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he ended up being caught between saddam hussein's innovation and the impatience of george bush. today, he came to testify before the inquiry. he is huns' blix to serve from march 2000. 2003. he said, he did believe that iraq had wmd's. >> i did not say this publicly, i said it privately. >> he added that at the time he believed that the british dossier was plausible but he was critical of the late british and american intelligence services had relied on that evidence of iraqi defectors. >> they should have realized that both in london and washington that their sources were poor. there are people who would like to get a reward for their intelligence so they would give up things that the interrogators want to hear. >> he said it cut that president bush believes in force more than diplomacy. >> they felt that they could get away with this and that is why they decided this. >> he said that he believed that tony blair hoped that the inspections would work in the military action would be avoided. >> what a question was the good judgment of bush and also blair. >> he told the inquiry t

the dangers question is, was it better under saddam hussein? >> before the war, one man clean up this area. every business paid 250. we are paying four times that. nothing happened. this is supposed to be the capital of iraq. >> piles of rubbish build up and begin to fester in the heat. in the summer, that can mean temperatures of more than 50 degrees. the smell makes people sick. the barber is out shopping with his brother. it is friday and the whole family is coming for dinner. they cannot buy much, as business was slow this week. they have enough for some vegetables and a little chicken. only bread has a fixed price. for anything else, traders determine the price. >> life has become very expensive. the traders are always raising prices because the government does not check. they charge what they like. >> this is one thing the family cannot afford. it used to be affordable for most iraqis before the war. now? >> fewer people can afford it. sometimes i sell two or three a day. sometimes none. it is annoying, but what am i to do? people have no

will continue though to hold two hundred detainees some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority have been identified america is slowly withdrawing from iraq with a final deadline set for december next year let's get more now from andrew gilligan he's a journalist with britain's telegraph he also worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two thousand and three and even to you good to have you on the program to talk first about these two hundred detainees still being held by u.s. forces what we know about the man drew indeed they were likely to be and why haven't they been how did over do you think. well the problem is we don't know very much about them we know that some of them are high ranking members of the regime we we know the ministers inside arms government for instance some of them are held terry ram it down for instance is among those some of the some of the foreign diplomats some of the military commanders who fought the war but we really know very little and they are the last remaining if you like amer

iraqi kurds who in earlier times had taken shelter in the united kingdom fleeing persecution by saddam hussein. now business and political leaders in their own semi-autonomous region, they were back with a message ---- kurdistan is a haven of peace and the gateway to iraq. >>salih: kurdistan is a stable, secure part of iraq and has a friendly business environment, and i cannot think of a better place to set up a base to service this promising, emerging market of kurdistan and the larger iraqi market. >>reporter: anyone taking up the invitation would be joining some big names already there >>rahman: i would like to encourage those of you who haven't yet been to kurdistan to go and see for yourselves what is possible, to see for yourselves why brands like pepsi, coca cola, lafarge, rotana, lufthansa are investing and doing trade with kurdistan and iraq. >>reporter: but despite the promise of a bright future, the dark past was also present. >>bakir: the people of kurdistan have survived a difficult and tragic history. under the previous regime we suffered what has now been recognised as genocide.

they knew it wasn't anywhere to be found nonetheless in the course of this work and in which of saddam hussein as the national and then the international enemy was used to fulfill higher political tasks but when it all happened and they realized there really was no weapon of mass destruction the secret service was betrayed the guilty party initiating the entire search for proof and they were punished for it too. so do you mean something has changed in the russian american relations. considering this work started ten years ago that time relations were different and the american state authorities had a different attitude towards. the secret services were doing their job whether they found evidence or legitimate actions or not everything's points to the fact that they didn't find them so it's either they were doing a bad job or they were doing such a good job or those who were under their surveillance weren't working at all. situation has changed i believe the recent visits and meetings at the top level are a step towards an era of recovering the kind of relations the us and the u.s.s.r. used to

it is possible to damage your fields geologically over a twenty five year period and i think saddam hussein may have done that now to the water to the water point we also know that the great marshlands. of central iraq were destroyed during during saddam's during saddam's time there and i think the water issue max in terms of oil is more of an issue in terms of refining and perhaps less of an issue in terms of pumping less you're saudi arabia and you've got to pump you know seawater you know from you've got to pump seawater so it's you know israel has always had a significant a significant water problem in fact when i visited israel back in one thousand nine hundred forty university student and was taken around israel by a representative from their department of the interior this is this is almost an exact quote he said you can you know you can read the headlines you. you can read about all the costs of the problems but he said our main problem is water all right gregory mcdonald thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max was great to be with you again that's going to do it

different implementation of these data let's use iraq as an example the cia knew for sure that saddam hussein's regime didn't own weapons of mass destruction but they received an assignment from higher political state authorities to provide the documents proving otherwise therefore they started working to obtain such data even though they knew it wasn't anywhere to be found nonetheless in the course of this work an image of saddam hussein as the national and then the international enemy was used to fulfill higher political tasks but when it all happened and they realized there really was no weapon of mass destruction the secret service was betrayed the guilty party initiating the entire search for proof and they were punished for it too. so do you mean has changed in the russian american relations. considering this work started ten years ago at that time our relations were different and the american state authorities had a different attitude toward such actions the secret services were doing their job whether they found evidence of a legitimate actions or not everything points to the fact that

he ended up going from meeting to meeting caught between saddam hussein and george bush's in patients. he is the executive chairman of the u.s. and monetary inspection commission until june 2003. they told us that he believed iraq did have wmd. >> i felt that iraq retains weapons of mass destruction. i did not say so publicly. i said it perhaps to mr. belair privately, but not publicly. >> he said he believed the controversial british dossier was plausible, but critical of the way the intelligence services relied on the evidence of iraqi defections. >> they should have realized in london and washington that their sources were pork. they want to get a reward for intelligence so they try to give what interrogators want to hear. >> president bush believed in force rather than diplomacy. >> i think the u.s. was high on military. they felt they could get away with that. >> he believed tony blair and genuinely hope to the inspections would work in the military action would be avoided. >> i never questioned the good faith of mr. blair. what i questioned was a good judgment of bush. >> he tol

precisely as their intelligence regarding saddam hussein keeping weapons of mass destruction in his closet was wrong, this is also wrong. it is all based on falsehood. whenever they are trying to sell is incorrect to the world committee -- community and the american people themselves, as well as their allies. >> a 31-year-old man from spain has had the world's first complete face transplant, appearing before the cameras for the first time since his surgery four months ago. he accidently shot himself in the face four years ago. >> his new face is still swollen and he has yet to regain new muscle control, but the man known only as oscar has gone through a dramatic improvement. five years ago the farmer accidently shot himself in the face, unable to breathe or swallow. now he is beginning to learn how to talk again. >> i would like to thank the medical team, the family of the donor, and above all my relatives for supporting me until the end. >> the operation in march lasted for 24 hours. doctors removed the entire face, muscle, cheekbones, teeth, and eyelids, along with a network of nerves an

reconstruction efforts, was set up in 2004 with oil and gas revenues seized from the ousted regime of saddam hussein. according to the audit, defense agencies that received the money, failed to properly track and manage the funds. although the report accused the defense department of lax oversight and weak controls, it said there is no apparent evidence of fraud. >>> arizona's controversial new immigration law is set to take effect tomorrow. however the obama administration is seeking an injunction to stop the measure so its lawsuit against the state of arizona can play out. joining us live now with the very latest from washington is nbc's kristen dahlgren. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, lynn. this has been a lightning rod and could all come to a head today. the arizona immigration law has it gives the right to check immigration status during traffic stop if there is reasonable cause to believe they are undocumented. opponents say that will read to racial profiling while supporters say it's the only way to shore up a secure border. now the fate of this law appears to rest for

susie: general electric will pay $23.5 million to settle charges it gave illegal kickbacks to saddam hussein's government. the s.e.c. says, from 2000-to- 2003, g.e. paid the iraqi government in cash, computer equipment, medical supplies and services. in exchange, the conglomerate won valuable supply contracts under the united nations' oil for food program. in settling the charges, g.e. did not admit or deny wrongdoing. >> tom: now that financial regulatory reform is law, the s.e.c. is getting down to business, writing 100 new rules tied to the new law, and you may be able to help. chairman mary schapiro is asking for what she calls good faith input from both business and the public, even though that isn't required by law. the new rules will cover everything from over-the-counter derivatives to credit rating agencies and hedge funds. >> susie: finding value in the overhaul of the nation's financial rule book. it's not easy, but it's there. here's tonight's commentator, justin fox, editorial director at the "harvard business review." >> the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection a

and three the reserve includes the revenues from iraq's oil exports afros and assets from the saddam hussein yard it did not indicate instances of fraud but cited control of the assets former cia analyst voice but government says the military accountability there were doubtless people who were supposed to be supervising overseeing these funds the fact that as it's said here that they have sort of disappeared and that they were liable to have been loyal and you know that's no explanation and we have to find out who provided them and what happened to these funds you know most reminds me of of the search for weapons of mass destruction in iraq the so-called m.d.s. judging from who didn't get sacked last time there probably will be people promoted despite all this. doesn't seem to be much in the way of accountability here in specially in the pentagon where money has always been so plentiful that a billion here a billion there nine billion nine billion is a drop a drop in the lake or for what the pentagon spends now to the degree that the mass media choose to play this up well then you will get a

will continue to hold two hundred detainees though some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority haven't been identified to talk about that they are supposed to andrew gilligan a journalist from britain's daily telegraph newspaper who incidentally worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two. he told me the remaining prisoners are the last in the u.s. occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many of these jails and not a not very good relations in america are actually better in some ways than in the iraqi germs. the iraqis have not been particularly successful custodians of their own prisons one that they have amnesty international has published many critical reports on them. and of course detainee abuse is widespread in iraqi prison so i can't imagine that these detainees will be any better off actually under iraqi custody

weapons inspector in iraq before the us led coalition toppled saddam hussein's regime let's talk more about this to get some reaction from british m.p. jeremy corbin to join the line it's called and thanks for being with us mr blix was pretty unequivocal about the legality of the war in iraq how important is his testimony in establishing the truth behind the decision to go to war. very important indeed he's a very well respected figure in britain and around the world and he took the trouble of coming to visit the british parliament in two thousand and three and four and explained the situation there as he saw it and i'm very pleased that he's been able to give evidence that inquiry because many of us believe the invasion to be deeply flawed politically wrong but above all illegal what do you think the ramifications will be when the findings of this inquiry are eventually released maybe later this year this inquiry isn't a criminal investigation is it so is it likely at all that is fine is could ever lead to any eventual criminal prosecutions down the line it's not automatic that the e

in baghdad's airport however the american military will continue to hold key members of saddam hussein. former regime up until the u.s. withdraws its troops in december twenty eighth and. they keep pressure test is to be launched by b.p. in another attempt to stop the oil leak in the gulf of mexico the process will involve closing the cap so the pressure can build up testing at the well strength and integrity if successful it will be the first time that the flow has been stalled since that explosion destroyed the deepwater horizon rig nearly three months ago. under a new nuclear scientists who claims he was a kitten out by the cia and kept in the u.s. from one year has arrived home in a round into round he told reporters he'd been suggested to the home that mental and physical torture washington says he traveled to america of his own new free will allegation came out a video should be all over me and he emerged where he claimed he was tortured by u.s. interrogators for information on iran's nuclear program. ok that's the way the news is this hour here on r.t. but don't go away although

near baghdad's airport however the american military will continue to hold some key members of saddam hussein's former regime up until the u.s. withdraws its troops in december twenty eighth and. an iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was kidnapped by the cia head to the u.s. for one year has arrived home in iran into rallies over of his he's been subjected to the harshest mental and physical torture washington insists he had traveled to america of his own free will the allegation that came all of the videos reportedly all the middy emerged where he claimed he was tortured by u.s. interrogators for information on iran's nuclear program. elsewhere that he's it's our hair on our teeth to go after a short break queen is up next the latest. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and i welcome to a business program good to have you with us the russian government will spend five and a half billion dollars on the skolkovo innovation center which is intended to become russia's version obsolete come valley during the meeting

huge day in history for china it's kind of like the berlin wall falling or the tumbling of the saddam hussein statue in baghdad let freedom ring. perhaps is not that important but keep in mind china has been blocking the country's four hundred and twenty million internet users from accessing many news and politically charged sites for years along with most porn sites and in recent days many web porn friendly surfers began discovering that they actually could access their beloved smut online an interesting way enough china's ministry of industry and information technology had no comment about those sites being a blocked. i'm wondering if the chinese government has decided that maybe maybe if they allow their citizens to watch porn they won't pay attention to political or social issues and you know there have been several cases in china recently where a man walked into schools and violently killed students then killed themselves so maybe the government's realizing that they're tight control over the citizens has them all ready to snap and surfing for some porn online just might help ease those

think what would have happened if you had to consider this operation if saddam hussein could have saidredibly that he has three crude nuclear devices. probably, you could never take this decision to save kuwait. and i say because -- >> charlie: if kuwait, it might have been saudi arabia next. >> at least kuwait, and i say, because sometimes people ask, will iran drop a bomb? and i say i don't believe so. they're intelligent enough to understand what will follow. too many neighbors are nuclear. but it will start the countdown toward having a nuclear device in the hands of terrorists. it will end any possibility of a stable or controlled effort against proliferation, and it clearly will end up with certain crude device in their hands, and with the first half dozen of crude devices this will be a different iran -- you won't be able to act against them, and the very fact that they had it would make them much more effective, coercive power all around the region. >> charlie: can they be stopped militarily? >> i don't think that that's the time to talk about it, but we recommended loud and cl

not under saddam hussein. our leaders lied us into invading iraq and deceived us into occupying afghanistan. there's still really no al qaeda in iraq and only 100 or so in afghanistan. yet, there is no end in sight to the war. could there have been other reasons for this war? that not -- for this war that is not a war? military victory in afghanistan is elouis live. does anyone know who we are fighting and why? why has the war not ended? nine years and it continues to spread. some claim it is to keep america safe. that our soldiers are fighting and dying for our freedom. defending our constitution. are we being lied to in order to keep us in this spreading war just as we were lied to in the 1960's to keep us in vietnam? we yone the iraq -- we own the iraq government as we do afghanistan. in afghanistan, we are fighting the taliban, those people with guns defending their homeland. once they were called the mujahideen, our allies along with iraq against the soviets. we defended jihad against the soviets. what gr

insurgents there made use of iraqi munitions left, littered across the country after the fall of saddam husseinthe u.s. military tried to counter the bombs' devastating effect by deploying new, more heavily-armored vehicles and developed technologies to detect and defuse the bombs. in afghanistan, the improvised bombs are more often made of fertilizer, using agricultural- grade ammonium nitrate. earlier this year, "frontline" showed how the taliban makes bombs. they can explode with enough force to flip a 15-ton m.r.a.p. vehicle. international forces routinely discover huge caches of fertilizer used to create the weapons. all of this comes against the backdrop of 76,000 u.s. military documents being leaked this week by the web site wikileaks. the group says it's reviewing 15,000 more records. yesterday, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff bluntly assessed the harm he thinks wikileaks and its founder julian assange have caused. >> mr. assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the b

at one time, it held members of saddam hussein's ousted regime. in the handover ceremony today, the u.s. general in charge of detainee centers gave the iraqi minister of justice the symbolic key to the prison. but he said the u.s. will still hold some detainees. >> in the 200 we are holding, there are former regime elements, there are al-qaida, there are some very dangerous detainees. and the government of iraq at this point in time has asked us to continue to hold onto them. we both, in partnership, are very interested in a safe and stable iraq. and so timing is everything. >> sreenivasan: u.s. officials have handed over 55 former members of saddam's regime in the last year. one-time foreign minister tariq aziz was transferred to iraqi custody this week. argentina is now the first latin american country to legalize gay marriage nationwide. the national senate debated until the wee hours of the morning. when a vote was finally called, 33 lawmakers were in favor and 27 against. crowds of supporters celebrated outside, while protesters objected. pre

i was inclined to believe saddam hussein had a nuclear program because he had one for the gulf war.be the greatest power in the middle east. on ronald reagan, i tried to on ronald reagan, i tried to make

i am thinking of saddam hussein. i think it is an understatement to say we do not enjoy that situation today in the middle east and the israeli and palestinian situation, and the particular. so i am interested to note to the extent it is of the new to talk about whether there are other -- whether there is much thought given to deal breakers, if you will, or factors or elements of that could change that part of this relationship? and i know from an answer to your previous question, this is not something you'll comment on, but i feel like and want to say anyway. which is that if israel considers iran and existential threat and the united states and its many allies agree that for iran to have a nuclear weapon is about the last thing we would like to see happen in the middle east, what do you think would happen if the israelis or to dig the unusual step of saying -- to take the unusual step of saying that in exchange for iran and agreeing to halt all of its efforts on the nuclear weapon range, and we will do two things.

he personally oversaw the successful hunt for some who say in -- for saddam hussein and brought operations together by sheer force of will and unrelenting commitment to the mission. thinking back to 2003, nobody had really done the kinds of things that his folks were required to do, so he wrote the book and pulled the agency together. not satisfied, he gave the skills to our general purpose of forces. that is something that he did over time in something that has exponentially increase the effectiveness of our forces -- especially increased the effectiveness of our forces. the work that his team did against al qaeda may our success possible. they apply a continuous and progressive pressure against a constantly evolving networks by building an organization for routine work, innovation and risk-taking. i watched stand through the los and highs. throughout it all, he remained calm, focused and committed. although i do remember the night that we thought we had gotten our target, but we were not sure, he had the body brought to our compound for identification. we decided not to tell anyone until

host: it has been several years since saddam hussein has wrote your country. he has since been killed. i do not want to use the word "legacy," but does he still have an impact on the psyche of the country. guest: i do not think he will be resurrected as a hero by any people. by and large, i think his individual legacy is gone. many people compare and contrast, for example, the level of basic services that exist now education and electricity. compared to what it thought were higher standards in the pre- occupation or liberation days, whatever you want to call it. there is a sense that somehow the post-2003 environment has not completely live up to the expectations of people. they have fallen quite short. there is not nostalgia but a constant reference one times when a better at least in material times. in time as the new order begins to set rates and people began to see the attack of this issue, especially services, i think it will be seen to be a significant change, as an work to the makeover to the country. host: will there be western best in the country outs

the other man was because, i think because saddam hussein try to kill bush's father. the afghan war is the war i think we should have been in. but the iraq war, we should not even be there. host: thank you for all of your calls. we will be back in a moment where we have a conversation with the bush tax cut but the tax foundation's gerald prante. we will be right back. >> the sec wants -- fcc wants to establish an emergency network by selling radio waves to a profit entity but some emergency officials would rather see this bandwidth go directly to them. communications officials and former sec chief engineer discussed the proposal tonight -- former fcc chief engineer discuss the proposal tonight at 8:00 p.m.. c-span is now available and over 100 million homes, a direct link to public affairs, politics, history, and nonfiction books all as a public service, created by american's cable companies. "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, gerald prante, is a senior economist with the tax foundation. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for having me. host: