general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious generals war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the where you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. they were taught by the general but that he was just good to be has been in the. it was the shot or you missed. a bit seen here with james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. at the very most american. are doing or. should. you. call one. it was the first time the americans could work with

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general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious general's war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the where you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. they were taught by the general but that he was just as good to be as been on the bus that must be in. there was the shot or you mr. talbot seen here that james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. there with. the reports america. are doing or. should. you. call. it was the first time the

general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious generals war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the where you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. who are dark but the gist of what that was just good to be i was been and. it was the shot or you mr. talbot seen here with james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. there with. the reports america. are doing or. should be. but. why do you view your. call when. it was the first time the am

general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious general's war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the were you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. they were taught by the general but that he was just as good to be as been on the bus that must be in. there was the shot or you mr. talbot seen here that james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. there with. the reports america. are doing or. should. you. call one. it was the first time t

general david petraeus was much admired by the american media. the commandos would become the cutting edge of this ambitious general's war against the insurgents you know i've spent a little bit of time at the where you were training the police commandos and i got the strong impression that you're putting a lot of priority on the police force today well that helped them develop these special police units some of them or their own initiative initially and great initiatives like the special police commandos which they now have nine battalions of those forces eight of which are in active operations right now. they were taught by the general but that he was just as good to be as been on the bus that must be in. there was the shot or you mr. talbot seen here that james steele was a sunni iraqi general who had been imprisoned by saddam. he now headed the special police commandos which were financed from a two billion dollars fund controlled by general petraeus. with. the reports from are. are doing or. should. you. call. it was the first time the ameri

about general petraeus his relationship with james steele the official speaking for the general said steele was one of thousands of advisors to iraqi units working in the area of the iraqi police. journalist peter mass who interviewed patris at the time remember. the relationship being a lot closer than the patrol statement would indicate. it was very clear. that they were very close to each other in terms of their command relationship and also in terms of their ideas and ideology about what needed to be done to try to explicitly told me that he believed very very strongly in the commandos thought the commandos were successful and wanted them to become bigger stronger and even more prevalent in the fight against insurgency. international humanitarian law imposes obligations on those engaged in armed conflict regarding the treatment of prisoners not only must prisoners not be abused but those detaining prisoners also have an obligation to ensure respect as well it is not acceptable to turn a blind eye. because absolutely responsibility of every u.s. service member if they see in your

general david petraeus took over as head of all coalition forces. major challenges. >> the surge especially under the command of general david petraeus proved effective. >> what mattered most was not the additional forces. it was the change in strategy. instead of continuing to consolidate, we realize that we had to live with the people. that was the number one insight to live with the people to secure them and securing and serving the people is our paramount mission. >> counterinsurgency, soldiers, marines, they have a rifle in one hand and a wrench in the other. . when they go out of their compound each day, they are ready for a handshake or grenade. they can deal with either. >> observation of david petraeus was the sunnis were terrified and they were angry. so they were gravitating toward al qaeda. but they also were victimized by al qaeda. >> what we set out to do was to declare peace with sunni tribes that just wanted to take back control of their own neighborhoods from these abusive figures. >> this market is the most important statement of a

james steele and david petraeus left iraq in september two thousand and five. the ranks of the police commandos increased to over seventeen thousand and the allegations of abuse against them sought. a year later the country was in the grip of a bloody sectarian civil war. at its height the civil war was claiming the lives of three thousand people a month some were so badly tortured they could not be identified. many victims found a final resting place in desolate dumps like this one. a rusty tin can mox each grave. on talbot has now retired on an iraqi government pension and lives in jordan. donald rumsfeld resigned as defense secretary at the end of two thousand and six he never replied to any of our questions. rumsfeld had presented james deal with a distinguished public service medal for his extraordinary service in iraq. steele is now living in bryan texas and gives occasional lectures on contra insurgency. he did not respond to our many requests to be interviewed for this documentary.

james steele and david petraeus left iraq in september two thousand and five. the ranks of the police commandos increased to over seventeen thousand and the allegations of abuse against them sawed. a year later the country was in the grip of a bloody sectarian civil war. at its height the civil war was claiming the lives of three thousand people a month some were so badly tortured they could not be identified. many victims found a final resting place in desolate dumps like this one. a rusty tin can mox each grave. non-target has now retired on an iraqi government pension and lives in jordan. donald rumsfeld resigned as defense secretary at the end of two thousand and six he never replied to any of our questions. rumsfeld had presented james' deal with the distinguished public service medal for his extraordinary service in iraq. steele is now living in bryan texas and gives occasional lectures on contra insurgency. he did not respond to our many requests to be interviewed for this documentary. hello the potential for severe thunderstorms was there and there and

under the 0bama administration, general petraeus, vca director, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour foreds information. —— be cia director. and of course we have bill clinton's activities with monica lewinsky, which pale in comparison to the charges against scott pruitt. there have not been any and all charges brought yet again scott crook —— scott pruitt, but i think he has been a distraction, and his activity shouldn't distract from the importance of donald trump's policies at the environmental protection agency. under the 0bama administration we had slow growth, only i% toi.5 administration we had slow growth, only i% to 1.5 cent administration we had slow growth, only 1% to 1.5 cent growth, job growth was stagnant and middle—class wages went down. so what trump promised the people is that he would do things that would spur the economy, and deregulation, including deregulation of unnecessary environmental rules, has really helped this economy. i will give you one example. the keystone pipeline, which 0bama failed to approve over eight years of his presidency, that isa eight years of

hiked prices by fifty percent at least seven people had been killed during three days of unrest petraeus president is making a landmark visit to neighboring ethiopia it is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the long war and rivals last weekend the leader signed a pact ending a twenty year military standoff. yemen civil aviation authorities are back in control of a local airport until recently the. airport near yemen's border with oman was supervised by forces but the change in control appears to be inspiring protests in other parts of yemen charlie bell us reports a success in negotiations roughly one year after taking over the airport and southeast in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has agreed to give up control it will not hand it back to local civil authorities it's the first such move in yemen civil war and the decision follows months of protests from local tribes. who were given control of the airport friday morning a public old runway in all the civil aviation gates this is opposed to step from soldiers motor forces. having control of the airport is one of th

secretary general petraeus has said that the number of deaths in. nearly three months of protest shocking and that the use of force on behalf of the state is not acceptable but human rights organizations say that the police and the paramilitary are doing these joint operations and that the lethal use of force is being directed towards the unarmed population acquire to be fired by the international humanitarian law the government here has not condemned these actions and it's not a rush that any of these individuals instead as the police chief. has said the government here is directing. the political violence in nicaragua began in mid april with protests over the president's plan to trim pension benefits the government's heavy handed response to spark a wider protest against ortega's rule since then more than two hundred seventy people most of them civilians have died on monday the u.n. chief called for the end to violence and resumption of dialogue with the opposition the cut in violence comes after years of calm in nicaragua it's the worst since the

so far they include dick cheney, bernie sanders, david petraeus, and my next guest joe walsh, a radiooast and former congressman. what was the set up in your case? >> michael, good to be with you. look, let me say at the outset i think say sacha baron cohen is a funny guy. in my case like a lot of cases he's a funny guy because he gets people to say stupid things. he gets people to say stupid things because he lies to them. in my case, he flew me out to washington d.c. they knew i was a big supporter of israel's, and they presented me with this award as one of israel's greatest friends. found out later the whole thing was a rus, and it was a ruse probably just to get me to say some stupid things. >> so they give you the award, and then what? there was some aspect of this where it dealt with israel using kids to protect itself against terror? >> yeah. michael, it was just crazy. look, they flew me out to d.c. they put me up in a hotel. they put me in a limo. they sent me off to this studio in virginia. again, all under the lie that i was getting an award from some israeli tv station be

general petraeus had just taken over command of the erect or. he was pushing for a surge.e troops to put into an unpopular war. the johnson family knows quite a bit about that. he is there with lindsey graham and he would go there quite often. where theyemonies are rehabbing for the military and also becoming u.s. citizens. one of the great things about u.s. -- about the military is that if you are an immigrant, you join the military and you get a fast track. but you have to put your life at risk. in this case, on this day, there were a dozen members of the u.s. cemetery -- u.s. military being inducted. there were two seats in the front row with boots on them. the day before, those two young men gave their life for the country in order to become citizens. they were inducted that day. said,ooked at lindsay and if they can give their life for their country, i can go back to this stinking campaign and suck it up for another couple of months. that is what he did. he started carrying his own bags to new hampshire. we lived off the land again. and, another miracle of new hampshi

general petraeus had just taken over command of the iraq war. he was pushing for a surge.e troops to put into an unpopular war. the johnson family knows quite a bit about that. and he is there with lindsey graham. and one of the things they would traditionally do, he goes there about five times in a 20 year period, they do ceremonies where they are re-upping for the military and also becoming u.s. citizens. one of the great things about u.s., about the military is that if you are an immigrant, you join the military and you get a fast track. but you have to put your life at risk. in this case, on this day, there were about a dozen members of the u.s. military being inducted as citizens of the united states. john and lindsay were there, but there were two seats in the front row with boots on them. the day before in the battle of fallujah, those two young men gave their life for the country in order to become citizens. they were inducted that day. excuse me. john looked at lindsay and said, if they can give their life for their country, i can go back to this stinking campaign

people in the country, many which are republicans like dick cheney, or military heroes like david petraeusdate sarah palin. many, including me, are outraged that he would go to that length doing something that distasteful to pretend to be a wounded veteran. >> there is just some things that you don't do, brian, and one of those is to dress up like a disabled vet, just for a joke. sacha baron cohen, all iterations he has done for a laugh, i get it, some of the stuff he does is kind of funny. some i scratch my head, i think it is too heavy-handed. unless i miss something, i'm sure internet will correct me if i'm wrong on this, doesn't he seem to poke fun at flyover, flyover nations? he seems to take great joy mocking flyover folks. here in season of world cup, i haven't seen him make jokes about all the soccer fans out there and hooliganism because they would probably beat his a double snakes on that. indull against of good manners of flyover nation in order to make his comedy work. that is why he is able to get away with some of the stuff he does, just because the tolerance of level of peop

see if we'll be laughing when general petraeus and dick cheney and sarah palin all seem to have gottenname is christopher locke and we are going to fight for him. ainsley: poor guy. steve: joey, thank you. president trump wrapping up a meeting with prime minister of britain theresa may after blasting her yesterday over brexit. reaction from steve hilton. that's coming up next. ainsley: and philip phillips is hanging out in the keurig corner getting ready to rock out on our all-american summer concert series stage and he is over there with jillian. steve: good morning. ♪ discover prescription omega-3 vascepa. the one that's this pure... and fda approved. look. vascepa looks different... because it is different. it's pure epa. vascepa, along with diet, is clinically proven to lower very high triglycerides by 33% in adults, without raising bad cholesterol. that's pure power. proven to work. vascepa is not right for everyone. do not take vascepa if you are allergic to icosapent ethyl or any inactive ingredient in vascepa. tell your doctor if you are allergic to fish, have liver problems...