. >> they have a lot of freedom center sadam hussain but they lost them immediately with the war. there was security and under house arrest for a long time. it got worse unfortunately that it led to the arrival of radical islam with a very conservative version how women should live many influenced by iran. iraqi women found themselves unable to leave the house or possibly living at -- losing their rights to the constitution, government, di vorce or inheritance or family loss of a became desperate for the future and what it might told them they never thought they would end up like that because they have a lot of rights under sadam hussain. >> you reported in the middle east for many years. have you seen a change value have been treated on the ground since september 11th? >> i think most arabs were welcoming to americans despite the media portrays them as being anti-american. but the west like iraq and afghanistan have made a lot of people feel that all americans are against the morals and islam as a religion. i have had to counter that and address that in reaching them. >> is it di

as a clear and present danger, there is a very strong un argument for confronting sadam hussain because he had not lived up to the commitments of 687 which is the cease-fire of the 1999 war. he had not, he threw out the as directors effectively at to that end of 1998 and we know and we do still though this from the iraq survey group, he had the means and the will to concoct weapons of mass destruction at a later date even if he did not have them at the time. there was a british interest to confront him and we should have done it in 1999 and we could not because of the french and the russians would not allow the security council to do it. that is our was coming from. it would not damage the british interest if we had gone into iraq with your numbers. it would have hurt it if we actively opposed when americans were planning. and we could have done more on issues that somebody may have regarded as minor all the o if i said anything more that would be insane. >> i want to make sure i got it right to. one more question is about the aftermath planning but for someone to check to any of my col

despite the rhetoric in the media of that painting it later as a city follow sadam hussain said of the nonsense. it was a city in iraq where there is no fighting during the invasion. americans' role did the people put forth a couple of people to work with them they said we're glad saddam hussein is gone. we did not like kimmie there. that is pretty common. they welcome to the americans and and there were no problems but then i believe april april 28, 2003, little less than three weeks after the american stock baghdad, and fallujah of the talked to -- there we're occupying a secondary school, a demonstration because folks wanted their kids to use the school to go to school and the americans opened fired on demonstrators and killed 17 people and civil investigations are done and of course, americans claim they took fire from the demonstrations. the next day another demonstration was happening in this city against the americans because of the people killed the previous day and four more people were killed. the resistance was formed in fallujah at the hands of american soldiers killing una