something that shows iraq's intention not to comply. as you told us last february, the bar had been set high. now on the 15th of march, 2003, the prime minister confirmed to the attorney general his unequivocal view of iraq was a further material breach of its obligations under resolutions four to 41. were you comfortable with the situation that the prime minister confirm the existence of a further material breach at a time when the head of the iaea had reported that there was the nuclear program he found at the head of the unmovic had reported improved cooperation? >> yes i was and if i hadn't been i was interested in the cabinet. just to emphasize the point about the bar in op4, as i think i mentioned on the previous hearings, in one of the drafts, there were two instincts and saw the full set of revisions in the declaration . i wanted to see the bar satire, of my personal view. here again i'm afraid i'm going to be best understood with the attorney general. when he gave evidence he said he and an forest assumptive, never intended to b

development assistance to iraq is not open-ended. iraq has vast untapped oil resources. it will be a number of years before iraq will have meaningful oil revenue for its own budget. getting this done means we can transition from war zones to stability. i would like to thank the department of defense and general austin and his troops. i would like to express my admiration and humility in the commitment and sacrifice we see every day in iraq on the part of our civilian staffs, military members, iraqi partners as they risk their livebs lives for a cause they believe in, the iraq i have just finished describing. thank you again for the opportunity to appear before you today. we look forward to working hand-in-hand with you and other congressional colleagues. mr. speaker, at this time i would like to submit our joint statement. >> senators portman and aiyat, we are devited you are with the committee. you talk about stabble and security and self-reliance. -- you talk about stability and security and self-reliance of an iraqi state, and that surely has been the goal. one of the

, and i am not real clear on just how democratic the situation in iraq is. it certainly is not democratic in afghanistan. something far more -- something far more -- government by autocratic regimes, and these reactions are entirely indigenous from the bottom up. not because of american policy. in fact, in places like egypt, we were buddy buddy with the reviled regime in iran for a long time. to pretend that we somehow stimulated the insurrection in egypt sounds like, you know, neocon dilution to me. -- neocon delusion to me. >> back in 2001, the pentagon started calling for the need to buy tankers to re-fuel airplanes. i think it was 100. >> right. >> this is 10 years later. this thing has been up and down and up and down over 10 years, where we do not have new tankers today, and they still have not made a final decision on who will get them. people have gone to jail. it has been awarded to one company and then taken away from them and put out to bid again. what is this about from your perspective? >> it has been about the acquisition process we have in the

abroad from germany japan and china so that's not very sustainable syquest there's a that's big stuff not iraq and or this middle east noise stuff that all that comes out of the middle east is noise. nothing important all right thank you very much for the thank you. liz liz. just. to keep you in. the future. wealthy british. marget. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. the headlines. and fears of violent overcrowding run wild in the government bracing itself for an influx of immigrants from arab countries in turmoil it's feared hundreds of thousands could flee libya the ongoing civil. renewed clashes are rocking athens thousands rally against austerity measures this comes amid fears of billions of dollars of aid going to the middle east at the expense of the e.u. many european countries are concerned about promoting democracy of rule would button on the collecting of their own citizens in the process. of accusations of corruption and mismanagement. of the nation's health ministry in the supply of lifesaving drugs many of turning to alternative medication putti

in iraq than we could have had. al qaeda is notn operative entity in iraq. the sunni revolt that was a large part of the reaction to our occupation in iraq was suppressed, not because of the surge, but because the sunnis got sick, and they needed to affect change. their decision to change their behavior in reaction to the occupation proceeded the surge. it was not caused by the surge. general petraeus has a lot of status in this country, but it is my view that he got lucky in iraq, and we will see how it turns out in afghanistan. so far, it is not turning out too good. >> but you can also look at what is going on in the middle east right now and conclude that the united states' effort in iraq and afghanistan has spread, with this democracy, some of these other countries have hit the streets. >> i do not see that at all. >> why not? >> because these are indigenous situations that started in tunisia. they were imitating what was going on in iraq, and i am not real clear on just how democratic the situation in iraq is. it certainly is

this was back in 2003 or early 2004 and all of a sudden the pentagon realize the iraq war was not going very well and they might need some extra troops so they were suddenly call from korea and sent to the worst part of iraq at the time. they were in the sunni triangle, right between ramadi and fallujah. i am going to tell you -- i have a few of vocabulary words. i had to learn a whole language when i was talking to these guys. one of them the active duty folks know, i refer to something called a saw. is not what you could down trees with. it is squad automatic weapon, in medium-sized machine gun that soldiers carry. i will also refer to something called loop, michigan. this is the four lane highway just like an interstate that connected ramadi and baghdad. they would do highway patrol. highway patrol was so full of firefights and burnout cars on the side of the road that they nicknamed it my last vocabulary word, operation bad bags. they named all their operations after 80s movies. i will read to you a particularly bad day on mad max and afterwards briefly explain how it echoed through

that hasn't happened in iraq. notte sure why that's the case but i mean al qaeda in iraq, i think that that strategic defeat, that remains a problem, continue to be a terrorist problem. i think has been quite a blow to the jihadists moving. what i say in the book is that defeat was the harping for al qaeda losing ideas. i think a wasn't just so much the jihadi movement, al qaeda in iraq. but even more its tactics, while is in power in some areas, i think that's a very, very strong signal that this is what al qaeda looks like when it controlled territory. and even al zebari in a famous letter to al qaeda in iraq he's insisted enough with the televised beheadings. start behaving more rationally. don't make the same mistakes of al qaeda. >> host: so perhaps with all the negatives that have occurred in iraq, is that a positive that has not gotten the attention that it deserves? >> guest: i think it is a positive but asserted was an intimate. one of the things i try to stay in the book, part of the art that some people try

we were wrong. >> well, that's not the case of iraq. >> reporter: we were wrong. >> that's not the case with iraq. i think the world's a better place with saddam hussein gone and with the taliban gone and the al qaeda out of afghanistan. >> we reached out to general colin powell and secretary condoleezza rice. she said she has no comment, and we're still waiting to hear from general powell. >>> and tonight on "nightline," secretary rumsfeld addresses abusive interrogation methods and what he calls his biggest regret, and he will be live tomorrow on "good morning america," and we'll have more on "world news" tomorrow. >>> still ahead tonight, protesters in egypt settling in. can you believe even a nonsmoking section of the demonstration? >>> and new evidence the fight against childhood obesity can start in the baby's very first months. >>> and we choose our own super bowl winners and losers. can you do the national anthem under pressure? [ male announcer ] how can rice production in india, affect wheat output in the u.s., the shipping industry in norway, and the rubber industry, in south

egypt is not like iraq. egypt is not like any of the other arab countries. egypt has the highest number of ph.d.'s, highly-educated people. and many of them are young, under 30, who have no jobs and no prospects for future for marriage or anything like that because they simply don't have the money to do that. this uprising is the first one in almost 7,000-years for the entire egyptian population to come out and say, enough is enough. they want their basic human rights. they want democracy. and to be standing, sitting here in america and talking about allowing mubarak to continue, he's had 30 years to try. we've supported him for 30 years. there was a report yesterday in egypt that his family's wealth is between 40 and $70 billion. so basically they have stolen well above $2 billion a year for each of his 30 years of regime. >> how would you respond to his points? >> well, it's very interesting. in terms of the mubarak's wealth, my hunch is that those reports are greatly exaggerated. they just seem a little bit out of whack to me. but there's absolutely no qu

something that shows iraq's intention not to comply. s you told us last february, the bar had been set high. now on the 15th of march, 2003, the prime minister confirmed to the attorney general his unequivocal view of iraq was a further material breach of its obligations under resolutions four to 41. were you comfortable with the situation that the prime minister confirm the existence of a further material breach at a time when the head of the iaea had reported that there was the nuclear program he found at the head of the unmovic had reported improved cooperation? >> yes i was and if i hadn't been i was interested in the cabinet. just to emphasize the point about the bar in op4, as i think i mentioned on the previous hearings, in one of the drafts, there were two instincts and saw the full set of revisions in the declaration failure by any time to comply with to cooperate fully in the implementation of this resolution as it is it i have to see the complete foley and the plot to fusion was it to comply it like emphasizing this or to have

is not at present capable of security against an external threat. we are keeping military forces in iraq, to the formula. >> i am not going to keep under the current agreement. we will not keep military forces in iraq after 2011. what we will do given the fact that iraq does not have a conventional defense, external defense capability, it is just beginning to develop and the focus has been on internal security. we are going to continue our training and equipment program which would be quite extensive about fms programs that they purchased for battle tanks and armored personnel carriers, 155 mm self propelled howitzers, aircraft systems and other systems they can develop. we will be helping them do this in a broad and extensive way. at this point not with combat troops on the ground. >> in any capacity as opposed to -- >> that is the plan exactly. >> just so i understand. it has been some time since i read this strategic framework agreement but i can provide it for the record. there was loose language in the sense, a further agreement being possible if the iraqi government decided it need

development assistance to iraq is not open- ended. has vast untapped oil resources, but due to the devastated oil infrastructure, it will be a number of years before iraq will have meaningful new oil revenue for its own budget. getting the military to civilian transition in iraq also will demonstrate more generally that we can transition security successes in war zones into long-term stability including for afghanistan. in closing, i would like to thank the department of defense, central command, and above all, general austin and his troops for the support they are giving us in this mission. i would like to express my admiration and humility in the face of the commitment we see on the part of our military and stuff. as they missed their lives for because they believe in, the iraq i just finished describing. i thank you again for the opportunity to appear before you today. >> posted a will be made part of the record. we welcome you very warmly. we repeat that welcome. we are delighted that you are with the committee. other new members

standing on tucker square was thinking about was thinking about iraq that if only we had left iraq alone and not tried to invade them iraq would absolutely be part of this democracy wave today there would have been three quarters of a million dead iraqis largely because of us if not directly at our hands and it wouldn't become a breeding ground for al qaeda so after the invasion so i imagine if we do some counterintuitive history imagine if we hadn't invaded iraq right now saddam would be probably sitting next to ben ali or mubarak and we and we would be and the iraqi people would be thanking us instead of looking at us as a as a country that invaded them are killed hundreds of thousands of people or helped or helped in their death and then you know sat back and are trying to claim credit for whatever measure of democracy is there david if i can go to you can say well look i mean look let's argue on this one for hours i think but david and i'm going to ask you kind of a cynical question here i mean when when when we hear from the west if they want to be involved in democracy building in these co

something that shows iraq's intention not to comply. as you told us last february, the bar had been set high. now on the 15th of march, 2003, the prime minister confirmed to the attorney general his unequivocal view of iraq was a further material breach of its obligations under resolutions four to 41. were you comfortable with the situation that the prime minister confirm the existence of a further material breach at a time when the head of the iaea had reported that there was the nuclear program he found at the head of the unmovic had reported improved cooperation? >> yes i was and if i hadn't been i was interested in the cabinet. just to emphasize the point about the bar in op4, as i think i mentioned on the previous hearings, in one of the drafts, there were two instincts and saw the full set of revisions in the declaration failure by any time to comply with to cooperate fully in the implementation of this resolution as it is it i have to see the complete foley and the plot to fusion was it to comply it like emphasizing this or to hav

they fear that cairo could go the way of baghdad. >> not know. iraq, saddam goes out, one day, destroyed. >> why are you frightened? >> long live mubarak to drown out any further discussion. this presents a challenge to the pro-democracy activists. do they want change enough to withstand this? >> george is on the streets. clearly they are worrying political leaders across the middle east. in yemen, the president has said that he will not extend his presidential term or extend power onto his son. he has been in power more than three decades. that got the opposition groups to cancel protests scheduled for thursday. >> it was the news that the president had wanted to hear for years. in power since 1978, he told parliament when he planned to step down. >> no extension, no inheritance, and no resetting the clock. i call on the opposition to ease all planned protests. i offer these concessions in the interest of the country. the interest of the country come in front of personal interests. >> last month, he said that he wanted the constitution changed so tha

iraq will not defend its sovereignty for some time. and capabilities like sustainment, with more complex training. and we continue to receive moderate equipment to conduct training on that equipment to conduct unit level training. u.s. forces in iraq and iraqi security forces have recently begun the collective trading initiative that allows entire battalions to go through intensive training cycle. that provides the collective training necessary for their units to operate and has been made possible by the much improved security environment. .. >> to a civilian-led effort in iraq. we are dedicated to partnering with our embassy teammates in preparing for this important transition. the key to a successful transition is the need to fully resource the embassy to perform their task and responsibilities. we're developing the office of security corporation which will fall under the embassy, and the osc will provide oversight over all security cooperation in iraq, and it will assume responsibility for the near $13 billion worth of foreign milita

something that shows iraq's intention not to comply. as you told us last february, the bar had been set high. now on the 15th of march, 2003, the prime minister confirmed to the attorney general his unequivocal view of iraq was a further material breach of its obligations under resolutions four to 41. were you comfortable with te situation that the prime minister confirm the existence of a further material breach at a time when the head of the iaea had reported that there was the nuclear program he found at the head of the unmovic had reported improved cooperation? >> yes i was and if i hadn't been i was interested in the cabinet. just to emphasize the point about the bar in op4, as i think i mentioned on the previous hearings, in one of the drafts, there were two instincts and saw the full set of revisions in the declaration failure by any time to comply with to cooperate fully in the implementation of this resolution as it is it i have to see the complete foley and the plot to fusion was it to comply it like emphasizing this or to have

traditional counter- insurgency guidance-- obviously an adaptation from what i did in iraq because this is not iraq by a long stretch-- but i also issued counter-insurgency contracting guidance because if the counter insurgency guidance says that money is ammunition, and it does, contacting guidance should say if money is ammunition we need to put it in the right hands and make sure that it doesn't go into the wrong hands. these are criminals, they have political patronage and they are networks, they are elements they are not just individuals. and these have to be dealt with >> brown: and what if any final impressions of your time with general petraeus? >> well, it was an extraordinary opportunity to really go inside isaf headquarters. we were at the morning briefing where we really heard about a lot of different operations all of them were classified, but we got to see a sense of momentum i think, general petraeus talked about having 110,000 additional troops. as he goes into this, 30,000 are the surge troops that president obama called for; 70,000 are the newly trained afghan forces and 10,000 co

it's not... it's not like that. it was iraq, you know. it's kind of like acceptable to see that there and not... not really care about it. it got to the point, really, it was like seeing a dead dog or a dead cat laying on... it just got to that point. >> narrator: the surge was a strategic success, but for the young soldiers of third platoon, there was a psychological cost. >> they were more exposed to the elements and to the bad guys and to the horrors of the battlefield for longer periods of time without a break, and that's got to have an impact. that's going to. it did have an impact. there's no... clearly no doubt about it. is that a reason not to do the surge? no. the surge worked. we needed to do the surge. war is a dangerous thing, and there is going to be repercussions from the actions, whether they're successful or not. and some of those are going to be us dealing with troops that have psychological problems that they bring back with them. i don't know if there's any way around that. u got to do what youave do. >> narrator: throug

earlier on in the same paragraph he says the united states does not want to impose its view of the world of politics as others and he cited iraq, meaning he was not happy with what happened in iraq and iraq is the one place where america at a very high cost to itself got a democracy. as soon as it got into office, what did the state department do? the money we allocated to help the democrats in egypt was cut in half and the money going to civil society was going -- cut by 70% and the only people eligible were ngo's who were approved by the government. that was a very bad error on the part of the administration and now it is rewriting history. >> let me say something about the larger picture. in most of these countries, the majority of people are under 30, and the majority are under 20. there is huge unemployment. in some countries the highest unemployment percentage wise is among university graduates. so, there is a growing educated middle-class that can't find work, and that is just deadly. >> social media -- >> the factor here that you did not -- do not have been egypt that you have in bahrain and saudi arabia -- the split t

mean small countries when we think about you know the denmark's countries that would not otherwise be for example in iraq countries that don't necessarily always have the best interest in being a part of the script you see anything changing you know in the next five ten fifteen

talk about a process not working. >> it still doesn't address the question of going to war against iraq when the attack came from afghanistan. >> at least at this end of the table, we did not think it was a good idea -- >> i remember that. >> we never thought it was a good idea. as odious as saddam hussein was, he kept allocate out, it was a check on al qaeda a --. he kept al qaeda out, it is a check on al qaeda. he was awful to his own people, but in our national security interests at that point, he was probably good for us. >> the only functioning democracy in the middle east today is iraq. you could argue that the price we pay it was too high. i would ask if the price we paid in korea was too high for half a peninsula. >> i thought israel was of functioning democracy in the middle east. >> yes, it is. it has been an interesting winter so far. >> i was inside out with my neighbor for almost seven hours. >> that gentleman spent a night trapped in his truck on the lakeshore drive, along with other motorists. if global warming is a problem, why are we having such a tough winter? al gore

iraq. should not just focus wholly on iraq? can you remember why you took that decision? >> yes, i can.and i just thought they were different than ird expressed to sir roderic by concern about the inaccuracy as well as the wisdom of lumping iraq, iran and north korea together in a single pot and labeling them the axis of evil. and i thought if we were to publish a four country analysis, how we would be seeing is just adding another country to the axis of evil. instead of having one hand running, we'd have four heads running and he would become unmanageable and then we be asked for we've got to attack libya or north korea? i just didn't think he was going to add anything to a strategy for dealing with those problems. >> there is another argument. there is another argument which is the material on iraq would look thin by comparison on some of the other countries. >> yes, i understand that. i wouldn't use the word sin. it certainly didn't necessarily look stronger than the other countries. if you take north korea that has to be dealt with as was often at lord, the intelligent which above a

development assistance to iraq is not open-ended. iraq has vast untapped oil resources but due to the devastated oil infrastructure, it will be a number of years as senator lugar described, where iraq will have meaningful time for revenue. again as senator kerry recently wrote to the secretary of state, getting the civilian transition in iraq right it will also demonstrate more generally, the ability of our country to transform security successes in war zones to long-term stability that goes beyond iraq, for example in afghanistan. in closing, i would like to thank the department of defense, the central demand and above all, general austin, and his troops, for the support they are giving us in this mission. while our agreement is to go down to zero troops in the country, we have tremendous support from the u.s. military that will continue backing our office of security cooperation and over the horizon in cencom. ides also like to express my regards for those who risk their lives in a cause for what they believe in, the iraq i was just

and certainly not to invade iraq. but the fact is that by the beginning of the 21st century, the united states was so wealthy it could afford to take out insurance policies. if you can attack al-qaeda in afghanistan, then it makes it less likely that al-qaeda can attack us in the united states. and nobody bothered to account the cost. well, there was somebody in the -- i can't remember who it was exactly, somebody in either the bush white house or the pentagon who said, you know, this war is going to -- if we go into iraq, it's going to cost $100 billion. he was immediately followed. well, needless to say, it's cost a whole lot more than that, but there was no serious consideration in congress about this. i, i'm going to go, i'm going to be so bold tonight as to say we are close to the end of america's wars. there aren't going to be any more american wars. okay, i'll back down a little bit. but there are -- >> [inaudible] >> i'm, i'm fairly confident there will be no more wars like the korean war or the vietnam war or

world war ii i assume, that's not hard, but a war like iraq or vietnam or something that is not, you know, full throttle, what do you say? >> a war is armies against navy, air force is against air force's. that's clear. that's understandable. it starts and ends. it ended in world war ii on the uss, the battleship with the signing ceremony. what we went through in the cold war was quite different. it was many decades long. it was an ideological competition of ideas. and it was never going to be a signing ceremony. while we're in today is much more like that. it is a longer period of time. it is a marathon, not a sprint. it is a competition of ideas, but for whatever reason, we are hesitant and not skillful in engaging in the competition of ideas. we recognize that the overwhelming majority of the muslim, but they are fine people who have a religion that is different from christiani or judaism or other religions, but they are not radicals they are not terrorists. they are fine people, and yet they are a small minority of muslims that have engaged in terrorist acts that organize to do t

we were terribly wrong. >> that's not the case with iraq. i think the world's a better place with saddam hussein and with the taliban gone and with the al qaeda out of afghanistan. >> we will hear much more from the former defense secretary, when he appears later on "good morning america." >>> safeway is apologizing for a prescription drug error that may have endangered a colorado woman's unborn baby. a safeway pharmacy near denver gave marina silva another woman's prescription for an abortion pill. doctors were able to prevent a miscarriage. but they said silva could lose the baby or have a deformed child. >>> facebook founder mark zuckerberg is trying to protect himself from an online stalker. tmz says zuckerberg retained a restraining order against a man, and his girlfriend. pradeep manukonda is also accused of sending facebook messages and a letter asking zuckerberg for money. a hearing is set for later this month. >>> keith olbermann has a new tv gig. the former msnbc anchor is expected to announce an deal with current affairs channel.

development assistance to iraq is not open-ended. iraq has vast untapped oil resources but due to the devastated oil infrastructure, it will be a number of years as senator lugar described, where iraq will have meaningful time for revenue. again as senator kerry recently wrote to the secretary of state, getting the civilian transition in iraq right it will also demonstrate more generally, the ability of our country to transform security successes in war zones to long-term stability that goes beyond iraq, for example in afghanistan. in closing, i would like to thank the department of defense, the central demand and above all, general austin, and his troops, for the support they are giving us in this mission. while our agreement is to go down to zero troops in the country, we have tremendous support from the u.s. military that will continue backing our office of security cooperation and ov the horizon in cencom. ides also like to express my regards for those who risk their lives in a cause for what they believe in, the iraq i was just d

since the 2003 iraq war, the way arabs look at it is that iran has been the big winner. they are now not just a dominant player in their neighborhood iraq, their natural sphere of influence, but their reach expand all the way to the mediterranean, to gaza i, lebanon. this is a concern for regional countries. i am not too rigid trying to deny that these countries are not worried about the challenge. but i am suggesting, though, is that this picture is much more nuanced. these countries do not view iran in similar ways. the use about iran very not only across the region and within the gulf itself, for that matter, where you have states like saudi arabia, bahrain, sizable amount of shia populations, as well as much smaller states like oman, who have extensive political ties with the iranian regime. so you have at their recent not just among governments, but also between governments and people. this relates a bit to what amy discussed, only getting the official view. you do not get the perspective of how the majority of people in this region, and how the media in this region are reporting th

sorry i have to disagree with that statement because slavery is not peace the united states is giving green lights to war so invading iraq is not peace. giving the green light for israel to attack lebanon and to attack guys is not peace peace is letting people decide how they want to live stability is a good thing but you can't have stability of democracy is being undermined stability is a bottom up process just like democracy it's not a top down process the instability being caused in the middle east is caused by us interference in the region as well as interference by other powers and their support of arab client states none of these regimes would be here if it wasn't for united states influence in the middle east the support for these regimes i'd wager that most of them would have been gone a long time ago not a doubt us not some are interesting to hear what you have to say from the center for research on globalization joining us live in ottawa canada thanks for being with us on thank you you thank. one hour coming up in just a couple of moments it's a religious affair in rome the russian president committed a visit b

iraq. it was only what was underneath the sand which brought them and that is what the arabs and muslims of that world refiled. not just the muslims in palestine, in iraq or iran but also yugoslavia, india twitter and etc.. what is the message? the message is that we want to use this information. as truth and reconciliation. so we can understand how we got here. do not misuse my information to recreate a new legacy of hate. used it to confront the legacy of hate so we can move forward with all people in the middle east to create a future of peace. the germans and jews have reconciled. there coexisting as allies. that began in june of 1945. it is possible, it is difficult. it is difficult when it is not 13 years as it was for the third reich. with this information i hope to arm you with what you need to understand our presence and our past. thank you. [applause] now i will take questions but first some remote questions which have been given to us in advance by various people around the country and overseas. the first question, i will take questions from the audience. how much time to i have? much as i want -- okay.

i can't remember -- you say there were 167 missiles fired by iraq into tehran, or the entire country? >> no, tehran. tehran at first was not as much targeted. now the parts that they started targeting were the oil-rich parts, which were close to iran -- to iraq. that was the two cities that were almost demolished. then they started on the bigger cities, tabriz in the northern part, and tehran. and the hardest attack on tehran was those last few months before the war ended. >> who had started the war? >> saddam did. he bombed an oil refinery, and that is -- i remember we had come from vacation, and we turned on the radio and they said that the war had started. but iran also at that time, iran was provoking a lot of the muslims, not just in iraq but also in saudi arabia in the neighboring countries. every time there was a pilgrimage to mecca, iranians were starting to complain about america and calling these regimes puppets of the u.s. so iran was politically active at that time. >> were you religious? >> i felt that i was religious, not in terms of, you know, following any specific rules. my parents, my mother went to the p

>> sure. >> host: world were to i assume that is not hard but they were like iraq or a vietnam that it is not full throttle, what do you say? >> armies against navy's and air force against their forces, that is clear and understandable it starts and it ends and ended world war ii month the uss missouri signing ceremony. what we went through with the cold war was quite different many decades long the ideological competition of ideas and there will never be a signing ceremony today is much more like that. it is a longer period of time it is a marathon, not this brand and the competition of ideas but for whatever reason we're not skillful but the majority of the muslims it stop talking eight hof's what -- they are not radicals are terrorists there is a small minority of muslims that have the engaged in terrorist acts that have organized to do those things and we are reluctant as americans to take up the debate to compete with those ideas. they are not reluctant they are out recruiting and raising money and organizing and planning attacks against the nation state concept because they have

development assistance to iraq is not open- ended. iraq has vast untapped oil resources, but due to the devastated oil infrastructure, it will be a number of years before iraq will have meaningful new oil revenue for its own budget. getting the military to civilian transition in iraq also will demonstrate more generally that we can transition security successes in war zones into long-term stability including for afghanistan. in closing, i would like to thank the department of defense, central command, and above all, general austin and his troops for the support they are giving us in this mission. i would like to express my admiration and humility in the face of the commitment we see on the part of our military and stuff. as they missed their lives for -- risked their lives for this, because they believe in, the iraq i just finished describing. i thank you again for the opportunity to appear before you today. >> posted a will be made part of -- they will be made part of the record. we welcome you very warmly. we repeat that welcome. we

we were wrong. >> that's not the case with iraq. that's not the case with iraq.e taliban gone and the al qaeda out of afghanistan. >> just hearing that interview i think it's evident what the tone of the book is going to be like when you read the memoir, which comes out today. "washington post" did a review and said at its heart it is a revenge memoir. >> revenge, really? defensive as well in terms of defending the war and -- >> they said the language is very angry and aggressive. in addition to colin powell, secretary condoleezza rice, he points to other people who he said let us down during these decisions. >> he has that hard rep. george stephanopoulos will interview rumsfeld this morning on "good morning america." should be fascinating. >>> the social event of the season. >> will and kate's wedding and rumor about the royal couple visiting the u.s. wcwcwcwcwcwcwcc ♪ >>> well, according to our official "world news now" royal wedding countdown clock -- it's stored in rob's office -- 80 days to go until the big day. >> with every exciting day, we're finding out

now, they failed in that in recent years in all sorts of ways, not just iraq, but the whole financial collapse. there was no paper telling you what the economists who were predicting this were saying. the press are not idealizing it at all, but if you want to keep the structure at least and give them a chance to begin to hire folks and do their jobs then you do what's been done in europe. there's a chapter in the book honorway that is interesting because the norway gives a paper of opinions, not just entertainment. every second newspaper in a provincial town, and they still have the second paper for the pr vine issue town, which we don't, and they have a press that doesn't get huge amounts of money from the government, but enough to keep going. this never affects content. you have the same situation for the most part in sweden and in other countries, so the possibility of saving the press in that way is there, and part of the problem is that the press here will never talk to you about the other models. they'll never tell you what's going on in other countries. they'll never talk -- ev

analysis of troops to task any other historic example. >> charlie: if in fact the united states had not gone to iraq to topple sadaam hussein and had focused on afghanistan and had built up the state of afghanistan and had pursued al-qaeda in afghanistan, we would look at a very different situation today. >> i entirely agree with you. at the beginning when talibans were defeated with the help and support of the entire afghan nation in a very short time, it took them years, i mean, to regroup. so that all that time i think we could have spent more effectively to build afghan institutions and also very credible and strong national security force of the army and police both. >> charlie: you have said that that's your message to washington. >> yes. >> charlie: i think washington knows that. that's been the argument all awe long. the question is can they do it and can they do it by 2014 so they can withdraw american forces to a large extent? >> actually after all these years for the first time in this past year, year and-a-half, we are conducting a proper counter insurgency with both military. >> charlie