bush urged saddam hussein and his family to leave the country and have safe passage. what we've seen in egypt with mubarak and the doc, ill, sentenced to life imprisonment. you can be sure that assad is looking at what happened to mubarak and knowing that he is being accused of atrocities at the present time, the chances of assad leaving are about zero. he has to see in his mind's eye. himself, in the doc, being tried for atrocities and not having the opportunity to get out of that country and take his family and be gone and allow something better for the people of syria. >> let's take another short break. let's come back and talk about israel. i want to know how you feel, given you don't think the israeli administration can really trust obama. as a culinary manager i make sure our guests have an over the top experience. being hands on is key! i make sure every plate looks just right. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's four course seafood feast, just $14.99. start with soup, salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits followed by your choice of one of 7 entrees.

gadhafi was overthrown, which was the objective, in the same way that the overthrowing of saddam was the objective. people will say, actually, we prefer president obama's way. that is a better use of the american military. it was just as successful and it caused much less economic and military pain to america. >> of course, the circumstances are entirely different. you're talking apples to oranges. you've got to remember, when saddam hussein was finally captured and pulled out of that spider hole in iraq and given to the iraqi people and the iraqi government and they tried him, convicted him, and sentenced him to death, it was gadhafi in libya who called in the west and said, i do not want to become another saddam hussein. i have a nuclear program. it's well advanced, and i am now inviting the west in to come into libya and take over my nuclear program. i am giving it up. and that was a direct result of president bush's decision to go into iraq. and the world is a better place because gadhafi did not have nuclear weapons and gave up his nuclear program specifically for that reason. s

to act and get a resolution we put the inspector is back in and see if saddam hussein wants to play by the rules and turn over everything he has and give us the information. the president agreed and september of 2002 he went before the un and made the case for .n the u.n. to get engaged. we got a resolution in november putting saddam hussein on notice and demanding he turn over all the information on weapons he had. he flunked that test. sir saddam hussein might still be in charge that won't have weapons of mass destruction and it is necessary to use military force i would be fully supportive because you tried to avoid the war and to speed this up in late january, none of us were satisfied with the response or what the u.n. had been able to fully and cover. by the middle of january the president decided force would be necessary. at the end of january i was with him and he said we need to present our case to the united nations and the world and i would like you to do it. do it next week. four days from the time he told me to the time i made the presentation i wasn't concerned because th

hussein which as we all know didn't result in first of all saddam or his regime suffering his people did all of the starving and the dying when those sanctions were in place and eventually didn't topple that regime but. required military action in order to get rid of the regime in place and ten years later the u.s. has only now been able to remove itself from that war with iran we're talking about something on a far greater scale and it is looking more and more like the sanctions are in place not to use as leverage in negotiations but to use as a tool for regime change down the line and we should say it's not just the lawmakers pushing president obama to really keep the military option on the table there's also a group called the emergency committee for israel they've put out a commercial and i want to play just a little part of it now we'll talk about it iran's development of a nuclear weapon i believe is unacceptable we do want to make sure that by the end of this year we've actually seen a serious process before president obama has spent four years talking on his four years buildi

to act and get a resolution that will put the inspectors back in and see if saddam really wallets to play by the -- wants to play by the rules and and turn over everything he has and give us all the information he has. the president agreed. and in september of 2002 he went before the u.n., september 12th, and made the case for the u.n. to get engaged, send inspectors back and pass necessary resolutions. i worked on the resolution draft for seven weeks, and we got a resolution in early november from the u.n. putting saddam on notice and also demanding that he -- demanding that he turn in all the information and the weapons that he had. well, he flunked that test. and i also made it clear to the president that if he passed the test, you might still be stuck with saddam hussein in power, but he won't have weapons of mass destruction. the president understood that. i also made it clear to him that if it was necessary to use military force, i would be fully supportive because you've tried. we tried to avoid the war. and then to speed this up in late january president -- none of us were sa

hussein in particular when saddam hussein waged in a war against iran they conceded that they stood behind iraq and helped it in every way possible none of them were able to give a helping hand in building a democracy in cases when they occupied a country they were to blame for the mass nations and crimes and they shot themselves in africa. today they can barely drag themselves out of them are you may remember that in the end the approach to iran. to help them get out of it so they are very weak and their case is pretty weak to today the world does not believe that someone can bring democracy against the people's will through occupation military strike or any similar rationale people do believe that they want to help because their help usually results in numerous casualties wherever they serve their food in the face of serious challenges. in the meantime iran has proved to be a successful more of a democratic state ruled by the people it's a good example for the region and the whole world that it's a genuine democracy where people have the right to shape their future what this model

and saddam hussein was found. years ago. 2003. >>> and now we honor our fellow americans who serve and sacrifice. the pentagon released the names of nine soldiers and ma reebs killed in afghanistan. >>> in your voice this week, today's question comes from mike mcguire. what would be a priority for the white house if the president were re-elected the first priority will be fixing this fiscal cliff if the congress does not act. attend of the year, the bush tax cuts expire. there will be mandated budget cuts across the board because congress failed to reduce that deficit on that not so super super committee. after that mess, if reelected president obama may turn to tax reforms since he could find common ground there with republicans. much depends on congress. if president obama wins a second term, no telling whether he'll have more allies in congress? >>> and that's all for us today. check out "world news" with david muir tonight. thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. george stephanopoulos will see you b

but the basic problems rest with saddam hussein. he's the one that put us in this position. he's the one that caused the president to believe we cannot leave this regime in power when we think they have weapons of mass destruction. as it turned out, they didn't. but i can assure you, he used them in the past against his own citizens. against other countries. and if left free of the u.n. sanctions, he would have had weapons of mass destruction. he never lost the capability to use such weapons. >> you endorsed mr. obama in 2008. why stay on the sidelines? >> why not? it's my choice. i'm a private citizen. i don't have to say anything just because i'm on a book tour. >> you're a very interesting private citizen. >> thank you very much. i'm a private citizen. and the media wants to force me to say something they want to hear. i choose to watch the campaigns unfold. >> finally, i have an old volvo in my garage. you want to help me fix it up? >> what year? >> '87. you really work on volvos? >> yeah. but they have to have cash rate earnest spark plugs and no electronic emissions. i

>>> plus dick cheney claimed there was a connection between saddam hussein and 9/11. but a document just declassified puts cheney in the hot seat. >>> and burglaries and fires break out at women's health clinics right here in atlanta. now the fbi is investigating spp this an act of domestic terrorism? you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. 7 >>> there's new news tonight in the fight back against voter suppression. today new hampshire democratic governor john lynch vetoed a restrictive voter i.d. bill. the bill would have required voters to show photo identification at the polls. as we seen around the country, the proposal would have made it harder for ill eligible people to vote. he said quote, our election laws must be designed to encourage and facilitate voting by all eligible voters in new hampshire. he's not the only governor stepping up the fight but our attorney general eric hold ir and it's one of the reasons the gop is on a witch hunt against him. that story is next. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school mat

baghdad, a symbol that it is once again a key player in the region, after years of isolation under saddam hussein. with this enhanced standing in the region there are serious questions about iraq's position on, for example, syria. while i understand iraq's concerns about syria's stability in a post-assad era, the violence over the past year perpetrated by assad's forces is inexcusable. iraq should join with others in the international community and use its position in the arab league to bring increased diplomatic pressure to bear on mr. assad. i also continue to have significant concerns about iran's efforts to exert influence in iraq. i look forward to hearing the nominee's thoughts on this seminole issue, and an assessment of the u.s.' ability to diplomatically mitigate the negative effects of iranian influence in iraq. despite these continuing challenges there is positive news in iraq that we can build upon reflected in a recent public opinion survey fielded by the national democratic institute known as ndi. they found that 48% of iraqis believed that iraq was headed in the right direc

saddam hussein's cousin and personal secretary has been executed in iraq it be the hamid mahmud was rated number four on the u.s. most wanted list before being captured that he taters right hand man was charged with brutally crushing a shiite uprising after the ninety ninety one gulf war it's the first execution in the country since two thousand and ten and saddam's former foreign minister is still being held on death row. now you're up to date i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about ten minutes from now what next an exclusive interview with a lebanese interior minister giving his view why how the bloodshed in syria could play out for the region stay with us. well that. lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made. by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon. little bit of lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security and lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighbo

and saddam hussein was found.2003. >>> and now, we honor our fellow americans who serve and sacrifice. this week, the pentagon released the names of nine soldiers and marines killed in afghanistan. and ma reebs killed in afghanistan. >>> and in "your voice, this week," today's question comes from mike mcguire. "what would be a priority for the white house if the president were re-elected?" the first priority will be fixing this fiscal cliff if the president and congress do not act at the end of this year, the bush tax cuts all expire. all 14 trillion of them. there will be mandated budget cuts across the board because congress failed to reduce that deficit on that not so super supercommittee. after that mess, many here in washington, think that if re-elected, president obama may turn to tax reforms since he could find common ground there with republicans. much depends on congress. if president obama wins a second term, no telling whether he'll have more allies in congress? most second-term presidents make their ma

see that in the media many governments in the world has been a kind of campaign against julian of saddam so we don't want to see the ecuadorian government isolated in the world or attempts to isolate them for doing what we see as the right thing which is protecting not only the rights of. an individual but everybody has an interest in this who wants to reform u.s. foreign policy who wants the public to have access to information about u.s. foreign policy that's what's at stake here a much broader issues are at stake in the future of national security journalism so that's why we want to raise your voices particularly as americans but we'll let you have any impact you think yes you've got quite a few famous names but you say yes i understand the situation but do you think petition that this will have any sway over the final decision i think it's already had an impact i think it's had an impact because we've seen it reported in the media around the world in europe and united states in latin america showing the different sides you know the position of the u.s. government in this issue does n

the model of saddam list the first car for mass production the price of the car is $50,000 after tax credit. and a letter ferry friends, and where you need to know about,,, >>> starting out gray this friday, some changes coming our way, we have a cold front moving in. we will talk of the coming up. >>> so far of the thing is looking very good all year a major barrier bridges coming years to live with from the golden gate. we have a lot of things going on this week and that could destructor traffic fund, we will tell you all about that coming up. >>> and jean quan is claiming discrepancies over crime numbers are on the police chief. she wants to devote the resources on a hundred blocks with the worst crime rates. a non partisan agency took a look at those numbers and determine only 17 percent of those crimes occurred within the 100 block area opposed to what team quan says. >>> for whatever reason were provided the wrong information. >>> the mayor is at the country renowned but this is this the statement for to allow the neighborhoods have suffered from a disproportionate number of se

a man who played a historic role in the capture of saddam hussein.energy into helping other service members. >> reporter: standing on a baseball field in prince william county, virginia, stands a man that played an important part in the history of the iraq war. >> the potomac nationals honor our military. >> reporter: his name is -- an army captain in charge of the team that created the iconic item given to all military personnel in the early days of the war. >> you just send them a field manual or a book, it's almost impossible for them to sit there and read it in the desert. >> he helped create playing cards, 52 in all with the pictures of saddam hussein and his official as they were on the rock. >> if we put it on a deck of cards, it was a way to train them while they were having fun. >> as the baseball team celebrated military appreciation night, hahns mom asked to throw out the first pitch. but all of hahn's notoriety did not protect him from the injuries he went on to suffer in iraq. injury that caused him to leave the army in 2010 and look for

but the basic problem rests with saddam hussein.e put us in that position, he caused the president to believe that we cannot leave in regime in power when we think they have weapons of mass destruction and as it turned out they didn't. but i can assure you he had used them in the past against his own citizens in other countries and if left free he would have had weapon withes of mass destruction, he never lost the capability to create them. >> i'm a private citizen and i do not have to say something because i'm on a book tour. >> you are an interesting private citizen. >> thank you very much, the media wants me to force to me to say something that i will not do. i choose to watch the campaigns unfold. >> i have an old volvo, you want to help me fix it up. >> what year? >> i have no idea. you work on them? >> i do, and they have to have no electric stuff, i'm an old volvo guy. >> he loves working on his old cars and talking politics. we will post the whole interview on our website, and you can find the other high profile one on one i

he compares it to saddam's secret police. >> that's outrageous. anybody that knows anything about saddam's secret police -- >> is you. >> the comparison is silly. the people in the united states that see christian fundamental lists and call them the taliban, they know nothing of what the taliban is. how the at that . work to make the comparison. the courts have looked into this. the ones that have haven't found a problem. even one of the students -- the leader of the student group that was infiltrated was happy to hear the police were doing their jobs. you cannot pretend that the threat against us is not coming from easy law mist -- islamist funded terrorists. >> michael bloomburg supports the surveillance. >> and i take issue on your attack for pretending. pretending is fun. >> leann, do we risk alienating muslims and even radical eyeing. radical eyeing them. >> i don't think so. not all muslims are terrorists, but all of the terrorists were muslim. there is a fine line of trying to snoop, but not snoop too much. and i think they are doing their

a few cases where the jackals also fail as they did with saddam hussein, couldn't take him out. they had all these doubles. to kill a president or take him out you usually have to have some of his bodyguards on your side which these guys are making $10,000. they take the guy out or whatever. if the body guards don't know whether they guarded saddam hussein they are going to be concerned because if you take out the wrong guys they will not be worth much and neither is the family. so in the case of saddam hussein we couldn't take him out and the military steps in so it was a three step process. economic hit men are always successful. we have been successful round world but when we fail the jackals go in. if you can see this happening more and more in afghanistan, in the military that steps in. we created the first truly global empire. it is not a u.s. empire or your empire or our empire but a corporate empire. they are the main beneficiaries and the u.s. government and the cia and the pentagon and big corporations. the world bank, the imf, tools of big corporations may call the sh

tesla's new model as all elected saddam ruled out of the assembly plant in into the hands of early first customers tesla seo says this is not just a technical success but also mean so much more to california and the bay area. it shows that high-tech manufacturing can be done in california in fact even in the bay area air and make the best cousin the world's new solar arrays the london this one to be different is that a drive by the gas station waves on the receipt of the gas station where that car is. the model as is the manufacture the plan which was purchased by test lead may 2010 governor jerry brown says with the economic shape the citizen at the moment having many manufacturing is a big step. it does see this going to grow. its loans beginning and represents the future there are lot of states that living in the past and california is building for the future. so i think we all owe a debt of gratitude to test blood. the cso the company says more people will be hired and years ahead reporting in fremont cbs five. degrees and proposed state law could make an impact on the early detectio

among those honored, a man who played a role in the capture of saddam hussein and his hench henchmen. >> reporter: a man who played an important part in the history of the iraq war-- >> potomac nationals honor our military. >> reporter: his name is hans mung, an army captain. >> if you just send them a field manual or a book, it's almost impossible for them to sit there and read it in the desert. >> reporter: hans helped create playing cards, 52 in all with the pictures of saddam hussein and his officials as they were on the run. >> so we decided if we put it on a deck of cards, it was a way to train them while they were actually having fun. >> reporter: as the potomac nationals baseball team celebrated military appreciation night, hans mung was asked to throw out the first pitch. but all of hans' notoriety did not protect him from the injuries he went on to suffer in iraq, injuries that eventually caused him to leave the army in 2010 and look for another way to serve. that way came in the form of hans mung's friend, former marine, sam cacholla, a realtor in stafford. he got involved

. >> saddam debris from jaw span hitting the west coast and a bay area researcher said there's hazardousgo along for the wide. wade freedman brings us the story. >> it is the biggest thing to wash ashore in this beach in oregon for a long time. 66 feet long, a dock that crossed the pacific of a japan's saddam now covered with nonnative marine life. hence, the shoveling, and the disposing and the worry. >> if they became established and became viable populations it may spread up and down the coastline? >> reality that dock in oregon only calls attention to a problem that's been building for decades, if not centuries. oregon at one place, and attacking themselves to the hulls of the ships or going into the ballast water and being transport today another part of the world where they establish themselves, offer to the detriment to an ecosystem. >> this is a colonial sea squirt from asia. >> dr. andrew held much of the world in his hand. they are nonnative species he pulled from beneath the dock where they grow and multiply and worry people. >> it could become huge, especially if agencies man

i can tell you right now that if saddam hussein stayed there and his regime stayed in place and he gotanctions you would have seen weapons of mass destruction coming back. he had the capability and he used them before against his own people. i'm glad he's gone. i'm glad the iraqi people have a chance to build a more stable proper representative government. >> the first part i'm much more in agreement. with (laughter) i'm not saying... not that he's a bad guy but i'm not... it's interesting because in the doctrine of what... i don't know who says it. was it einstein who said you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war? do you find sometimes that in the preparation for it because of the focus necessary to take a country to war that it tends to create a momentum and it sort of moves its of its own volition towards conflict as a posed to purpose of it which was as as threat dim diminishment? >> military force has to be on the table in any potential conflict. you want to solve it diplomatically, economically, but once you start thinking about the military there is a certain moment

when saddam hussein called her a "snake," she wore a serpent on her lapel the next time she visited baghdad. when slobodan milosevic referred to her as a "goat," a new pin appeared in her collection. as the first woman to serve as america's top diplomat, madeleine's courage and toughness helped bring peace to the balkans and paved the way for progress in some of the most unstable corners of the world. and as an immigrant herself -- the granddaughter of holocaust victims who fled her native czechoslovakia as a child -- madeleine brought a unique perspective to the job. this is one of my favorite stories. once, at a naturalization ceremony, an ethiopian man came up to her and said, "only in america can a refugee meet the secretary of state." and she replied, "only in america can a refugee become the secretary of state." we're extraordinarily honored to have madeleine here. and obviously, i think it's fair to say i speak for one of your successors who is so appreciative of the work you did and the path that you laid. it was a scorching hot day in 1963, and mississippi was on the verge of a mas

many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were activist under saddam and issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament and nonproliferation. the danger is growing will the anti-nuclear movement wake up. america was not the only western power to consider the pacific islands far enough from home to use for practicing nuclear war. in one thousand nine hundred sixty six french polynesia at all the more meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact that our country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. general de gaulle sad but french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become meek that is to say imagine you cleopatra. but to me that is disgusting. and that moment was imposed on us. don't you not in fact she makes us guilty to begin yeah for we are

prosecution witness was a slight 18 year- old with just graduate from high school like the other lead to saddam's he didn't have a relationship with his father he lives in a trailer with his mother when he met sandusky through his chair and the second mile. >>> he told the jury is an espy began sexually abusing him around age 12 during sleepovers and cut his basement escalated from oral sex to rape there was no fighting against he said he said he would scream and tell him to get off me but no one heard him from the basement he called soundproof. >>> the team says he never told as a mother who wanted the son to stay with them on weekends he was there more than 100 times he said. did way to earlier more than 100 users the attorney for one of them says sandusky had power over them. >>> is a function of power it's a function of prestige is a function of the ability of an abuser to manipulate and control. his defense is trying to suggest that the accusers are collaborating on their stories were now years later they're motivated by money. the defense will begin to tell sandusky's said the story next we