that involve the issue of the overflights over iraq. as a predicate to that, i want to ask you about your sense of what we can do to be as vigilant as we can. a number of weeks ago, the iranian influence in the region, especially the support for terrorism in the region was addressed at a hearing and one of our witnesses at that hearing was ambassador jim jeffries. as a predicate for my question, i wanted to give you a quote from something the ambassador said. i asked about the iranian inflows in iraq and he said the following," the strategy in iraq including strategic dominance of the country has been successful despite a massive cut in resources. that is a policy we should continue bearing always in mind that this success is fragile, should not be placed at risk for water policy is. if iranian pressure increases, we have tools to counter." that is what ambassador jeffrey said not too long ago. it is clear that iran has brought to bear great pressure on iraq as it relates to that air space. what tools do we have to deal with that problem

this is of great concern to particular groups in iraq. at the end of the day, they find a way to step back from the press as and talk and find a way forward. we will continue to work with them on that and push them in those directions in the most positive, constructive, and encouraging ways. >> my time is up and i think senator rubio is a >> next. congratulations and thank you for your service. i to anticipate there will be little if any objection to your nomination. i know you want to get to work quickly. let me touch on three subjects. there has been discussion about the influence of iran and iraq. it is a concern in light of the ex-vice president trial in turkey and others and growing evidence or allegations that the prime minister and others have inability to the judiciary -- have manipulated the judiciary. do we have confidence that has changed? >> we have concerns across the board that any country, iran or others, not play an overbearing or overly influential role in iraq. we work closely with the judiciary in a lack -- iraq and the

i want to ask you as well about the politics of iraq. sometimes don't have a chance to spend a lot of time on an issue like that. but i was struck when i was there in july -- i guess it was july 20 time. senator shaheen and i and senator ted koppel in for delaware, the three of us there. our visit just happen to overlap at the visit by the vice president. so we had a moment, probably to our window when we could actually sit with him. he had just come from a series of meetings with the various iraqi officials trying to work out the politics and the difficult management of that were doing everything he could to bring the sides together. you know better than i. that is one thing to have political or ideological differences. it's another thing when it has origin and not a city in all kinds other division. so it is particularly difficult to bring the sides together. now the concern and i was also struck by how capable the vice president was with dealing with that because he spent a lot of time at all these players. there is still a real conce

well about the politics of iraq. we sometimes don't have a chance to spend a lot of time, but i was struck when i was there in july, i guess it was july of 2010, senators shaheen and i and senator from delaware, the three of us were there -- the visit happened to overlap the visit by the vice president said we had a moment, probably about a two hour window where we could actually sit with him and he had just come from a series of meetings with the various iraqi officials, trying to work out the politics, the difficult management of that and doing everything he could to bring the sides together. you know a lot better than i that it's one thing to have political or ideological differences but it's another thing but it has its origins in ethnicity and all kinds of other divisions. so it's particularly difficult to bring the sides together. now the concern, and i was also struck by how capable the vice president was in dealing with that because he spent a lot of time with all these players. there is still a real concern n

iraq or both? >> i think it's a little bit of both. we have had periods where the current syrian regime has allowed al qaeda to use syrian territory as a launching ground to enter iraq through the early period of the u.s. invasion. there may be some cross-border, you know, going the other way. but fundamentally it's a fairly pour us border. what you have to keep in mind that is some in iraq will enjoy the support of most of iraq's neighbors, all of them with the possible exception of iran. this is a very worrying sign if you are trying to engender genuine stability, not stability as to the... at the barrel of a gun. >> warner: laith kubba, does that mean that this can really fragment into a broader sunni-shia conflict in the region? >> i think, as i said, the temperature has risen. we're getting closer to a break point. i think as far as al qaeda, just to underline, it's a living organization. it's finding an on propose rit climate. it will reroot itself. it will touch iraq. it's totally independent factor. but then you go into the othe

iraq. murders of days by militiamen in iraq have been well-documented, but evidence shows the government is complice it in a systematic and organized persecution of homosexuals. he came to warn to find his boyfriend in one of the cells. there was no arrest warrant and nothing they could do to help him. >> being gay is not a legal in iraq. they said, we must kill you all. >> 2 days later, his boyfriend is dead. now they received the first threat in february after the media reported dozens of young men were being killed in baghdad. in iraq, they are associated with gays. the interior ministry responded by saying he had to be eradicated. the united nations confirmed 12 deaths. the u.n. believes the real number is much higher. the accounts of 17 caveman -- gay men are consistent. all of them say the interior minister statement sparked a new wave. the government denies there is an issue. >> this is like telling a black person not to be black. >> that person by nature is black. >> what is homosexuality? a laxative not by nature. it is behavior. -- >> it is not by nature. it is behavior. >> activi

just what sort of iraq was the united states military leaving behind? g us now. he's the coauthor of the new book entitled "the end game." so this is an amazing book. was it worth it. that whole many years of the war in iraq, the cost and blood and treasure. >> well, i think the question at this point is the war happened. the decision to invade was made. in 2002, 2003. the question is, what sort of relationship should the united states have with iraq now. how did the obama administration handle the end of the war and where do we go from here. >> those are all important questions, but the whole war was built on a faulty prim is that saddam had weapons of mass destruction. >> i think it's conceded that they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. >> i remember i was in kuwait on the eve of the war. i had a gas masks, they were really fed basically a lie, if you will. >> no, i don't agree. i think that the intelligence was poor and badly done, but i do think -- >> when i say a lie, i mean the sources who were providing that intelligence, these false iraqi

was it i mean i've seen two kind of conflicting strands of history around that one is the. notion that. iraq is the center of the arab world the arab world an unstable place we've got to protect our ally israel cetera et cetera and if we can just put a giant footprint in the middle of iraq we've got it and you know arguably that was the the more reasonable rationalization for peace in that argument the other is mickey herskowitz the guy who was hired by george and barbara bush sr to write george bush's autobiography a charge to keep in one thousand nine hundred nine when he was making the decision to run for president and he wrote the first draft hundred hours of tapes of george w. bush and he's on the record as saying that in ninety nine george w. bush told him that when his father invaded iraq he failed because he didn't extend the war long enough if he'd extended it into the next election cycle he would have won and that if george w. bush became president he wasn't going to have a failed presidency like his father he was going to have a war in iraq against saddam hussein it was going to g

a wave of bombings across iraq left 94 people dead, more than 300 wounded on sunday. is came on the same day a court in baghdad found vice president tariq guilty of ordering attacks on officials and security forces. he says that living in self-imposed -- he has now been living in self-imposed exi'm in turkey, and he says that te death sentence is now politically motivated. >> in return of my absolute dedication, in serving my country, iraq, and my people, the iraqis. >> let's bring in michael holmes to talk about this. you have covered in extentively. hashmi, one of the most prominent sunni in the country became the vice president back in 2006. now he is run out of the country. what is going on in iraq some. >> this all goes back to something. we've talked about him before on the program, and that is this concern by sunnis in iraq that they have been sidelined and disenfranchised. nuri al-maliki is a shiite, of course, and part of the deal when the americans started to draw down is there would be a power-sharing government involving suna, shia, and kurds, including oth

then, you of the very big -- in iraq right here at which touches to wait. erything in the brain is the oil field. and most of the iranian oil is on this side. -- everything in the green and is the oil field. and most of the iranian oil as on this side. at this point, you see the top of the saudi field right here. the grain markets are the gas field -- the green markets are the gas fields. the tension today -- it is based on the big battle between iran and saudi arabia. there is enormous tension between the two countries, and basically what we are saying -- seeing today is syria and iraq -- is a proxy war between iran and saudi arabia. the saudis want to really replace -- and i talked at one. of this, which would go from iran to syria and basically control that area. and put a wedge between saudi arabia and turkey. it seems to me that is one of the things we are witnessing today. the saudis are trying to replace this. where do have a saudi arabia -- linking with the turks, really to weaken the iranians, to weaken iran. let us not forget iran has more people.

in or in baghdad last year in the rest of iraq know of the american invasion is treated as something that's actually made things worse for most people although of the liberty and the freedom that they have and the end of the dictatorship is something most people welcome look the fact is the arab world is in upheaval and there are aspects of it which are very dangerous but there are aspects of it which are very hopeful and when i said earlier that i seems to me that the western powers and also russia by the way should be supporting and guiding what i'm talking about is guiding helping through peaceful means to guide these these fledgling democracies and these states in upheaval to a peaceful and stable future because that's what we need we need and they come in we are based on american and european interests i mean this is contradictory of going to do you want to jump in there i just cannot see how more outside interference can help. convince me i'm obviously interfering i wouldn't care if i had to marry somebody a point which has come out here we have talked about libya. and he broug

class of iraq to me pakistani city of karachi where at least one person has been killed in some awful doesn't injured as thousands of people passed with the security forces not far from the u.s. consulate building in the city the police fired warning shots into the air they used to pass as well as into the men's side and dispersed. also on sunday there were demonstrations held in various cities across the country in the city of detroit hundreds of other local businesses to. make port for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they also point out on what you is goods and services that the pakistani authorities that since blocked access to this on you tube it is a two minute trailer of a form that has been titled innocence of muslims we believe put into office for the statements of placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding on sunday to meet i mean who wants. to talk to him to marry women and to wait to soak and this is only intensifying and we've had nothing to marry me relations first wyman's funds while the united states has si

class of iraq to meet pakistanis to see how much work the one person has been killed and some often doesn't means it as thousands of people passed with the security forces not far from the constant moving in the street now the police riot you want to stop being a nice place to live in this is. also on sunday people demonstrations housing boom. times in the city this one hundred some of the local businesses want to make hold of the american ambassador to pakistan to be held they also point out on more u.s. goods and services now for pakistan the parties that blocked access to this on you tube it is a thirteen minute train out of a form that has been entitled innocence of muslims to meet the office was taken in for placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding on sunday to meet with. me this time to come in and see me so this is only intensifying and for that i've been painting american mason this line in the united states have seen. this. i have a right. to vote no people who make their money for the use of these cells for the night on the winding do

classes of iraq to study says we are watching where at least one person has been killed and some possibly as an injured as thousands of people clashed with security forces knocked off on the u.s. consulate building in the city now the police fired warning shots into the air they used tear gas as well as commons to try and disperse it was also on sunday there were demonstrations held in various cities across the country in the city of disallowed hundreds of people of a local business who want to make port for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they will support the boycott on what you do is goods and services now because some authority substance blocked access to this on you tube it is a fifteen minute train out of a film that has been titled innocence of muslims we believe praying to office for the students of placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding also on sunday to meet the needs of the poor hundreds of people there to still talk to and to marry women and greatest so going through this is only intensifying and proving aggra

is us because it suits american interests and some western interests a cause for war and invasion of iraq as we have seen destruction of afghanistan no progress on the peace level in pakistan it takes a spark for it to you know all come out in violent forms as we can see now on the screen and this is what's happening within forty eight hours the fury that began in egypt spread to libya yemen lebanon and iran in afghanistan due to push shut down but tensions in the muslim world seem to be only increasing there has been a lot of simmering nancy american feeling a right across the entire arab world it's their worst in pakistan we're told show they were ninety percent of. americans their primary home enemy america's middle of blunders and it's made enemies in the arab spring countries america helped revolutionize the line between friend and foe has blurred despite all the time and money washington has spent using the internet to promote its islam friendly foreign policy the world wide web has also served as a platform that enabled one american extremist to infuriate millions overseas and the

classes of iraq to be required to study says we are watching where at least one person has been killed and some often doesn't injured as thousands of people clashed with security forces not far from the u.s. consulate building in the city now the police fired warning shots into the air they used tear gas as well as into communities to try and dispersed. elsewhere on sunday there were demonstrations held in various cities across the country in the city of this while hundreds of other local business to. make port for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they also boycott on the e.u. is goods and services now the pakistani authorities have since blocked access to this on you tube it is a fifteen minute train out of a film that has been titled innocence of muslims we've been reporting topless photos taken in for questioning in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding also on sunday to meet the needs of. hundreds of people they are too stupid to talk to and to marry women and returns to them this is only intensifying and aggravating american a

classes of iraq to meet pakistani says we are watching where if you see one person has been killed and some awesome dozen injured as thousands of people past with security forces not far from the u.s. consulate building in the city now the police fire you warning shots into the a they used tear gas as well as come in to try and disperse. also on sunday with the demonstrations held in various cities across the country in the city of history while hundreds of other local businesspeople mocked lakeport for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they will support the boycott on what you do is goods and services not the fact that some authority is that since blocked access to this on you tube it is a fifteen minute train out of a film that has been titled innocence of muslims leaving me playing topless photos taken for placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding also on sunday to meet the needs of up to hundreds of people going to the states to talk to and to marry women and they trust slogans this is only intensifying and to the aggra

of the marine corps. >> you commanded troops in iraq and afghanistan. what are the three enduring lessons that marines will have to take with them well into the future about irregular warfare and counterinsurgency. >> i believe we learned a couple of things coming out of afghanistan and iraq. the need for the cultural awareness piece of any place we go, we have to know the battle space, know our allies, know our enemy better than we have in the past perhaps. we need to carry that forward with us. we'll remember that i think we're also going to remember the fact we need to be adaptable. you need to be flexible both in our tactics, our procedures and our act to get the -- and our ability to get the equipment our soldiers need as warfare changes and the enemy adapts to our methods and our procedures. lastly i think of course is protection against very simple weapons produced but very effective weapons produced against us at we have to adapt ourselves to very quickly. >> it's written that the marines should dedicate 30,000 of its force on regular warfare and

in terms of amounts of money and time to fix this strategic pipeline, the iraq iraqis had a couple of studies that were being done. all i know it will probably take several billion dollars and a few years to do in a normal country. in iraq it may take longer. there are no quick fixes to reunite the oil infrastructure between the north and the south. >> we can take a couple of more questions. do i see any hands? way in the back. hi i'm an aloom. the question for matt. you alluded to the end the presentation the price iraq needs for their domestic programs and what production volume cothey need to hit and the rest you talked about not meeting their target. what does it mean for domestic policies? >> take one more question and we'll let the panel respond. [inaudible] jim black, retired foreign service office a few years time in the gulf. matt, this is a question for you, you mentioned using desal nateed water to provide the water pressure for the southern iraq i can oil fields. it is an enormously expensive way to do it. it also requires some form of -- presumely natural gas which iraq i

iraq never was never in a war for thirty years like afghanistan was there the post invasion. union has totally changed the landscape the political landscape and the ethnic lines last april of afghanistan. and the lessons learned from iraq is not going to apply to afghanistan people should really get down when there is no relevance whatsoever what afghanistan is going through right now. and of finally is there any chance that you think that a power handover could be delayed and how that would affect anti-american sentiment in the country. death is dead will be too late to be seen dead what one could take effect by dan on the other hand again i'm i'm stressing again dead if the policy of states and nato does not change that puts staff dance themselves in the driver's seat then things are going to be very hard right now america end of the policy makers in the beltway are the ones are making the decision how afghanistan should be around but the fact is that afghans should come forward themselves and it's going to be and has to be an afghan solution and. for afghanistan even by afghans this is the only way that they can do that and there are ways of doing it but they're not looking hard en

. >> barack obama's foreign policy got us out of iraq, is getting us out of afghanistan, has killed osama bin laden, and has said in the future we are going to target our enemies. we are not going to do five or 10-year occupation of foreign countries. >> bad things that happen overseas happen to president. they do not happen to other candidates. i don't really see that mitt romney is able to do that. what is he going to do? have troops on the ground in lots of these places? the american people do not want that right now. >> what do you do if there is a revolution in iran next time? in israel, you are now going to distance yourself from the elected prime minister and it shows that you want to create gratuitously distance between you and israel as a way to gain favor on the arab side. >> we cannot turn over our foreign policy initiative to the current prime minister of israel. the united states must keep israel out as our most important ally in the middle east to save time doing what is right for the united states'. >> the polls show that people did not like the way he responded, the way he

we were debating invasion of iraq back then. the panel on that first show, david brooks, then of the whitley standard and the new republics, michelle cotto. i asked about the advice george w. bush was getting from some of his father's old team. why do the bushies, older bushies tend to be anti-war and maybe more pro arab, is that it? >> etc. not that. they came from an east coast foreign policy establishment that believed in the chess game. the more southern southwestern, more conservative, more religiously influenced conservative republicans, believe in morality. and democracy. >> why -- and assert american power. but they don't want to dot cleanup job afterward. -- do the cleanup job afterward. >> that's not true. >> it's true. they talked about nation building and don't want to do that and spread resources. >> that was the old bush in the election and it's clear he's becoming a nation builder. they are spending so much time in the white house thinking about the post-war iraq, that's what they're thinking about. chris: chris: t

places which are due with north korean see iran not to pursue its nuclear program in the radicals of iraq. rather because in terms of. nuclear program or going for nuclear weapons sure these oil is basically. to me. strengthen the hands of the radicals who ones that are. and time for business news now with casey so the federal reserve have investors across the globe on the edge of that seeds casey and they're demonstrating the other moment by not really doing an awful lot we've got wall street open and it seems that they're on hold as you say investors they are awaiting the federal reserve announcement that may i say because i've been here many times. well and the shape a new round of bond buying to really spur the economy as you say not really much going on we're going to see the figures because they pretty much speak for them selves with check out what the wall street figures are doing and as i say they pretty much tell you that all we've got the dow jones flat to positive on the nasdaq to service and in positive territory it is early days have been open for about fifteen minutes or so

but throughout the muslim world that's accumulated over the past decade as a consequence of beijing of iraq the invasion and occupation of afghanistan the endless drone attacks against pakistan the killing of nineteen pakistani soldiers. by u.s. forces there supposedly allies at that border year ago all of these elements are contributing to a picture an atmosphere where there's great rage in the film is disgusting as it is could never have triggered these protests if it wasn't for the larger context here everything you were saying there's been well documented in opinion polls as well the anti-american sentiment has been growing for years why is washington failed to nip it in the bud failed to stop it failed to do its p.r. better. you know i mean you some people call it blowback some i think a more rational explanation would be that people don't want to live under occupation people don't want foreign military forces to kill them from airplanes robotic airplanes that they never see people don't want their soldiers at border crossings to be blown away by u.s. missiles the american government i

we also had the leader of one of the leaders of iraq the militia there saying that american interests in that country are. in danger or on the counter of the film we've also seen a very popular in kuwait posters twitter accounts of call for protesters to gather on thursday evening side of the american embassy there so it remains to be seen how that situation will play out and of course the one to really watch is going to be afghanistan and we know that you tube has tried to block access to that video in afghanistan as well as in libya and egypt but if people really do catch on to this we could see some unprecedented levels of violence this is according to some of the people some of the reporters that i've spoken to on the ground in kabul and. those who killed the american ambassador to the country but america is not leaving them we've been stunned. all day. that's right well in libya the libyan situation is a little bit different from the other countries where we've seen where of course the libyan protesters or the libyan people who are against the government of moammar gadhafi had re

i don't want to speculate on the specific timing of iraq's. police question just felt it was time i see what your party made major gains at the time of the pirate bay trial do you think that their case brought attention to your calls. definitely. they have been very defining for the right to be in speech and the way that they needed. to question their relationship knowledge sharing and how they. need to how he felt they needed to communicate with each other this is was very very important for the public conscience consciousness of a copyright issues in sweden you're going to tell also in other countries that didn't have it of iraq or the country where are they now belgium where the communications infrastructure is all bad i read in a possible or top look. at the level of debate people have of the level of self reflection people have about that communication is actually not worth saving they can safely have been. can safely be said to have created like you know i'm just not in an entire generation a million start interrupt you know you were a fi

. >> the president has gotten us out of iraq. we're getting out of afghanistan. we've got free trade agreements in latin america. wpresident that brilliantly dealt with the situation in libya. i think what this president has done is restored our prestige abroad. >> reporter: then there's the clinton question. why is the former president taking a primetime role? >> what president clinton will say is if you're looking for a president who can grow the middle class, create that economic expansion, move away from the policies of the past that crashed your economy and punished the middle class, then barack obama is your guy. >> reporter: all this begins monday, then some say the real race for the white house gets going. melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >>> a baltimore county church is now raising money to help a teenager's family pay for medical bills after a school shooting. 17-year-old daniel borowy was shot monday the first day of class at perry hall high school and critically injured and remains hospitalized tonight. now the perry hall family worship center has launche

iraq. it was a very contentious issue and do spend a lot of time writing about it in the book and you reiterate your thoughts that it was not a legitimate war. you write, it if 9/11 change the world the consequences that the iraq war were similarly dramatic magnitude. why did you say that? >> guest: i say that because the iraq war led to major divisions within the international communities and i'm not just talking about the u.n.. i'm talking about its impact on communities and groups in the middle east and beyond and a sense that the world has been broken into groups and some were being targeted or profiled who felt very strongly about this and this is about a bar on which the international committee was divided. the council did not approve it and i firmly believe we should have given the inspectors, the weapons inspectors, more time to do their work in iraq and gotten back with a report to the security council but the council that heads wanted so dam -- saddam said there would be serious consequences to determine first whether they corporate it with the inspectors are not and secondly to deter