there was no mention of the united states overthrowing saddam hussein. iraq, like egypt and other countries undergoing dramatic changes, faces immense challenges in the years ahead. we met an iraqi american who spent much of her life in war zones who firmly believes the key to lasting peace is in the hands of women >> i grew up in war, and i grew up in not only a war but a-- iraq was led by saddam hussein. so it was fear and terror. >> reporter: zanea's father was saddam hussein's personal pilot. her family's ever move controlled by his iron hand. >> the fear-- i wish i can can explain that fear. it was like a poison gas leaked into our home and we all breathed it slowly. i was about 10 years old when the iran-iraq war started. and at a very young age i learned there is this other side of war that sort of no one talks about, and that is what women go through and what women live in war. and it was the women who ran the schools. it was the women who ran the factories. and it's women who keep life going in the midst war. >> mitchell: you're saying it's a st

telling you is the least thing he's tweeting us a big that's not to do it's like a it's like saddam hussein tweeting all right thank you we are all right i don't know you did you just know where killed less people did you just compare rupert murdoch to saddam hussein i'm sure you didn't know who i just did but it's better the complete comparing a minute later i think i may saddam hussein is like this current that you know ok there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smith in new york city. also had here on r t and the horror of war is something not easily forgotten or maybe it is when we come back at the pentagon tries to find a way to help soldiers cope with the traumas of combat but we ask the question is ignorance really bliss. lindsey lowe and give me the fleet about islam and the young people are saying just the longer you know she says she's a star. the way. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you get something else here so you saw t

do what i just did but it's better than complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current guy there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfurling we're out of time comedian and filmmaker since math and new york city. also had its the eternal sunshine of the military mind as the pentagon approves a study for the pell designed to make soldiers forget the horrors of war we asked the question is ignorance really bliss. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. just lindsey lowe and. the preaching about these women that people are suggesting she's. you know she says she's a stock. let's talk now about a reality of our time that's most likely been a reality for decades if not centuries but it's one that's starting finally to not be ignored talking about post-traumatic stress disorder and robs it was simply because it couldn't be ignored any longer i'll give you some numbers twenty percent of the soldiers who ha

has the least thing he's tweeting us a big that's not to do it's like oh it's like saddam hussein tweeting all right thank you we all right it was we did you just compare kill less people did you just compare rupert murdoch to saddam hussein i'm sure he didn't know who i just did but it's better the complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current ok there you go with what is actually more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smashed and new york city. so had on our take the blue pill and forget everything that ever happened forget the horror of war and the reality american soldiers face every day take the red pill and hear the truth that story coming up next. you don't believe the rough. but what do you want to ask nobody seems to know. that never ever sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. welcome to the capital account mr. harcourt. i think. we have a. safe. freedom. let's talk now about a reality of our time that's most likely been a reality for decades if

like it i just did but it's better the complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current ok there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smith in new york city. well speaking of a lack of civility in journalism i want to take this time just briefly to address something we told you about last week radio host and paid c.n.n. contributor dana lash agreeing with those marines in afghanistan remember the ones caught on video urinating on dead militants on a radio show last week dana said that she dropped trial and do it too those are her words but when our team put a link from the audio from her show on to our web site she tweeted us and accused us of not doing our job of gathering news and spinning what she said even though we simply posted the audio from her show her words she also said we didn't reach out to her which we actually did using several different methods and she never responded oh she did tweet back a few times also right words website big journalism

saddam hussein never thought in the end that we would attack. >> that's right. >> rose: he made... his limited understanding of america and how he saw it said "i can get away with this." >> well, what saddam hussein told george pirro, the f.b.i. agent who interviewed him for six months was "i knew you would never attack." and he was probably right. and when pirro said "you're sitting here in an orange jump suit about et-to-get hung, how do you think aut that calculation now?" saddam said "there was no way victim anticipated 9/11. which totally changed the calculus." >> rose: what intrigued you most about what he told the f.b.i. interrogator? >> i think... his life story was fascinating but when he got down to what was the main bullet they said where was the w.m.d. and he said we had a program but we discontinued it. >> rose: in 2003. >> earlier. but he said we had to givehe inspectors the runaround because my other audience was iran and i had to have them think we had a w.m.d. program to keep them at by a and if i said it they would think it was first thumping but if the americans

of iran is just a pretext in this case of the same way it was a pretext and peaceful iraq when saddam hussein was blamed for developing destruction weapons program. proved to be absolutely false and then i'm afraid that in this case and peaceful for and these accusations may become exactly false of the same men that they were both iraq but. it would be too late to to to to to. they're easy because the regime would be so forcefully moved to hate by now let's get to our last question here and forgive me i'm running low on time. u.s. british french warships are already loitering around the iranian border some might sense they waiting for perhaps a possible form of provocation at the same time thousands of american soldiers are being positioned in israel what's next is it war hopefully more because it will have disastrous consequences for iran for security in the region for the security of the united states and other participants in this military operation so i believe the call for this is just the method dorsett additional pressure on iran but i do not believe that the united states seriously co

intervention and the overthrow of the first dictator, saddam hussein.any credit at all, the americans? >> >> i will tell you that the americans are [ inaudible ] governments supported au crattic regimes in the arab world. >> the neo conservative position stopped doing that and should change the game in the middle east and some ways that argument we associate with people like paul wolfowitzs has turned out to be right. by overthrowing saddam hussein a domino effect set itself in motion. >> the actual path to democracy in the arab world started from within the public, from within the people. it is an indigenous model created, deeply rooted inherited inside the system and the culture and the will of the public. what happened in iraq, it was imposed from overseas and rejected by the public. the democrat of iraq is not functioning because of the, you know, this kind of foreign element in it. in my opinion, what happened in iraq delayed the arab spring. >> we will have to end on that note, i think inevitably, iraq comes -- comes up again and people disagree o

the men who led the fight against saddam hussein are now in charge here.is is a model of democratic governance. the popularity, the legitimacy is based on large part on the stealth jet and the memories of heroic exploits of the past. oppression,in's's they did in 1988 with a chemical attack. thousands were killed. suppressionussein's culminated in a 1988 chemical attack. rule came to an end 20 years ago, a full 20 years before the americans topple did in baghdad. you can see the difference. people here walk around without the fear that it get elsewhere in iraq. kurdistan is largely free from the kind of terrorist attacks that are so common in baghdad and elsewhere. for those that oppose the government, the climate of fear remains. activists have been arrested and beaten up, journalist published unflattering stories of those that have been disappeared. this was a recording of a television -- recording of a conversation. the minister is heard making threats against the magazine's editor. he will not get away with it, the minister says. do you know what i'm g

. >> after the fall of saddam hussein, the americans were fighting a loyalists who were using the museum. so many of the large antiques were shattered on the ground and many of the most valuable exhibits that were kept in the central site disappeared or were stolen. >> the national museum used to house some of the most important objects in mesopotamia andn -- in mesopotamia and culture. today, most of the galleries are still damaged but some are under restoration. >> after the fall of the regime, the national committee for the regime and arts wrote to many countries and ask them to return stolen artifacts. many were taken to italy, the u.s., united arab emirates. they are worth a complete fortune. >> now, some 5000 of the 15,000 artifacts have been returned, mainly from dealers in europe. these ancient stone slabs came back from switzerland just two months ago. each generation of the people of this land have left evidence of their civilization behind. one of the tips for this generation is to return some of the finest pieces of mesopotamian culture and restore the national museum to its

states sided with iraq and provided iraq with intelligence and weapons in spite of the fact that saddam hussein was using chemical weapons against iranian population and the civilian population. we have sanctions and other things. this is a situation where both sides have piled a lot of antagonism on to each other. at some point, it is futile to go back and say who is more at fault. >> what is iran possible and what is the goal of the united states? >> is unfortunately not clear what the goal is and what we would like to see. nor is it clear what the iranians are asking for. there are some contours', but to see the substance remains unclear. there are a couple of things -- the iranians want to be recognized as a regional leader. they want to have a seat at the table. they don't want to have any decisions made without its input. they want to be accepted major power in the region. there are a major power but not and accepted one. it's not part of a single security package. it is as alone as it could possibly get. it does not have access to legitimate avenues of influence. >> it wanted recognized,

the capture of saddam hussein in 2003. the killing of a osama bin laden last year. these are high profile missions. these groups, they go out on multiple raids each night in afghanistan. that is the type of stuff you don't see. >> those that we are not hearing about would be what? >> if you look at what the task force was able to do, not just the seals but the special missions unit from the army and others within the special operations committee, they were largely responsible for decimating the insurgent leadership of iraq. they really collapsed the mid- level leadership of that infrastructure and collapsed the insurgency to a degree. perhaps, contributed to the drop in the ethnic sectarian violence that we witnessed. >> they have reported that there are 150 kidnapped foreigners, your instinct is to think, i would rather be american because the chances that the seals might come and get me. is there a risk to america's hearts and minds operations to parachute in kill teams like this? >> it seems that locals around here were grateful. they were pirates and deserved to

as the american troops chose that particular statue of saddam hussein because it was right across the palestine hotel there were hundreds of state use in baghdad but that they choose it because they wanted it to be filmed it was not like i'm paris at the end of who are too many see when the parishioners who are out in the streets because asked if we welcome into liberation forces the streets of baghdad were empty they use they were only in that square there were some commotion though in this hapless are. journalists who criticize the bush administration war plans got into trouble and some of them even lost their jobs in vietnam had resisted criticism kept the job goal for one hundred resisted criticism and kept the job by gulf war true criticism i'm gone the recipe for military press briefings that was established during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one was also used in the two thousand and three war the main difference was that this time hollywood type sets were built and millions of dollars were spent on the image making. that can take movies write stories something lik

of jessica lynch in 2003 and a field rescued just two years ago in afghanistan, the capture of saddam hussein in 2003, the killing of osama bin laden last year, these are the high- profile missions, but this task force that carried out this mission, they go out on multiple raids each night in afghanistan, and that is the type of stuff you do not see. >> and those rates we are not necessarily hearing about that the seals are doing? >> if you look at what this task force was able to do, not just the seals but also from the army and other units within the special operations community, between 2006 and 2008, for example, this task force was largely responsible for decimating the insurgent leadership of iraq, really collapsing mid-level leadership and collapsing the insurgency to a degree and perhaps contributed in a great way to the drop in sectarian violence that we witnessed in the opening months of 2007. >> my goodness, if i was going to be kidnapped in somalia, i would like to be american. there is a chance that they would come and get me. but is there a risk to the american hearts and minds

coverage following the government's conception a large number of the american media demonize saddam hussein and discredited all those who are against the war some american sadly not interested in victory and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic well it's not. for media organizations and it's people the war did not start with the invasion in iraq but from the very moment president bush demanded the withdrawal of all journalists from the area of operations. for their own safety of foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave iraq immediately. the message was clear for all reporters and media personnel who had come to baghdad from all around the world they did not want them to move around and report freely without being monitored. what goes on in a war you know is deeply unpleasant people violate other people's rights people act in very cruel and inhumane way the last thing that military leaders want is to have independent observers of those sorts of violations and that's one of the reasons why you find the journalists were targeted. on the other

called the iraqi national congress so there was an iraqi voice in the propaganda war against saddam hussein the libyan situation the lives of the libyan transitional council as you know basically would affect us from the government tripoli jump ship what they got too hot they took it really for me even with the benghazi and the transitional national council for all of whom we didn't know we knew someone for although they said we can't part say the syrian national council is largely composed of all the mixture of people who have the roots who are inside syria but the dominant i think by exiles. he's been in paris for a long time like read one. who's based in washington and has very very close ties with the state department you know know what kind of clout what kind of hold of these people have inside syria also not much. you know so there are similarities between these councils and of course you know that the transitional national council well national transitional council in libya. recognize the syrian national council as the legitimate representative the syrian people it's not that simple

think about saddam hussein. we did that. we captured him. we tried him. the government tried him and he got hung. what's so terrible about this? so i would say that there are different ways without trying to turn around and say, oh, for some reason, this doesn't mean he's supporting america. >> speaker gingrich. >> bin laden plotted deliberately bombing american embassies, bombing the uss cole. and killing 3100 americans and his only regret was he didn't kill more. now, he's not a chinese dissident. >> governor perry, sounded le e you wanted to get in on foreign policy. >> i was saying that i thought maybe the noise that you were looking for was a gong. >> talking about the moderators losing the door bell sound telling candidates their time was up. and there were some would yous in there for paul. perhaps the biggest fireworks of the night came in an exchange between gingrich and moderators. the crowd gave gingrich a standing ovation. >> speaker gingrich, you recently said black americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. you also said poor kids lack a