insurgency, and not having a very good time plement when saddam hussein was over thrown. and captured and turned over to the iraqi people. also people wanted to replay a gulf war. and we went on. americans are not good as long and drawn out conflicts. so i this i that many many of us became more disenchanted and he we thought that the ultimate goal would be to rid the world of saddam hussein and that was a good one and thomas hen run -- henriksen what is your background? >> i am a graduate of virginia institute. i was in the army. and the vietnam period. then i got a phd. and taught in upper state new york. and came to the hoover institution. been here ever since. >> and teaching? >> i taught a variety of subjects. and courses on african history. and european history. and recently, i have got more interested in rogue states. and american foreign policy. and also a senior fellow at the joint operations university. >> thats correct and what do you do there? >> the united states joins the special operations. that at in tampa. mcdale air force base. and i write on insurge see

as some have argued saddam hussein's removal was a precondition for the arabs bring that to place 10 years after the american invasion of iraq but on the of their hand, was a necessary condition to show the arab world that a dictator could be moved in a new beginning could happen. to a site they are fighting in the other country version issue such as the origins of the civil war or the vietnam war. in a great decision will have supportive detractors. there probably would be better to avoid a provences said we cannot go back or replay history web might have been. so it will be a very difficult question and ended it is difficult. supporters or detractors have varying viewpoints of the outcome in the justification for the iraq war. >>host: how did you feel in 2003 in your book you talk about the containment policy now working very well >> the containment policy which was very vigorous the clinton the administration called it contain a plus. that we maintain no-fly zones in north and south iraq to keep saddam hussein under wraps and betty times they shot targets on the ground that were c

since the invasion by coalition forces to topple the dictator saddam hussein in 2003, it has expanded by 40%. it now covers over 3 square miles. >> [speaking arabic] >> the united states and its coalition partners respect the people of iraq. we are taking unprecedented measures to spare the lives of innocent iraqi citizens. >> there's often a difference between what political leaders say in public and what they may have known in private, as we discovered when we received access to data from wikileaks, the whistleblower's website. it contained nearly 400,000 secret reports, known as sigacts, that's short for "significant activities." with the exception of a couple of months, they were all logged by the military in iraq between 2004 and 2009. >> this is almost military anthropology. this is a blow-by-blow account of individual american soldiers and how they react. >> but it was raw data, so the bureau of investigative journalism in london built a computer program to analyze them. we used keywords to search specific subjects, look for patterns in the data, decoded hundreds of military ac

. >> narrator: the president needed a convincing reason for war with saddam hussein. george tenet and the cia said they had no evidence saddam had helped al qaeda, but secretary rumsfeld did. a secret unit at the pentagon claimed it had found a connection. >> goodman: they needed an office that would produce the intelligence that the cia wouldn't produce. rumsfeld said, "i can solve your problem," and they created the office of special plans. >> benjamin: so they're going to do their own analysis. they're going to show what the cia's been missing all along about the true relationship between saddam and al qaeda. >> narrator: they worked in a vault deep inside the pentagon. they had what is known as "all source clearances"-- total access to intelligence information. >> maloof: i went into the system, our classified system, to see what did we know about terrorist groups and their relationships, as well as their connection, associations with not only al qaeda but also with state sponsors. >> narrator: the information was rarely vetted. instead, it moved up the chain of co

. >> saddam hussein she said. >> and so, of course saddam hussein was obsess with the stalin. when he was an a will eye of the soviet union being taken by the kgb he said. i want to see every single house of stalin's he was the only other person apart from me that has been in every one of stalin's housees to see how he lived. >> what are your current and near future projects? i have a novel coming out. and it is about love. it is based on the true story as well. and in history. i am researching right now the history of the whole dynasty from 1613 to 1917. and all of the czars. and ending up with nicholas. i love it is really exciting and less stressful than writing about jerusalem. and also have you another moj coming out after that. the world. i will do history of the world. would you do it? >> it is not going to be a long book. it is more of a literary book. philosophical book. a different history book. this is not going to have notes or be like you know. the sort of pantheon book of history. and everything. we will let everything in it. it will be the shortest book written

2003 to help with inf infrastructure reconstruction and medical assistance after the fall of saddam hussein. prime minister shinzo abe argues the sdf should not face so many restrictions. he and his liberal democrats want to amend article nine. >> translator: we face a problem of what rule japan should play in international society. is it okay to just give money? japan should take responsibility in the future. >> a political scientist and member of a government panel on japan's security policy says lawmakers should revise the constitution to reflect the times in which we live. >> there were a couple of important things in the modern history, still there was no change of constitution. that is strange. so many people ask me why japan is now trying to change constitution, but the right question should be, why japan has never changed the constitution until now. >> reporter: however, a fair number of citizens are opposed. they believe article nine defines modern japan. she meets on the 9th of every month with member of a group calling for the constitution to stay as it is. they also hand out inf

. >> and that lincoln was like saddam hussein. >> john: compare link and saddam hussein. >> i think he would have liked his beard. >> not to be a party pooper. >> rand paul i give him credit for doing. and he said he never was against the civil rights act. in fact, he's against the key tenements -- >> john: he was against the civil rights act. >> he has admitted being against banning discrimination publicly. if you own a woolworth's, you should have a right. i abhor racism. he's wrong on that and wrong when he says the demise of doma that adults could marry dogs. >> john: racists should be free to run -- >> terrific job of doing more of the republican outreach to minorities. >> john: indeed. it is true. which revelation did you guys find the most crazy about this guy? >> just the mexican confederate mask. was pretty nuts. >> yeah. >> john: in fairness, senator paul, i gotta say this because scott is rooting for him. senator paul puts out a statement that reads... so how will this affect rand paul's standing in the party? >> why does he even hire this guy in the first place? he knows hi

saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production twenty years ago nobody who was in journalism thought anything of saying to a politician to his face senator stop lying to the los angeles times general you know that's not true i know that's not true. today if you said something white that you'd be fired. you would be fired we don't ask tough questions and we have these orchestrated white house press conferences and obama is actually worse then his predecessor george bush on this issue all right so with that let me say who's on the west or sort of checked out. the president but you don't get the information that you need and you pretty much on your own the same thing that's happened in business has happened in broadcasting it's just completely profit driven. us still get now out of the steel business and they're getting out of this community and are saying good bye we had and there's no more left we squeeze the great we're g

saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production twenty years ago nobody who was in journalism thought anything of saying to a politician to his face senator stop lying to the los angeles times general you know that's not true i know that's not true. today if you said something like that you'd be fired. you would be fired we don't ask tough questions and we have these orchestrated white house press conferences and obama is actually worse then his predecessor george bush on this issue so with that let me say who's on the west or a star checked out. a president but you don't get the information a need and you pretty much on your own the same thing that's happened in business has happened in broadcasting it's just completely profit driven. us still get now out of the steel business and they're getting out of this community and they're saying good bye we had and there's no more left we squeeze the great we're going on to greene

saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production twenty years ago nobody who was in journalism thought anything of saying to a politician to his face senator stop lying to the los angeles times general you know that's not true i know that's not true. today if you said something white that you'd be fired. you would be fired we don't ask tough questions and we have these orchestrated white house press conferences and obama is actually worse then his predecessor george bush on this issue so with that let me say who's on the west or starve checked out. a president but you don't get the information that you need and you pretty much on your own the same thing that's happened in business has happened in broadcasting it's just completely profit driven. us still get him out of the steel business and they're getting out of this community and are saying goodbye we had enough there's no more left we think we've been great we're going o

and for the chemical weapons to be used saddam hussein had to fly fourteen sorties i think and that killed five thousand people now we're now we're being told that chemical weapons were used with such precision that only twenty five to fifty people were killed by a government that is winning when a government to which two hundred fifty thousand soldiers still pledge allegiance why why would this gun sorry why would i have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks to my guests of washington. and i want to thank our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember. this is. led mission is. going to take three months for charges priests to make amends three. three. priests mostly blank video for your media projects. tom. cole. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside if you're away from your television well it just d

s fault and just to remind people of the us overthrew saddam hussein and his ba'ath party that was support. as we know. saddam was sunni it's the minority the minority of the population of iraq iraq is sunni and shia sunni is probably maybe twenty thirty percent shia is the balance they're all muslim it's like ireland the they're all christian they're all christian but catholic and protestant but but iraq that's the best analogy i got i can think of. so when we went over there and overthrew the regime and then all of the thing the other things that happened the desponding of the iraqi army in the national police by paul bremmer we didn't have enough invasion forces over there. you know we we created we created the civil war that really erupted in zero six zero seven which was when i was over there. and now we've got a shiite government the shiites want to run the show the show and the sunni's are going. well not so fast you know we were in charge all these years we like being in charge but they're outnumbered so it's it's a mix of religion and who's what religious what religious parties in

bush he also had some strong arguments of reading the world of saddam hussein fell out percent had blood on his hands he was a dictator so president bush felt or at least articulated that you know world may be a better place without him but using while. once you start using violence you cannot control the point is absolutely right i agree with you once you start violence you enter into perpetual cycle of violence that you can't really control after that the party that started the violence and in fact brutal violence was a syrian regime the revolution started with son and to use into your viewers who may have forgotten this resolution started after fifteen boys young boys of ten and eleven year old were taken from their homes tortured abused raped and then returned in a shattered state to their parents in the city of daraa that's what started people in their desire in. all they wanted was to reform the regime and to bring those who brutalized and rape those young boys to justice imagine how these protests started in the city of tara and i was also in the city of daraa and if you remember

and for the chemical weapons to be used saddam hussein had to fly fourteen sorties i think and that killed five thousand people now we're now we're being told that chemical weapons were used with such precision that only twenty five to fifty people were killed by a government that is winning when a government to which two hundred fifty thousand soldiers still pledge allegiance why why would this gun sorry why would it have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks to my guests of washington and london and i want to thank our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember. this is. blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the. streets are full of. fighting against. the stall the american dream. wealthy british style. markets. scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. to me speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on the t.v. reporting from the world's hot spots fifty ip interviews intrigu

and for the chemical weapons to be used saddam hussein had to fly fourteen sorties i think and that killed five thousand people now we're now we're being told that chemical weapons were used with such precision that only twenty five to fifty people were killed by a government that is winning when a government to which two hundred fifty thousand soldiers still pledge allegiance why why would this gun sorry why would it have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks today to my guests of washington. and i want to take our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time remember. this is. it's. blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of. fighting against. the stall the american dream. oh that. clint. good speech. will. look. good. and i'm. gonna make. good lumbered sure. was to believe in each most sophisticated which doesn't sound anything mission to teach me why you should care about humans. this is why you should want only. a little more freedom for natalee the russian opposition blogger

bush he also had some strong arguments of reading the world of saddam hussein to one percent had blood on his hands he was a dictator so press. then bush felt or at least articulated that you know world may be a better place without him but using violence once you start using violence you cannot control the point is absolutely right i agree with you once you start violence you enter into perpetual cycle of violence that you can't really control after that the party that started the violence and in fact brutal violence was a syrian regime the revolution started with son and to use into your viewers who may have forgotten this resolution started after fifteen boys young boys of ten and eleven year old were taken from their homes tortured abused raped and then returned in a shattered state to their parents in the city of daraa that's what started people in their desire in. all they wanted was to reform the region and to bring those who brutalized and rape those young boys to justice imagine how these protests started in the city of tara and i was also in the city of derry and if you remem

involved in the and the briefings why rock it seems so non sequitur exactly there was no and saddam hussein was one of our best sources on terrorism intelligence throughout the ninety's iraq was very afraid of the islamic jihad these who might destabilize the secular regime and take advantage of the poverty caused by sanctions to try to bring about some islamic revolution so saddam was very eager to help identify terrorist conspiracies and he was these saw that as a strong point of his administration that he could reach across the table and keep a line open to washington and that's what i had to do because even under sanctions we still had to protect national international security from terrorist threat in light of the recent n.s.a. revelations and i mean you yourself were really harsh crackdown from the government i mean even the author of the patriot act those that he said that he never intended it to be used in the way that it is now i mean what do you think when you're looking at everything that's happened over the last decade did you foresee it ever getting to where it's gone and how p

and for the chemical weapons to be used saddam hussein had to fly fourteen sorties i think and that killed five thousand people now we're now we're being told that chemical weapons were used with such precision that only twenty five to fifty people were killed by a government that is winning when a government to which two hundred fifty thousand soldiers still pledge allegiance why why would this god sorry why would it have to jump in here we've run out of time many thanks to my guests of washington and london and i want to thank our viewers for watching us here are keen to see you next time remember. this is. oh. music is our job the army our destiny these soldiers don't know what real arms look like but it didn't take them a single shots to conquer the world. china and korea try to imitate them america and europe cry bravo absolutely amazing amazing. meanwhile back in russia military artists are losing their grip on the audiences. the young people especially soldiers they seem to me to differently from. the russian musical army has been fighting for eighty five years now that stained t. w

bush he also had some strong arguments of reading the world of saddam hussein to one percent had blood on his hands he was a dictator so president bush felt or at least articulated that you know while it may be a better place without him but.

involved in the peace and the briefings why rock it seems so non sequitur exactly there was no and saddam hussein was one of our best sources on terrorism intelligence throughout the ninety's iraq was very afraid of the islamic jihad these who might destabilize the secular regime and take advantage of the poverty caused by sanctions to try to bring about some islamic revolution so saddam was very eager to help identify terrorists conspiracies and he was these saw that as a strong point of his administration that he could reach across the table and keep a line open to washington and that's what i had to do because even under sanctions we still had to protect national international security from terrorist threat in light of the recent n.s.a. revelations susan i mean you yourself were really harsh crackdown from the government i mean even the author of the patriot act those that he said that he never intended it to be used in the way that it is now i mean what do you think when you're looking at everything that's happened over the last decade did you foresee it ever getting to where it's gone and ho

overthrew saddam hussein and his baath party that was supported by a shia minority at the time now are a sunni minority at the time excuse me and now we have this shia majority in power did the us and by inserting itself into the sectarian violence and turning the tables to put another party in power essentially create this kind of this kind of violence in this kind of backfire that we're saying that there's no question about it. as we know. saddam was sunni it's the minority the minority of the population of iraq iraqis sunni and shia sunni is probably maybe twenty thirty percent she is the balance there almost what it's like ireland. the they're all christian they're all christian but catholic and protestant but but iraq that's the best analogy i can think of. so when we went over there and overthrew the regime and then all of the thing the other things that happened the disbanding of the iraqi army and the national police by paul bremer we didn't have enough invasion forces over there. you know we we created we created the civil. or that really we're up to six o seven which was when

that was the clear message to saddam hussein. it was his decision. >> that is the late helen thomas questioning george bush in 2007. rivera that year, i interviewed thomas in memphis and asked her about her take on the consolidation of media control by a small number of the corporations. the profits and help the country. the media should be a public service. you cannot have a democracy without and informed people, and that should be their role. they can make their money everywhere else. thomas ins helen 2007. she died on saturday at the age of 92. you can go to democracynow.org to see our interviews with her over the years. democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on saturday, thousand of demonstrators gathered in cities nationwide to continue protesting the acquittal of george zimmerman and the shooting death of on our african-american teenager trayvon martin. saturday, hundreds gathered in new york city in front of one police plaza, the headquarters of the new york police department, to deman

she told me that she was the media person responsible for all the images of the saddam hussein captured, and that those photographs were taken with her camera. she understands how to manage the message. that is essential to this trial, how fort meade has managed the message by a lack of public access to court documents, the subject matter experts which is responsible for convening a fair and impartial trial for the accused, the first subject matter expert we had was a member of the prosecution. no one in the press knew that. it is what mr. rattner spoke about, the fact that the prosecution wants to make sure it makes the headlines, and eventually squeezes' any attention away from the defense. the fact is, if the trial were to be televised, if people could see bradley manning, how are earnest and sincere and sympathetic a character he is come up public opinion about the trial would change dramatically. thehe fact that you are at headquarters of the national security agency, fort meade, a thetary base, -- talk about trouble that you have with the internet, and what is your ability to work

invasion of asking hard questions of whether in fact there were weapons of mass distraction or saddam husseineally had intent to do the will to others. i don't think we did securely well as an institution. there has been a lot of individuals in the 10 years since then. i think asking about a question like that is entirely appropriate. >> host: the chronicle of combat came out in 2000 for about mr. atkinson's experience in the iraq war. berliners received an extra allocation of rations to commemorate hitler's birthday on friday, april 20, 1945. half a pound of rice, bacon or sausage, and announce a copy. they pummeled the city for much of the day and risk their lives for groceries. but these rations shall now ascended to heaven, one woman told her husband. shoot said we are defending europe against bolshevism. it seemed uncommonly so. in april in berlin, almost 4000 suicides would be reported in berlin. other means of ending life is great everywhere. the daughter wrote the two sons were shot and herself, and slid her daughter so. one teacher hanged herself and she was not the. >> guest: the fi

. >> you're suggesting we should have a saddam hussein as president? >> no. we took out tojo. that is a very different kind of fish. >> thank you for that question. iraq, important lessons learned. we are naÏve if you think americans never have to be in that situation. thank you for your hard work. looking forward at where we are, my big concern is number 2014, the year to pull out afghanistan was pulled out of a hat. when you look at afghanistan today, something like 60% of afghanistan are under the age of 20. an amazing young demographic. they are waking up in afghanistan. the military has control of the entire country. this is a force against resurging taliban. when we look back at the united states and our gang kids or whatever are reading history books, they will look at this finite and now on of time. they will look and see what america did with its position of power. to either lead to a world of chaos or russian leadership or will america be that shining city on the hill? i yield back. >> thank you for your service. >> i would say to my friend from illinois that i appre

you can see i talked to some of the people in the world like saddam hussein and castro and president clinton used to say let's send richardson, bad people like him. what i am trying to say is it is important nonetheless to engage bad people. do it right. don't necessarily offer concessions just because you are meeting but i do think engagement is better than isolation and isolating north korea is not working, it is not going to work but obviously it takes two to tango and when north korea doesn't respond it makes it hard to have a concrete six party policy, asian policy, south korean policy, american policy. so i will conclude with this. what do i think are the main entities and actors we need with north korea? we need out of the box diplomacy. we need perhaps special envoy with, we need sports diplomacy. i am one of those that doesn't begrudge the dennis rodmans and others that might be able to open up a nation. donald gregg bought the philharmonic orchestra from new york. that was a wonderful move. his culture, interlocutors we haven't thought of. south korea is very well positione

involved in the and the briefings why rock it seems so non sequitur exactly there was no and saddam hussein was one of our best sources on terrorism intelligence throughout the ninety's iraq was very afraid of the islamic jihad these who might destabilize the secular regime and take advantage of the poverty caused by sanctions to try to bring about some islamic revolution so saddam was very eager to help identify terrorist conspiracies and he was these saw that as a strong point of his administration that he could reach across the table and keep a line open to washington and that's what i had to do because even under sanctions we still had to protect national international security from terrorist threat in light of the recent as a revolution susan i mean you yourself were really harsh crackdown on the government i mean even the author of the patriot act those that he said that he never intended it to be used in the way that it is now. now i mean what do you think when you're looking at everything that's happened over the last decade did you foresee it ever getting to where it's gone and how

invasion of asking hard questions about whether there were weapons of mass destruction, whether saddam hussein really had intend to do ill to others. i don't think we did particularly well as an institution and there has been a lot of soul-searching in the ten years since then and that should continue. asking the question like that is entirely appropriate. >> host: "in the company of soldiers: a chronicle of combat" key and out in 2004 about mr. rick atkinson's experience embedding with a 100 first army in the iraq war. from "the guns at last night: the war in western europe, 1944-1945," berlin received an extra allocation of crisis rations to commemorate hitler's birthday on friday, april 20th, 1945. a pound of bacon or sausage, half a pound of rice and announce of coffee. allied planes pummeled the city for much of the day and citizens risked their lives to queue for special groceries, quote, with these ration's we shall now ascend into heaven, one woman told her husband. a commemorative postage stamp was issued to with the cancellation imprint that read, quote, we are defending europe again

we do know that saddam hussein is gone, the butcher of baghdad that used chemical weapons on his ownme on his neighbors. we know that he killed hundreds of thousands of people. it was heartbreaking to see. we know that the country still has ethnic divisions among the kurds and the shia and the sunni. we know, however, that they have elected a prime minister and the president. we know they have a parliament. we know that the people are proud that they voted. the sunnis didn't participate the first time now and we are sorry they didn't and later joined in and now are participating. is it a tough part of the world? you bet. is it going to be an easy path from where they were to where they are going? no way. it's going to be a tough road but it was a tough road for us. look at our country. we had sleeves into the 1800's. we killed 600,000 americans and a horribly bloody civil war. women didn't vote into the 1900's. it is a bumpy road for almost every country. how what will come out? i don't know. i do know they have a chance and i know that i have a lot of respect for the young men and w