part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women while iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomenon at dinner i let me jump in you know it's really going to be an ordering of it by the media mayor like a pretty bleak picture there mayor very bleak. it is a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing now is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know the iraq iran's competitors in the region we should be mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there has been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch there's been great abuses of human rights mine and i'll never go in happens

part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women well iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomena dora i jump in you know you're ordering of it by the media merely pretty bleak picture there are very bleak. is a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know that iraq iran's competitors in the region we should mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there has been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights here and there are never out in happens to define of these things would have been happe

part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women while iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomena dorai let me jump in you know your ordering of it by the media pretty bleak picture there are very bleak. it is a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know the iraq iran's competitors in the region we should mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria and now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there has been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights here and there are never going in happens to define if things would have been happen

part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women while iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomenon i let me jump in you know it's really going to be an ordering of it by the media. pretty bleak picture there are very bleak. is a very bleak picture and unfortunately what we're seeing now is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know that iraq iran's competitors in the region we should mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there has been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights here and there are never going in happens to define of these thi

part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women while iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomenon i let me jump in you know it's really going to be an ordering of it by the media. pretty bleak picture there are very bleak. is a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know that iraq iran's competitors in the region we should be mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria and now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there's been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights mine and i never go in happens to define of these things would ha

part of the occupation supporters propaganda was to help iraqi women while iraqi women don't dare walk the streets at night so all together the occupation is still a living phenomenon i let me jump in here with you jordan offered by the media mayor look pretty bleak picture there mayor very bleak. a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know that iraq iran's competitors in the region we should be mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there has been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights mine and i never go in happens to deny any of these things would have been happe

the neocons align with an urbane iraqi expatriate named ahmed al chalabi. he heads the iraqi national congress, a group of emigres and defectors lobbying to get rid of saddam. >> i say to you now the opposition is united in its aim of getting rid of saddam and establishing democracy in iraq. >> he was a very impressive and effective spokesman for the iraqi opposition to saddam. >> a very slick operator who was skillful enough to convey the idea that he could step in as a new leader of iraq. but that was totally divorced from realities on the ground. >> i george walker bush do solemnly swear -- >> when george w. bush is sworn in january 2001, rumsfeld, wolfowitz and feith take the reins of defense department policy. vice president cheney has reversed course and now supports regime change in iraq. motive awaits opportunity. and for the bush administration, 9/11 provides it. announcer ] imagine skin so healthy, it never gets dry again. can your moisturizer do that? [ female announcer ] dermatologist recommended aveeno has an oat formula, now proven to build a

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other options exited for how the world might deal with the iraqi aggression.hington could have accepted a so-called arab solution, allowing regional players to solve the crisis without international interference. in fact egypt's hosni mubarak and jordan's king hussein each lobbied president bush over the tell foal before are during and after the iraqi invasion to allow the arab world to solve this problem on their own. we know this man, mubarak told bush. the arabs have different rules, different wide acting other than president bush or other american leaders or other western leaders might approve of. mubarak and king hussein told bush time and time again, let us handle this. we need to take care of our own. bush agreed to let his friends give it a try for a world. he told them they could try for a negotiating evidence deal. programs even one that would have led to reduction in kuwait sovereignty even as he instructed his own staff to seek further openings, and there were in fact further options beyond the military course which, of course, we'll turn to in due

bush begins immediately after iraqi forces invaded kuwait in august 1990.n considering the gulf war, washington could you please let hussein's aggression go. it could have done not in as kuwait was followed up by neighbor. in fact, many experts including bush's own inner circle initially argued for just that position. some argued in fact the united states has no real allies region, only injuries. chief among those with ensuring the continued flow of gulf oil to the world. kuwait was no democracy and neither were any of his neighbors. they are so not only america now is because of ideology, but because they shared something in common. put simply, the middle east mattered in global politics because of its oil. the world cared about the polls because it had oil and coal states tolerate an international interference in their affairs because corners brought the oil. i hate to be so blunt, but anything else is sugarcoating situation. saddam hussein but this arrangement. he loved us so much he wanted to sell more oil to the world, more than opec gertner's includin

written by the iraqi. prefer the iraqi and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. in. turn was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. and the european commission work hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links was published and immediately after the european commission set up a working group with the iraqi on exactly this topic generated nine hundred eighty . this is decker seal philips presents his europe in one thousand nine hundred and his action plan for the single market. ten days later shocker lorch new president of the european commission speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech it doesn't mean you need to be. in june one thousand nine hundred five your coal fields vice president of the commission publishes to frame a single market white paper a copy paste of the. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought y

written by the iraqi.referral showed that the iraqi and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. in the. turn was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. and the european commission worked hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links was published and immediately after the european commission set up a working group with the iraqi on exactly this topic generated nine hundred eighty . this is decker sheol phillips presents his europe in one thousand nine hundred and his action plan for the single market. ten days later chuckle or new president of the european commission speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech done to me in india. in june one thousand nine hundred five norco fields vice president of the commission publishes the famous single market white paper a copy paste of the. we are facing a lot of problem you know. because no one thought to drink no good school. minutes when you feel pa

go through iraqi kurdistan and to iran to conduct some but objectivity is and gather intelligence. as part of their effort to to maybe in future attack attack iran their role in syria is now quite clear with a with a bomb or a bombing. yesterday or the day before yesterday and to and to syria so israel is a very close ally of the united states it's a forward military base practically for the united states and it is playing also a poisonous role in the region. the united gentlemen gentlemen if you don't get into one and i want mayor to be able to reply please do not jump in please do well in terms of israel having a close relations with the united states absolutely sammy says this is the lynchpin of israel's security and in terms of us having wars with other countries some of those wars were justified i've seen the six day war was justified because the arab countries around iran this wanted us wanted to throw us in the sea and this is what they were saying and that was a very justified war but israel's occupation of the west bank justified no i don't think it is justified and i want

in the first hours and days after the iraqi invasion, washington blinked.andard, it cost your this is not the image of a decisive decision-making typically recalled when memories of the gulf war are thought of. we recall instant president bush defiantly declaring, this will not stand. this will not stand. this aggression against way. frequently lost our collective memory is the fact that this defiant statement happened five days after the iraq invasion. five days in fact when the world, the country, and i would argue in fact the majority of his staff wondered exactly what he would decide. and for historians that tells us that other options were not only considered on the table, but were considered viable as well. and much occurred behind the scenes between the first and fiftthefifth of august to india, scowcroft and state department colleague lawrence eagleburger warned the present endorsement of a more vigorous response and here today, more than 20 years later as we discuss the gulf directed to i think we should be frank about what finally moved bush to ac

i started digging for more information about the iraqi. i went to our archive and i didn't find anything. i started diving into the alien world of the business press newspapers like the financial times the economist german business newspapers and we found a reference to a new report that had been published shortly before called reshaping europe. that's one of the rather interesting and we ordered this reports at the european the round table at quarters. i wrote on the request mentioning as the purpose of research. i did not believe i would get anything but a few days later a big brown envelope arrived in my letter box. please booklets are inside missing links missing networks and resave in europe. may take the first two publications going through them something strange about them somehow they look so familiar. euro tunnel. scanning. peyronie's corridor. i go to the archive. at. the t. and projects by the commission. i go through the papers compare them back and forth. striking similarity. projects are almost identical. commission seems to

but the flag was quickly removed and replaced with an iraqi flag for the statue was pulled down a groupof iraqis are shown sharing in photos behind the toppling statue which the media used to show as proof that iraqis were happy to have been liberated however a wide angle shot later release shows a very small group of people cheering on obviously strategically planted considering how the rest of the square was vastly empty other than a few confused iraqi onlookers according to researchers from george washington university the images of the statue toppling aired on fox about every four minutes and c.n.n. played it on average every seven minutes but it wasn't only that these outlets constantly aired this imagery anchors like wolf blitzer and brit hume compared the event over and over again to the tearing down of the berlin wall and thus america's victory over communism yeah because that's a fair comparison. now another famous example is the case of private first class jessica lynch allegedly lynch was captured as part of an ambush convoy and as the story goes she was shot stabbed repeated

and just completely destroyed the iraqi military. so there he is, realizing we just destroyed the fourth -- the world's fourth largest tank army in four days. a few months before this the soviet union went up in smoke. the cold war is over. ever thinking, what am i going to be doing the rest of my life? what is the army going to be doing? he came with the idea that nobody is really ever going to challenge the united states again in a head-on contest of strength. it is going to be other kinds of conflicts on the side. maybe insurgencies, terrorist attacks, that sort of thing. no, he did not know anything about this because he never learned it in west point. they did not teach it was point. that did not teach it in the general staff college. so he went off to oxford and got a graduate degree in rhode book called learning to eat soup with a knife which came from lawrence of arabia's description of fighting in a guerrilla war. and he compared the british experiments -- experience in a letter which succeeded and the american experience in

written by the iraqi.the final showed that the iraqi and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. the tone was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. and the european commission work hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links was published and immediately after the european commission set up a working group with the unexpected this topic generally nine hundred eighty five this is decker seal phillips presents his europe one nine hundred ninety and his action plan for the single market. ten days later chuckle or the new president of the european commission gives a speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech done to me in india. in june one thousand nine hundred five from your cofield vice president of the commission publishes the famous single market white paper a copy paste of the ticker plan. for . a lot. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has

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but the flag was quickly removed and replaced with an iraqi flag before the statue was pulled down agroup of iraqis are shown sharing in photos behind the toppling statue which the media used to show as proof that iraqis were happy to have been liberated however a wide angle shot later release shows a very small group of people cheering on obviously strategically planted considering how the rest of the square was vastly empty other than a few confused iraqi onlookers according to researchers from george washington university the images of the statue toppling aired on fox about every four minutes and c.n.n. played it on average every seven minutes but it wasn't only that these outlets constantly aired this imagery anchors like wolf blitzer and brit hume compared the event over and over again to the tearing down of the berlin wall and thus america's victory over communism yeah because that's a fair comparison. now another famous example is the case of private first class jessica lynch allegedly lynch was captured as part of an ambush convoy and as the story goes she was shot stabbed re

security forces, the police, the iraqi army.and i felt that that was, um, in large part the beginning of the end for al-qaeda in iraq. can you comment on that? >> the beginning of the yen? >> the beginning of the end -- >> oh, yeah, it was. absolutely. what happened in anbar, as you well know, was some sunnis actually approached this guy, colonel sean mcfarlane, who is the commander of the first brigade there and said, listen, a lot of us are getting really upset with al-qaeda. i mean, held try to marry some people off to their daughters, they killed a couple of very beloved sheikhs, and they said, you know, we, we're willing to side with you if you can assure us that you're going to stay here for a while and really help us out. and that was the beginning. and, yeah, it's true, it's one thing, you know, as you, as this man said, al-qaeda had a good slogan going which was kill the infidel occupiers. and when they couldn't do that very well anymore and they started going after just the collaborators -- and these were in some cases

the iraqi army is defeated. our military objectives are met.e more in the hands of kuwaitis, control of their own destiny. we share in their joy, tempered only by our compassion for their ordeal. we went halfway around the world to do what is immoral, just common and right. we fought hard, and with others we won the war. meet it took aggression and tear in may from a small country that most americans had never heard of and asked nothing in return. we're coming home now proud proud, confident, heads high, there is much that we must do at home and abroad and we will do it. we are americans. may god bless this great nation, the united states of america. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> dr. jeffrey engel. [applause] >> howdy. imus a lot of things about aggie land, imus the students come in is the bar-b-que, imus the football especially this last year, i really miss howdy. this is my first visit back to the bush school in two years and it is really hard not to feel completely overwhelmed by the memories. in every possible way the bush school provided a home. our k

forces and iraqi security forces to do it themselves. i look for, if confirmed, to try to continue that effort to help out to help them prepare themselves -- effort to help them prepare themselves to take care of themselves. >> i have been to two hearings now on the benghazi attack -- a foreign relations hearing and a hearing on this committee. there is still some confusion about security that is provided to our diplomatic personnel around the world. in the benghazi situation, we were dealing with military security and state department personnel, but also two local militias, one on arms, and one on some sort of strike or work slowdown because of been sick or wages. i would like you to talk about -- and one on some sort of strike or work slowdown because of benefits or wages. i would like you to talk about embassy security. >> if confirmed, i will work closely with the department of state, which has the primary responsibility, to understand and have the best situational understanding so that we understand the ones that are most threatened

he became infamous among iraqi insurgence. he had killed more than 150 insurgents and, as you mentioned, his legacy lived far beyond the service community. he was known to millions of americans. in a recent interview with conan o'brien, he talked about his time in the field in iraq and why he had a $20,000 bounty on him by the iraqi insurgents. take a listen. >> how did the iraqi insurgents identify who you were? >> when i'd go into the house and we'd have to occupy houses. i would take the top of my uniform off and have my short sleeve shirt on and you could see my tattoo coming down my arm and they identified that with me and started every time somebody would be shot by a sniper in the area, they would associate that with me. >> he was incredibly humble man. in fact, miguel, when i spoke to his friend a little while ago, travis cox, he said he was not proud of his service but for being a family man. migu miguel? >> after he left the s.e.a.l.s. he had a other mission of helping soldiers with posttraumatic stress syndrome. is

you don't just turn it over to the iraqis who aren't capable of holding it.u stay there and help build an infrastructure. build trust within the community, help build a security structure. so these four things did not happen by coincidence. it was all part of this plot. and by the way, when i use the word "plot," i generally am not a conspiracy guy. but these people refer to themselves as a plot. they called themselves the cabal or the west point mafia, because a lot of them came out of the social science department of west point which had a tradition of forming networks among theire own graduates. so this was very conscious. and, for example, it's -- all of this happened not by coincidence. for example, petraeus when he was in leavenworth, he wasn't just sitting in leavenworth. he had alv vast network of oldot colleagues throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them.s he deliberately forms a back v channel. he cultivates this woman in the white house named megyn to o'sullivan who is president bush's every chief adviser in the national securi

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,

met with this known iraqi intel officer and there were pictures of the actual iraqi intel officer was less than was on see if i remember correctly but it wasn't in the photo that's the thing we all of people tell us that we look like somebody and somebody say oh no you're with someone you know you look like so and so but it's not i'm not them and they're not me and that's a guess as plain as i can make it so to rule on the photograph or actually the photograph again never being made known because if everybody asked to see it people have said it's not him. to watch then our vice president live and say it was him or not mention the photograph but use a photograph as the reliance. was outrageous or you were in government official at that time at the time and i and i and i and again you know they as i said given the show. the i could not believe that a part of the saying my vice president was all of our vice president but lying on t.v. and how does he know what i know and we have the greatest intelligent machine in the world we have the capabilities that every nation would wish for to gat

we have no animosity, toward the iraqi people. we'd like to have peace with them. a great number of people, citizens of my own state of israel, came from iraq. they were forced to leave back in the early 1950s and we'd like to have peace with the iraqi people. >> where do you think america's alignment with israel is right know? along a continuum? a lot of talk about what the historic relationship of the united states israel has been, much controversy over whether we're adequately supportive of israel in some of these fights that have broken out. as we sit here today, chuck hagel, the former senator from nebraska s in the middle of confirmation hearings and a flash point in the haagle here's is is he supportive -- hagel is is he supportive of israel. questions during the campaign by governor romney, is president obama adequately supportive of israel. can you characterize the relationship as you see it from your perspective? >> let me first talk about the relationship between the people of israel and the united states. we're talking about a relationship which has ver

they get some iraqis to open up newspapers. he opens up the border to syria along northern iraq. does all this on his own. he is not doing it in the coordination of anybody washington, baghdad or anyplace and it works for a while. then he is rotated out and the brigade comes than half the size of his division led by somebody who spent the previous four months bashing down doors in until someone else comes in later. here's where the story starts to get interesting. here's where the groups on each other. i am condensing a lot of things but let me give you some of the basics. petraeus is sent off to ft. leavenworth. a lot of people in the army didn't like petraeus. they didn't like officers who were too bookish or who stood out too much and petraeus was very much on many counts. zero he was sent to ft. leavenworth kansas and a lot of people are thinking the fair-haired leg, they are sending them out to pasture. he gets to ft. leavenworth and he realizes something. he realizes that this is actually the intellectual sector of the army. they write doctrine. they form the curriculum and