and groups represented within the government yes of course and your political refugee under saddam hussein's regime how does life there now compared to life you had to lead then. one for most iraqis who are not pretty politically active i was active against saddam's regime i campaigned against. horrible human rights violations but for most iraqis who were not politically active or not known to be. there i don't want my life you know people have families and children they had

later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the alawite it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the austria-hungary an empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed in the two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five to forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in ord

later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the allo why it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the austria-hungary an empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed in the two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five to forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in or

later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the alawite it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the australian garion empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed into two years after the second world war nine hundred forty five the forty seven about twelve million germans were ethnically cleansed from countries from poland right down to to ukraine and so forth so we see massive rearrangement of peoples in order

and really fascinating about saddam hussein's decoration were these weird sort of satisfied dough massintings, but they're very kinky indeed. >> "fox files" tracked down the artest at her home in upstate new york. it was news to her that copies of her work ended up in saddam's baghdad townhouse. >> once you do a painting, heaven only knows where it's going to end up. he would probably identify with the heroic men. and he would love the sensuous women. >> hard to imagine amidst all the killing and repressing saddam had the time and state of mind to have this replica of the flintstone village bedrock built for his grandchildren. adolf hitler built his own retreat in the bavarian mountains, berghoff, his place to entertain and unwind with his nazi friends and mistress, eva braun, as seen in home movies. >> it's meant to be a sort of manly german hunting lodge sort of place. the truth is that the taste on show is very -- lots of dinky 19th century sets of china filigreed clocks. almost lady-like. >> during his 20 years as dictator of the philippines, ferdinand marcos is believed to have st

president bush claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium to build weapons. >> saddam husseint quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush included bogus material in his speech. this week the white house admitted the claim was not true. >> well, now, congressman king says that president bush's debunked claim which bush admitted was incorrect was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program yesterday, the congressman made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address which they said was a lie and they're still attack him for that. janua jan i'll tell you what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth and he's being punished for it. if you want to know what evidence they have to prove he was right, he could prove iraq was seeking uranium, why wouldn't if he spoken up? that's "hardball" for now. coming up. "your business." with j.j. ramberg. the opportu. he's seen it. it's all over. nothing but daylight. yes i'd love a cookie. [ male announcer ] make a powerful first impression. the nissan sentra

we have anorak today that is better than it was under saddam hussein.will get a lot worse if we do not act. we can act with a lot less cost than what we have had to do until today. >> better than under saddam hussein with the sectarian violence? >> absolutely. saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. there is nothing like that going on now, even with al qaeda. >> james jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us. staying in iraq, this is an image that few could forget from the war, a british soldier, his body in flames as he escaped his burning vehicle in 2005. what happened to him? after 100 hours on the operating table, he has taken up a new challenge, learning to fly. caroline wyatt went to meet him. >> the soldier is learning how to fly. that is something he never thought he would be able to do eight years ago when he suffered terrible burns to his face and body serving in iraq. he was just 17 when he joined the army, 18 when he went on his first operational tour during the iraqi war. of those inside this warrior armored vehicle that was petrol

president bush's state of the union claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellow keg uranium to buildar weapons. the problem, of course, is that it wasn't true. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush did include bogus material in his state of the union speech describing how iraq was attempting to get nuclear materials from africa. today the white house admitted that claim was not true. >> well, now congressman king says that president bush's debunk claim which bush himself admitted was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program, he made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush, he was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address that they said was a lie, and they're still attacking him for that. and i'll tell you i've had hands-on evidence that what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth, and he was still punished for it. >> if you're wondering what evidence king has to prove that bush was right all along, you're probably not alone. the question is i

we have anorak today that is better than it was under saddam hussein.will get a lot worse if we do not act. we can act with a lot less cost than what we have had to do until today. >> better than under saddam hussein with the sectarian violence? >> absolutely. saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people. there is nothing like that going on now, even with al qaeda. >> james jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us. staying in iraq, this is an image that few could forget from the war, a british soldier, his body in flames as he escaped his burning vehicle in 2005. what happened to him? after 100 hours on the operating table, he has taken up a new challenge, learning to fly. caroline wyatt went to meet him. >> the soldier is learning how to fly. that is something he never thought he would be able to do eight years ago when he suffered terrible burns to his face and body serving in iraq. he was just 17 when he joined the army, 18 when he went on his first operational tour during the iraqi war. of those inside this warrior armored vehicle that was petrol

gone are kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime live with us on the line from london thank you very much for your time. well the pakistani taliban has vowed to avenge the death of its leader who was killed in a u.s. drone strike and pakistani officials say that the assassination has derailed peace talks with the militants hears islam about british journalists and you'll rashid with the latest. security has gone and there is a lot of security in major cities off pakistan in the heart. because of course so far the statements from the government have been very grim and leaders have been saying this is bin and not there at them to sabotage the peace talks between pakistan's government and the taliban interior minister of pakistan he has stated that only david for yesterday in the march was talking about peace talks and they were almost underway right now yes today's event of another drone strike that killed. the country is again a conflict as to what should be the next step what to expect from the taliban as far as the government by stance government is concer

if you go back to iraq, we've talked about this over the years, he was the one who said that saddam hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. no doubt, to use against the united states. he kept talking about the lie that mohammed atta had met with iraqi intelligence officials in prague. he talked about the aluminum tubes. he said there was no doubt there was strong evidence of strong connections, between al qaeda and saddam hussein. he lied repeatedly. and he really, for all that, should sort of be drummed out of polite society and out of the media. but unfortunately he's not. those lies actually were done, i think, maliciously to get the american public to back a war which they might otherwise not support. and then, so the fact that he can come out there now, and act like a statesman, pronouncing judgment on somebody else, when, you know, obama, you know, misspoke, made a mistake, lied or was inaccurate, he was doing it in pursuit of bringing health care to tens of millions of americans who aren't otherwise covered. that's a lot different than trying to bamboozle a public into supp

further analysts from high five from god wants the current iraqi novel is the foreign prisoner of saddam hussein's regime has also contributed to the guardian newspaper thank you so much for joining us. i guess it wasn't the first of all greatly relieved. back in two thousand and three when the interface to beat down and us forces affecting the one you're free now. jess said. the question to check on him even to a warrior relieve back in two thousand and three when the invasion began and the u s forces effectively when your freedom on took us all know it said i mean we italy and distance from the beginning to make many iraqis than that including myself that this is not the idiot attention assist the nickname this is a convention and there's a difference then between all politics and downs eighteenth condo keep eyeing off your own country. so ten years on that. what's your assessment of the security situation right now. well it's it's absolutely terrible because it is affecting daily diet and from morning until night and had to single out one of the day people up and feeling unsafe to do an easing

strikes against the we're going to take out saddam hussein used against iranian population in soldiers as well as civilians it was primarily provided to him by european countries netherlands germany france i believe to some extent but the u.s. actually was involved we know about because the cia document that just came out about a month ago that showed how the u.s. was involved in. helping coordinating some of those attacks in turn not just to a blind eye to the fact that the saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the mt of the iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of this saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that the saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them. very public in ir

strikes against the are going to take out saddam hussein used against iranian population and soldiers as well as civilians it was primarily provided to him by european countries. and there's germany france i believe to some extent but the u.s. actually was involved we know about because the cia document that's just came out of. about a month ago that showed how the u.s. was involved in. helping coordinate some of those attacks and turned not just to a blind eye to the fact that saddam was using gas but essentially encouraged it and this was during the reagan about this is during the reagan administration so no other country in the world has been exposed to chemical weapons in the manner that iran is not in the last few years and this is definitely a very traumatic experience for the iranians so while on the one hand they're very supportive of the saudi regime view that as being at that critical strategic relationship that they have and at the same time when there are indications that saudi has been using gas it has created a tremendous amount of. conversation some of them very public

by insurgency in the country this year sonny ramadani joins us now a political refugee from saddam hussein's regime who's now a senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university sir thank you so much for joining us now. their defiance there has rich reach levels that they were in two thousand and eight not something anyone wants to see happen why is this happening now and what can be done to tackle this sort of a situation. where there are a number of factors really for this. situation in iraq what sparked off it is due to a very very intense power struggle between various political forces with this so-called political process forces the represented within the government they are. struggling to get more of the share of power and this. there is also a conflict between the central government. could just regional government. and then. it is also the presence of several terrorist organizations. including the so-called islamic state of iraq and the love and syria this is a group affiliated to al qaida terrorist organization they are very active in syria as well as in iraq and the con

authority in iraq which the united states government set up shortly after the invasion that overthrew saddam hussein so he would have been involved in frequent strategy meetings about how to sell the iraq war and part of selling that war would have also been to attack the critics and to make the critics look bad and if you look at the roster of any of the top lobbying in public relation firms in town they're filled with former members of congress for murder ministration officials former cia officials increasingly journalists are going the same route. and. we now occupy an era of extreme reputation anxiety among leading companies around the world because they're very aware that corporate reputation which they may have built over fifty years or so can be shredded in a matter of minutes so when a company feels that it's on the potential attack you try and divert attention from the real story or you have a snow dump of good alternative information so they will go out there and say listen we've got this story about reputations being on the files by this disreputable swedish filmmaker acting for a lawyer

except for the american revolution and the end of slavery and the death ofomes hitly, saddam husseinhitler and saddam hussein and osama bin laden and enablingon, the freedoms of many.ms about these uniforms -- >> that was good. >> thanks. >> and he has a gluten allergy. he has a gluten free diet. >> don't even know the guy. p where am i? kg, it is friday and i am about checked out at this point. >> i can tell. i'm >> what do you think of the star-spangled banner played atte games and the uniform?feel >> i love it.star i am a patriot through and ga through. i love everyone who fought for? the country and for them freedoms we enjoy and for people like that to spout off. >> that's a daring comment, kg. >> i like to goou out on a ledge at fox news. who will join me? anybody? >> i will push you off the ledge. >> it was going so well. i >> julie, you say you hate freedom. >> with the fiber of myt being. >> how do you feel about recruiters being at the game?u >> i am good with it.ters if you want to sign up with the military, and i have friends in the military god bless. ob if you don't wan

>> but they're being compared to hitler. >> but we should not go to war with saddam hussein. >> that's a different question. but you're mocking the idea of taking someone's rhetoric seriously. >> i'm not mocking the idea of taking people's rhetoric seriously. strategic calculations of what someone's going to do. people can have bad rhetoric and actually use that rhetoric for domestic purposes or political purposes. but the rhetoric being taken seriously when invoked in the context -- >> i do not necessarily think that all the rhetoric coming out of iran is an indication of ma their desire is in terms of their nuclear program or their designs on israel. >> no one says it is a design or -- >> benjamin netanyahu says that all year. >> i'm not here to argue benjamin netanyahu. i am here to say, since you started this on that foot, to mock the idea of taking threatening rhetoric seriously is a literal mistake if you like. hitler is close to unique. fair enough. >> close to unique. but here's the question, what does taking rhetoric seriously mean? i think you and i in the abstract can agree,

comparisons to saddam hussein? you can't make this stuff up. >> no, you can't.if you think there's something on tv, you should see him live. we hung out saturday night with the ford boys and doug actually hinted at this. he said that he and his brother are declaring thermonuclear war against all their political opponents. they think they have enough true believers in the ford nation, fiscal conservatives like themselves, that they can run in each ward around the city using their style of populist retail politics and unseat everyone who voted against them. they actually got three allies on this last vote, in the last vote last week, to strip his emergency manager in powers. it was 41-2, rob and doug were the two. so from the outside, these guys seem like complete political outcasts. when you follow them around the so-called ford nation, you can see where they get their courage. they are beloved in housing projects, in blue collar neighborhoods, even in some rich fiscally conservative neighborhoods as well. but this is unlike anything we have seen. >> bill, we wil

really fascinating about saddam hussein's separation with these weird paintings, but they're very kinky"fox files" tracked down the artist. it was news to her that copies of her art ended up in saddam's house. >> when you're doing a painting, lord knows where it's going to end up. he would probably identify with the heroic man and he would love the sensuous woman. >> hard to believe that amid all the fighting, he would have room for this built for his grandchildren. >> adolf hitler had a place to unwind with her nazi friends and edith lebron seen in these home movies. >> it was meant to be a manly, german hunting lodge. the truth is that the taste is very mimsy, very dinky 19th century china, almost ladylike. >> during his 20 years as dictator of the philippines, ferdinand marcos is believed to have stolen billions of dollars. his infamous wife, imelda marcos, a former beauty queen, is best known for her shoe collection. >> how many pairs do we think she had? >> reportedly, thousands. >> was it easy to escape the compound? >> you couldn't escape. an adju. ted is now on hold with his ins

who supported chemical weapons used in iraq in the 80s and even provided money and agents for saddam husseinthis is not an honest claim for getting rid of chemical weapons in syria. i think that chemical weapon issue deserve it's own program, the fact that the region is plagued with this issue, and the major victims of chemical weapons not only syria, but also in iraq in the 80s. that issue has not been dealt with. there was no closure to this issue of chemical weapon use against the population. i think that's a different subject. >> let's bring it back to the rebels and their perspective. do they have a buy-in in the investigation and ex-pour of the chemical weapons? >> with just to comment on the u.s. policy towards syria. this is maybe the first time that the u.s. says something and do something different. secretary kerry, he three times pledged before going to geneva we need to change the calculation on the ground. none of these promises have been met. and this is make huge disappointment, and the failure of the u.s. policy laments, this is why the syrian opposition feel that even if the

think of the more recent war is a dilemma because if you think about the monopoly of the force, saddam hussein certainly monopolized the force in his state and a brutal manner it was a state in which torture was widespread and people were gassed. he was a torturer. he monopolized trade one could argue there are things people fear more than a brutal dictatorship and its anarchy in which it's every man for himself and chaos, which we see to some extent in libya now and to some extent iraq and that isn't well that means things would have been better if we left saddam hussein alone, that it is something that people should think about a little bit more before they casually say while, we as americans it is our duty to fight the dictatorship and bring freedom and liberty for us to do so. they had ubiquitous torture and care for. >> it is a dictatorial order for most people and is probably still to be preferred for the violent anarchy. and violent anarchy in many ways you have until 1945 until the order was reimposed. >> ideology. the period 1940 to 1945 is the second war. but there was no religion on

president bush's state of the union claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellow cake uranium to buildeapons. the problem, of course, is that it wasn't true. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush did include bogus material in his state of the union speech describing how iraq was attempting to get nuclear materials from africa. today the white house admitted that claim was not true. >> well, now congressman king says that president bush's debunk claim was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program, he made this stunning assertion. >> george w. bush, he was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address that they said were a lie and they're still attacking him for that. and i'll tell you i've had hands-on evidence that what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth and he was still punished for it. >> if you're wondering what evidence king has to prove that bush was right all along, you're probably not alone. the question is if he really possessed info

that this was in fact saddam hussein. last month this article was published, where the last victim of the boston strangler -- dna was identified on that victim mancould be traced to the who had accused -- who had been accused of being the boston strangler, but who was killed in prison before he was tried on those charges. we have this famous example, the world's most famous navy blue dress. the one on which a dna sample turned a he said she said case into a presidential impeachment. the na evidence has served very important roles in a number of high profile cases and in everyday crime as well. what are we actually looking at when we try to identify people from their dna? these something called short tandem repeat. i am illustrating that here. here is part of a sequence. ist of this sequence repeated over and over again. that is why it is called a tandem repeat. it is a short one, it is only four bases. the important thing is these repeats tend to bury in their number from individual to individual. chromosome five they may

now we have some examples of dna identification with saddam hussein or the man they thought was saddam hussein was first captured. one of the questions was this really is saddam or was it a decoy? dna have been extracted from his sons earlier that year and the dna profile was created from the suspected saddam, compared to his two sons and there was a match between the sons and saddam for a number of dna locations, helping to prove that this was in fact saddam hussein. just last month this article was published, where the last victim of the boston strangler, dna was identified on that victim who could be traced to a family member to albert disalvo the man who had been accused of being the boston strangler but who was killed in prison before he was tried on those charges. and of course we have this famous example the world's most famous navy blue dress, the one on which a dna sample tuned to a he said she said case into a presidential impeachment. dna evidence has served very important roles in a number of high-profile cases and everyday crime is well and i will talk more about that. so

if you go back to iraq, we've talked about this over the years, he was the one who said that saddam hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. no doubt, to use against the united states. he kept talking about the lie that mohammed atta had met with iraqi intelligence officials in prague. he talked about the aluminum tubes. he said there was no doubt there was strong evidence of strong connections, between al qaeda and saddam hussein. he lied repeatedly. and he really, for all that, should sort of be drummed out of polite society and out of the media. but unfortunately he's not. those lies actually were done, i think, maliciously to get the american public to back a war which they might otherwise not support. and then, so the fact that he can come out there now, and act like a statesman, pronouncing judgment on somebody else, when, you know, obama, you know, misspoke, made a mistake, lied or was inaccurate, he was doing it in pursuit of bringing health care to tens of millions of americans who aren't otherwise covered. that's a lot different than trying to bamboozle a public into supp

. >> we've been through this exercise before with saddam hussein in iraq where he played this game with inspectors for years. the counterargument to that is we've got these financial sanctions and sanctions against oil importations that are squeezing the iranians. if you want to bring them to the table, why not let those sanctions continue to work rather than pulling off to a side road and starting to ease them at the margins? that's essentially the nature of the debate right now. >> there's one other point to add to what dan said. these are international sanctions. some of the most effective of those sanctions aren't really being done by the united states or europe at all. they're freezing iran out of access to foreign currency. so once you start with sanction, you have to get all those other sanctions that you so laboriously brought on board to resume them. iran will be tempted as they have been to start cutting side deals with various other countries. >> what about congress? a lot of folks in congress, democrats and republicans. senator menendez of new jersey has been one of iran's b

in iraq - 250,000 to 1 million - many vanishing under the regime of saddam hussein. and the committee for humon rights in north korea estimates 20,000 are missing from its labour camps. >> with us the director-general of the international committee on missing persons, joining us from the hague, where the conference is under way. thank you for joining us on al jazeera. what are the aims of your organization. tell us about some of the challenges you face? >> well, our aim is to ensure that the international community takes stock of the missing persons globally. as you noted in your reports, millions are missing around the world from conflict, from human rights abuses, and there are thousands missing in relation to drug-related violence. it's high time the international community takes stock of this and we create an international mechanism dealing with these processes. >> how do you do that. what support do you get from governments. are you working with any of the international law enforcement agencies? >> we are. we were created to address the cases of missing persons

authority in iraq which the united states government set up shortly after the invasion that overthrew saddam hussein so he would have been involved in frequent strategy meetings about how to sell the iraq war and part of selling that war would have also been to attack the critics and to make the critics look bad and if you look at the roster of any of the top while being in public relation firms in town they're filled with former members of congress for murder ministration officials former cia officials increasingly journalists are going the same route. and. we now occupy an era of extreme reputation anxiety among leading companies around the world because they're very aware that corporate reputation which they may have built over fifty years or so can be shredded in a matter of minutes so when a company feels that it's on the potential attack you try and divert attention from the real story or you have a snow dump all of good alternative information so they will go out there and say listen we've got this story about reputations being on the files by this disreputable swedish filmmaker acting for a

authority in iraq which the united states government set up shortly after the invasion that overthrew saddam hussein so he would have been involved in frequent strategy meetings about how to sell the iraq war and part of selling that war would have also been to attack the critics and to make the critics look bad and if you look at the roster of any of the top wapping in public relation firms in town they're filled with former members of congress for murder ministration officials former cia officials increasingly journalists are going the same route. and. we now occupy an era of extreme reputation anxiety among leading companies around the world because they're very aware that corporate reputation which they may have built over fifty years or so can be shredded in a matter of minutes so when a company feels that it's on the potential attack you try and divert attention from the real story or you have a snow dump all good alternative information so they will go out there and say listen we've got this story about reputations being on the files by this disreputable swedish filmmaker acting for a lawyer

women's rights have caught was since the us led invasion in two thousand and three to overthrow saddam hussein domestic abuse and prostitution have increased and it received has soared and ten this and that women have been left with others saudi arabia's guardianship system forbids women from working traveling abroad to opening a bank account one growing in high education without permission from my ear when it sits. i also banned from driving. although some have recently defied the order. syrian forces loyal to president russia how does that have raped and tortured women models are being deprived of their rights by hardline extremists in rebel held areas the color of these items off the southeast coast of africa came top in the survey conducted by thomson reuters foundation the poll asked exposed to the six factors such as violence against women reproductive rights and treatment of women within the family and women's roles in politics and the club poland to winston celebrations have turned violent after troops if i write these three firecrackers and set fire to cars to march in warsaw police r

apparently walked off with all the money that saddam hussein was giving them to fund these operations moved here to paris and died an untimely death himself with the aged fifty and the american hospital. and to stand. it is encased inside a mets in a bomb that mystery tour and at least in this case one that has been solved. we see on the network's finances are among more than fourteen hundred pieces that have been hate it. the works with more than a few lean years. in scenes from a profit in the tools fourteen stations i included on the kiss but i think lots of mulch down next thing going on and on the next piece. nolan comfort in the munich happened to the clues about the look of the nine of cornelius and giving that his father had been hired by the nazis she can make a mountainous out the picnic will teach it i think they're so much evidence showing that these works found that many of them came from victims of the holocaust and that they were taken a turn museums these are problematic works is that there's no doubt about that and so i think that there is the requirement of ethical a

because when you talk about the monopoly of force, saddam hussein certainly monopolized force in his state and in an extremely brutal manner. it was a state in which torture was widespread, this which people were gassed -- >> he came up through the torture. >> indeed, he did, he was a torturer. he monopolized it. one could argue there's one thing people fear more than a brutal dictatorship, and it's anarchy in which it's every man for himself and chaos and -- which we see to some extent where we see it in libya now. we see it to some extent this iraq and so on -- in iraq and so on which is not to say, well, that means things would have been better if we'd left saddam hussein alone, but it's manager that people -- it's something that people should think about a bit more before they casually say, well, we as americans it's our duty to fight dictatorship and bring freedom and use military force to do so. >> they should have listened to what saddam said which is iraq is a very difficult country to govern. [laughter] >> well, he was right. >> helicopter gunships and ubiquitous torture and

authority in iraq which the united states government set up shortly after the invasion that overthrew saddam hussein so he would have been involved in frequent strategy meetings about how to sell the iraq war and part of selling that war would have also been to attack the critics and to make the critics look bad and if you look at the roster of any of the top wapping in public relation firms in town they're filled with former members of congress for murder ministration officials former cia officials increasingly journalists are going the same route. and. we now occupy an era of extreme reputation anxiety among leading companies around the world because they are very aware that corporate reputation which they may have built over fifty years or so can be shredded in a matter of minutes so when a company feels that it's on the potential attack you try and divert attention from the real story or you have a snow dump of good alternative information so they will go out there and say listen we've got this story about reputations being on the files by this disreputable swedish filmmaker acting for a lawyer

in the basement of saddam hussein's intelligence headquarters. if the relics of iraq's once thriving jewish community. experts from the national archives it's been years preserving the texts they are finally on display to the. us soldiers were trekking through hussein's flooded basements looking for weapons of mass destruction. but they found something else entirely history of one group of people floating in water and left to rot. periodically in our line of work in foreign affairs. we have the opportunity celebrated to accomplish that doesn't happen all the time. but in this case from the rubble of war we have the recovery and preservation of a sample the iraqi jewish heritage that flows from the historic to the mater. preservation is from the us national archives were flown in to assess the situation. the materials or frozen to protect them from further damage. when he arrived back in washington that's ten years carefully cleaning and mending the two thousand seven hundred bucks and tens of thousands of documents. and they are books and documen

year was equally as bad as i'm going to who's a kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime says the ongoing bloodshed is forcing people to live in fear is affecting daily lives from morning until night and every single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything whoever the gods are they don't know i mean doesn't know whether they come back safely or not. distrust off of the regime. terrorists more slowly targeting innocent people rather than. other forces. and how you fizzing and also told us there's no agreement within the iraqi government and that's leading to more violence against civilians. government is quiet this squabbling among the alliance is formed off alliance of some political parties most of them got militias and they are very busy fighting each other so this internal fighting is causing a lot of their horrendous violence against the civilians. another country struggling with a wave of violence could have lost a chance for peace talks is numb about plans to start negotiations with the taliban the railed off to a u.s. drone strike killed the