. >> in the summer of 2000, iraqi leader saddam hussein and his state-run oil company control about 10%f the world's oil reserves. >> experts say saddam has terrific leverage now because with demand for oil high and u.s. supplies at a 24-year low, the 2 million barrels of oil a day iraq produces matter. >> my big fear is that saddam hussein is going to take the advantage of this tight market to cut oil production and that could send prices up much higher. >> god bless you all. and god bless america. >> on the campaign trail, bush and cheney zero in on saddam's control of vital oil sources as a potential threat to america's security. >> on the clinton/gore watch, saddam hussein's iraq has become a major supplier of oil to america. this means that one of our worst enemies is gain more and more control over our country's economic future. >> i think if we look for something that could develop, it's the possibility that we might find ourselves without adequate supplies of energy in the future and there would be no quicker way to shut down our economy than that. >> as bush and cheney take off

they were invited in by saddam hussein, given a camp and heavy weapons. when saddam was toppled they were temporarily put under u.s. protection. sad and troubled and complicated story since then. their major campaign's been shut down. there have been attempts with directly government forces to shut them at camp. in doing so dozens of people appeared to have been killed in the incidence by iraqi security forces. the problem is other countries won't take them. people who belonged to an organization that does have a lot of cultlike ax specs -- cultlike aspects. it has been problematic trying to figure out what to do with them for the international community, for the united states, for the united nations. they want to be able to resettle them but it is proving very hard. host: al qaeda, is still a presence or issue in iraq? guest: it has moved into the islamic state of iraq and syria. it is still fundamentally the same ideology. the thing about al qaeda and iraq is they have taken control of some of those cities. i was with the u.s. marines when they were figh

and if one looked at the speeches of saddam hussein. and george h.w. bush during the first go through war the only thing that differed was the subjects and the objects god was on our side. of opponents was identified with the devil we were the great satan. to saddam hussein so this is deep within human psychology and the need is to transcend that issue i would like to transition to yet another leader and this is president bashar assad of syria i know that he recently part published an article in which he tried to analyze some of his. eternal motives and i think he tends to be lumped together with other dictators arab dictators like saddam hussein more market afy but i think one thing that distinguishes him from them as you pointed out as well is he's a bring both saddam hussein and more market out if he had very humble beginnings they were probably abused as children and that to some extent may have contributed to the our insatiable appetite for power but assad had a very different biography he came from a privileged background he wasn't groomed for po

they were invited in by saddam hussein, given a camp and heavy weapons. hen saddam was toppled they were temporarily put under u.s. protection. sad and troubled and complicated story since then. their major campaign's been shut down. there have been attempts with directly government forces to shut them at camp. in doing so dozens of people appeared to have been killed in the incidence by iraqi security forces. the problem is other countries won't take them. people who belonged to an organization that does have a lot of cultlike ax specs -- cultlike aspects. it has been problematic trying to figure out what to do with them for the international community, for the united states, for the united nations. they want to be able to resettle them but it is proving very hard. host: al qaeda, is still a presence or issue in iraq? guest: it has moved into the islamic state of iraq and syria. it is still fundamentally the same ideology. the thing about al qaeda and iraq is they have taken control of some of those cities. i was with the u.s. marines when they were fight

you must remove this man saddam hussein. he killed our best generals, he tells us, he needs to go away. i of course was quite struck by this. it turns out this man had been at fort benning during the iran/iraq war and receive instruction and training when we were backing saddam hussein against iran. you could have removed saddam hussein without a great deal of difficulty and turned it over to other generals in the iraqi army were patriots and interested in being read of saddam hussein. the problem is in the united states the people at the top 5 in very absolute terms, in terms of if we go into iraq we have to occupy it. why? the history of occupation in the middle east is disastrous for any european army. it is the bucket of water. put your hand in as soon as you withdraw your hand the water returns. >> that is what we ultimately did. >> in 2003 we all knew in 1991 as we breathing in may and june of 1991 we stood around and looked at each other and set in ten years we going to be back because saddam hussein was not going to

to saddam hussein so this is deep within human psychology and the need is to transcend that issue that we're back to transition to yet another leader and this is president bashar al assad of syria i know that he recently piled published an article in which he tried to analyze some of his. eternal motives and i think he tends to be lumped together with other dictators arab dictators like saddam hussein more market a few but i think one thing that distinguishes him from them and if you pointed it out as well as he's a bring both saddam hussein and more market out if he had very humble beginnings they they were probably abused as children and that to some extent may have contributed to that our insatiable appetite for power but assad had a very different biography he came from a privileged background he wasn't groomed for power and you called him in the end your article a second choice son i wonder if we still if you still buy these patrol of assad as ruthless murderer the butcher of demo ask how would this bringing explain his violence your viewers might be interested to know. john f. ke

. >> it's the most important vote since the fall of saddam hussein. iraq's first national election without an american military presence. democracy. mid east stability. global security. and oil. all at stake. voting in the center of conflict in the middle east. and voting under constant threat. the worst unrest in iraq in years. our special report, iraq: bloodshed to ballots. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the polls are now closed in iraq's historic election. the first since u.s. forces withdrew in 2011. tonight we focus on the situation in iraq and the middle east since that withdrawal and ask: was it worth it? as iraqis cast their ballot security was extremely tight. millions of people went to the polls to elect a new parliament and ultimately a new prime minister. imran khan spent the day at a polling place. >> passed without major incident across the country there have been deaths as a result of violence but this is a day that many thought would never come. election day passed without major incident. here in baghdad there were no incidents at

saddam hussein is long dead and buried the chemical weapons he unleashed on an up to twenty five years ago. no didn't finish that one. according to experts they can remain active in the soil for decades. people depend on chair crying out for help against the signing of candor in the midst of their police is not being heard. i bid them a cool thirty snow the entire community. what's missing. each piece is sacred to many and sophia with this set here in the cd thank you both very much fuel fascinates him support him chilling stuff that you found him not come to so the cost of the time to clean the parallel here. the team john hands of what is happening in this area that's believed to be models of mass destruction against his own people. these cues are interested in nursing. we were tentative and hated to see the contents went to the twenty five new staff. my house and we will die in our mind in nineteen eighty eight don't i get him some plastic eggs and not to worry. with only the dead heated for nine hundred cities where it can also buy a tv. i sat down with a knee which aimed at killin

after toppling saddam hussein the us and uk wash their hands of iraq's problems today. also injected they were looking at iraq voting under the gun with this talk about it. he's the deputy editor in chief of the french weekly news magazine the match daisies medicine you thank you for your being as i want thank as well um iraqi political commentator of the month are also the month from being with us i'm also joining us from abu dhabi deal of say a senior reporter for a daily newspaper the national love that show. and welcome to use the data out of the xi the senior advisor on constitution building in fact that i have not mistaken you helped to draft a constitution in an inn in iraq. joining us up from sanaa in yemen thank you for being with us. the falls and get today we can join the conversation on facebook and twitter are packed and two fours and eights. polls of clothes now in iraq are up to lots of people at the voting stations. there were no movie was two years that people would stay we obviously seventy percent of the palm of our province unable to vote and through

produce an impression of hankering for saddam hussein obviously we're not talking about what it would have been better if he stayed in power what had really talking about is how realistic this concept. you know trying to how the country to progress towards dimmock. because the same type of rhetoric has been voiced in case of libya in case of syria and we have all seen what kind of ramifications it had back there is so it seems to me that the experience of iraq as horrendous as it was wasn't enough to persuade western leadership that you know these type of democracy building projects simply don't work i think the challenge is really how can we make it work because for a long time the region has been forced between extremes either we accept dictatorships like saddam hussein like khadafi with the order that they bring or we go into mass chaos and fear of minorities not being protected and the sectarian divides and what you're hearing and what was really at the root of the arab spring is people saying there needs to be a third alternative it can't be these only choices between extremes wh

saddam hussein and after wards and i wonder if you believe that iraqis with saddam hussein add the lead of that country would still have been capable of making a change within a second because let's face it face it i mean they they they were pretty sophisticated people by that time sure there was a dictatorship but they were a very advanced country in terms of education in terms of science in terms of health care in terms of women woman's rights there was also you know a long tradition of sectarian call existence and tolerance all of that is and by the way i described in your book barefoot in baghdad but i wonder if all those major socially chairmans haven't been sacrificed for the sake of making iraq a better place to reach is what essentially. the world has been presented with its iraq is a very complex situation in its you know a huge challenge particularly today as you see the violence on rising and escalating in iraq as they enter into elections i think the challenge is really looking you know the iraq that you described of the sixty's of the seventy's maybe into the eighty's highl

hostileme was radically to saddam hussein and was banned. he had to leave the country. 24 years later when the u.s. , al malikiq returned. in 2006, maliki became prime minister. two years into the job may position his -- himself as a strong leader by launching several campaign to crush armed insurgents. in 2010 he founded his own movement and formed a fragile national unity government. still, rivals accuse him of favoring shiites and failing to reconcile sunnis, kurds, and his own community. he refused to sign a deal the u.s. mission and in 2011 they pulled out entirely. after two mandates, maliki's critics say he has little to show for it and has been unable to quell the unrest. we do have those can -- killed in car bombs and elsewhere. those are crimes committed by al qaeda, like interior. >> sources say maliki has not been able to boost the economy. >> to mali, where the civil taken hostage over the weekend have been freed. the news comes as the government said it was taking troops to free the stronghold in the north. what can you tell us

. >> reporter: it's the kind of democracy saddam hussein would have never allowed. but in a country now racked by sectarian violence, iraq goferred for eight years by nouri al maliki from the shia majority, a man who rarely smiles. he voted early today casting this election as a referendum on his war against terror. >> i wish to see a huge turnout. god willing, we'll celebrate the success of this election and defeat terrorism and those who bet the election would be postponed. >> reporter: in parts of anbar province there's no eaks today but a full scale sunni insurgency. these men so determined to kill iraqi shia that even al qaeda is considered not extreme enough for them and now the i ask haddists are trying to advance the capital. this is the abu ghraib district 20 miles from the center of baghdad. last week the violence and tenseified. this was a suicide bombing which killed 31 at a shia election rally in baghdad. in the center of capital today cars were banned. sunni extremists have threatened to kill anyone who votes. mr. malaki, we'll probably see him releect

cheney -- >> because the iranians took advantage of the iraqi war and they were held in check by saddam husseinhat's right. >> you blame bush for everything. >> no, i don't. >> we see that chris christie is trying to dip his toe into his foreign policy. it's he's a former federal prosecutor, he was a very good governor for the state of new jersey. does that transcend to the presiden presidency. he's continuing to draw a line in the sand and perhaps a lee yen yating himself from a base he's going to need for support. >>> china's military is caught spying on u.s. companies and bob's head is about to explode. stay tuned for that next. the day we rescued riley, was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com dog: what, what? mattress discounters what, what? mattress discounters memorial day sale ends monday? but mattress discounters has the largest selection of memory foam mattresses under one "roof." comforpedic, i

instrumental in the capture of saddam hussein and killer of al-zarqawi. his memoir has been released in paperback, at a time when iraq and afghanistan are facing renewed and violent insurgencies. pleased to have stanley mcchrystal back at the table. welcome. >> thank you, charley. appreciate it. >> charlie: we want to talk about where you are today, going forward and look back where you have advantage and experience of insight. afghanistan. where are we on your judgment on the ground as they plan to leave most troops by 2014 and maybe all. >> we're if a sensitive period in afghanistan but in the last 15 years, what hasn't been. militarily and security-wise there have been a lot of gains and they are shown on the ground in the relative life of the people. i think in terms of government, there's been great problems, internal to the afghan government, there's been a real difficulty in getting local governments adequate, competent, local administration technocrats down to a local level and then with them to be a government. the third which i think people forg

[laughter] when the bush administration planted a story about saddam hussein buying aluminum tubes in the "new york times" so that the same day the vice president of the united states, the secretary of state and the national security advisor could go on tv and say this. >> there's a story in the "new york times" this morning. reporting just this morning. >> high quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs. >> jon: they knew a year in advance that what they were saying on the show that day was not true. where was that outrage? >> where is the apology from the administration for this? >> why should there be an apology. hindsight is always 20/20. >> of course they are saying aliewm niewm tubes saying it's not nuclear material and others saying it is. >> it's a matter aassumption. >> but not a question of lying. >> jon: no, it's not a question of lying it's a statement of lying. it's not an assumption because -- let me explain what you assume -- [ applause ] -- all i know when you assume it makes an ass out of -- they were lying and they knew they were

iran fatah devastating war with saddam hussein and he used chemical weapons many times against forces. that the end of the '80s and the supreme meter change his mind to explain his decision to sign a cease-fire with saddam hussein he called it tricking from the poisoned chalice but in a letter to his supporters he said the military position rose hopeless at the time the you would forward to resuming the war with atomic weapons and said is the necessity of war at that time. 1988 with explicit interest. about that time representatives began to meet with a q klein and he was then the news a lot and he transferred to said to yourself atomic bomb kits so i ran godhead jump-start because of the up pakistan a scientist so throughout the 1980's the united states suspected iran may pursue a nuclear weapons program but all doubt was removed do 2012 led the resistance group announced he was building facilities in the underground uranium enrichment facility and plutonium produce a new reactor. these are not the piece will technologies the united states had provided the floor of the facilities tay

now this is the fourth kind iraqi people are voting in a national pool after the fall of saddam hussein. some have been disillusioned with the democratic process but others are holding onto the hope and a skittles. i mean it feel to hear reports from baghdad. will it is cold you know. polling stations roasted coffee too. many of the youth team. the cost of this. it also talks. she is just as i look freaking choose a government that was for the benefit of all the people you want. a solitary an end. this will bring a change he said. fifty seven years old. all need to do what he wanted to. but far away from his home. he and his tummy he came to a few months ago. this gave the lions were numb by robots the mohawk that we were stocked between the fighting extremists. the military muscle the on ball is in the waist. both the boat it was she. this mystic made it in from sea is too will tell of being crossing into iraq delphi. don't know. moments both the sunni community. if you would do love these boys that she of the. soldier has changed in the new prime minister among the key of knowledge be

we had to use military force against saddam hussein. we're going to be taken over and the soviet union will be back. guest: i agree to an extent. in a time of declining defense budgets is sending the wrong message to iran and syria and russia. we do have a conference of policy. sanctions sometimes do work. they don't work in isolation. we need to have a credible threat of military force. the pentagon says the dead set that program back five to 10 years. we don't want to use military force. it has to be the instrument of last resort. we have to have a credible threat of military force. then we use sanctions in a smart way. we ratchet up the pressure. we do not hope for the good intentions of our adversaries across the negotiating table. we leverage that coercion to get the best possible deal. in the case of iraq, sanctions were working. we did not need to go to war. in north korea we gave them their money back. we undercut our financial sanctions and the north koreans are about to test a fourth nuclear weapon. guest: i haven't heard the

and all those and never, never did they tell me or us, as a congress, that they had proof that saddam hussein was in any way involved in the attack on our country. >> so let me ask you this. we just saw a minute ago current news about what is potentially an american suicide bomber in syria. one of the places where i think obama's clearly failed to meet the goals he stated a year ago. you can go from nigeria to north korea, from ukraine to the south china sea. tell me where you see america being strong in that entire zone. >> well, it tdepends how you define strength, newt. in terms of our country's values, in terms of our country's commitment to justice and freedom, we're a very strong country and, you know, the good doctor here compared our country to nazi germany and that's the kind of rhetoric that is divisive and really tears our country apart at a time when it comes to foreign policy, we ought to be one nation and we ought to be pulling together. >> do you want to explain that? >> yeah, let me address that, because what i said is that most of the people in nazi germany did not believe in

canadian lawyer william wylie advised the iraqi tribunal that tried saddam hussein.e and his team have collected and combed through over half a million videos. but the most crucial element of this work is collecting a paper trail. in a cramped basement, wylie showed us boxes of documents so sensitive, we can't tell you where the commission is based. >> so in here, there's about, as i said 200,000 pages of regime documentation. >> reporter: the documents include military orders and government records, all of which had to be smuggled out of syria as the war raged on. so this is extremely dangerous work. >> it's very dangerous. we're threatened by both sides. we're threatened by the regime, obviously. but our people are also threatened by the radicalists, the al qaeda affiliates, in particular, who don't share our conception of impartial justice. >> reporter: these are the syrian activists who are being trained to collect that evidence. their work is so dangerous, we can't show you their faces. >> you want to be an investigator, start thinking like an investigator. >> r

we were told that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. the documentation was faulty. why tnt the republicans investigate that? >> did democrats fund raise off the war in iraq? remind me. refresh me. >> i'd still like to know why republicans didn't investigate that. instead, they picked benghazi ad nauseam, never stopped with it and what's really important to the american people, suddenly -- >> seems like both of you guys want to deflect about benghazi. what we've learned in the past week has been crucial and game changing. it's not just information was released. it was the crucial information we've been asking for that was withheld. deliberately. >> a set of questions was asked. there was response to that. a different question was asked and a different response came out. >> you guys would not have this toll lance ferance for a republ administration if they played this game. >> speaking of republicans, krauthammer -- >> charles krauthammer. >> has put out a piece warning you guys that you are overreaching, this is actually bad for republicans going to blow up in your f

russian president saddam hussein has said that they're on a russian military servicemen all security forces in ukraine the claim comes calling new sanctions on the kremlin from the us which targets individuals and companies believed to be part of putin's inner circle western countries accuse russia of coordinating unrest in east ukraine. us secretary of state john kerry saying that american intelligence agents haven't been that conversations between pro kremlin separatists which make it clear that their operations being directed by most in the genes claimed that there is no russian involvement in east ukraine is similar to the one he made prior to rush its annexation by me and lexi peninsula fully joined the russian federation last month up to scores of armed men in on mt uniforms indicated that a retreat and a widely discredited referendum on the occasion with russia was held the last the thing. i want the child caring signs and shouting slogans ten thousand workers protested against low wages and dispatch workers on the day the protest may display down article on boulevard to the m

not house on our back or when saddam hussein to power and after the us invasion in two thousand three poverty levels rose and one family sold off the curls now while millions of afghan women had their say last month in the country's presidential election. tribal rules of their licensing honor killings are still widely regarded as carrying greater validity in the country's actual loss bart's lizzie can not report on that. years ago. and getting people to see him he didn't include the link it's detail you lose the girls and bullied in school. twenty percent of the seats in parliament are reserved for women. a growing number of certain owned horses for the first time in her district in kabul has a female police chief warren than that. i tan swirl i e in the two hundred g meaty go on it for you. and when the brutality is still a part of everyday life the messy house in kabul. the team and injuries the moment with her newborn daughter. it's a great escape from that point she endured at the hands of her husband. now with grey is my life was full of sour and peace. i didn't want it anymore b

in fact she said, saddam hussein had wmd. as did her husband bill clinton.l they never invite bill clinton to campus. will they not invite john kerry to campus who voted for the iraq war and said the saddam hussein hat wmd. this was politically motivated, politically aim and idealogically driven and stupid. they didn't have the facts right. bill: let's bring in david webb, fox news contributor as well. emily tish sussman, center for american progress action fund. good morning to both of you. nice to have you back here first. david, so what rove is saying that this is all just hypocrisy at rutgers. how do you see it? >> it absolutely is, bill. excuse me. here we have college, and college is supposed to be incubators of diverse thought and opinions and professor robert boykus, who is the professor leader of this and a bunch of students who decided that they will not tolerate a woman who is a unique figure in american history. forget politics. she grew up in the civil rights era poor. she became the first black woman secretary of state. and their objections are

you were there after iraq's democracy was being born after the fall of saddam hussein and you say these elections are especially important. why? >> because iraq as the u.n. envoy said is going through a difficult period. it is sectarian tensions , regional arrivals hav rivals hag ira pulling iraq apart. the defining fault line of the middle east is impacting iraq extremely negatively. also tensions between the kurds in the and the central government has been on the rise because of the agreement on oil expowrts. exports. so this election could be a renewal of if things don't go well, a further exacerbation of tensions in iraq. so it's an important election. >> nouri al maliki, you encouraged him to run back in 2006. but since 2010, especially he seems to be acquiring more and more power. he's the prime minister, he's the head of the armed forces, iraq's minister of defense, he's consolidated all sorts of power, and in fact, people people say that even in the judiciary isn't independent, and the judiciary is allowing him to have a third term. has he become too much of an their authoritari

the richard peace process in 1992 after the plo was completely destroyed due to his support for saddam hussein in the golf and then bill clinton of course with oslo and the abundance we see today this is in a bipartisan dilution. what is his constant obsession with the idea the united states would gain some fame by cultivating an alliance with the terrorist organization for the american clarity of thought and purpose in the middle east because at the heart of all of this idea is the notion of the tuesday paradigm, which is there something fundamentally wrong with israel. that america's only dependable, reliable and self-sufficient ally in the middle east is america's biggest problem in the middle east. when their strategic understanding of a very complicated breaches based upon such an utter fallacy, it's fairly a peak at just about everything else wrong. the nice thing about the two state solution is what it really does is liberate people who hold different thinking that anything differently. if the jewish are at fault, then who cares about the demographic makeup? who cares about the revoluti

cheney -- >> because the iranians took advantage of the iraqi war and they were held in check by saddam hussein>> that's right. >> you blame bush for everything. >> no, i don't. >> we see that chris christie is trying to dip his toe into his foreign policy. it's he's a former federal prosecutor, he was a very good governor for the state of new jersey. does that transcend to the presiden presidency. he's continuing to draw a line in the sand and perhaps a lee yen yating himself from a base he's going to need for support. >>> china's military is caught spying on u.s. companies and bob's head is about to explode. stay tuned for that next. life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of "what if's". what if my abdominal pain and cramps come back? what if the plane gets delayed? what if i can't hide my symptoms? what if? but what if the most important question is the one you're not asking? what if the underlying cause of your symptoms is damaging inflammation? for help getting the answers you need, talk to your doctor and visit crohnsandcolitisinfo.com to get your complimentary q&

in fact, she said saddam hussein had wmd as did her husband, bill clinton.they never invited bill clinton to campus? will they never invite john kerry to campus who vote for the iraq war. this is political correctness gone nuts. i'm sorry that a small group3ec3 of misguided students and a nutty organic chem professor had their way. i have to say connedy's statement was -- every word sparkled. what a wonderful way for her to remove herself from this situation and to give the students at rutgers back their commencement. but shame on the little totalitarians to the left and their faculty agent who perpetuated this. >> i also blame the administration though, karl. they gave some wishy washy response of regret or something. i didn't think the university stood up for this at all. i thought that even those who wanted her to speak, their voice was so quiet. it's so weak. >> right. and, look, that's fine. that's what is expected of university administrators. i want to issue a challenge though to that chem professor and to his student followers. i want you to show the

we had to use military force against saddam hussein. we're going to be taken over and the soviet union will be back. guest: i agree to an extent. in a time of declining defense budgets is sending the wrong message to iran and syria and russia. we need to have a comprehensive policy. sanctions sometimes do work. they don't work in isolation. we need to have a credible threat of military force. the pentagon says the dead set that program back five to 10 years. we don't want to use military force. it has to be the instrument of last resort. we have to have a credible threat of military force. then we use sanctions in a smart way. we ratchet up the pressure. we do not hope for the good intentions of our adversaries across the negotiating table. we leverage that coercion to get the best possible deal. in the case of iraq, sanctions were working. we did not need to go to war. in north korea, we gave them their money back. we undercut our financial sanctions and the north koreans are about to test a fourth nuclear weapon. guest: i haven't hear

favored saddam hussein. >> nahavandian: starting from foreign policy, you cannot find friends in irantart from economics, from technological cooperation, from cultural relations, there can be some common ground. >> kroft: the people in the united states also have grievances-- certainly, the hostage crisis, supporting some groups like hezbollah that the u.s. considers to be terrorist groups, their refusal to acknowledge israel's right for existence-- are all issues of importance to american foreign policy. >> nahavandian: for so long, those points of disagreement has been the focus of all the attention. of course, there are some points of disagreement. you don't negotiate if you do not have disagreements. you negotiate to turn disagreements to agreements. >> kroft: right now, those disagreements are scattered across the desert hundreds of miles from tehran, where, for decades, iranians have been aggressively developing a nuclear program they insist is for peaceful purposes, all the while acquiring the technology to enrich uranium to bomb-grade quality. there are people in the internati