have a conflict between iraqi diplomats were due to time and timing pictures saddam hussein quit his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true awesomely talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most of mine an issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york city. early in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks and i don't think we ever should i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq and no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite you know that the mainstream media and the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy in reporting the. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand

early in the head of a newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly terrorist and i don't think we are or should least i know i didn't say there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september eleventh were ordered by iraq and no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy reporting did a. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion the four major nightly newscasts n.b.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and the p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews done around war only three were antiwar leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer in mainstream media that's an extreme and even the drums for war a recent new york times report s

hussein took more than one hundred americans hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a national hero. then that hero heard president george w. bush make this statement in the two thousand and three state of the union address the british government. recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true their level of corruption. from the top down is staggering to the american people wrote about it in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house. robert novak tried to discredit wilson by writing a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia said. on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she worked there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that did what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was she was uncovered. in any activities fo

that saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons high quality aluminum tubes which is what you have to have a more difficult for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction with the person that the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of the mushroom cloud. and we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. will create a members there was a pattern relationship that went back at least a decade in iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious deception at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they felt that they had to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which was skepticism on the news terms therapy did the administration. have a conflict. on the record there were two times a time in pictures saddam hussein quit his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little it turned out to be true only instead of providing clarity on the single most of mine an issue of our generation the press only created confusion it

the mid nineties when the united states set up the no-fly zone to protect the kurdish skies from saddam hussein's regime. that allowed us to have our first elections in 1992 and put together our government and parliament and build our security services. >> you have your own army? >> we have our own regional defense force. we have very strong security services and a good working relationship with our society and i think that is the key. the information sharing between the kurdish public and the kurdish security services is one of the main reasons as to why kurdistan today is safe. >> what goes back and forth between those groups? >> there is a trust. the citizens know the authorities at the end of the day, with all their faults do care about the people. there's a great channel of communication. for example, if there is any suspicious activity, it will a immediately get reported to the act -- to the authorities. that kind of trust is only started to be built in other parts of the country. >> of the world indeed as well. one of our congressman here, john conyers from michigan, said people

by the iraqi people he came to the west and said he didn't want to be a saddam hussein. >> rose: how close was he? >> i can't say technically, you never know, but it was well advanced. >> rose: others will argue the following: that if we had not done that, toppled saddam hussein, that he also would be a victim of the arab spring. like qaddafi. >> possibly. >> like yemen, like mubarak. >> it is possible. we don't know. it's a counterfactual. it didn't happen so we won't know. it's certainly possible. although he was a particularly reessive, brutal vicious... >> rose: well, you knew that because you had met him. >> of course. >> rose: give me your assessment of the cost of the war. >> well, the cost, of course, the most important cost and the one thing that anyone involved in having young men and women go into war is the human cost and each... lives were changed, lives were ended and each life is precious. and it is a heart breaking thing the... every war has costs, there's no question about that. war is a nail your of diplomacy and even in this case, for example, president bush made a

hussein in previously as a cover and pretext saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's so on but they demonize him now to give them cover for engender out of season the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had the disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states and the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a miss or aided countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains them. and still to come here on r.t. there is a fuel feud brewing in the middle east about how egypt's revolution looks set to trigger a gas shortage but in israel. u.s. officers are investigating the disappearance of nearly seven billion dollars sent by washington to fund the reconstruction of iraq the cash was flown in af

saddam hussein.we were, certainly his army wouldn't have been equiped and so close to the soviet union during the middle of the cold war. yes, we probably played off and did a little bit to play off saddam hussein against the mullah regime in iran, who had just expressed this they were out to destroy the united states. but that doesn't mean we were the main benefactors of saddam hussein. we were not. caller: good morning. representative rohrabacher, by the way, greta, please don't cut me off either. the guy from indiana was exactly correct. you're exactly full of baloney. the laws of war say that any country responsible for a criminal war -- and this was a premeditated, cril8 war of aggression -- is responsible for all the evils that ensue therefrom. there was none of this mayhem in iraq before our invasion. guest: oh, no. let's go to that point first. then you make your next point. what about the 100,000 kurds that were gassed by saddam hussein? that didn't happen before we came in? come on! give me

offer was turned down by saddam on the twenty second of may just over a week ago and it doesn't look like the diplomacy is going very much further and by the way it didn't look like that was going to solve very much because what it four saw was sort of stepping down that his vice president taking over for a month and then having a very unwieldy and unlikely group of islamists and socialists and nasir writes and tribesmen coming in but it also saluted a number of important actors such as the house the rebel rebels and the tribal leaders and the youth. who are who started the whole thing in january so it was imperfect at best and i'm not quite sure that that much was lost by its rejection bus on the interim mr mansour is there a word to step down let's say hypothetically yes can i jump in there go right ahead yeah i'd like. yemen is not bothering ok. saudi intervention are about in yemen i think would be a disaster any arab country. generally any country that's tried to intervene military really in yemen has lived to regret it certainly the gyptian the good and the saudi intervention t

well i think you start working more on what comes after saddam you don't focus all of your attention on just getting rid of saddam because you shape what comes afterwards you grease the skids for his exit. and beyond that what you have to do is to continue to narrow that base of support it's already we're all very dramatically most dramatically when there are less and. left him and i think you have to create a situation where his current supporters have to choose they have to choose between him in the past and the future yemen as it's evolving where their interests are better served daniels i can go to you i mean i want to stay with the international community but let's go back to yemen real quickly i mean the david the current leader is when he nights all of these protests i mean if you were suddenly to disappear do you see that civil society is political society strong enough as the ambassador has pointed out do you to do really wind down the violence and actually sit down and have elections and have a civil dialogue because it is the longer this violence continues that seems more

but one thing this clear since march nineteenth the live warden really paeans has changed forever saddam is mother will never forget the day when her daughter preferred death to this new life my girl told me before that she saw death as a good thing when i entered her room that day she was lying on the floor there was smoke everywhere could see what happened but i realized immediately it was something terrible this is not fair they told us they want a no fly zone they never sat they were going to bomb us he promised to protect us but instead they scare us talking about who they are of a block here saddam his father is more precise and the world no longer needs nato and we try to live our lives we'll need starts wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it till september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nato is supposed to target khadafi its military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's

two things was on the side of the president against saddam but where the saudis have influences with the pocketbook a great deal of resources flow from saudi arabia into yemen in their recent indications that the. saudis are using that as a significant lever. i'm a little bit more positive on the g.c.c. initiative also than. mr pipes i think it was a well designed effort i think it got far i think developments in the region really complicated it because when you started to see what was happening in egypt with hosni mubarak i think president saleh got cold feet and really question whether or not he wanted to give his state over and i also think he was motivated in seeing developments in places like libya and syria where dictators have held on to power through military force so it's it's a larger regional phenomenon it's interesting daniel i mean if we take this on board here. no matter what happens the president steps down now it's going to be just absolute chaos theory i mean which way could he go and i mean there are other people that well know there are some people who are very con

here is what the president of saddam, president bush either has to say about trained to. it does not exist in islam. we don't have it. another race, these women imagined it or their press to. we collect to a petition in darfur were, one of the people at the camp said what to do in your country when you want to do government policy, to stop the people doing this. we said these petitions, which was quite a new notion there. the very easiest way to start a petition attribute exceeds that of the names. but because the idea of the petition didn't quite register, we actually have 60,000 stories by the time they handed in this enormous pile of paper. we submitted to the international criminal court and they accepted it as evidence of war crimes. as i said, the media has been kept out. we also collected 500 drawings by darfur were children -- of the genocide. now bear in mind that these are kids would never watch television, never looked at images or military magazines. so what you're getting here is a nonfiltered child's view of what has been happening in darfur were. incidental

defeat the saddam hussein army -- done. kill or capture saddam hussein -- done.applause] week, the soldiers, have done that with the obstructions of liberals, cynics and critics telling us it was some big mistake. nonsense. [applause] what can we learn from america's current or veterans. there are still things worth fighting for. [applause] america has not been built on the labour and hard work of the senate and the critic. there are still americans today that know how to sacrifice. there are still americans that the difference between what is evil and what is good, who is a threat and was harmless, whether to live free or quit on this country and. die thank god america still has men and women such as you today who still believe this as well. americans need to sacrifice along with their soldiers. sacrificed doubt. sacrifice anxiety. sacrifice cynicism. as visionary as we republicans claim to be, we will make little headway if our only answers are mere sideline snipes that what is wrong with this country. our task is to show the american people what is right with

we spent a trillion dollars trying to free those people from the saddam hussein dictatorship and helpratic society. yet now it seems there is no gratitude on the part of the people who now are in charge of the iraqi government. and that should give us pause if we're thinking about spending any more money or leaving our troops over there any long er. they just aren't grateful for what we've done. >> probably like you, you checked out how the military is reacting to this. i go on these military discussion boards. and one of the guys on there posted, and i think it was pretty accurate, he said, why don't we give them a bill for wrecking our economy while trying to get rid of the menace zam? why don't we give them a bill for the funerals and all the children that won't get to see their moms and dads? and they still have oil revenues. if they put a stop to corruption they could pay their workers, fix their streets and pay for it themselves. >> it was the tyranny and corruption of saddam hussein that kept that country in poverty and living under repression. we were the ones who gave our liv

hussein and previously as a cover and pretext saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's saw a. but they demonize him now to give them cover or engender out of season the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had to disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states and the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a missing rated countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains. israel's long established sanity agreement was it could soon go up in flames the original gas deal was set up by president mubarak but now post revolution cairo is demanding that the terms are renegotiated and as he's publicly reports israel's options are fast running out. israel cannot be choosy in picking its energy resou

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saddam has been weaving and has graz death the doctors have performed any a miracle and the young girl is back home with her family she took her mother to kill herself. if someone wants to kill me and myself. but who wants to kill the teenager. summer's native city tripoli has been under constant bombardment by nato forces for three months day and night forms have been falling on the city with a population of around a million no one can ever say when or where the next one would land. this week in the most intensive air idea that there have been sixteen nato air strikes in just ten hours attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future nato has frequently claimed success and the military operation is supposed to protect civilians but the libyan government has repeatedly protested the innocent civilians have been among the dead the claims have not been independently very high and for twice in his clear since march nineteenth the law of warden early pins has changed forever saddam was mother will never forget the day when her

hussein and previously as a cover and pretext saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years khadafi had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's but they demonize him now to give them cover for engender out of season the oil subjugating the population the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had the disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states in the western powers the resources go outward to the foreign corporations that control them the population is a mystery aided countries with great wealth but they don't enjoy the benefit of it because of the class character of the regime and the nature of imperial power that controls and installs these regimes and maintains them. well former congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is on a fact finding mission in libya she says she's spoken to people on the ground and nato could be bombing the country with radioactive substances. we have reports that depleted uranium is being used we know that there are the missiles that are coming d

nato and the imperial powers to launch in general intervention using the as a pretext as they had saddam hussein in iraq but their agenda is to carve up the country and seize it spoil even as in syria and inject interest in subjugate the population and prevent a popular and mass uprising that seems radical social and political. project out. of syria again what you make of the timing of the the news like you saw this week you would have told me what still closing in on syria brought up did it again the issue of that facility that was bought by israel back in two thousand and seven confusion over what it was they say was a nuclear facility there saying syria that doesn't provide enough information about it seemed a satisfaction none the less i'm sorry about the timing of it coming at the same time as other pressure last week willie putting further pressure of damascus from a different direction but still hitting the button of pressure isn't it. united states has used a clue to uranium tactical nuclear weapons to route the region in iraq in afghanistan and now and syria designed est israel

almost he promised to protect his but instead they scariest talking about who they are of a bulkier saddam his father is more precise in the world no longer needs nato the second world war ended long ago and we try to live our lives will need starts wars and always intervenes in other countries problems we're tired of war our patience is running out let us just live our life has just prolonged its operation and leave it till september that means people here face months more terror from the skies one of nature's supposed to targets gadhafi his military arsenal actually landed here in this district it didn't destroy the colonel's compound but it's almost damaged the lives of one family as you can see the building has quickly been repaired now the question is whether the people will ever recover. tripoli this week a russian envoy began his mission in libya in the latest attempt to bring both sides of the conflict to the to go. table me how my gal who visited benghazi for talks with the opposition says the coalition bombing campaign will not help resolve the turmoil we seriously think that str