as the iraqi people and the leadership of the iraqi government determines specifically where do they need help and what do they want to ask us for, the military leaders are coming forward with what you might call a readiness assessment. they are establishing the capabilities and limitations of their forces and helping provide that to civilian leaders of the country, who will then take a look at strengths and weaknesses, compare them to what they see as current or future threats, and then make decisions on where they are vulnerable and how they might mitigate the risks that they see. if in going through the process that they decide they want to continue help from the u.s. military, they continue to ask. our government, as communicated by a number of our leaders, would seriously consider any request that the iraqi government makes. to my knowledge, they have not yet made such a request. host: that it remains stable -- guest: i really cannot speculate. it depends on all sorts of things. stability is more than just the provision of security. that absence of violence does not necessarily

end but then the dishpan thing by paul bremmer of the iraqi army the iraqi national police with the stroke of a pen destroyed destroying the entire infrastructure of their of their security of the country and my job was over there on the iraqi ministry defense side to help rebuild the iraqi army that stuff's not going to happen overnight it's going to take decades to rebuild to rebuild the iraqi security infrastructure the ministry defense and the and the ministry of the of the interior so what happened was when when all these things occurred the insurgency obviously just blew up sunni versus shia no one was there to mind the store and not enough american soldiers donald rumsfeld rejected the idea of several thousand u.s. military policemen in the post invasion plan because he said we don't we don't need a post invasion plan that that will be necessary and then general. george casey was over there for well over two years telling the president everything's great we can pull out any time mr president well houses are being found with sixty decapitated bodies i'm a mile of a mile away from his

as the iraqi people and the leadership of the iraqi government determines specifically where do they need help and what do they want to ask us for, the military leaders are coming forward with what you might call a readiness assessment. they are establishing the capabilities and limitations of their forces and helping provide that to civilian leaders of the country, who will then take a look at strengths and weaknesses, compare them to what they see as current or future threats, and then make decisions on where they are vulnerable and how they might mitigate the risks that they see. if in going through the process that they decide they want to continue help from the u.s. military, they continue to ask. our government, as communicated by a number of our leaders, would seriously consider any request that the iraqi government makes. to my knowledge, they have not yet made such a request. host: that it remains stable -- guest: i really cannot speculate. it depends on all sorts of things. stability is more than just the provision of security. that absence of violence does not necessarily

they wore the colors of the iraqi flag, red, white and black. it was an attempt to turn a sectarian past into broader, nationalist appeal. the message said iraqi shi'ia or sunni against the americans. there were no weapons. but speaking to the bbc he made it clear that this was still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know that the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay on in iraq. if the americans do not withdraw we will reactivate the army. at the moment if the americans stay, that will change. we are still the resistance and we can still hit their bases, troops and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january he spent most of the past few years in self imposed exile in iran, squeezed out by a combined u.s. and iraqi military effort. last year's election marked a turning point. his party did better than expected and now he is back with seats in parliament and a growing sense of confidence. americans still have nearly 50,000 troops in iraq and nervous of iran's growing in

so if the iraqis do it and it looks like neither of our wars in the middle east will be any anytime soon trying to kind of wonder if we went to war in the middle east to combat terror bin ladin is now dead and al qaida is now scattered across the world and why are we still at war in the middle east is there another reason why all this blood and treasure is mean spent it's not being told the american people are offered their takes on this issue or lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to united states secretary of state colin powell and now a professor of government public policy at the college of william and mary and also larry klayman attorney author former federal prosecutor in the reagan administration and founder of the organization's judicial watch and freedom washed out or christian larry i figured welcome to welcome both of you colonel you're on the record as saying that you believe that the war in iraq was in part at least driven by a desire to get oil to change famously said ten percent of the world's oil reserves are there it's cheap oil back in two thousand and one. can you

a series of explosions of hit the iraqi capital baghdad leaving at least sixteen people dead and this comes as the british military operations ended after more than eight years in the country the last group of all navy training staff poured out the u.k. joined the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but when w m d's were never found the war fell out of favor with the british public even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during the conflict most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago let's talk more about this with john's forbode he's co-founder of the surge project for iraq body count thanks for being on r.t. this sunday evening is pretty shaded with multiple civilian casualties maybe two hundred british was the talk and billions of pounds spent most of the yukos involvement in iraq really worth it. well the play is purely a symbolic moment i mean britain's real influence on this conflict ended back in two thousand and seven when it would do its combat troops

they wore the colors of the iraqi flag -- red, white, and black. there was a slogan emblazoned across the middle. it was an attempt to turn the sectarian passed into broad national appeal. "we are in this together, the message says, against the americans. the leader made it clear this is still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay on. if the americans do not withdraw, we will reactivate our army. at the moment, their activities are frozen. if the americans stay, that will change. we are capable of resistance, and we can hit their troops and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january, the man has spent the last two years in self-imposed exile in iran. but last year's election marked a turning point in his fortunes. his party did better than expected. now he is back with a seat in parliament and a growing sense of confidence. the americans still have nearly 50,000 troops in iraq. they are nervous of iran's growing influence and hav

and for the iraqis, it's a political gain. for the u.s.they want to know exactly what they're doing. but i'll tell you something that happened recently that really is force for thought. a mass grave was found outside the city of fallujah and the instant reaction of the iraqi government was to blame the u.s. forces who fought in fallujah several years ago. and basically blamed the u.s. soldiers of killing a massive number of civilians and dumping their bodies in a mass grave. the real question americans should be asking is why are we considering staying behind in a country where the government accuses us of that kind of massive war crime against humanity? and you know, the answer to that question lies in the relationship between the maliki government and iran. and that is really what's at stake here. is what is playing out in the region with iran, who now has stronger foothold in iraq than they ever have. and it's really up to the iraqis at this point to sort out how they want those relationships to settle. >> cbs' lara logan in washington

they wore the colors of the iraqi flag, red, white, and black. allah is great in blazoned across the middle. there is a broader nationalist appeal. we are in this together. againsthi'ite with sunni the americans. muqtada al-sadr our made it clear that they are still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay in iraq. if they did not withdraw, we will reactivate the army. if the american states, that would change. we can still hit their bases, troops and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january, muqtada al- sadr had spent much of the last two years in self-imposed exile, squeezed out by iraqi and u.s. military efforts. there had been a change of fortunes. his party did better than expected. now he is back. he has a growing sense of confidence. the americans still have 50,000 troops in iraq. nervous of iran's growing influence, they made it clear that they want to keep some of them there. for that to happen, they have to be invited

war it comes to mind here because back then the pentagon said she was taken prisoner held by vicious iraqi guards abused and then ultimately rescued valiantly by the rats but in reality later the story comes out the iraqi guards had fled there was no resistance there was no valiant rescue do you see similar similarities here is this the death jessica lynch style fable in your eyes. absolutely just people in my same exact things happening what did i see that they have the story about was the front page of the new york post the washington prose the washington times everybody was going with this all-american won pretty girl who had the there you know the role of lead and now we're being accused by the evil of evil and it was it was absolutely ridiculous they even brought in jerry bruckheimer to stage her rescue in a hospital that had contacted them days earlier and said they had been treating her and just wanted to give her a go this was absolutely another one of those type of operation and i think we're going to see that come to light in the next weeks and months and i think the story is goi

the iraqi people are -- have been waiting for confirmation of that. and they in my view deserved having confirmation of that. >> was the release of the dead photographs of the two sons was that confirmation for the iraqi people that they were in fact dead? here's how richard engel reported on that question for "nbc news nightly news" when the photos were released. one quick word of warning here, richard's report does contain shots of the fairly graphic photos in question. >> no way i'm convinced says this man. i'm 100% unconvinced. we asked others in the store to raise their hands if they were equally doubtful. these men thought the pictures especially the one of saddam's older son shot in the mouth just don't look right. he was known to be thin with a beard. this picture shows him with a swollen face and long beard. people thought the photo of his brother was a closer match. why didn't they take the photographs right away, asked this man, before they got all bloated? >> if releasing gruesome photographs of dead bodies was accepted as indisputable pro

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,

when he tried to kill the iraqi prime minister, it was the same farm that came into play. we got information about mouslet and able to get him in a few short days after that. >> it was not whiz bang technology but on the ground talking to people and getting information and asking questions. >> without the cooperation of the iraqi people figuring out who the controlling families were and working hand in hand after day day. we were able to collect the whole raid and person that we got led to machine else. >> how many deadens duhave? >> you have dead ends and you get nothing if you don't do nothing. >> colonel tell me about those hours when you finally found him and captured him. tell me how that happened? >> i got a call from colonel hicky and they say they captured the fat man . we were elated if he were captured he would know saddam's location. i was told to get my forces ready and once we learned where his location was, there were, we worked hand in hand with special operation's force team command by a guy i will call john. two teams were called up and all of the planning

they wear the colors of the iraqi flag. red, white, and black. it was an attempt to turn divisive sectarian passed into a national appeal. we are in this together. there were no weapons in evidence. speaking to the bbc, muqtada al- sadr in made it clear that this was still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay on in iraq. if the americans do not withdraw, we will reactivate the army. if the american states, that would change. we can still hit their bases, troops, and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january, muqtada al- of the lastent most two years in self-imposed exile. last year's election marked a change in his fortunes. his party did better than expected and he is back. the americans still have nearly 50,000 troops in iraq. influence,iran's they have made it clear that they want to keep some of them in the country beyond this year. in order for that to happen, they must be invited to stay by the government. muqtada al-sa

or convincing the iraqi people that the resistance that was occurring at that time is futile. there was a different purpose to a different audience. ordinarily one would say philosophically release everything you can unless there's a reason not to. in this case because of the unique psyche of al qaeda and bin laden, our strategic objective is to avoid having him d o'iified in death anymore than he was already a commanding figure in life, and i think that the president made the right decision. >> secretary clinton is one of the people who we've been told who argued against releasing a photo. having worked so closely with her at the state department, again, what you know of this administration, what you describe as a philosophical orientation toward disclosure, that you put information out when you have a choice to unless there's a reason not to, i understand that as a philosophical point. i wonder if that really is the inclination. if in matters of national security you feel that the bias is really towards more information and not towards less, it feels like a pretty closed wor

troops posing with iraqi detainees at the abu ghraib prison. they became public in 2004. for some perspective on the complexities involved here, we turn to richard clarke, former white house counterterrorism adviser in the clinton and early george w. bush administrations. he is now a consultant. juan zarate, a deputy national security adviser in the bush administration. he is now a senior adviser with the center for strategic and international studies. we have need to publish to photos to establish that osama bin laden is dead, the words of president obama. juan zarate, did he make the right call? >> this is a hard call, ray. i think for the moment it appears to be the right decision. i think what the administration and white house is trying to do is keep the moral high ground on this narrative, the narrative of having brought justice to the world's most infamous terrorist. and i think what they're trying to do is to make sure that not only does the white house not appear insensitive but that america is not besmirched by gruesome images of bin laden having been killed and

eight thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines international war crimes prosecutors seek the arrest of colonel gadhafi for crimes against humanity meanwhile russia calls for an immediate stop to the bloodshed in libya and will meet with both rebels and the government for talks in moscow. the you might need to scrape together more cash as greece and portugal and now possibly spain line up for financial support a fifth of the spanish population is unemployed with no signs of improvement on the horizon. demonstrators marked a day palestinians were expelled by the foundation of israel turned deadly after israeli troops shoot at least sixteen dead country's borders were stormed his thousands tried to cross over what's known as not a nice day. up next r.t. talks with a radical u.s. anti-war campaigner who believes her country's conflict addiction is making it as much of a terror as those it's fighting stay with us. archie is in chicago sitting down with longtime activist former leader of the weather underground radical group that operated back in the sixty's and seventy's and now a clinic

iraqi prime minister nouri al- maliki told him during a recent trip to the country that the iraqi government still needs help to close security gaps which still exist. >> pepco customers are about to get a break on their bills. starting june 1st, maryland residential customers should see their bill go down by about 15%. if you use an average of 1,000 kilowatts each month, your bill would go from about $151 down to $129. the decrease stems from a recent reduction in the standard offer service rates by the maryland public service commission. >>> massey energy is in trouble with federal safety regulators. the u.s. safety administration cited massi subsidiary for more than two dozen violations. they were discovered during a surprise inspection at a mine in boone county, west virginia. the agency started the inspections after the upper big branch mine explosion last april which killed 29 miners. >>> the level of the mississippi river has dropped dramatically since the army corps of engineers blew a hole in a levee to prevent a small illinois town from flooding. the army corps exploded the levee l

iraqi people that wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's nothing. and democratic in a job america's actions in the middle east are distorted by its continued presence in iraq despite promises over through. the area watching our t.v. broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program. is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two but events of commemoration and celebration will be taking place across the country including a traditional ground military parade on red square you can watch it all unfold here on our team real special coverage throughout the day. of the war claimed the lives of around twenty seven million russians leaving a lasting scar across the entire country. reports now from the colluder region. and killed thousands. include go one hundred and fifty kilometers southwest of most k the city an important strategic point in the german forces attempts to conquer most in the great patriotic war and as he remembers who fought and died in the war we remember also the devastating number of civilians

the demonstrations come as iraqi leaders consider asking u.s. troops to extend their stay. now under an agreement, troops would be required to leave by december 31st. but the widespread instability now has iraqi leaders reconsidering that deadline. >>> a fire that destroyed a mosque in stockton is now being investigated as a case of arson. federal investigators released this surveillance photo of a man with a bag on his head taken from inside the mosque back in april. fire officials say they believe that man is the arsonist. now the mosque and a church next door were damaged in that fire. investigators say so far there's no evidence that this is a hate crime, but there is a $10,000 reward being offered in the case. >>> a new report finds that 1500 california prison inmates were released on unsupervised parole last year by mistake. 450 of the inmates were classified as having a high risk for violence. a new program allowing for unsupervised release was intended for inmates with a low risk of reoffending. the idea is to have parole agents focused on supervising higher risk pa

iraqi people that wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy. the democratic image of america's policy in the middle east is distorted boss continued presence in iraq is not promises from the floor. and online you're watching our table straight to our top story now russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two events of commemoration celebration are taking place across the country including a traditional ground military grade on red square law to bring you our special coverage throughout the day. back to that's cross now to r.t.c. covering the great show but who's in the red square for us now where can you hear us so you see charlie treasuring or richard day's also one of the main one of these in russia where you are in the middle of the it's a war of the military parade. ok we it was absolutely stunning to be here in this iconic location on red square the heart of russia on this very important day the ninth of may which this year marks the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany and

a highlight, a team he led, recovered iraqi treasures looted from museums during the wall of baghdad.ng back. >> the children appreciated it. they would come on a regular basis to those museums. it's like you're giving back the history back to the iraqis. >> reporter: born in brooklyn to puerto rican parents, gonzalez is among a growing number of latinos serving in the military. he says his background helped him relate to the iraqi people. >> for the most part latinos come from a lower economic standard and we identified with that type of living and living in impoverished areas. >> reporter: gonzalez says he sees more latinos with stars and bars on their shoulders than he did during his first enlistment. >> the latinos are now the captains, the colonels and even quite a bit of generals. i get actually proud when i see a latino in those leadership positions and you know that commander could identify with how hard it is for you to just be in the military. >> reporter: proud of his heritage and of the service he's given his country. especially on memorial day. >> memorial day dweekend ki

iraqi people that want to live and we've stayed there for their own good that's not democracy the democratic game is of america's policy in the middle east has distorted pi's continued presence in iraq despite promises all through. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two events of commemoration is the liberation happened taking place across the country caps by the traditional ground village sheep raised on a red square in last year's bringing you special coverage throughout the day. all the main parade on red square to pace amid spectacular scenes of military pomp and pageantry and watching it for us was. it was absolutely stunning to be here in these iconic location on red square the heart of brush on this very important day the ninth of may which this year marks the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany and a victory in the great paciorek war as these holy days known in russia were still thousands of troops marching through red square here and companies over one hundre

iraqi people have wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy the democratic image of america's policy in the middle east is distorted by its continued presence in iraq despite promises to withdraw from. around the world and around the clock you're watching r.t. uncharacteristically russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two vets of commemoration and celebration taking place across the country by the traditional ground military parade on red square the area without any more special coverage throughout the day. or that main parade on red square took place and then a spectacular scenes of pomp and pageantry washing it for us was our government control. it was absolutely stunning to be here in this site corney location on the red square of the heart of russia on this very important day the ninth of may which this year marks the sixty sixth anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany and the victory in the great potshot it war as these holy days known in russia will thousands of troops marching through red square h

iraqi people that wanted us out and we stayed there for their own good that's not democracy and democratic image on america's policy in the middle east is distorted by its continued presence in iraq despite promises on the pool. room welcome to you this is our scene live from moscow now russia is marking victory day sixty six years since nazi germany was defeated in world war two events of commemoration and celebration have been taking place across the country capped by the traditional ground parades on red square a little earlier last year is bringing you special coverage throughout the day. we begin right here in central moscow a from where the speech on the joins us live he said hello good to see you can you rounds up for us now what you've seen today in the significance behind it. but we're really at the middle part of the day celebrations this is where we've seen a lot of families just wandering around looking at it has been sort of been going on i'm here at victory park just in the center of moscow where there's lots of people enjoying the summer sunshine the start of summer sunshine

bailout sludge practice the so-called times with iraqi unity to. the children opposition calls for a day of anti-government protests and demonstrations clashed with police on the streets of bts to demanding president saakashvili steps down the country's opposition leader tells all see a revolution has begun. on the mystery of whether to be trinidad if allowed to run for a second term remains unsold with the president giving nothing away or good speech intentions during a two hour press conference. hello and welcome to the program this is all season we can a review of all our thanks for joining us and to government protests have been intensifying across spain despite the official ban and political demonstrations as the country went to the polls in local elections the ruling socialist party has suffered a bruising defeats in sydney in response to its handling of spain's mounting economic crisis with ninety one percent of the floods counted in municipal elections that rival conservative popular parties almost ten percentage points ahead at least thirt

war he was wounded in the crossfire of a battle in basra iraq then put in a makeshift ambulance by iraqis an investigation revealed u.s. forces then shot at the vehicle hitting lloyd in the head and killing him the following month on april eighth two thousand and three u.s. forces targeted three media outlets in iraq first television. al-jazeera his office in baghdad you can see the bombs being dropped here correspondent tarik i you was killed in the middle of a live report and this is the palestine hotel. where nearly all journalists from around the world worked. a u.s. army tank intentionally fired into the building killing reuters cameraman thrust forward through and jose couso of telecinco spanish television in all of these incidents u.s. forces behind the tactics were let off the hook the rules of engagement often cited as the reason family has continued to press for justice their hope renewed with the release of this document on wiki leaks a transcript written by a former u.s. ambassador saying quote while we are careful to show our respect for the tragic death of kosovo and for the

this is explosions of the iraqi capital baghdad leaving at least sixteen dead comes as the british military operations ended after more than a year is the country with the last group of role navy training staff. the u.k. joined the u.s. invasion in iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of the target destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but where things are never found the war fell out of favor with the british public even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during a conflict but the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago many experts say they failed to make iraq a safe place with terror attacks still happening on a regular basis i spoke to john suborder he's co-founder of the research project for the right body count he told me the u.k. keeps ignoring the casualties of this war. commentators of whatever political persuasion work of for or against this conflict are kind of united in. casual treatment of the iraq the cost of this and we believe that this will not you know to rest properly until there is a fall and detailed inquiry i

having trained iraqi forces coming in as the nation must ultimately take responsibility for their own security. having served as acting commander of central command, he understands that in iraq and afghanistan, a security gains must go hand in hand. just as he challenged the army to embrace new doctrine in texas, i expect him to push all our forces to continue adapting and be ready for the missions of today and tomorrow. i was proud to nominate marty as chief of staff and he only assume that position last month your tenure as chief may go down as one of the shortest in army history. it is your lifetime of accomplishment that brings us here today and i thank you for your willingness to take on this new assignment along with your wife and her three children, all of whom have served in the army. today, i want everyone of our men and women in uniform to hear the words you spoke to your soldiers on your first day as chief because it is our shared message to all who serve, especially our troops in harm's way. we will provide whatever it takes to achieve our objectives in the current fight.

oil production cut back planned adds to global supply fear so iraqis just announced they're preparing to have its official oil production in target forcing companies including b.p. and shell to renegotiate their contracts so they're now setting a new target to produce between six point five million and seven little million barrels per day by twenty seventeen down from the original players to pump twelve million barrels that sounds like quite a lot in the oil market for sure. yeah well they're also arguing supply and demand their self interest they're saying well if we can't. you know seven million extra barrels of oil per day. that will drive the price down of our limited our finite resource that responding so whether or not the world recognizes peak oil opec has recognized people well now they're starting to ration oil well yes they're starting to think of their own self interest in a new world that we don't know where these currencies are going to end what how what will happen post dollar collapse and then i have one final headline here on the energy market and it is a really good a

but in reality later the story comes out the iraqi guards had fled there was no resistance there was no going and rescue do you see similar similarities here is this a jet death a lynch style fable in your eyes absolutely just people in the same exact things having one of those see that they have that story you know it was the front page of the new york post the washington post the washington times everybody was running with this all american one pretty girl who had saved her unit the road and now was being abused by these evil evil terrorists and it was it was absolutely ridiculous that you can brought in jerry bruckheimer to use her rescue in a hospital that had contracted to these earlier and said they had been treating her and just wanted to get her out so this was absolutely another one of those type of operations and i think we're going to see that comes to light in the next weeks and months and i think the story is going to change and change again just like the just the injuries and i would assume that following that logic you would also believe that the death of pat tillman w

of the iraqi people are ready for american troops to go home why does the united states insist on overseeing its bottom. immigration and been logons death may be dominating news headlines but with less than one week left until the u.s. runs up against its fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit we decided to begin our newscast this evening with a look at america's financial health now u.s. economic performance does seem to be in freefall as public debt. deficits computer soar and little class is more at risk than ever meanwhile realistic solutions from washington are frankly nowhere to be seen now it's difficult to overstate just how serious the u.s. debt issue is but sometimes it does take a little bit of a fresh perspective to really get the depth of the problem and yesterday my colleague lauren lyster spoke with legendary investor and commodities trader trader jim rogers and here's how he framed this issue america's going to have to face the problem that we are the largest debtor nation in the world is getting higher and higher and the rest of the world is starting to say wait a

government do the iraqi people want to say if they don't we can't it's as simple as that but you're right point out that like all high ranking officials in the administration secretary of defense is a political job like any other. now christopher so he's giving perhaps a warning here to members of congress you say what it will actually take for all of this military spending to ever end i just can't seem to understand the fact that now we have reached our debt ceiling lawmakers can agree on not the one thing they can always agree on is to pass these defense authorization bill that is to pass another patriot act anything that expands the surveillance state of the military state and the state of our wars seems to go through very usually with that. yeah i mean. if you were soft on communism it was a political liability nowadays if you're soft on terrorism it's a political liability but the fact the matter is as we discussed earlier we're at record levels of military spending right now there's plenty of room within a five hundred fifty billion dollar defense budget you do things we want

the american lives military and civilian that were lost in that war and the hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians that died should also be remembered this week as people declare that sort of and human error or say that they're getting closure the vast majority of the victims in the post nine eleven world have been iraqi civilians so that's important that we remember that number two i think that while you can certainly say that this is a great symbolic victory for the obama administration to have taken down osama bin laden it doesn't mean that the issues that were raised by the u.s. policies the last ten years go away if anything what we've seen is the obama administration double down on some of the most authentic policies of the bush administration targeted assassinations in particular but also viewing the world as a battlefield where u.s. forces are allowed to strike it well so i think we have to the very sober discussion of what this means for u.s. policy going forward and what it means for the rest of the world that's going to be dealing with it and there are certainly some people wh

during this time, the mek has been attacked by the iraqi military. yunami has confirmed that the soldiers killed 34 residents at camp asha raul, 34 residents that have yesterday to be buried because the iraqis refuse to allow them to be buried. high ranking public officials in the iraqi regime repeatedly cite the u.s. terrorist designation as their justification for treating the residents of camp >> iraqi troops won't them bury the dead. u.s. representatives have not given an investigation, and, of course, iraq has not. of course, we wouldn't expect the people responsible for the action to the investigation. all this seems to be compounded and made more difficult because the state department just won't take a position on the mek. it's like we say in texas. keep them on the list or take them off the list, just make a decision. the evidence points to the fact they should be off the list, but this delay, delay, delay not able to make a decision for whatever reason is, i think, a problem state department can resolve and within their power to resolve that

company o'brien became disillusioned the corruption and mismanagement they were taking land from iraqis without securing title and i brought this to their attention i said we're going to build a house in the united states on a piece of land that you didn't know i got can we have it on the hill o'brien says americans won't see the end of defense contractors anytime soon without a draft the military depend on hundred thousand contractors to support its two wars abroad and the defense contractors are raking in the do. and you know when dwight eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex in one nine hundred sixty one there now analysts say that without the defense industry america's nine percent unemployment rate would stores to eleven point five percent in piecing those odds for many insurance bill military contracting the best defense illinformed r.t.s. charlottesville virginia. will say to charlottesville for just a little bit let's hear now from someone who's helped bring the so-called local military industrial complex to lights david swanson is the author of the book war is

iraqi troops won't let residents bury the dead.ey also won't let anyone come in for regular visits. u.s. representatives have not instigated an investigation. the u.n. has not instigated an investigation. and of course iraq has not. of course we wouldn't expect those responsible for the action to instigate investigations. and all of this, to me, seems to compounded and made more difficult because the state department just won't take a positionen the m he ek. it's like we say in texas, time to fish or cut bait. either keep them on the list or take them off, but naik a decision. i think the evidence points to the fact that they should be taken off the list, but this delay, delay, delay, not being able to make a decision for whatever reasons is i think a problem that the state department can resolve and is within the state department's power to resolve that matter. so those are some questions and concerns that i have, and i would hope these can be answered. i have introduced hres-60 which urges the secretary of state to take the mek o