. >> narrator: the military court proceedings are underway at kilo's home base, camp pendleton in southerncalifornia. the process began in the spring of 2007 with preliminary hearings to determine whether any of the marines would face court martial. after more than a year of having their stories played out in the media, the accused marines told their version of events to an investigating officer. no recordings were allowed in the courtroom, so here, read by actors, are excerpts of the unsworn statements of wuterich and tatum. >> saturday, november 19, 2005 started off as a normal day for 1st squad 3rd platoon kilo company in haditha, iraq. although the mission was something we had conducted and accomplished dozens of times before, today would be extraordinarily different. the day was chilly and the sky was clear. the city was ominously quiet. i changed the normal route of north on river road and west on haditha road. this is one decision i will always regret. ( explosion ) an explosion louder than anything i have ever heard rocked the entire convoy. i remained calm. i continued to drive we

. >> guest: pendleton at its first meeting and what are they up to now. >> guest: the secretary announceda series of the rebels in her speech on january 21st so in addition to what i thought was an incredibly important broderick an incredibly important policy statements she put a number of programs out there with and a great many people are now working to fulfill the vision she and the president set out here and what you described is one of them, the net freedom task force. so we have to undersecretaries of state, who are both incredibly seasoned, incredibly gifted executives. maria from the ngo sector was the ceo of an organization called the aussie on and robert is a longtime executive of goldman sachs in his fourth or fifth administration. the two of them are cochairing this initiative. the purpose of which is largely to create a framework for a shared responsibility with the private sector so there's a lot that can be done in the internet freedom space, government to government, but the private sector is actually a primary actor and the space. i think it's notable that the secretary d

special assistant to donald rumsfeld and sid you have to help less than jerry jones called at camp pendleton and said i can take care this and called camp fallujah and they dispatched helicopters that is when the giles came to our side i think it was not like the battle of the old tours like the normandy or something you can point* to in the history books to say the gettysburg of iraq but it was a key turning point* in the battle and it led to the political understanding. we just had elections in iraq. >> host: you how to explode the myth because the conventional wisdom is president bush says we have to put in more troops and that wealth and in fact, reappoint out the actual turn was 2005 and what i think is so shocking and disturbing on so many levels that you see the opportunity for dialogue started late 2003/2,004. >> guest: it took that long. as i say it was not a surge of troops but surge of thinking it was not to send the marines to go kill iraqis but talk to them. iraqi people they're very proud. they don't want outsiders and al qaeda was imposing sharia law on counties that never had

figure out his mission in life, mcveigh packs up his car and says good-bye to his quiet hometown of pendleton. >> i lasted at home for one year and one month. i said [ bleep ] this whole neighborhood. this ain't for me. i don't have a place here. i haven't found a love. and then i hit the road. >> the odyssey that he was living in the early '90s was really bizarre. he thought nothing of getting in his car and driving hundreds or even thousands of miles. and he was searching for something. >> as a guy, who i think had a lot of trouble relating to other people, that was a world that was very kind of amenable to him. >> he was gathering inspiration and information for what he thought was his mission in life. he wasn't going to be the super soldier, so who aways going to be now? >> mcveigh's mission is still unclear but he's beginning to hone in on his main focus of fury, the u.s. government. he finds like-minded thinkers on the gun show circuit. during the early 1990s, these expos become gathering places for the fast-growing militia and patriot movements. it is in this sub culture that mcveigh f

last week, heidi montag and spencer pratt visited soldiers at camp pendleton in california.hat's right. in response, the soldiers demanded immediate deployment to iraq. [ light laughter ] speaking of heidi montag, she just revealed her new bikini body at a pool party in las vegas over the weekend. it's exactly like the new double down sandwich from kfc. it's cheap, it comes with two giant breasts and healthy people get upset when they look at it. [ laughter and applause ] yeah, heidi showed off her new body at a las vegas pool party. the most impressive part of her new bikini body, built-in floaties. [ laughter ] this is pretty wild. some stores here in new york are going to sell a new beer that's 32% alcohol. [ cheers ] that's six times stronger than budweiser. it's going to change the way people drink, and also the way they brag. "dude, i got so wasted last night. i must have had like one. [ laughter ] i almost finished it. it was like --" [ laughter ] some theater news for you guys. in may, there's a new play premiering in texas about a gay jesus. i don't know if the play

jerry jones called john coleman at camp pendleton, the marine corps colonel and coleman said i can take care of us and called camp fallujah and they dispatch helicopters and we attacked with the insurgents al qaeda. that was the beginning of the al anbar awakening. that is when the anbar tribes came to our side. i think it was-- it is not like like the battle of the bulge. it is not like normandy. it is not something you can point to in the history books and save the gettysburg of iraq but it was a key turning point i think in the battle, and it led to a political understanding that is still taking hold. we have just had elections in iraq and they have been successful. >> host: i think you helped explode the myth of the surge because sort of the wisdom is president bush says oh yeah we have to surge more troops in there and that will fix it. in fact, what you point out is it really started, the actual turn came in 2005, but what i think is just so shocking and disturbing on so many levels is that you see that this opportunity for dialogue that started in late 2003 into 2004, it took tha

we are going to get wiped out and terry jones called at camp pendleton, the marine corps and he said i can take care of this and called camp fallujah and they dispatched helicopters and we attacked with the insurgent. the was the beginning of the al anbar awakening. that is when they came over to the site. i think it was -- you know, it's not like the battle of the bulge. it's not like norman become something you can point to in the history books and say the gettysburg of iraq. but it was a key turning point i think in the battle and it led to political understanding that is still taking hold. we've just hadhe elections in iraq and they've been successful. >> host: if you help explode the myth of the surge because sort of the conventional wisdom as president bush says yeah we have to surge more troops in there and that will fix it and in fact what you point out it really started the actual term came in 2005, a what was shocking and disturbing on so many levels is that you see that this opportunity that started in late 20032004 -- >> guest: it took that long. as lacy in the book it wa

barbara starr, cnn, camp pendleton, california. >>> political dignitaries from more than 40 nations descendingwo-day security summit hosts by president obama, reportedly the biggest assembly of world leaders hosted by an american president since 1945. lye pictures now and in 15 minutes we'll hear what the summit means for us. >>> a week after the deadly blast that killed 29 coal miners and tore apart a tight knit west virginia community, another grim task remains -- retrieving the bodies inside the upper big branch mine. we're told a couple of rescue teams went in at midnight and a third will reenter the mine this morning. >>> in afghanistan's kandahar province at least four people are dead and 18 injured after a misi can tan possible attack by troops on a busload of afghan civilians. isaf says they regret the loss of life. >>> a powerful scene in front of the presidential palace in warsaw, poland this morning. it's both beautiful and sad. flowers and candles fill the sidewalk reflecting a nation in mourning. president kaczynski, his wife and other military leaders were killed in a plane crash

we're actually inside a old tomato packing plant at the marine corps base in camp pendleton, north carolinaed afghan village. these marines are headed to the front lines of southern afghanistan, but first, they're getting the most realistic training the military can offer, a village of narrow lanes, mud walls and blind corners. religious calls, smoke grenades and odors as unattractively named as they smell like dinosaur dung and gangrene are piped in. tell people what we're seeing. >> these are digital avatars that we use in shoot scenarios. marines enter the house, they can be presented with any situation. >> reporter: bullets, even though made of chalk, are flying. the marines patrol at one end, those playing the role of the inurge seni insurgents are getting ready. tensions build, marines enter the village square. villagers are upset. this kind of training is about as realistic as it can get for these marines. this is what general mcchrystal worries about, incidents of civilians being killed by military action and then it all spins out of control. what did the marines learn here? >> tact

. >> can we talk about this marine over at camp pendleton who decides to write in his facebook thingsg the war. military tells him to take it down. take it off your facebook. he says you know what? i'm going to leave it up. >> he's 24 years old. and he got involved in this tea party patriot armed forces tea party movement. put it up on facebook and here's a bit of a problem is that the code, the military code says that you can't participate in any radio, television or other group discussion to advocate on behalf of a candidate or a cause so when you see "or a cause" it's a problem. we want our military to have first amendment rights, obviously and they're limited. when you go into the military, they're limited. he says look, i respect the commander in chief. i will follow my orders. i will -- he did take it down. but he says he still wants to be active and involved. so big mistake on his part, though, was deciding he was going to go on msnbc for an interview. apparently, he wants no one to watch that. >> pull him back from msnbc. >> not really an agenda on facebook. >> unfortunately,