joining us now is retired army colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chaef form er chief of staff for colin powell and served during the first term of the administration. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> looking back on the start of the war and looking back on the past 8 1/2 years, how it feels for you to have the iraq war ending now and having all the american troops coming home. >> let me say first that i want to thank you for your very eloquent and accurate commentary with regard to the state of condition of the u.s. armed forces. it's unconscionable in some respects that we have let these people sacrifice for as long as they have in afghanistan and iraq and literally gone on with our lives. reduced taxes, as you pointed out, and shopping as president bush said, and so forth. these men and women not only deserve to come home, they deserve to come home a long time ago. the preposterous protests being made by members of my political party, like john mccain and lindsey graham and others, just boggle my mind. we need to move in a military sense back to a position of strategic

sign for show and tell on tonight's program and last week and spoke with colonel lawrence wilkerson about the u.s. covert war in iraq and we ask you how far you think is escalating tensions could go between the two countries let's go to producer. had to say over the past several years we have watched the covert war against iran heat up from the sucks now virus explosions at nuclear facilities to the unexplained is a. parents of iranian nuclear scientists and just last week iran revealed that they were in possession of the us sentinel drone which was flying over iranian airspace this against the backdrop of an increasingly heated rhetoric coming from the u.s. political class from the president no options off the table means i'm considering. all options to the g.o.p. presidential candidates people after all the work we've done there's nothing else we could do but such bill take military action but of course you take military action if in the end despite all of those things the dictatorship research you have to take whatever steps are necessary to break your parachute of a newsgroup so do yo

what does that say about our media and our political culture here to discuss this with me is lawrence wilkerson retired united states army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell lawrence thanks so much for being here tonight thanks for having me now i think that one of the questions that people can ask is obviously the as i mentioned we have war in afghanistan in iraq libya somalia yemen pakistan why do we care about just some book that might get released today but i think if there is a lot to be looked at in terms of this book in terms of the media blitz as i called it that's going on around it i mean would you call this as glenn greenwald called it the fruits of elite immunity that we're seeing i think that's a good way to look at it agree with you though that in the face of hurricane irene and sixty six casualties like as yesterday u.s. alone in afghanistan and the in this war of afghanistan in iraq. cheney's book is singularly and significant. but the fact that dick cheney is perhaps i mean a lot of people out there would say that former vice president dick cheney and former pres

at least to a new report detailing where in romania a secret cia prison was located colonel lawrence wilkerson is going to join us for that one then just days after russia's parliamentary elections hillary clinton and lattimer putin are involved in a war of words so why the sudden rise in tensions and what will it mean for the reset marchetta manas is going to be here to hash it all out and today hillary clinton gave a speech at the hague about internet freedom we're going to take a look at whether her words of wisdom for the world match up with internet policies right here at home or have all that and more fit and i couldn't get us happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. so today the president gave a press conference after his pick for the consumer financial protection bureau richard cordray was blocked by republicans and the president came out swinging saying not only that a recess appointment wasn't off the table but the once again republicans have put politics before the interests of the american people and i totally agree here that it is ridicul

call for the arrest of the vice president so did we really leave the country any better off or lawrence wilkerson is going to join us for that then as troops come home from war there's another issue to be confronted the more troops took their own lives in the last year than died in combat in both iraq and afghanistan or the armed forces doing account of the issue and what can we all do to help and then as the occupy movement passes its three month anniversary more targeted actions are being planned specifically to occupy the iowa caucus so i can get all the details from gavin aronson on just what exactly the activists plan to do we'll have all that and more for night couldn't get us of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so once again surprise surprise congress is at a complete standstill they need to extend the payroll tax before january first in order for americans that really need it right now to get that break but as usual and sort of a really big about what's best for the country at the moment it's broken down into a he said she said

call for the arrest of the vice president so did we really leave the country any better off lawrence wilkerson is going to join us for that then as troops come home from war there's another issue to be confronted the more troops took their own lives in the last year than died in call.

responded a viewer that watched my interview with former chief of staff to colin powell colonel lawrence wilkerson on the impending war with iran martians stories commented on you tube excellent episode extremely well spoken thoughtful man i hope the idiots listen to him you know what i do too but unfortunately it really doesn't seem like they are as lawrence said during this interview the slow march to war with iran see. to be on not only we've seen every single g.o.p. presidential candidate say for ron paul trying to one up each other over how quickly they would bomb and run covert missions in iran but the president himself came out last week and said that every option is on the table and now the u.s. is covert with iran is out in the open it's time for those who don't want another u.s. led military conflict to stand up be voices of reason against a political class who seems hell bent on another conflict in the middle east and finally want to respond to a kind of you or progressive x. tweeted to us it is truly a glimmer of hope that we have real news from at the alona show and r t we're fortunat

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your responses and here's our next question for you on the show we just spoke with colonel lawrence wilkerson about the u.s. covert war with iran so how far do you think of as a play the tensions will go between the two countries let us know you think on facebook twitter and you tube and it was a response just might make it on air. now if you were wiki leaks released a quarter of a million confidential state department cables they were splashed across the internet published on the front pages of the new york times the guardian hillary clinton responded and the entire u.s. foreign policy world was in a tizzy. united states strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information it puts people's lives in danger threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. well it's funny because the government seems to have forgotten about all that and prefers to live in a dream state pretending that those cables aren't public knowledge say back in april the a.c.l.u. filed a freedom of information act request seeking it twenty three

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worse off so why are officials keep peddling missive success here to discuss this with me is lawrence wilkerson retired united states army colonel and former chief of staff to call about once thanks so much for being here tonight thanks rym so how do we look at this right the day. a after the troops all leave and it's this gigantic ceremony then suddenly now we have these sectarian rifts that are showing now we have the government essentially falling apart people being accused of assassination attempts what do you say about that in two thousand and five those people at the central intelligence agency and the state department who knew the area really well experts in the area said and i'll never forget this if we stay there a year or if we stay there twenty years or if we stay there one hundred years the day we leave everything will go to hell i think they were right but so in that sense i mean the question here right is did we leave iraq any better off too early we should never have gone to iraq did we leave iraq any better off probably not let's just check things we left them some two hundred t