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and donald rumsfeld and you go to war with the known unknowns you don't know. with the military you have, you want or whatever that quote was. that was so awful. hal: yeah. the unarmorred humvees that you have at the time. you wrote an article about glenn greenwold and others who seemed to take an attack on addressing anything who didn't -- well, further of all, they were for it before they were against it and anybody against it from the beginning but then doesn't necessarily play by their rules gets attacked. it's a very strange thingings the thing that bothers me about him and i'm gladly that i got an opportunity to come on today because i was furious yesterday not because he was calling people out and calling chris matthews repellant and msnbc's coverage gross and vulgar, because it was, i don't know if you've ever seen that movie wag the dog, it was very much like that. i remember watching it thinking this is all crap, you know, this is just insane. hal: right. caller: sort of this love the for war and this weird admiration of george bush. i found it really
and donald rumsfeld and you go to war with the known unknowns you don't know. with the military you have, you want or whatever that quote was. that was so awful. hal: yeah. the unarmorred humvees that you have at the time. you wrote an article about glenn greenwold and others who seemed to take an attack on addressing anything who didn't -- well, further of all, they were for it before they were against it and anybody against it from the beginning but then doesn't necessarily play by their...
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if you watch the film, you'll see rumsfeld and wolfe wits speak highly of him publicly and rumsfeld, some of the stuff we got from his own website where he talked about what a great job steele is doing and how he moves in and out of countries from time to time keeping an eye on things. cenk: they have a curious standard for success. is it that dick cheney thinks that ok, i don't care about the 75,000 dead in el salvador, finally, we've got a right wing government and it's stabilize so here cares about the dead, same thing in iraq, or is this chaos somehow part of the plan? i mean, why do they celebrate it? why take a guy that you know started a civil war in el salvador and had all those people killed and bring him to iraq? do they want him to do that? >> i think we forget that at the time in 2004, 2005, there's an election going on, and we had just handed over to the iraqis after our "win" there and we had a police force and an army to train. people forget that that's actually the first thing that petraeus was actually put in charge of really in iraq was c pat and c mat the military
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but right at the beginning, you mentioned to secretary rumsfeld a study that said 500,000 troops there and you made the point in the bucket was picked up in a lot of the coverage of the book that he never got back to you. you mentioned the seen steady to president bush at least implicitly saw his support for more troops. did you ever hear back from the president? >> guest: let's first talk about the study. i hadn't been on the ground i saw that on may 6 for something. probably one of the best in the country and i took it seriously when a friend showed it to me in the draft and i said it forward as you point out a summary for secretary rumsfeld i wasn't too surprised i didn't hear that i hadn't even been to iraq yet nor did i say we agreed we needed more troops i frankly didn't know. sing reaction with the president. i said there's a study. i'm a diplomat, not a military expert i don't know if it is right or wrong but it's worth looking at. president said we are getting more troops, colin powell at the time was trying to get more troops into the coalition that was his reaction and we di
but right at the beginning, you mentioned to secretary rumsfeld a study that said 500,000 troops there and you made the point in the bucket was picked up in a lot of the coverage of the book that he never got back to you. you mentioned the seen steady to president bush at least implicitly saw his support for more troops. did you ever hear back from the president? >> guest: let's first talk about the study. i hadn't been on the ground i saw that on may 6 for something. probably one of the...
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people like wolfowitz, cheney, rumsfeld, should not be given any kind of honor in this society.le for the u.s. soldiers that were killed and i think it's many more than 100,000 iraqis that were killed. >> i'm sure. mike, former bush speechwriter david frumm has written a column in which he reveals long conversations held in 2002 with dick cheney. according to frumm, the two men talked less about promoting democracy and how iraq might become a source of oil to the united states. mike, was cheap oil really at the heart of this invasion? >> you know, i wouldn't go that far, martin, but i would say that fears that the persian gulf could be disrupted by saddam and oil, therefore, become much more expensive were certainly part of it. i'm not a huge fan of most of the folks from the bush administration, myself. but i do think that someone like dick cheney did not fundamentally seek to expand american influence, you know, imperialistically or go for big oil profits for his companies. i think he was genuinely worried about what someone like saddam hussein could do in power. you could say
people like wolfowitz, cheney, rumsfeld, should not be given any kind of honor in this society.le for the u.s. soldiers that were killed and i think it's many more than 100,000 iraqis that were killed. >> i'm sure. mike, former bush speechwriter david frumm has written a column in which he reveals long conversations held in 2002 with dick cheney. according to frumm, the two men talked less about promoting democracy and how iraq might become a source of oil to the united states. mike, was...
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don rumsfeld, doug feif-- his deputy-- all believed it, turned out to be utterly infeesable. then president bush brought in jerry bremmer and the pendulum swung from one extreme to the other. it went from we're going tofr hd this over to them, get our troops down to 20,000 or 30,000d within a matter of months. i was in baghdad when tommy franks went to brief his own mmanders on that. b i wasoutside the meeting roomrs in this big marble palace. it went from that to we're bringing in a viceroy. we're going to occupy the country. we're going to build it from the ground up. we're going to take apart their army, billed a whole new army. >> rose: and was in the change made by the president and everybody in washington. >> well, it was-- i b would says it's a change the president presided over, but i'm not sure he himself fully understood just how much the pendulum had swung. so what happened is we went from we're going to hand it over want to iraqist tow we're going to be the overseers. and the the white house itself became nervous about this, andvo it swaing back toward the middle,
don rumsfeld, doug feif-- his deputy-- all believed it, turned out to be utterly infeesable. then president bush brought in jerry bremmer and the pendulum swung from one extreme to the other. it went from we're going tofr hd this over to them, get our troops down to 20,000 or 30,000d within a matter of months. i was in baghdad when tommy franks went to brief his own mmanders on that. b i wasoutside the meeting roomrs in this big marble palace. it went from that to we're bringing in a viceroy....
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leading up to the invasion nearly three quarters of americans believe the lie promoted by donald rumsfeld the saddam hussein was somehow involved in the attacks of nine eleven one of the biggest proponents of the iraq war was fox's bill o'reilly nearly every day leading off up to the invasion of iraq or rally used his pedestal on fox so-called news to pitch the pro-war lies of the bush administration in march of two thousand and three prior to the invasion of iraq o'reilly interviewed actress and political activist jeanine garofalo about her opposition towards going to war with iraq and asked her what she would do if she was wrong with her about iraq particularly. if you are wrong all right and if the united states and they will this is going to happen goes in liberate iraq people in the street american flags hugging our soldiers all right we find all kinds of bad bad stuff right in iraq you're going to apologize to george w. bush i would. say i'm sorry i hope. that i can be made a buffoon of that people will say you were wrong you were a fatalist and i would go to the white house on my g
leading up to the invasion nearly three quarters of americans believe the lie promoted by donald rumsfeld the saddam hussein was somehow involved in the attacks of nine eleven one of the biggest proponents of the iraq war was fox's bill o'reilly nearly every day leading off up to the invasion of iraq or rally used his pedestal on fox so-called news to pitch the pro-war lies of the bush administration in march of two thousand and three prior to the invasion of iraq o'reilly interviewed actress...
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with don rumsfeld and cheney and the whole group. they kept saying we have the weapons of mass destruction. there was a pesky little group of us and we kept saying show us the evidence. show us the evidence. they say, don't worry, we have the evidence. i'm not going to vote to send our fighting men and women into another country and waste all those lives and billions of dollars. just based on frankly on dick cheney's assurance, so i voted no. people did not believe that the white house would lie to them, and so they believed that iraq had these weapons, but they didn't and there was never proof they did. >> was it the fact there was no proof that led to your vote? were you objecting to the rush to judgment without imper cal proof. >> al-qaeda was the ones that invaded our sovereignty, killed our citizens and took down the world trade center on that terrible day and i was convinced we had the evidence that afghanistan an the taliban were hiding al-qaeda. when the white house came to us with iraq, they said you have to trust us. i said
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. >> "the new york times" headline that day, rumsfeld says iraq is collapsing.ectives of war. the objectives and the rationale for the war has kept changing ever since. but ten years later, we know how this tragic story turned out. $1.7 trillion war sold to the american public on lies. no weapons of mass destruction. more than 4,000 americans killed, many thousand more iraqis dead. ten years later, still no apologies or regret from those who pushed the war. >> i did what i did, it's all on the public record and i feel very good about it. if i had to do it over again, i'd do it in a minute. >> i'd do it in a minute. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld tweeted this week, ten years ago began the long, difficult work of liberating 25 million iraqis, all who played a role in history deserve our respect and appreciation. liberating iraqis? that wasn't the mission. he's still trying to rewrite history. tonight, rachel maddow's documentary, "hubris: selling the iraq war" is on msnbc at 9:00. it details how the bush administration misled america into a costly, bitte
. >> "the new york times" headline that day, rumsfeld says iraq is collapsing.ectives of war. the objectives and the rationale for the war has kept changing ever since. but ten years later, we know how this tragic story turned out. $1.7 trillion war sold to the american public on lies. no weapons of mass destruction. more than 4,000 americans killed, many thousand more iraqis dead. ten years later, still no apologies or regret from those who pushed the war. >> i did what i...
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. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11 showed donald rumsfeld tasking a top aide to find the best info fast. good enough to hit saddam hussein. he asks the aide to get evidence from wolfowitz of a saddam connection with ubl, osama bin laden. >> we all looked at each other like, what are you talking about? who the hell -- saddam hussein? bin laden hates him. he's a her tick. there's no connection between saddam hussein and al qaeda. >> the word goes out to the cia, fbi and all the intelligence services. find the connection. >> first, though, the war on terror goes to afghanistan. to capture or kill osama bin laden and destroy the taliban regime that supports al qaeda. by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into the mountains and across the border to pakistan. but while bin laden remains at large, washington's attention turns to iraq. to saddam. >> i think the united states, since "desert storm" has always had a, a, a various planning with respect to iraq. >> "operation desert storm." also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s
. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11 showed donald rumsfeld tasking a top aide to find the best info fast. good enough to hit saddam hussein. he asks the aide to get evidence from wolfowitz of a saddam connection with ubl, osama bin laden. >> we all looked at each other like, what are you talking about? who the hell -- saddam hussein? bin laden hates him. he's a her tick. there's no connection between saddam hussein and al qaeda. >> the word goes out to the cia, fbi...
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the president said work through channels, work through rumsfeld, stop talking. and somehow, he found another way to the president, and that's where some of the winds start to blow behind bush's back. do you know when he said i'm going to war? >> we do not know when bush said he's going to war, but we do have the documentary record, which we show in "hubris," first, the handwritten notes from rumsfeld on the day of 9/11 saying find the connection to uvl. and no intelligence that there's any connection to ubl, and november of 2001 when he's meeting with general frank, and the most chilling words in this documentary, the hand type written memo, how to start? how to start a war? >> what's the context going to be? >> bush in those early days did say, let's do afghanistan first. basically, he said one war at a time. and i think they bided their time and waited until they thought the war in afghanistan, although not done, had reached -- >> you look at the architects of the war when you say bush, cheney, wolfawitz and rumsfeld, all chicken hawks. they are the biggest ch
the president said work through channels, work through rumsfeld, stop talking. and somehow, he found another way to the president, and that's where some of the winds start to blow behind bush's back. do you know when he said i'm going to war? >> we do not know when bush said he's going to war, but we do have the documentary record, which we show in "hubris," first, the handwritten notes from rumsfeld on the day of 9/11 saying find the connection to uvl. and no intelligence that...
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. >> rose: that was rumsfeld's theory. >> it was also condi rice's. the institution would hold, we put new people in at the top. put we get to baghdad and there's bedlam and it's chaotic and there's looting and there'so no order in the street, no military order, not civil order, and the institution rbt holding. >> rose: so the republican army had been disbanded, the ba'ath party had been disbanded. >> this was in before that. clearly this notion that it was going to be a turnkey operations we'll hand over to them. don rumsfeld, doug feif-- his deputy-- all believed it, turned out to be utterly infeesable. then president bush brought in jerry bremmer and the pendulum swung from one extreme to the other. it went from we're going tofr hd this over to them, get our troops down to 20,000 or 30,000d within a matter of months. i was in baghdad when tommy franks went to brief his own commanders on that. b i was outside the meeting roomrs in this big marble palace. it went from that to we're bringing in a viceroy. we're going to occupy the country. we're going
. >> rose: that was rumsfeld's theory. >> it was also condi rice's. the institution would hold, we put new people in at the top. put we get to baghdad and there's bedlam and it's chaotic and there's looting and there'so no order in the street, no military order, not civil order, and the institution rbt holding. >> rose: so the republican army had been disbanded, the ba'ath party had been disbanded. >> this was in before that. clearly this notion that it was going to be a...
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rumsfeld. and he tweeted ten years ago began the long work of liberating the iraqis, and yes, remember that war of iraqi liberation, do you remember that? it's not what they sold us or told us that war was for. they are retroactively defining it that way. and this is richard pearl. he is talking about the weapons of mass destruction and the weapons labs in iraq, and he shared this bit of self reflection. >> ten years later, nearly 5,000 american troops dead, and thousands more with wounds, and hundreds of thousands of iraqis dead or wounded, and when you think about this, was it worth it? >> i have got to say that i think that is not a it's friday. a high speed texas chase and shootout. we'll have details ahead. >>> president obama is heckled and praised in the middle east as he tries to shore up support but syria may be the most urge interpriority. >>> stock trading on wall street slows as march madness kicks into high gear. >>> plus, how did this guy lose almost $4 billion over 24 hours? the
rumsfeld. and he tweeted ten years ago began the long work of liberating the iraqis, and yes, remember that war of iraqi liberation, do you remember that? it's not what they sold us or told us that war was for. they are retroactively defining it that way. and this is richard pearl. he is talking about the weapons of mass destruction and the weapons labs in iraq, and he shared this bit of self reflection. >> ten years later, nearly 5,000 american troops dead, and thousands more with...
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donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there. those of your words. >> my words were that -- no, no, no, wait a minute, let him stay one second. >> this is america, huh? go ahead. >> you're getting plenty of play, sir. >> i'd just like an honest answer. >> i'm giving it to you. >> these guys have been trying to run away from what they did since they did it. it is a revisionist project to make us think they didn't screw up. we should look at them as the experts in foreign policy and military intervention. how long do you have to be and on how big a scale before we stop listening. i would like to hear about acid reflux, or home re
donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there....
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you had cheney saying the dead enders and rumsfeld saying there's not an insurgency. would want to ask paul, when you're hearing that when you're actually in combat, i mean, if you're paying attention to that stuff, but that was part of selling it, too, we're going to be home by christmas. would any general, or the president says the troops are going to be home by christmas, you know they're lying. it happened in world war i, every time. >> paul, you were serving our country, thank you for it. do you have a sense there was an ideological piece to this, not democrat, not republican, but go into a country like walk, get rid of its military from top to bottom because we didn't like the politics of its leaders and start all over in a way that was far more difficult than it would have been if we stood up the army they had, work to clean out the crazies then gotten out of town, then we wouldn't have gotten so many guys it seems to me. >> there was a clear disconnect to the realities of war. there was definitely too few people who had personal experience. and now i think, yo
you had cheney saying the dead enders and rumsfeld saying there's not an insurgency. would want to ask paul, when you're hearing that when you're actually in combat, i mean, if you're paying attention to that stuff, but that was part of selling it, too, we're going to be home by christmas. would any general, or the president says the troops are going to be home by christmas, you know they're lying. it happened in world war i, every time. >> paul, you were serving our country, thank you...
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hearing where donald rumsfeld met justification for attacking iraq. how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure? i would like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. and benjamin,edea sunday night at 8:00 on c- span's q&a. >> monday night of first ladies, and that hammer sent -- anna hamerson. ler.cia ty becomes theler who president's second wife. >> she is the madonna of first lady street she loved publicity. she posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island. she bewitched john tyler. .ho married her she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year but it was julia tyler who ordered them marine band to play hail to the chief whenever the president appears. she greeted her guests sitting on a throne on the raised platform with purple coons -- purple plumes in her hair. >> your questions and comments about these three first lady iphone, facebook and twitter. monday night live on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and at c- span.org. the roosevelt ho
hearing where donald rumsfeld met justification for attacking iraq. how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure? i would like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. and benjamin,edea sunday night at 8:00 on c- span's q&a. >> monday night of first ladies, and that hammer sent -- anna hamerson. ler.cia ty becomes theler who president's second wife. >> she is the madonna of first lady street she loved publicity. she posed as a model at a time when...
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donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there. those of your words. >> my words were that -- no, no, no, wait a minute, let him stay one second. >> this is america, huh? go ahead. >> you're getting plenty of play, sir. >> i'd just like an honest answer. >> i'm giving it to you. >> these guys have been trying to run away from what they did since they did it. it is a revisionist project to make us think they didn't screw up. we should look at them as the experts in foern policy and military intervention. how long do you have to be and on how big a scale before we stop listening. i would like to hear about acid reflux, or home reme
donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there....
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rumsfeld because i'm sure that they have their hands. i'm sure they boyish. he and his family were heavily invested in carlyle group which is a major investor in defense contractors and so i don't think that anybody has published any numbers if they have i haven't seen them but certainly the bush family made a very very well dave thanks a lot for the call. made out very well dick cheney he had when he was c.e.o. of halliburton in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine they acquired dresser industries which had this huge a specialist liability and it was a very very bad business decision and dick cheney's halliburton was that close to bankruptcy and then we got the war in iraq and cheney was still sitting on hundreds of thousands of halliburton shares and we got the war in iraq and all of a sudden halliburton got all these no bid contracts and now they're sitting pretty and then doing very well so we know that those two guys made out like bandits from that war paul and param minnesota funds and they're right all thanks for calling you want to talk about bradley
rumsfeld because i'm sure that they have their hands. i'm sure they boyish. he and his family were heavily invested in carlyle group which is a major investor in defense contractors and so i don't think that anybody has published any numbers if they have i haven't seen them but certainly the bush family made a very very well dave thanks a lot for the call. made out very well dick cheney he had when he was c.e.o. of halliburton in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine they acquired dresser...
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the obvious human tragedy the main instigators of the conflict george book bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld held remain unpunished and under how can we. ever expect to learn from the biggest foreign policy disaster in america's recent history if we don't hold our leaders accountable for the evil they've caused so what is the lasting legacy of the iraq war and how can we prosecute the war criminals who started it let's ask our architect blogger and political advocate for the american arab anti-discrimination committee read welcome back to the program thank you for having me again great to have you with us where were you on this day in two thousand and three i was in my parents' place in baghdad and actually went back to iraq from jordan because i knew that there would be and be just so i went to be with my family to be. collecting food like you know storing more food and preparing for the invasion and i remember waking up. on this day on the sounds of the first bombs that's been on baghdad what was your family's experience it was a jihad because you know my family went through so many wars i
the obvious human tragedy the main instigators of the conflict george book bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld held remain unpunished and under how can we. ever expect to learn from the biggest foreign policy disaster in america's recent history if we don't hold our leaders accountable for the evil they've caused so what is the lasting legacy of the iraq war and how can we prosecute the war criminals who started it let's ask our architect blogger and political advocate for the american arab...
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. >>> donald rumsfeld, remember him?t the cover of his new book "rumsfeld's rules." the book won't be out until may. so we just can't wait that long. so we asked all of you for your suggestions on facebook. meg baldwin ulmes says rumsfeld's number one rule is to do unto others first. jolene suggests, do whatever we want to whomever we want because we are the best and the rest of the world is evil. and joyce graves writes, go to war without proper equipment and tough stuff if you're killed or maimed. go to facebook tonight and right now and you can share your suggestions. don't forget that you can like "the ed show" when you there are. we're coming right back with the boehner story you won't want to miss. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ sales event has begun. featu
. >>> donald rumsfeld, remember him?t the cover of his new book "rumsfeld's rules." the book won't be out until may. so we just can't wait that long. so we asked all of you for your suggestions on facebook. meg baldwin ulmes says rumsfeld's number one rule is to do unto others first. jolene suggests, do whatever we want to whomever we want because we are the best and the rest of the world is evil. and joyce graves writes, go to war without proper equipment and tough stuff if...
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rumsfeld neal katyal. neal good to see you again. thanks for coming on. [cheers and applause] all right. first of all, watch what you say, i have a feeling that there are cameras and microphones pointed at us. do we know what is going on down at gitmo? what is controlling the switch now? >> we don't. we don't know who is controlling the switch. the judge didn't know. that was the most amazing. >> stephen: seemed to come as a surprise to him. >> yes. >> stephen: it's a military judge and they said they have no idea where the microphones are coming from. >> it's outrageous. it reminds me. the only precedent for it is the soviet constitution or iranian constitution. >> stephen: we're nothing like the old soviet union. we don't have gulags in sigh beera. we have gulags in he is stonea. [ laughter ] is it ultimately such a bad thing. these guys are guilty. [ laughter ] do you not believe ksm is guilty? >> i believe he is likely guilty and that's what trials are all about. >> stephen: the thing with trials is sometimes people are found innocent. that's the one
rumsfeld neal katyal. neal good to see you again. thanks for coming on. [cheers and applause] all right. first of all, watch what you say, i have a feeling that there are cameras and microphones pointed at us. do we know what is going on down at gitmo? what is controlling the switch now? >> we don't. we don't know who is controlling the switch. the judge didn't know. that was the most amazing. >> stephen: seemed to come as a surprise to him. >> yes. >> stephen: it's a...
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we were at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with mass murder or as donald rumsfeld today: >> liberated perhaps from this mortal coil. i'm pleads to still be joint by political analyst ms. maxwell and lauren windsor welcome to the show for the first time. >> thank you. >> i'm trying really hard to not use the word war. we haven't legally declared war since 1941 in this country. there was nothing constitutional about this. i'm trying to say the invasion and occupation. am i being too much of a stickler about it? >> you're going by what the documentation says. i think we need to be focusing on the fact that we were lied to and the consequences of that and all the money that was wasted and no, it's not a war. >> rick, you saw the donald rumsfeld quote. mitt romney said something similar a few days ago. let's talk about how the purpose of this war is being purposefully misremembered. we're being told now today all these reasons to feel good about the war. is it accurate to say that donald trump may have been the only republican to tell the truth what he said this was sup
we were at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with mass murder or as donald rumsfeld today: >> liberated perhaps from this mortal coil. i'm pleads to still be joint by political analyst ms. maxwell and lauren windsor welcome to the show for the first time. >> thank you. >> i'm trying really hard to not use the word war. we haven't legally declared war since 1941 in this country. there was nothing constitutional about this. i'm trying to say the invasion and...
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former defense secretary donald rumsfeld tweeted ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberatingillion iraqis all who played in a role in history who deserve our respect and appreciation. i'm joined again by documentary filmmaker, michael moore. michael, we will get into iraq quickly but the twitter verse is lit up by saying all you guys are so unfair because we know president obama doesn't control legislation, the republican house does. why don't you tell us, yes, republicans need do things, but is there more barack obama can do to use his bully bill put to push this issue forward? >> yes, and he knows it. social security happened because of franklin roosevelt. i don't think you can anyone anyone in congress back then responsible for social security. civil rights and voting rights act in '64 and '65 were because lindon johnson took the southern democrats and others literally by the ears and said, you will vote for this. people want it. h is right, end of story. go up there and vote for it. and obama, president obama, i really think he just has to get his game on here and start k
former defense secretary donald rumsfeld tweeted ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberatingillion iraqis all who played in a role in history who deserve our respect and appreciation. i'm joined again by documentary filmmaker, michael moore. michael, we will get into iraq quickly but the twitter verse is lit up by saying all you guys are so unfair because we know president obama doesn't control legislation, the republican house does. why don't you tell us, yes, republicans need do...
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vice president cheney and rumsfeld in which the u.s.emies and used force to spread democracy. >> the establishment of a free iraq at the heart of the middle east will be a water shed event in the global democratic revolution. >> what americans saw was a bleed quagmyre that destroyed the credibility on those who promoted it and the republican party as a whole. it spikeed from 486 to more than 2100 by the end of 2005. in the mid-term opposition led to a crushing defeat for republican who is lost both the house and senate. any question that the war played when secretary rumsfeld resigned under pressure. democrats pounced on the issue, seeing an opportunity to gain ground on security issues. no one did it better than a young senator named barack obama who took aim at president bush and his team during his first presidential campaign. >> i'm not running to join the kind of washington group think that led us to war in iraq. i'm running to change our politics and policies to leave the world a better place. >> remember who the chief rival was?
vice president cheney and rumsfeld in which the u.s.emies and used force to spread democracy. >> the establishment of a free iraq at the heart of the middle east will be a water shed event in the global democratic revolution. >> what americans saw was a bleed quagmyre that destroyed the credibility on those who promoted it and the republican party as a whole. it spikeed from 486 to more than 2100 by the end of 2005. in the mid-term opposition led to a crushing defeat for republican...
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made the just -- donald rumsfeld made the justifications for attacking iraq. how much money is halliburton going to make? how many u.s. soldiers will be killed? how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure? i would like those questions answered now by someone like rumsfeld. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- q&a.'s q when the -- this event is held at the cato institute. it is one hour and 10 minutes. >> welcome to the cato institute. welcome to those who are watching on c-span 2 and on cato.org. how is my reception? can you hear me? ok. we are delighted to bring together an all-star panel to talk about the state of gay marriage in the supreme court and in american society. a couple of our panelists are fresh from hearing the second day of the supreme court oral arguments. it has been kind of dramatic. i heard the audio and belies there were extremely left-wing and right-wing ideas. and that is just justice kennedy. [laughter] we will be starting out with a discussion on how things went this morning and yesterday at the court.
made the just -- donald rumsfeld made the justifications for attacking iraq. how much money is halliburton going to make? how many u.s. soldiers will be killed? how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure? i would like those questions answered now by someone like rumsfeld. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- q&a.'s q when the -- this event is held at the cato institute. it is one hour and 10 minutes. >> welcome to the cato institute. welcome to...
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. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> the show. >> only on current tv. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started next. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. >> thirteen minutes before the top of the hour, friday, march 29th. this is "full-court press." we are coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on current tv and on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm radio. one of the sources we turn to most often, a great team of people at politico for good solid reporting on what's happening here at the nation's capitol and at the congress. for many of us, the facilitiese and the voice is mr. michaelen, who is also theke allen, who is also the. joining us on our news line this morning. hello, mike. >> blessed beautiful friday to you, bill >> bill: thank you. good to talk to you. it's been a long time. let me play a clip from the secretary. >> very provoctative actions and bell
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and i'm sorry he didn't also mention secretary rumsfeld. we went into iraq with 1 1/2 army divisions and one marine division 434,000 iraqi military people. then we told them to go home and we run the tactical campaign. they took their guns and we turned off their money. we had an occupation government. we didn't guard their infrastructure or these giant ammo dumps and we ended up fighting a nine-year downer insurgency in iraq. so the execution of the execution was deeply flawed. >> as the general was just describing, the situation as it developed over the last ten years. over 130,000 civilian deaths. how are iraqis today? ten years back as we americans here in the united states are back. >> reporter: it is a country that is extremely fractured. when you look at some of the socioeconomic indicators, there definitely have been some improvements. mostly on the financial or economic side. income levels have gone up. there is more economic opportunity to some extent. by far and lark, the overall condition of the country in terms of its functiona
and i'm sorry he didn't also mention secretary rumsfeld. we went into iraq with 1 1/2 army divisions and one marine division 434,000 iraqi military people. then we told them to go home and we run the tactical campaign. they took their guns and we turned off their money. we had an occupation government. we didn't guard their infrastructure or these giant ammo dumps and we ended up fighting a nine-year downer insurgency in iraq. so the execution of the execution was deeply flawed. >> as the...
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. >> but the inspector says it was the pentagon and defense secretary donald rumsfeld who patrolled the the check of. $45 billion had been spent on security related projects in 2011 or by 2011. the supervision was not so much in place. eye-popping waste, fraud, and abuse were the results. convicted felons skimming the attachment to pay construction workers. $40 million prison never wanted and never finished. and a former army major now in prison for stealing millions from government accounts. >> some of those had access to these large duffel bags of cash and were unable to resist the temptation to steal. >> 220 avenal. 104 criminal indictments. 82 convictions. $191 million in fines and penalties. he says some of the money will never be found. but there is a next time, he hopes the u.s. will never learned the very costly lesson of iraq. >> it has been costly to iraq and to the united states and to coalition partners in ways that no one anticipated 10 years ago. >> al jazeera. >> john brennan is one step closer to becoming the head of the cia. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has ap
. >> but the inspector says it was the pentagon and defense secretary donald rumsfeld who patrolled the the check of. $45 billion had been spent on security related projects in 2011 or by 2011. the supervision was not so much in place. eye-popping waste, fraud, and abuse were the results. convicted felons skimming the attachment to pay construction workers. $40 million prison never wanted and never finished. and a former army major now in prison for stealing millions from government...
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. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? ♪ >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: well a belated happy st. patrick's day. hope you celebrated and are ready to go with a whole new busy week here in our nation's capitol. president obama headed off to the middle east. good morning, everybody, what do you say, monday march 18th. so good to see you today, yep, hope you did have a good weekend and are ready to go today here
. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with...
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already mentioned those who were officially in charge of the war richard perle colin powell donald rumsfeld on top of all of them dick cheney and president bush but the policy advisors i'm referring to were a group within the defense department effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied just let a save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would expand its area
already mentioned those who were officially in charge of the war richard perle colin powell donald rumsfeld on top of all of them dick cheney and president bush but the policy advisors i'm referring to were a group within the defense department effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of...
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. >> that is the hearing where donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq, anddidn't hear in the clip were questions we got a chance to ask him, which is, how much money is halliburton going to make from the war? how many u.s. soldiers will be killed? how many iraqi civilians will die? and i'd like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. >> more with code pink cofounder sunday night at 8:00. >> 40 years after the start of the arab israeli war, newly declassified documents were released relating to intelligence covering the 1973 conflict. recently the richard nixon library and the cia hosed -- hosted an event. >> of our television audience, who may have just joined us, i want to tell you you're here with us at the richard nexton presidential library and museum in yorba linda, california, with a program presented jointly by the national archives, the richard nixon foundation, and the central intelligence agency. this is our second panel of the program, and before we get into it, i want to remind the members in our audience of the association
. >> that is the hearing where donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq, anddidn't hear in the clip were questions we got a chance to ask him, which is, how much money is halliburton going to make from the war? how many u.s. soldiers will be killed? how many iraqi civilians will die? and i'd like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. >> more with code pink cofounder sunday night at 8:00. >> 40 years after the start of the arab...
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bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't talk about p.t.s.d. for u.s. soldiers without acknowledging that p.t.s.d. for an entire generation of iraqis is a real reality millions and millions of people whose lives have been destroyed and so people want justice for all of these war criminals and people are fighting to win justice and an organization we are forward is working to help get this justice and also help that's opt out thank you so much mike prize the iraq war veteran and co-founder of march forward. i so guys as you know this week marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq but sadly you won't know if you're just watch
bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't...
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former employee and colin powell is on the membership list back in two thousand and five as is donald rumsfeld and bush forty one most of the neo con orchestrators of the iraq war and so i do believe that this e-mail hack from google for is authentic and it looks like they're obviously trying to get tony blair former u.k. prime minister in the air because he's still active in the political arena aimed not just retire and run off into the sunset he found a phone he has a foundation and is still very active and so it looks like they're trying to get him to attend the grove this e-mail was from march of two thousand and twelve and apparently tony blair was too busy his schedule was to book but he did reply allegedly that he hopes that his schedule will be more open in two thousand and thirteen this year and as you know the bohemian grove is a fascinating secretive society of the elite where they rub shoulders and it's more than just a party as i'm sure that you know well let's let's go over a few of the things that you just brought up mark first of all you mentioned the membership list i just wan
former employee and colin powell is on the membership list back in two thousand and five as is donald rumsfeld and bush forty one most of the neo con orchestrators of the iraq war and so i do believe that this e-mail hack from google for is authentic and it looks like they're obviously trying to get tony blair former u.k. prime minister in the air because he's still active in the political arena aimed not just retire and run off into the sunset he found a phone he has a foundation and is still...