and other afghan war chiefs become the best allies of donald rumsfeld also known as mr war in america. they received millions of dollars to oust the taliban. after the fall of kabul in two thousand and two flame the former war chief is named defense minister then. disallows him to distribute land in the ship or district. we tried to contact marshall fame several times he did not wish to give us his side of the story. one question remains. how do you earn five hundred thousand dollars when you're a civil servant. a question looming in the streets of kabul. well above zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero to them area and where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly. yet if they get the money to build it they will fall like me. how did they do it people in the streets are not the only ones who have become suspicious the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that share poor is wealthy be investigated. to newell's else the subject is

the government's wordplay in the lead up to the war mr ames thanks being with us tonight on r.t. so tony blair has admitted there isn't a giving up private assurance to george w. bush that he can count on us over iraq but refuses to make that correspondence public how significant is it that he's not there for i guess being fully open i think it is probably the main significance that's come out of the inquiry this week that the inquiry wanted to publish extracts of the correspondence between tony blair and george bush and some of the records of the conversations but the cabinet secretary here blocked it after consulting with blair it does come time to blair blair didn't try to hide behind the officials and what it does is to give blair the right to the ability to hear him to define what he said his own terms rather not actually seeing the very words that he used some of them have been reported some of them have been leaked to some extent it was confirmed today but it is very important we see exactly the terms in which tony blair made a commitment to george bush in the run up to th

mr. poverty. the war on poverty in the 1960's head. he ventured into politics including a run for vice president as mcgovern running mate in 1972 and fat of maria shriver schwarzenegger former first lady of california. but his life work was poverty. he was associated with many landmark programs. volunteers in service to america head start which to this day is low income children and family in the job corps. they all benefited from his leadership. with his wife miss shriver he started the special olympic which became a worldwide movement. in 1994 president clinton presented him with a nation highest civilian honest. presidential medal of freedom. in 2003 sergeant shriver washington diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. even as he became according to his daughter a shell of his former self he served the nation again as a visible reminder of the disease an at the able of 93 hel goes to mass every day. and believe it or not he still remembers the hail mayor but he doesn't remember me, maria. >>reporter: his life work is perhaps best captured

mr. sherman: the third amendment. no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: amendment iv the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. mr. lynch: amendment v no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. denham. mr. denham: -- i now yield to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks. mr. franks: nor shall any perso

mr. sherman: the third amendment. no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: amendment iv the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. mr. lynch: amendment v no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. denham. mr. denham: -- i now yield to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks. mr. franks: nor shall any perso

weak in their current clear trade surplus us on the back of the monitor a speculation mr montell the believes peloso war may turn into a trade war the russian public opinion research center asks such as us what current say they prefer for their savings most respondents eighty eight percent stick to the russian ruble eleven percent prefer the u.s. dollar and another eight percent keep their savings in your roles carlos a manipulation said to be on the g twenty edge into this year. ok gentlemen michael and daniel before the break. we got into a little brouhaha about ideology but i think going to martin here you live in hong kong part of china i live in russia here and one of the most refreshing things about living and watching the economy develop in russia is that it is not ideological at all it is an intensely pragmatic they make mistakes they still have big problems but there's no there's no model to do saying oh but according to this theory in this book and you know they really don't i mean in any it is trial and error at times but they get it right more times than not in expression how they went throu

mr. speaker, perpetual war is expensive. we have been militarily involved in the persian gulf region now for 20 years. experts have predicted that the cost of this continuous and expanding war will reach $6 trillion. the hostilities in our overt involvement in iraq can be dated back to january 16, 1991, when the defensive operation desert shield became the offensive operation desert storm. though the end of the persian gulf war was declared on april 6, 1991, with a u.s. military victory, the 20-year war was just beginning. the u.s. and britain have had an intense interest in controlling the oil of the middle east dating back to the overthrow of the ottoman empire during world war i. this interest expanded during world war ii with f.d.r.'s promise to protect the puppet government in the persian gulf region, especially saudi arabia. though this arrangement never set well with the citizens in the region, a fairly decent relationship remained between the arab people and the american public. but animosity continued to build with

mr. president, the decision to end the war where you did when you did, tell us about that. >> well, we had an objective. the objective was to kick this guy out of kuwait. and we did it. and we formed a coalition to help achieve that. and so it didn't enter my mind that we ought to do more, that we ought to go on further. now we're in charge, we ought to kill him. that wasn't the objective and that wasn't the way in which he formed an unprecedented international coalition. so when people came to me and said "it's over, we won," that was fine. that was enough. >> did any of the gentlemen at this table advocate going further? to baghdad, to saddam? were you present when anyone of senior rank did? >> no. >> no one did. >> and mr. vice president, of course this things us to one of many elephants here in this sizeable room, and that is, true or false, question you've answered before, the way gulf war one was executed and when and where it stopped, led almost by definition, to gulf war two. >> well, i guess i would take exception to that, brian. we were -- a lot of the advice we got when we got t

it is time to end the war in afghanistan. it is time for mr. obama to keep his word to the american people and that is to bring them out in july of 2011. mr. speaker, before closing, i would like to say as i always do, god, please continue to bless our men and women in uniform. god, please in your loving arms hold the families who have given a child dying in afghanistan and iraq. god, please bless the house and senate that we will do what is right in your eyes for your people. god, please give strength, wisdom and courage to the president of the united states, that he will do what is right for your people. and, god, three times i will ask, please, please, please, god, continue to bless america. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i send to the desk two privileged reports from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house r

has remained a key player in the transshipment of goods to the war torn region a fact mr o'reilly neglected to mention. in his view russia is bad because they don't automatically support the u.s. in all of our foreign policy decisions so he's trying to use this manipulate this to anger his viewers to get them upset with russia other u.s. commentators didn't bother clarifying their facts they've recently taken their attacks into the heart of russia to transportation hubs and cultural centers in moscow and elsewhere c.n.n. may not know that terrorist attacks in the heart of russia date back to nine hundred ninety nine but a series of apartment bombings took place in moscow preempting the second chechen war one of many reasons moscow was warning the u.s. about threats of islamic terrorists before nine eleven if this in fact was following monday's attack us media outlets flipped the fear mongering switch morning about a possible destabilization of the caucasus region and the price of oil the worldwide price of oil which is already high that's right to get even higher and his

mr putin said it's. worrying that the russian federation would we need in world war two without ukraine so is this. the official position of the russian federation all these a person this is this is the personal opinion of mr putin and also at the end of. the year the training in library has been closed. because the criminal case. is still working but the criminal case is long we would like to know what's the future. and. if the materials found there will be conceded and extremist what's will happen to the library and the third question when we do plan to finish the dimmock ation of the russian ukraine border and what will be the conditions for the years of carriage. area. of recruitment well you have a large broad range of interests thank you. talking of victory in world war two. i think none has doubts that the russian. top level representatives the russian federation the government and all other members of the russian people. believe that it was a joint victory of the soviet people it says stated all of the and all of the agreements in all of the official documents and that's the way it was. russ

mr. speaker, our nation is now in its 10th straight year of war. the military occupation of afghanistan is longer than any war in our nation's history. an entire generation of young people, including my three grandchildren who came with me to visit washington for the swearing in is growing up knowing nothing but a nation at war. this war is not a just and moral war. it is a moral abomination with devastating human costs. and it's not just fiscally irresponsible and unsustainable with a price tag of about $370 billion. but it is all of that. perhaps the most tragic irony of this war is for all the sacrifice, it's not even doing what it was supposed to do, keeping us safe and defeating a terrorist threat. if iraq and afghanistan have proven anything to us, mr. speaker, it's that we need an entirely new national security model, one that emphasizes brains over brawn and one that uses soft power instead of hard and one that protects america by relying on the most honorable american values, love of freedom, desire for peace, moral leadership, and compass

mr. sherman: the third amendment. no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: amendment iv the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. mr. lynch: amendment v no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. denham. mr. denham: -- i now yield to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks. mr. franks: nor shall any perso

mr investigates. when it comes to the afghan war well over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having ploughed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the us committed to staying the course there are all kinds of motives for that war it's looting energy motives and profit motives and strategic motives and if you're wondering why some in the u.s. just might not want to see the war and ever hear of three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billion twenty three point five billion those are roughly the dollar amounts the top three american defense companies were handed in government contracts in two thousand and eight a president once warned about this industry we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought all runs on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago than us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has gone since then it skyrocketed from just around five hundred billion during the vietnam war to more than seven hundred billion dollars now during the

mr. blair sent to president george bush in the year leading up to the war.hat exactly he had committed to. >> what i was saying to president bush is clear and simple. you can counts on us, but here are the difficulties. i was having to persuade him to take a view radically different farrah any in his administration. what i was saying to him is i am going to be with you in handling it this way. i am not going to push you down this path and then back out when it gets too hot politically, because it is going to get hot politically. for me, very much sew. i believed in this. i thought it was the right thing to do. >> but virtually all the time mr. blair was making promises to mr. bush, the legality was being questioned by his own toring, peter goldsmith. had he ais sumed that mr. gold-smith would change his mind? >> no. there was a debate still going on. >> lord goldsmith said he was uncomfortable about the language mr. blair used about the law full ns of an invision. >> i was making a political point, but i was saying it not in the sense of a lawyer, but politi

mr. sherm: the third amendment. no soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. mr. gohmert: amendment iv the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. mr. lynch: amendment v no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the ld or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. denham. mr. denham: -- i now yield to the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks. mr. franks: nor shall any person

role in pakistan and whether the state is just a poor one in the afghan war will cross talk is that so mrs. and you can. follow him welcome to crosstalk i'm peter about plunging into the abyss increased violence in radicalism is tearing pakistan apart can a country that is so polarized remain a staunch ally in washington so-called war on terror. and. to discuss the political situation in pakistan i'm joined by dan hill i'm in dubai he is the editor of the news service pakistan. dot com in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in washington we go to lisa curtis she is a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and another member of our cross talk team you know on the hunger crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in when you want robert i want to go to you first last week we had a popular liberal governor in pakistan assassinated his assassin is turned into a national hero for some people in pakistan and the lawyers that used to play such an important role in defending civil society many young lawyers are lining up to defend

war there. they stuck by their guy. mr r. t. kennesaw georgia. those of you who would like to read a bit more on the gun laws in the united states website. you can find out why and. despite the financial crisis and how lawmakers in new hampshire change gun rules to appeal to quote liberty individual. famous nickname the lady more than three decades ago. this is the life in the russian capital now the pivotal nuclear arms reduction pact between moscow and washington is a final step away from being ratified by the russian parliament once again being debated before heading for its third and final hearing on tuesday russian. start treaty second reading last week in response to changes and reservations raised in washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove all nuclear weapons from europe. also the other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear production in the treaty between president obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate now it needs a final say from the russian parliament deputy foreign minister

mr. mercy who came up and spoke is actually the develop war has gone forward with a development recently during the hard -- during that, he may have brought that up. if we're repeating ourselves. that was during the -- the depth of the lowest part of the market and i think it is going quite successfully from what i'm hearing. so i'm optimistic that we're going to see some production in the near future on this. i'm support ive of the extension. >> commissioner moore? >> i would like to ask mr. bernell, do you have the conditions of approval in front of you? >> yes. >> under item 3, i see this validation is valid for a period of 24 months. aren't we saying we would be extending the authorization for 12 months? am i misunderstanding the way it is written? >> just to clarify, the conditions that were passed out today were the original conditions that -- of approval, which were intended to be included in the pact and were accidentally left out. the conditions for the approval for this motion to extend is only for 12 months. that would be -- and it is specifically called out to november 13th o

war. this is mr. blair's second time in front of the group talking about his role in the lead up to the war, military preparedness, and his relationship with president george w. bush. it starts at 4:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> i have to practice staying alive and preparing to die at the same time. >> sunday, our guest is of author christopher hitchens. >> it is a tantalizing time to have cancer. there are treatments that i can see that are just out of reach that are both encouraging and unknowing. a sunday of an c-span's "q & ." gabrielle giffords is scheduled to travel to houston to continue her rehabilitation. her husband spoke with reporters today. this is 25 minutes. >> what we are going to do with this press conference is i will turn this over to michael. we are also going to have congresswoman giffords' husband, mark kelly, give a statement followed by a few minutes of questions and answers. congresswoman giffords continues to do well. we are pleased with her progression. we are seeing improv

government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay more in mr r. t. new york. still to come here on the program on arts he's going viral on the internet quite literally in the russian sub to invent a powerful online microscope that lets researchers a zoom in on strands of viruses and microbes from anywhere in the world. to the u.k. now where pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country and insolvency service report indicates that over the past decade the number of elderly with growing debts and reduced income has risen six fold as are to use lower and it has been finding out that leaves them struggling to afford the basics . of retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies there's a new survey shows a different side of old age in britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner lydia portsmouth won't say how much money she gets from the state but she's forced to dip into her limited savings to pay her monthl

government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay more on mr r. t. new york. twenty two year old man charged with the attempted murder of a u.s. congresswoman has appeared in a u.s. court jared loftier is accused of going on a shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona where democrat gabrielle giffords was shot in the head she remains in critical condition six other people were killed including a nine year old girl and the district judge for more on the implications of the shooting we're joined from or by agents expert t.j. walker now mr walker thank you for joining us at this moment time now you say that this incident will do for public speaking what nine eleven did to airport security what exactly do you mean by that. well that means there's going to be so much more scrutiny for people going to public events the average congressman for years has received death threats these are usually just from kooks and not taken very seriously well now they take on a whole new light and i predict many members of congress are going to be much

mr. speaker, perpetual war is expensive. we have been militarily involved in the persian gulf region now for 20 years. experts have predicted that the cost of this continuous and expanding war will reach $6 trillion. the hostilities in our overt involvement in iraq can be dated back to january 16, 1991, when the defensive operation desert shield became the offensive operation desert storm. though the end of the persian gulf war was declared on april 6, 1991, with a u.s. military victory, the 20-year war was just beginning. the u.s. and britain have had an intense interest in controlling the oil of the middle east dating back to the overthrow of the ottoman empire during world war i. this interest expanded during world war ii with f.d.r.'s promise to protect the puppet government in the persian gulf region, especially saudi arabia. though this arrangement never set well with the citizens in the region, a fairly decent relationship remained between the arab people and the american public. but animosity continued to build with

mr. hartung's latest book, "prophets of war," contracts the rise of lockheed martin. david eisenhower's latest looks at president eisenhower's life after he left the white house. their conversation takes place at barnes and noble booksellers in new york city. it's just over 45 minutes. .. american makers could with china and as required make swords as oil. but now we can no longer risk the improvisation of national defence. we have been compelled to create a permanent industry of vast proportions. added to this, 3.5 million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. we annually spend our military security more than the net income of all united states corporations. this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the american experience. the total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, has felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government. we recognize the imperative need for this development, yet we must not feel to comprehend its grave implications. our toilet resource

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mrs. washington which i believe is the first instance of its since my return from the war. he had been back from the war for year-and-a-half. first time he dined alone with martha and had been away for eight years and only went back to mount vernon wants for three days. i said earlier george washington was not a cold priggish character of the cherry tree story. nathaniel hawthorne said washington was truly born with his clothes on and with his hair powdered and made a stately ball on his first appearance in the world but there was nothing puritanical about washington and i am not simply referring to his famous infatuation with sally fairfax on the eve of his impatient to mars the. .. fairfax. washington had a friend who remarried at the age of 47. washington considered 47 a comically advanced age to marriage, and he wrote the following letter to a mutual friend. quote: i'm glad to hear that my old acquaintance, colonel ward, is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. the he then went on to suppose that ward had reviewed his strength, his arms and ammunition before he

war there. lifestyle was one they stuck by their guns lauren mr r t kennesaw georgia and those of you would like to read more on the gun laws in us log on to our website our dot com why more americans buy weapons despite the financial crisis and how lawmakers in new hampshire are opting to change gangrels to appeal to liberty loving individuals. plus we reveal just who gave the former u.k. prime minister her famous nickname the iron lady more than three decades ago. at a pivotal nuclear arms reduction pad between moscow and washington is a final step away from being ratified by the russian parliament it's once again being debated before heading for its third and final hearing on tuesday russian lawmakers a man of the start treaty in the second reading last week in response to changes and reservations raise in washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove tactical nuclear weapons from europe the house will also call for other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear reduction treaty signed between presidents medvedev and obama last year has already been ratified by t

war there. lifestyle was one they stuck by their guns lauren mr r t kennesaw georgia. and here's to israel here's a glance rather the story that still have for you the south asian experience and russia leaves manny divided on the possible threats and advantages of teaching religion at school we explain why later in the program. at a pivotal nuclear arms reduction path between moscow and washington is a file step away from being ratified by the russian parliament it's once again being debated before heading for its third of file hearing on tuesday russian lawmakers a man of the start treaty and a second reading last week in response to changes and reservations raised in washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove tactical nuclear weapons from europe the house will also call for other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear reduction the treaty signed between presidents would be out of and obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate and now needs a file say from the russian parliament russia's deputy foreign minister serg