weapons of mass destruction weapons of mass destined weapons of mass destruction was a convenient way of tricking our congress and to giving the president authority to wage this war saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons development clear weapons nuclear weapons it was clear that iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program but over and over again president bush secretary of defense rumsfeld particularly vice president cheney but also national security advisor condi rice drummed up the idea of a reconstituted nuclear capability and picture particularly the notion that i think has some resonance among the american people of the mushroom cloud leaders will use worst case assessments. that point to nuclear weapons to generate political support because they know people fear nuclear weapons so much the evidence was simply not there. wolfowitz would be asked to explain you know how good is the evidence can you tell us more about it this in nato mind you and he'd say well it's like this it's like pornography. hard to describe but i'll recognize it when you see it. my guy an

if there are no weapons of mass destruction which there aren't if there are no ties with al-qaeda which they were and which they aren't maybe now there are. then why do we go to war. well all you need do is go on the web and and download project for a new american century day you will find the ideological and the strategic underpinnings for this policy which was rejected by george bush the first which is ridiculed out of town in those days became the devout policy of this government and was implemented starting with the war i felt in my last year in the pentagon that i felt there was a great deal of contempt for the constraints on government that our constitution lays out. and i also felt that there was a contempt for the constitution and i only absorbed this sense of contempt by association with with some of the so senior appointed civilians who are all neoconservatives who all believe in dominance who believe in preemption who believe in the military option as the first resort rather than the last resort they have had a very fixed indeed almost obsessive idea that in fact iraq is a ma

weapons capability ironically the major fact of the invasion of iraq in terms of weapons of mass destruction as to be has been to show that the inspectors were right all along the inspection regime worked. it was the most intrusive inspection regime in history and it worked and at the end the day that's another reason why we went to war for not. these maniacs. urging our enemies weakening our troops resolve and confusing the american people you should listen to these protests because they're obviously hoping saddam hussein who would have guessed that you could build a massive international peace movement on the protection of sadam hussein the media is culpable for the misleading of the american public they bought into the bush administration's rhetoric they don't understand that there was moral violence and immoral violence we use moral violence god bless this president he is truly a great man reducing troop morale confusing the american people involving our enemies they are absolutely committing sedition treason as far as i'm concerned there's a huge difference between personal opinion and

that is, assistance in gaining access to a weapon of mass destruction. now, that is a fictional extension, but i don't think it is a long leap from what we in fact know. i am very distressed that the facts that underlay "keys to the kingdom" have been so effectively withheld from the american people. and there have been some serious consequences of that withholding. one of which is i think that we have treated saudi arabia as a reliable friend, when, in fact, they were very suspicious of faux. and have taken steps that a vendor adverse to u.s. interest. and these were just things that have happened a decade ago. in may of this year, there was the annual conference of the world health organization at its headquarters in vienna. there are over 190 countries that are members of the w.h.o. the united states had as one of its objectives at that meeting, to tighten down on one of the most lethal and virulent potential pathogens for a biological weapon of mass destruction, smallpox. and many of us would think that smallpox has been eradicated. many of us probab

>> two questions, one on saudi arabia and one of weapons of mass destruction in the region. many commentators and observers feel like after the egyptian, i don't no one is a revolution but the ousting of mubarak and at least a revolution in progress that you now in fact have a counterrevolution led i saudi arabia and the gcc countries, the gulf cooperation council and the saudi's moving into bahrain and it includes jordan and morocco to the other side of the arab world. do you see that is part and the saudi's are trying to influence egypt? they didn't want mubarak to go. lots of dictators are inside saudi arabia. do you see that as part is part of what is happening here tacit cooperation between parts of the u.s. government that talk about democracy but when push come to shove really don't want it and obviously antidemocratic portions and the antidemocratic saudi regime? >> certain saudi's have not been a cheerleader for the arab spring that has occurred. some of the things that they have done to try to push back, including the items discussed where they use their military i

i thought many people were under the impression that he had given up weapons of mass destruction. has and what's been done to try to safeguard it? >> yeah, candy. the arms control association estimates right now that libya still has about ten tons of mustard gas, the deadly blister agent. we're told by a nato official that nato has been using satellites, drones and other aircraft to keep a sort of direct eye on where some of this material, the mustard gas and other weapons of mass destruction are being stored. we've also been told that the u.s. and other countries have had people in contact working with the national transitional council to try to help them in securing some of these sites. they have been in the country over the past several weeks and have been in contact with ntc leaders, and the hope is that none of this material would sort of leave the control of the ntc right now. >> chris, we want to show our audience some video, this just coming into us, in reuters. this is, and i'm seeing it for the first time, but in -- we are going to see saif al islam who is on the shoulde

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no weapons of mass destruction. should go back and live a few years where we had dick cheney and donald rumsfeld telling about, that is why they we trying to get out of the way. about: paul -- colin powell 1 them there were no weapons of mass destruction -- let's wait. anybody tell you anything different, they are plainly lying. host: let's hear from westley on the democrats' line from sacramento. good early morning pretty caller: the last caller was flat on target. i am retired marines. received a purple heart while this guy mr. cheney, he had five deferments. he is a good liar. this should be on "book tv" as opposed to this show where more important things are going on. host: on twitter this morning -- here is an e-mail this morning -- hue was the lone voice of for a vigorous defense against the enemies of the united states. history will vindicate this man when the generation is long gone. the heaters are very foolish. independent color. >> my daughter took a postgraduate course in biological weapons from the biol

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likely to be a nexus of terrorism and a dictator capable of doing something with weapons of mass destruction. that is not the way he talked ramping up to that invasion. >> that's not the reason at all either. the reason it was a little hanging fruit. we went to the pentagon before donald rumsfeld cut us off, we being the planning staff at state. i led the effort, and we talked with the pentagon on a number of items, and we talked about what would become the axis of evil. we all agreed, the pentagon agreed, state agreed, i think the entire bureaucracy agreed north korea was the number one threat, and iran was a close second in terms of terrorism. iraq came in third or fourth, third if you're going to count the axis of evil being three, so it was low-hanging fruit. we'd seen the first gulf war, we knew the onslaught in iraq would be short and sweet and we'd win, but we didn't think about the aftermath, obviously. cheney is putting forth a preposterous position with regard to iraq. >> let's listen to what cheney had to say when matt lauer asked whether the iraq war was worth trillions of dollar

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troops did not find weapons of mass destruction in iraq.e, a bloody terrorist insurgency began killing americans by the day. even one of cheney's old friends joined the ranks of his critics. >> i never suspected that the occupation would be so incompetent. i was really dashed with that. i just couldn't stand the thought myself that people are dying because of their incompetency. >> we have been coming out of the oval office one day and cheney said, it was only 800 days, kind of joking that the administration had a couple of years left is all. i said, for you, not me. >> in november 2006, voters gave democrats control of the house of representatives for the first time in a dozen years. the next day, president bush fired rumsfeld. cheney strongly disagreed with the decision, but bush asked him to deliver the news to his old friend anyway. >> don was the toughest boss i had ever had, the most demanding, and the most commanding. i have never worked harder for a boss. and i have never learned more from one either. >> but even with rumsfeld gone,

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hunt the colonel down as concerns grow but will get their hands on the country's weapons of mass destruction. gloomy forecasts for economic growth in frogs despite the country announcing new austerity measures of twelve billion euro cuts tax hikes for the rich. republic of abkhazia votes for a new president with much of the country lying in ruin after years of struggling to maintain independence from georgia. worldwide news live from moscow city center this is r.t. with me recent shots british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at colonel gadhafi his command and control bunker in his hometown of sirte and it comes just by nature as previous denials that it would assist rebels in the hunt for the libyan leader whose whereabouts are still unknown the opposition has sent in special forces to search for the khan and his move to the national transitional council from his stronghold in benghazi to the capital tripoli has seen one of us bloodiest battles in the six days that since the revolt reached the city reports of massacres by both sides have been streaming in as rebel struggle to establi