for a long time dominated by baghdad and saddam hussein kurdistan dreams of achieving autonomy. the first customer the first passenger on our trip is a member of the new kurdish parliament. in iraq we can say that oil has always been a curse. but today in kurdistan that's changing the. foreign oil companies are coming here to work with. the revenues of finally being used for reconstruction what negative it's a huge difference for us as in saddam's times we never benefited from the oil money or. that he had any of this that. he went so it's quite simple we could spend for we're iraqis and i think they're very rapidly as soon as we have been. it's for building a country ninety nine percent of people will vote for independence with the. no one to one with the people want their own country a country called could stand looking at him as that they want their own passport but that's not kurdish one well i suppose you could stand. a land of shepherd's kurdistan is discovering well through its oil a nightmare for baghdad which had long controlled with the resources and riches. without dr

a sunny like saddam hussein my driver khaled is. he didn't know or didn't want to know the terrible truth. look i'll show you the house where i was born yeah here on this hill where we're sitting is like a memorial to the village as it was before the tragedy it was here that the villagers came together every evening to talk to play backgammon and listen to the radio. i leave a comment to mourn and commemorate his loved one. we continue towards the east and kirkuk the former capital of kurdistan today on iraqi territory. so what if that god be praised i'm not scared when the region was under american control i was afraid about it but as soon as the iraqi police and army took over things got much better if the americans didn't know the region they were afraid and trigger happy that they didn't hesitate to fire at anyone who approached them as a passenger foreigner anyone. on this road has seen a lot of drama how many times do the americans shut down iraqis here for no reason gotta go. through the windscreen the first iraqi checkpoint

as we leave tikrit we come to a village the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surrendered to the american forces. in his possession were two kalashnikovs and seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. now there are those taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black market powell business which fills the coffers of a few politicians civil servants and terrorist groups to. the oil money benefits everyone apart from the iraqi people. not all part. of. the temperature hits more than forty degrees on the machines a cool down with a hose. for the men it's time to wash and pray before sitting down for a meal. that surprised by my presence but soon open up. for the sony customers the whole affair was an american manipulation. mover the greek word kuwait plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans use the country to trap saddam like i'm a theory i mean.

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military second of all the deaths of happened after saddam hussein's military was gone were happened is are still happening over the united states or is gone they were soon reason shiites killing each other it's a limited way mean us for it absolutely but if you remember what the use i'm not sure about his title i think it was the us prosecutor general i think your back trial is sad the. main that's a crime was not the gas chambers and was now. the holocaust would actually be a neighboring neighboring to y. neighboring the violence this is regardless of who committed all those crimes that came later on it was the main that's a cry for allowing peace in the firemen to fight it's to take place but we can't discount that just after the break ok. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. seals are born right on the ice fields of the white sea. throughout the twentieth century the poles were hunted for their snow white furs. russia

military second of all the deaths of happened after saddam hussein's military was gone were happened is are still happening even though the united states is gone they were soon reasons shiites killing each other it's a limited way mean us for it absolutely but if you remember what the use i'm not sure about his title i think it was the us prosecutor general i've been your back trial he said the. main that's a crime was not the gas chambers and was no. holocaust would actually be a neighboring maybelline why maybelline the violence this is regardless of who committed all those crimes that came later on it was the main that's a cry for allowing beef in the vironment of products to take place but we can discover that after the break ok. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most of the trade. is flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year without a trained we couldn't plods anything with that. there would be there was great hunger. but was it that help comes too late and

here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was torn to the ground of the united states believed it of one little. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. that are passenger alley a theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. and is through theater that he hopes to win it is methodist to reinvest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i met out. today i see a country filled with weapons the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers because i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any feeling of citizenship the grown people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost with them but i completely lost. not. more time to begin to shoulder but more

and yet saddam hussein was breaking out of this containment sanctions were not working. there were being violated. there have been a time when the united states has stopped commercial airplanes. that was being violated. hugo chavez made a big issue of going to baghdad. he broke that airlock by his presence. and in other arab states would have been angered by the intervention into kuwait. so he was on the road to restoration, so speak. so there was a feeling among many that he had broken out of the sanctions, it would be too long before they fell apart, plus he is very adept at keeping the sanctions, the brunt of the harm done to his own people. and there was a lot of harm done people starved. there were a lot of desperate conditions among the poor particularly in baghdad and the surrounding areas. so he was very adept. so the feeling, i think, among many people that the sanctions were really breaking down. and i think the bush administration, that george w.ó bush administration felt very keenly. >> did you support the work? >> i did supported initially. i also believed

once you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government that money can put into place that's a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off for part of it. the syrians would like to have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play in front of them for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of government would you get shia saudi a moderate democratic races what and the answer is you're not going to g

once you got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put into place that's a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off for part of it. the syrians would like to have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play it over for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of government would you get shia sunni a moderate democratic races and what and the answer is you're not going to g

when saddam hussein falls utopian democracy will burst the bloom all green with flowers and candy and i was on a television show with someone who didn't ask questions so in our troops will be greeted with flowers and candy and cheers and i said well would you think a moment and give your viewers a list of countries geographically alphabetically historically that have welcomed invaders. you know it was a short short silence there because you know if you don't welcome right and invasion i'm not there your people but in syria where you've got all of these groups all of these forces and it's interesting to me to know this the bashar assad as you may know is a british trained just speaks english as well as we do. is now being described as a thaw good old murderous a president no you know i've been there a number of times people walk the streets in freedom as they did in baghdad because unless you bothered the government the government had no reason to bother you it's a lot about de dehumanization and demonization of the enemy and have leaders nominet what he did and despised by everyone re

the reality is that saddam hussein was good for the christians. he protected them.ut now with him gone, it is a free-for-all in the country. and as you said, the christians are caught in the cross-fire. >> reporter: you've got a very strong dictatorship, you know, like saddam hussein, who protected the church in a sense. for those who are trying to follow the great commission and advance the gospel and the kingdom of god, even under saddam's time, there was difficulty if they were advancing the gospel. maybe not so much from the government, but from their families and muslim leaders. >> george: as you mentioned, there has been a mass exitous of christians. tell us about the christians you met in iraq who are staying. why have they decided to stay? and how are they affecting their country? >> well, you know, i asked one pastor who had been an associate pastor in baghdad, and he is up in the kurdistan area. i said you've got maybe 200,000, maybe more, christians that are still left, but the majority have left, over a million. i said, how do you feel about that? >> he

that was saddam hussein's pr guy. baghdad bob -- you would see missiles going into baghdad.aghdad bob missiles? what are you talking about? saddam hussein was hiding in a hole and he would say no, he is at the canned film festival. baghdad bob had a son. people don't know this. baghdad bob had a son. and in baghdad he was baghdad bob junior. they snuck him out to america and changed his name. they changed it to jay carney. i don't know what happened to this jay carney fellow. he is baghdad bob. is he saying things that you shake your head and you say are you kidding? that's his job. >> bill: white house press corps to nail him to the wall when he does that. >> we don't have to like it, that's his job. our job is to say are you kidding? >> bill: that's the job of the white house press corps and i hope they do it. bernie, thanks so much. we have bill o'reilly.com poll question for you. will attorney general eric holder be forced to resign yes or no? encouraging children to swap genders, unbelievable. carolla is next. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russi

he had to go bomb saddam hussein to show how tough he is. >> look at obama.has the republicans saying he's not an u.s. citizen. he's a kenyan mau mau. 's like a love child sent to destroy america from within, and he's half breed muslim. >> who kills a lot of other muslims. >> right, he hasn't killed any of them. he is coddling him the attacks are big. on the one hand you have the dingbatry from the right, and then you have the john mccain who was a war hero. mccain is a hawkish guy who never met an invasion that he wasn't in love with or a rebel group he wanted to arm. he's the big syria guy now and wants to go over and run around with the rebels and if it was up to him we would have 200 troops still in iraq to-to-this day and a major factor in destabilizing syria. obama comes in to office almost no time in military except his time in the senate floor. and he gets into office, and he's briefed by admiral mc mcgraveen and the david petraeus who was cheney's general and ultra powerful guy. they say there are hundreds ready to take down america's aircraft and po

and that face was the face of saddam hussein. not to say islam. when we got off the train i got on the subway to go to nyu. the subway was empty because it went under the former twin towers. so there were only two other people on the subway with me, and one was a welder who is going to the cleanup site, no longer rescue site by the cleanup site, and the other one was a friend of his. and they were talking about why this had happened. so they were engaged in the process of trying to give it a face as well. the destinations they had were it's because of the jews. it's the jews agreed that turned new york into a symbol of capitalism. that's why they hate us but it's because the jews killed christ that they hate us, these kinds of explanation. i was a little stunned at hearing explanations that seemed familiar to me from a medieval world being used to explain in a 21st century the bright, or not so bright, new dates of the 21st century, our new fear, our new calamity, our new changing world. and i sat out and to ask what it is about a set of ideas, in

since the toppling of saddam hussein, companies have poured workers and billions of dollars into iraq helping to provide a steady supply of energy for china. >>> in "usa today," grrreat! is america's sweet tooth finally being tamed? children are eating and drinking far fewer sweater drinks than a few years ago. although i do like the sugary cereals, mr. bill karins. >>> a congressional delegation says "nothing specific could have helped prevent the boston marathon bombings." lawmakers traveled to russia to investigate and describe meetings as productive. >>> angelina jolie making the first public appearance since announcing she had a preventive double mastectomy. the actress revealed the surgery last month in an op-ed piece in "the new york times." she said she inherited a gene that put her at a high risk for breast cancer. she was there at the premiere of her husband's movie. >>> get a load of this. tough guys can weather baseballs all around them at triple-digit speeds, but they can't take a little thunder. the red sox and yanks waited yesterday for the rain to pass during a delay.

. >> i have visual memories in my mind of an embarrassing humiliating hanging of saddam hussein. we put that on our television and watched that. we're all growing up internationally with this. now we have a guy named gadhafi. he's hiding in a storm sewer and ends up there. what do we want for the assad family? how do we want this to end on our big day where our military involvement in syria reaches fruition? a bunch of crazy people running around shooting at each other saying we won. we take off the head of the assad family and then what? what do we get out of this? >> afghanistan is a better example. we supported the mujahideen. they went in and eventually we had a problem in afghanistan because we thought at the beginning we don't like the communists and this is a way to get involved. >> is anybody doing what i'm doing, questioning this involvement? >> angus king, you and angus. >> independent senator from maine. i don't know where you two guys are. anyway, a spokesman for the rebels in syria today said small arms may not be enough. they're making demands. "we welcome the decis

supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies died or no on a larger scale the lie that saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr trigger. mr crean intervention. several hunger strikers at guantanamo bay have issued an open letter to the facilities at military doctor seeking independent medical evaluation and over half of the detainees are now in their fourth month of starvation and in an attempt to bring attention to their indefinite detention without charge inhumane treatment and force feeding despite president obama's promising once again to speed up the closure of the camp the situation there has only deteriorated more people are being force fed a procedure considered as torture by the un with a number currently standing at thirty seven additional inmates are receiving medical help as well are two spoke to the father of a guantanamo prisoner who also heads of the kuwaiti detainees in guantanamo committee how lead or die he told us what happened to his son after he resorted to starvation my son bei

saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr trigger. military intervention well coming up later in the program that's how the health of the guantanamo bay hunger strike is continues to worsen or inmates are being force fed to choose that says a group of protesters demanded an open letter independent medical help from different doctors. first thousands of people gathered in the american city of baltimore in support of bradley manning on the eve of one of the most decisive days of his life the soldier faces dozens of charges after leaking secret files including footage of a u.s. helicopter attack on civilians during the country's iraqi campaign the long anticipated military trial is expected to begin on monday on his andrew blake was at the ready. we're important in maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradley manning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states ac

he doesn't want to end up in a hanging situation like adam hussein or in -- saddam hussein or in a storm -- >> assad has never experienced jet lag. he didn't understand what it was. one time they were having a meeting at the arab league and they were all sitting there. and king abdulah and talking. and they're talking about jet lag. and assad goes what's jet lag? you want to know why? he's never traveled so far where he's experienced jet lag. this is a guy that lives in a bubble. and i think we forget -- we think it's his father and we've been mistaken. chris: he probably likes the bubble. let's turn to that debate over the data being collected here in america. about americans. this week, the head of the national security agency said we still don't know everything that's being collected and we shouldn't. >> some of these are still going to be classified and should be. because if we tell the terrorists every way that we're going to track them, they will get through. and americans will die. chris: this is where american opinion is really going to matter. how far will this president be able

rather the western commentators shouldn't compare bashar al assad to you more market off your saddam hussein and i see where you're coming from but i also think that. in bringing out that imagery you're actually playing into their western rhetorical tactics because i think you can find fault with any given leader including president bashar al assad but obviously. the problem is that those leaders that the i just mentioned where made into devil's incur and then essentially overnight the west was more or less find it dealing with them until that decision to get rid of them was made so i think the propaganda machine is extremely powerful but the question is whether you are sometimes aiding it to yourself well there are two propaganda machines one that is preparing the western public opinion for any sort of political move like getting rid of prison we need to demonize him to invade syria there are some sort of talk about you know chemical weapon use and so on but the most devastating propaganda was from the surrounding arab countries especially from the like. of qatar and saudi arabia and the th

that one time the bush administration also cited intelligence to prove to the entire world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction as we all know this became the basis for aggression against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear material nor chemical weapons so how can we trust these empty phrases after iraq it's completely impossible but this is part of the u.s. political line aimed at toppling the asset government. and the new book their luggage showing him and russia's ambassador to the united nations in geneva let's see but a tough gimmick spades a wife who believes negotiation is the only way out. we have a lot of evidence which testifies that. a position extremist opposition forces second making terrible crimes horrible crimes exact cusanus murders. taking hostages sensible and so forth and we're trying to make a public hearing me. as far as russia is concerned with think that both sides know it and you will see that in syria and the old timey friends part. of this vicious circle of. violence could be only broken by convening the inter

that one time the bush administration also cited intelligence to prove to the entire world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction rid of them as we all know this became the basis for aggression against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear or bacterial nor chemical weapons in syria so how can we trust these empty phrases after iraq it's completely impossible but this is part of the us political line aimed at toppling the asset government yesterday in the new book the delegate and i d back a trip pathway an honorary research fellow at the university of her hometown and he believes the u.s. leadership sunny using the war in syria to divert people's attention from problems at home. it helps obama as it helps the president. in france and prime minister cameron here in britain all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest et cetera et cetera and when he is facing serious domestic problems then it is already moved through today is this. all threats to national security and into being abroad and try to do unit

plagued by international sanctions a lot of this really affected the oil market that was kind of saddam hussein a lot of political rhetoric going on at the time but now that there's an open friendly business environment it's is a good thing for the oil industry and iraq in the. legs will make the chinese so attracted to. those customers well the fact that they've got plenty of money to spend as well plenty of disposable income for sure and also the chinese have been they've had a better relationship with the iraqi government as well and really they've been more committed to having strict contracts as well as lower profits as well so they've been there's also loads going on in the region as well. there's talk about . china. on the border to get the workers into the oil fields they're going to be setting up direct flights from shanghai so they can really really improve these business relationships and also putting on a rocky accent in hotels as well as talk about that too so that commission. does this all sound like good news for all the well it does for china i would say but some people in the u

go to war with iraq i think that we saw iraq and saddam hussein as enemies there may have been some you know peripheral intelligence that suggest that they could have had weapons of mass destruction but look there's a lot of other countries that you know fit their profile and we didn't go into those countries but we did go into very oriel richard wreck so it seems to me very logical to suppose that oil certainly was on our minds when we did enter iraq and not on our minds is you know what a quagmire. it would result in well some might be surprised but china is now purchasing around one point five million barrels a day that's more than half of the iraqi production you know how is it that china is the number one beneficiary of iraqi oil well you know you could ask the same thing about afghanistan i mean when we were fighting a war in afghanistan i mean i guess we still are a little bit but when we were going full fledged china was mining copper in afghanistan and they had their own militia military militia there to protect them and you know we were probably helping them and they were mini

supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies had died or no on a larger scale the lie that saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr craig or. mr crean intervention. thousands assemble to support whistleblower bradley manning ahead of his d.-day the soldier finally faces trial of the three years waiting in homs confinement often leaking top secret documents showing alleged u.s. atrocities committed abroad details coming up shortly. for me this is a summit with some of the persian. gulf. played a family jazz band together. hijacked a plane together. most of them from music to terrorism. twenty five years old the question still remains. just bad hi jack. when you take three. three. three. three. three. three balls video for your media. free media r t v dot com. this is that we can all see welcome by some thousands of people gathered in the american city of baltimore in support of bradley manning on the evil while the most decisive days of his life the soldier faces dozens of charges often eking top secret

supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies died or no on a larger scale the lie that saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr trigger. mr crean intervention the weapons could start reaching syria by august after the european union lifted an arms embargo against the war torn state spearheading the initiative for britain and france despite opposition from other states who are wary that those very weapons could be turned against europeans are to you could appease cannot take a look at the syrian opposition and those who might be armed on its behalf. since britain and france blocked attempts to extend the e.u. embargo on supplying arms to the syrian rebels there have been growing fears that the weapons could end up in the wrong hands and this is why the syrian opposition is made up of many divided and often competing factions and truly there is no force that can represent it as a whole there is the syrian national council the national coalition for syrian revolutionary and opposition forces the suprem

that one time the bush administration also cited intelligence to prove to the entire world that saddam husseinhad weapons of mass destruction as we all know this became the basis for aggression against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear material nor chemical weapons in syria so how can we trust these empty phrases after iraq it's completely impossible but this is part of the u.s. political line aimed at toppling the asset government. and you put their luggage the u.s. plan for a limited no fly zone over syria has also been drawn up to be costly up to fifty million dollars a day and unlikely to affect things on the ground but the white house thinks it's needed in order to reduce the risk of arming the rebels restrictions could stretch up to forty kilometers into syria just auger kilometers shy of syria's capital damascus even without a no fly zone washington could send arms into syria jordan with patriot air defense batteries and f. sixteen jets already deployed there author and historian gerald horne thinks washington's allegations of chemical weapon

in the iraqi feels that they want to expand and if we just go back to before the war during saddam hussein's time during that there was lots of sanctions and that really affected the oil market because it meant that it was cutoff from the markets and since then the market's been more and more friendly business environment for the likes of china to take advantage of china did exactly that absolutely but what makes the chinese so attractive as a customer well they've got plenty of money lots of disposable income but really it's the way that they handled the iraqi government they really had a relationship going on the contracts are strict they've dealt with lower profits in order to win these billion dollar contracts in the long run and this lot is going on before he committed in the long run china has set up an airport on the iranian border to actually transport these iraqi workers into the oil fields there's also talk of direct flights going from beijing into iraq into baghdad very soon and in hotels a stauffer taking on a rocky accents in there are break in order to impress these chinese exe