. as we say in the military, the center of grav

i am not convinced that the iraqis are totally ready to handle all of the security, and we are going to have contractors and state department people and other citizens over there helping the country rebuild. i think that will be put at much greater risk. >> i wanted to ask you about women in combat. a study came out recommending that women be allowed to fill these roles. people in the senate and house are saying it. are you willing this year to talk about inserting language in the defense authorization bill to prevent women to play actual combat roles if they are able to meet the standards? >> this is the first time and has been brought up to me. it has not come up in any of the hearings i have conducted. i don't know if it has come up in the subcommittee level. we have a personnel subcommittee that handles those issues. >> it was the military leadership diversity committee that reported it. >> i have not seen the report. >> do you have an instinct on the s? >> i have a granddaughter that just joined the reserves. i don't know if she wants to go into a combat role. i cannot imagine t

it doesn't seem the iraqis really want to us stay. what's your view? >> i hope that there is a request to keep some troops there to provide some security. i'm not convinced that the iraqis are totally ready to handle all of the security. and we're going to have people in the country, contractors, state department people, other citizens, private citizens not in the military that are over there helping the country rebuild. and i think they will be put at much greater risk. >> just to jump on a couple -- we are running out of time. i also wanted to ask you about women in combat. a study was done it came out. it's recommending that women be allowed to fill these roles. people in the senate are saying it. people in the house are saying it. are you willing, this year, to talk about inserting language in the defense authorization bill to permit women to play combat, actual combat roles if they're in fact, able to meet the standards? >> people maybe talked about it, but this is the first time it's been brought up to me. so i don't know -- it hasn't come up in

passed charge of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. tries again over our embassy in kabul. cherish too much occupied afghanistan. and now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. day it is appropriate today in court as which is speaking if he could even. if a slap so it's life if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks especially if it's slow but you don't actually break it in tunes could interrogation techniques that we use it. for the senior leadership. would be nothing to. believe transference. welcome back across europe to remind you we're talking about obama's nobel peace prize. but first let's see what russians think about all of this. two years ago the newly elected american president barack obama was awarded the nobel peace prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples but now as the u.s. into in libya many want it if the so would be taking away the russian public opinion re

goes even we can't keep it dark forces in libya well you're in there for him there just the way the iraqis. he goes he gave the iraqi people wonderful social bennett has created a should prevail here because nothing has been losing thing and what are your article stephen lately about america's thirst for waging so-called this is the crucial bit war for pace of it's a question that's been well why aren't we seeing washington doing exactly the same thing in bahrain saudi arabia where protesters have also been brutally put down why . it kind of gives the word park which get their name i mean there is brutality of the streets the arena it's very country about one point two million people. fairly arrow two articles i mean i mean shooting people in the streets there arresting people here targeting hospitals here arresting doctors nurses and medical spare years earlier brutality us. giving has already used to do the saudis want to do it as well because what happens in rain may happen if the ricoh there already has saudi arabia to a much lesser extent and if you look at that you don't see any repo

he needed iraqis to give intelligence. the single most of the one thing that we need is for the iraqis to give as intelligence. that is how we deal with the problem of an insurgency. we decided that the press in iraq was publishing everything, not just a good things but all the bad things that happened. some civilian gets killed, someone is wounded, a bomb hits a civilian location that should not, that is highly publicized and the fact that the military was out there putting generators in schools and hospitals, helping people, none of that was getting reported. casey decided to hire some people to see that the stories could be written and given to the iraqi newspapers so that it would end up in the iraqi press oh, my goodness. oh, what a terrible thing to do, printing the truth and paying someone to print the truth and put it into the newspaper. it had to stop immediately. the congress got highly excited about it and it stopped and it was over and we were right back to square one. it is a very complicated thing using taxpa

union square follows a raid by iraqi forces on a camp. it's located outside of baghdad and it houses about 3400 iranians who claim to be political refugees who want to overthrow the iranian regime but iraq considers them to be terrorists. one report says 12 people died, 33 perished in the attack. the u.s. and united nations and great britain have condemned that raid. >>> now that lawmakers have averted a government shutdown, the work begins on a deal to finance the rest of the year. president obama spoke at lincoln memorial crediting congress for coming up with an agreement to cut $38.5 billion from the budget. it leaves out federal funding for planned parenthood. now, the 2012 budget battle is shaping up. lawmakers have to decide by the end of the summer whether to let the government borrow more money to pay for this government's $14 trillion debt. boehner tackled that issue at a fund-raiser in connecticut. >> how can you raise the debt limit without dealing with the problem that is causing us to have to increase the debt limit. there is

there was a photograph of an iraqi boy on the front page of the "new york times". he sat on the edge of the truck, 8 or 9 years old, surrounded by his family, his father, mother , and 5 siblings were asleep. his head was buried in his hands. all the clouds of the world were waiting on the threshold of his eyes. the tall man wiped off the sweat and started digging the 7th grave. the next reader is going to be diane dupris. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few things that i wrote sitting in a hotel room in, oh, whatever year that was, 01, i guess, when we started bombing afghanistan. these are short poems on the afghan war. 1, small bones of mountain children in the snow. two, bags of rice burst open, burlap flaps in the wind. even the label, usa, is fading. three, we air drop transistor radios. can you eat them? will they keep you warm? this one is called les american, october 5, 2001. we are feral, rare as mountain wolves. our hearts are pure and stupid. we go down, pitted against our own. there's one other short thing. we gathered there frequently, old scholars,

or entry point in iraq you're giving candy to iraqi children and you see a man in a bulky vest walking up sweating and running a little bit faster and faster as you face him you tell him to stop you from your weapon and he keeps running he's a suicide bomber is going to kill you and the children at that moment right you see them in the head that's that's the ultimate who are aligned when it comes to specific orders you're being ordered to confiscate weapons you're being ordered to raid a home in iraq because and confiscate all the weapons when the day before we told them that the rule was you could have one a k. per adult male perhaps or that's a great great example we have we hypocrisy is the biggest killer of good relations if we say one thing and do another which is a very common in a lot of countries and so when shouldn't run should the soldiers on the ground be standing up to the sword. and he's saying look at this this isn't this is either immoral or i'm concerned about the legality of this or that's exactly how that's exact response to say is i'm concerned about this because a p

because of the iraqi resistance when anthony c. was still up and coming its highest rated show was hosted by this man phil donahue an outspoken critic of the war you know i think you know we're all now everybody's right just want to charitable help where this is we were when he was doing that he was our us so we had absolutely no no we're sending our sons and brothers to war to fix that as i say don't does it was a fair to me that show was cancelled a few weeks before the war started phil donahue was an anti-war voice on m.s.n. b.c. one of the cable news channels and a memo that was leaked as the donahue show was cast is very explicit and said we don't want this to be a face of n.b.c. as you know. state's goes into war looks like to stay on board you need to sound more like this look i am a liberal i am a progressive what that means that we need to stand behind people who want freedom this isn't bush talking this is totally different from the records totally different from any other situation christine r t. now earlier i spoke with

the iraqi government does not seem to be in any hurry to re-signed that. admiral mike mullen said today forces are set to leave by the end of the year. unless the iraqi government makes an official request that the u.s. stay put. these are scenes of showing damage from pass fighting. bottom line it seems iraq once the u.s. out. japan's government is proposing a $15$50 billion budget to help. the bundled plans to build a 100,000 temporary homes for survivors who lost their house is. on >>pam: americans are having fries with their meals, apparently it's not because they're watching the waistline, sales of french fries are down compared to years past. one reason is because of the economy. people are choosing dollar menus over combo meals. experts expect sales to pick up as the economy slowly recovers. it is a consumption will not go back to what it was a few years ago. chocolate lovers beware the price of chocolate is climbing as the cost of key ingredients continue to skyrocket. over the past year the price of wheat using cookies and pastries has surged more

iraqi soldiers still occupy parts of the camp. we don't even know if the attackers are all iraqis. it has been reported that some of these occupiers could be iranian agents to seek to harm the iranian dissidents living in this camp. the international community cannot tolerate this unprovoked violent attack by the government of iraq. we have a legal and moral obligation to ensure the safety of iranian dissidents in the camp. the innocent people who live there continue to be in danger as we speak. it's been reported that the government of iraq blocked the delivery of american humanitarian aid to the wounded until sunday, two days after the attack. just yesterday the iraqi government announced that they plan to close the camp and move its residents out of the country. this is exactly what ahmadinejad wants. if this happens, mr. speaker, these people's lives are in total danger. why? right now some citizens of the camp are members of the m.e.k., it is on the united states list of foreign terrorist organizations. the f.t.o. designation by the united states is still being used by iran to

general casey, as i recall, found that in iraqi needed cooperation of the people. he needed iraq to get intelligence. that's how we can deal with the problem of an insurgency. we decided that the press in iraq was publishing every bad thing we were doing some civilian gets killed or someone is wounded or a bomb that's a civilian location. that is highly publicized. the fact that the military was putting generators and schools and hospitals and helping people, none of that was getting reported. casey decided to hire some people to make sure the stories could be britain and the stories would wind up in the iraqi press. what a terrible thing to do, printing the truth and paying somebody to print the truth then put it in the newspaper? that had to stop immediately. congress got excited about it. it stopped and it was over and we were right back to square one. it is a very complicated thing using taxpayers' money to do something that deals with information even though it is honest and accurate. we all know the reality. the al qaeda folks have media committees. that soun

the single most important thing we need is the iraqis to give intelligent.nd that is how we will deal with the and -- this problem of the insurgency. we decided that the press in iraq was publishing every bad thing, not any good things that we ever. and some civilians killed or someone is wounded or there is a bomb that hit a civilian location that should not, that is how the public. asked the fact that the military was putting generators in schools, generators and hospital, helping people, none of that was gang of. ed casey decided to hire some people to see that stories could be written and given to the iraqi newspaper said it would end up in the press. what a terrible thing to. do printing the truth and paying someone to print the truth and put it in a newspaper, it had to stop immediately. congress got highly excited about it and it stopped and it was over and we're right back to square one. it is a very complicated thing using taxpayer money to deal with something that is would -- to do something that deals with information. the reality is that to bill

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i means that's-- that's not just an iraqi thing. that's anyone that's been displaced from war, from the beginning of time. you know. and it is interesting because you know, when people come to me after the show and say like i really love the show and blah, blah, blah, rarely do they talk to me about the politics of the play. rarely do they talk about that. they really just talk about-- . >> rose: the ideas and the characters. >> the big ideas, the characters and also like, i get it. people come up to me and say, like, i can see how someone can go down a different path. i can see it under these circumstances. like it's very, very clear. he's written it in such a beautiful way that you get a sense that like, oh, yeah, someone like me or like this can go down this wrong path. i get it i get it. >> remind me of what the role of the ghost is. >> the rules of the ghost. >> role of the ghost. >> well. >> it is more, the rules of the ghost. >> rules of ghosting. >> yes. >> he plays, you know n the first scene the tig certificate killed. and

the opposition is struggling to left weeks long siege by kind of iraqis forces as thousands feet in rest of the cities italy's foreign minister says some ten thousand people have died since the beginning of the conflict pethick is from the transitional national council of libya and syria is lifting its nice to fifty year old sings about is giving one of the main demands of the protesters it's unclear whether the movement is the crux our demonstrators who've been calling for the president to step down human rights campaign the same scene hundreds of have died in the lethal crackdown severus roshan's began because of hostile fire he is used to while the economy of international relations told r.t. the arab uprising of the being instigated by the west undermined his influence and the current. goal of washington in the region is to change. the regimes even more applying treats you know regimes that were changed in egypt and other conscious they were quite quiet all to the united states but no obama's administration was fulfilled even more pliant regimes and this many countries including russ

past majority of iraqi citizens. this if it brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. play flies again over embassy in kabul. cherish too much occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. met today it is appropriate to get a cordon such as which a street kid if he could be a bitch face while abstemious life if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks them especially if it's stuff but you don't actually break it in tunes could deter a geisha take beats that we use in j.j. kuantan from the city. will be nothing to. believe in transference. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images go girl has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a chance to rule the day. poland and russia remember the day one year ago when the polish president and members of the country's political elite were killed in a plane crash morial services are being held in warsaw as well as the process in western russia. nato is accused of letti

targeted people gathering at the scene of the initial blast fallujah is a former stronghold of the iraqi insurgency. italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi says attending a hearing of his trial in milan would be a waste of time and resources he made a rare appearance in court monday to fight tax fraud charges the latest in a series of trials facing the politician it relates to accusations berlusconi's media said broadcasting group created schemes to avoid taxes a host of charges have been brought against the prime minister including bribery and paying for sex with a minor berlusconi accuses the magistrates of abusing the justice system to go after him for political reasons. and yemen's president is welcoming a proposal by the gulf arab nations for him to step down to end the country's political crisis but. indicated he would only do so when his term ends in two thousand and thirteen a commission already rejected by protesters calling for his immediate exit the proposal also included protection for him and his family from prosecution for crimes committed under his leadership another con

reasons bush concocted for going to war didn't pass the sniff test bush and cheney told the world that iraqi leader saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was giving them to terrorists that we would be greeted as liberators they hated broadly that saddam was and i'm not eleven and none of this was true now with my friends on the right what you believe bush and cheney are such things in good space. they're welcome to that but still these were some obvious lies metaphysically through bribery a man named curveball code named curveball just last. recent few weeks has acknowledged that he lied. there was a lot of evidence that a man named al libi lied and probably ok but you know. using i'm not accusing mr obama of line ok and i'm not yet anyway if i could have bill i mean but if we still see you know if we see a u.n. resolution about an embargo of arms to to the rebels and now we see the slippery slope oh now it's not called a war it's not intervention there's no talk of boots on the ground but there was no there was no talk of arming people as well and that is not clearly identi

on iraq and madeline albright his secretary of state defended particularly for at least a million iraqi children because of sanctions saying it was necessary imposed a no war zone on iraq destroyed virtually everything so softening the country for bush and cheney to take away heat or serve the. right give us a break ok don what about what about former politicians foreign policy look at jimmy carter because jimmy carter if i were a lot of people criticize him for some of his thoughts since spread his presidency but he i think it's fair to say that even his detractors while he was president say he's done good he's done the best job of former president could ever do for peace and helping. just poor people in general all the way to recognizing different issues around the world that sometimes the media forgets or sometimes gives a certain view on that maybe is very. for american and western interests ok one thing about the middle east but is that the case may be a former politician has done well because one of my thesis is that politicians probably shouldn't get it at all go ahead john. no i

when i see now, charlie, almost one million iraqis loss of life., the way i see it, innocent civilians. when i see people still saying that it was worth it on the basis of regime change, i ask myself as a lawyer, where do you find regime change in international law? and if it was an illegal war which i believe it is-- and i know many people believe it is-- somebody should be accountable, and that's what i'm saying in part of my book, that if you want really international legitimacy, if you want international law to be respected, you have to have the same standard and not apply counsel standard. it should not be just milosevic held accountable. everybody who participated in a war, based on false information, based on deception, continue to argue that regime change is our right to do. this is not international law. this is not international security. and i argue in the book, charlie that-- that if we need to cleanse ourselves, we need to have those who have waged this war accountable, or at least investigated. the reasons behind it, the deceptions th

of defense robert gates was in baghdad today we spoke to american troops telling them that if the iraqi government asks hey i have to remain in that country past the december thirty first withdrawal deadline take a look at folks here are going to want us to have a presence. we're going to need to get on with it pretty quickly in terms of our planning. and our ability to figure out where we get the forces and what kind of forces we need here and what specifically the mission they want us to do is. i think there is interest in having a continuing presence but. the politics are such we'll just have to wait and see because the initiative ultimately has to come from the iraqis and that's right the politics are such so much for the whole winding down the iraq war at the end of the year and just like of ghana stan and libya we're going to forcefully move more rock into the column of indefinite wars though i sort of think that it's probably been safely there for a few years now now if you weeks ago tom analyze just why it was that every single president since jimmy carter has send american troo

politics are such we'll just have to wait and see because the initiative ultimately has to come from the iraqis that's right the politics are such so much for the whole winding down the iraq war at the end of the year and just like afghanistan and libya we got unfortunately moved from rock into the column of indefinite wars though i sort of think that it's probably been safely there for a few years now and if you weeks ago tom analyze just why it was that every single president since jimmy carter i sent american troops abroad with orders to kill and tom revealed a sad reality about our nation and our economy it's addictive to war took a lot. of hooked on the military industrial complex there's no question these wars in afghanistan and iraq need to know that if obama were to do that and the war is tomorrow and suddenly what all the private contractors and troops in the mid. at least that's what happened our economy would tank unemployment was shoot up to depression era levels and it's not just because of the newly unemployed troops and contractors this extends to huge parts of our industrial inf

he also said the iraqis have to act soon, so u.s. officials can start planning. at the same time, an iraqi government spokesman said the presence of these forces is not suitable for iraq. in brazil, a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in rio de janeiro today, and killed at least 11 students before he turned the gun on himself. aerial footage showed the streets outside clogged with emergency vehicles and family members awaiting news. in addition to the dead, at least 18 people were wounded. china has confirmed it detained the outspoken government critic ai weiwei this week. the internationally acclaimed conceptual artist has been in custody since sunday and human rights groups and other countries have called for his release. but today a chinese foreign ministry spokesman said he's being held for unspecified economic crimes. the spokesman warned other governments not to meddle in the case. >> china is a country ruled by law. other countries have no right to interfere with chinese inner affairs. china is hadding to discuss relevant issues with other countri

eight years later, the iraqi people are worse off than when we got rid of their dictator. this is up to the libyan people. this is up to people to stand up and change their governments, not for the united states. we have a track record, look at afghanistan, look at iraq. we can't afford it. and we can't do it a in the d it won't be good for the people of libya. the people of libya need to liberate themselves. we know that from history. >> you need to leavehen or we'll place you under arrest. >> we'll leave then because we certainly don't want to be arrested. >> drop your signs. >> just the american people don't get ask their questions. >> there is a lot of concern. >> on capitol hill this morning, a look at the nation's latest employment figures and the economy. the head of the bureau of labor statistics will testify before the joint economic committee. that is live at 9:30 eastern on cspan 3. >> this year's studentcam competition considered washington, d.c. through their lens. today's third prize winner help them understand the role of the federal government. >> well, it