everybody believed that sadam hussein this wmd's.produced it and used it before. >> let me ask you about two other statements. you said the u.s. would be greeted in iraq as liberators. >> thes what we had been told by intelligence. it was great satisfaction. >> in 2005 you said the insurgency was in its last throws just before it got much worse. >> i obviously misjudged the situation. >> the problem is it was tougher than we thought it would be. >> some people say hey, why should we listen to him? when he was in charge he was wrong about a lot of things. >> most people say they were critics to that if the first place. by the time we finished in iraq we had as we were leaving office dealt with most of that problem. we had the sunni united with the shi'ite government. we had military forces left with respect to the iraqis and we had pretty well stabilized the situation as brashg obama himsehim -- barack obama shimself aid. >> president obama said he was leaving a country that was sovereign stable. >> what do you believe went wrong? >>

militants have taken control of tikrit which was sadam hussein's home town. they are so evil al qaeda separated themselves from them. it is set to review a crisis. >> a deadly rampage at an oregon high school was a 15-year-old freshman. jared padgett was carrying a case and a duffle bag inside. the assault rifle used in the attack plus a hunting knife a hand gun and nine extra clips of ammo that he got from his home. he went straight in the locker room and shot dead emilio hoffman before injuring another person and turning the gun on himself. the graduation is still scheduled for tonight. >> the drunk driver charged in that deadly crash involving tracy morgan pleading not guilty in a new jersey court. roper remained silent as he was released on 50,000 dollars bail. he has proclaimed his innocence on twitter saying he's a scapegoat because a celebrity becau was involved. police say roper had not slept for 24-hours. funeral services will be held for james mcnair who was killed in that crash. >> the fbi launching a criminal investigation into the va scandal. the

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that eight-year american presence brought down the murderous government of the sadam hussein, disbandedqi army. americans worked hard to rebuild the power and water systems, the civil service, the police and the army. the u.s. left iraq in 2011. after eight years and eight months unable to reach ideal with the new iraqi government for keeping troops in the country. and today, less than three years later, the weaknesses, contradictions and unsolved riddles of creating a post saddam iraq are apparent, it's the "inside story." the prime minister of iraq has declared a state of emergency. after days of intensifying violence, some 1300 fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant, known as the isil, besieged the northern city of mosul, iraq's second largest city tuesday morning. in just a few hours, militants freed prisoners from jail, took control of key government buildings, and seized tv stations and banks. many iraqi soldiers and police personnel abandoned their posts, leaving large swaths of the wider province in the control of the isil. tuesday afternoon iraq's prime minister

it's not only the hometown of sadam hussein, the former dictator, but it's seen as being one of the key towns in the sunni heartland, and isil won't want to give it up very easily. isil also says it's captured many soldiers and military equipment, including tanks. human rights watch says nearly 190 of those captured iraqi army recruits were murdered by the fighters. the rights drew group analyzed satellite imagery and photos released by the fighters, but says that further investigation is difficult because of the fighting. weeks in no this crisis, iraq's politicians still haven't been able to agree on a united solution. and for many sunni residents of tikrit who feel let down by the shia government, hopes of stability remain just that, imran kahn, al jazerra. >>> still ahead on al jazerra, they have escaped the fighting but south sudan's displaced now face new threats in overcrowded camps. >>> plus. >> reporter: i am tim fremd in roam where the mayor is appealing for millions of dollars from international donors to help save the capital's ancient sites. ♪ ♪ >> 99 percent of those arrest

other sunni groups link today the former leader sadam hussein are also taking part in this rebellions the government. iraqi authorities are asking the united states to help push them back. >> what the united states is doing is about iraq. it is not about maliki. and nothing that the president decides to do is going to be focused specifically on prime minister maliki. it is focused on the people of iraq. >> reporter: washington hasn't ruled out air strikes, but so far, it has been reluctant. it is not just because of domestic politics or the lack of intelligence gathering on the ground. the former commander of coalition forces in iraq has warned against any air strikes. u.s. general david petraeus says there is a great risk that the u.s. would be seen picking sides in a religious battle. adding, this cannot be the united states being the air force for shia militias or a shia sunni arab fight. it has to be a fight of all of iraq against extremists. the u.s. considers the islamic state of iraq and levant a terrorist organization, but it also happens to be a sunni force. the group has man

figures who are collaborating with the isil fighters and former members of the iraqi army under sadam hussein it's pretty strong development. and this is where they are labeling it. evening the prime minister is saying this is a conspiracy aimed at the government, the new government of iraq. >>> omar reporting from baghdad. meanwhile, the republican leadership in this country is blaming the obama administration's foreign policy for the fighting in iraq. the u.s. has acknowledged the situation on the ground is very grave. the question remains what role america will play the conflict. mike viqueira joins us live there washington. mike, good afternoon. how is the government respond to go this escalating situation in iraq? >> reporter: stephanie, we have some brand-new developments to tell you about. just moments ago president obama at the end of a meeting, an hour long meeting that he had in the oval office with the australian prime minister, kevin rudd, president obama spoke extensively about the unfolding situation in iraq, a situation that he termed an emergency and very significantly, stepha

oo you could say the over throw was not good but the over throw of sadam hussein was good.o it again knowing the even events after that. >> what about that we spend more than any other country. we have 50,000 in japan. 40,000 in term knee 30,000 in south korea. >> we pay a considerable part of the basing expenses. many allies don't bare the fair share of the costs. we are not doing it for them. we are doing it for us. >> south korea can defend itself. >> when enemies are over seas sometimes the best place to be to defend them is be overseas. >> some people ask us to chase and kill terrorists train foreign militaries to space terrorists. keep oil cheap. protect other countries from aggression. stop genocide protecting innocent people which you have said you don't support the list sendless. >> with all dupree terespect t- due respect it doesn't have the notion that american strength convinces our ad sar res no the to challenge us in the first place. that is not a new concept. romans used to say if you want peace prepare for war. >> it didn't stop china from doing what it is d

. >> you said in the 1990's we forced sadam hussein out of kuwait. everybody said it was because of our amazing computer power, our missiles. we were way ahead. the play station now has more computing power than we had then. >> hundreds of millions of people have that. your smart phone is like a super cuter from a generation ago. all of these trends are combining to i think lead to a faster pace of innovation than we have ever seen. >> many say tech is flowing we are seeing a decline in innovation. the recent book called "the great stagnation" argues growth will continue to decline because we have already grabbed the low hanging fruit. >> nothing new or interesting or innovative any more. that's what motivated us to write the second age talking about stagnation we didn't see it at mit or silicon valley. innovation have not slowed down. you look at some of the stats of stagnating income the innovation has slowed down but if you look at specifically what's happening with technology i think it has never been faster and it's not necessarily being capture

i mean, they did, iraq under sadam hussein had 25 attack jets, but they were not there 12 years so thenot qualified. and in some other conflicts in europe actually in macedonia in ethiopia, such russian planes were supplied and there were also sort of instructors, quote, unquote, mercenary pirates flying them. and these are not fighters actually, these are attack planes, armored. not second hands but they are rather effective but apparently what the iraqis say will be going in to action very soon, a day or two after they are full assembled and they are going to be pounded the rebel positions. that's what the iraqis most likely need badly most of all right now. >> the u.s., of course, has pretty much refuse today sends anymore jets to iraq at the moment. so how much is this deal really russia sending some sort of message to washington? >> well, the russian arms dealers kind of put their finger in the pie, there are reports that at least half a billion dollars that iraq is paying, most likely just not these five planes, more in the pipeline but russia was ready to step in when the americ

recently qatar and saudi arabia to reach out to the sunnies as a way to end the crisis, during sadam hussein'strol iraq was under control of sunni despite a shia majority. after he was ousted iraq. two years later the awakening movement of the sunni tribes men, plus an improving iraqi army, led to the ousting of al qaeda other from iraq. in 2011, a shia-led unity government took over the running of iraq when u.s. forces left. but the shia prime minister nouri al-maliki has been accused of discrimination. after pushing out top sunni politicians from the government. >>> well, joining me to talk more about this is president of the air action lawyers association here in london. good to have you with us on the program. thanks for coming in. the sunni-shia divide, of course, exists across the arab world. but is it purely a religious divide that we see here in iraq today? >> from the beginning of the creation of iraq, in the modern iraq in the 20s, until 2003, shia sunni divide was not really there. there was totally uninstitutionalized anywhere in the constitution, the law, the practices, et cetera.

>> reporter: the fighters come from iraq, including former members of the iraqi military under sadam husseint they also have recruits from saudi arabia, libya, central asia, the caucuses and even canada. and the british government says at least 400 of them are british citizens who have taken up the gun and ge jihadist cause. >> i am in the frontline. >> reporter: today british prime minister david cameron says they now represent a threat to britain. >> there should be no doubt that what we see in syria and now iraq in terms of isis, is the most serious threat to britain's security that there is today. >> reporter: inspired by al qaeda, which is disavoid and condemned the group, they are fought in iraq and syria. some say they were funded by saudi arabia, even syrian intelligence. their leader, an iraqi religious student was jailed by american troops in iraq and later released. >> well, so far he's shown himself to be very effective and seems to have a long-term vision, the capacity to implement that vision, we have now seen evidence that this current assault has been sometime in the planning

what they are doing and people in the army are actually from the town and former sadam loyalists and the hometown of husseinthe territory well and there is a question being asked and this is the army and they are not looking for a counterfeit and not looking for the same thing the islamic states are and an ideological divide between them and the islamic state fighters there are, does that mean the ideological divide will be a tactical divide as well? they disagree with each other and what we are looking for now to see what impact this statement from the islamic state has on the actual fighting on the ground. >> thank you very much, that is al jazeera with the latest from baghdad. and the three syrian army is committed to fighting the islamic state it wants more cooperation with the united states to fight what it calls terrorism and fsa put out a statement after a meeting with the secretary of state last week and says isil is on the border between iraq and seer dwra -- syria and the key to defeating the off shoot is free the syrian army fighters and it has a center to combat fighters from the sunni rebel gro