influential figures in islamic state are former members of the iraqi military from the time of the saddam hussein regime. they're the ones who really control the group. >> reporter: he says the world sees foreign fighters as the face of islamic state. but the truth is the leaders have ties to hussein's military and the former ruling baath party. >> the former high-ranking members of the hussein regime want to get back the power they lost in the iraq war. they want to bring down syria, and cause the current islamic world to collapse in the name of religion. islamic state wants to expand the area controls to include countries like jordan lebanon, and saudi arabia. >>> an expert on middle eastern politics says it's time to consider japan's relations with the region. kazuo takahashi is a professor at the open university in jan and and gave us his insight. >> i think this is a wake-up call for the japanese nation. it's about time that the japanese should be discussing its position its policy toward the middle east. i think prime minister abe should be talking more to the japanese public about his poli

is isis better than saddam hussein?> that's the question he doesn't want to answer and he came out and said that flat out the other day. it's a question that they don't want to -- >> like the vice president of the united states and like hillary clinton. >> yes. and what the governor is saying is that the broad message he laid out, absolutely, that's consistent with where the republican party is and i think the republican party, with all of the developments with isis in the last year, this is probably true of the whole country but the republican party in particular which has been a little more hawkish moving in a more hawkish response to this. he's where he needs to be ideologically. >> i think he wanted to be very reagan-esque rather than bush-ish. he slammed president obama's nuclear negotiations with iran. here it is. and this is the hot stuff. >> iran's ambitions are clear and its capabilities are growing. for many years, they have been developing long-range missile capabilities and their own nuclear weapon program.

i mean, saddam hussein he qualified. slobodan milosevic qualified.ut the issue is -- and the north koreans qualify. that north korean regime is about as evil a regime as i've seen. but then you have to start looking at, you know, what are you trying to accomplish? and when you go into any negotiation with anybody, you have to keep in mind what is the purpose of this negotiation. what am i trying to accomplish? and if you think accomplishing something by calling the other guy "evil" is going to help, fine call the other guy evil. but it usually doesn't help. so i think what you have to do is put aside these views. i mean, certainly milosevic was as evil as they come, but you couldn't get any kind of stability on the ground anywhere without his, you know without talking to the guy. so i think this issue, these morality questions um, you know, they're there, but they should not be used as a reason not to talk to people. you're not talking to people because of their interests, you're talking to people because of your interests. and i'll make one other po

a nonviolent, born in iraq participated in a 1991 uprising against saddam hussein and supported america's 2003 war against iraq. she's now an american citizen and spent the day at the white house where she joins me by telephone. after the day at the white house is there something you know now morning? >> thank you for having me on your show. actually the summit was very interesting. a lot of people a lt of experiences, many people talked about the danger of all the violent extremism that's happening domestically and abroad. the new information that i got today, about the new programs that different foundations and organizations and also the government programs that they have been doing to counter extremism, violent extremism in the u.s. and abroad as well. >> we have obviously had a number of distractions and they may be important ones, american civil liberties union, have gone into this thing objecting thattists about targeting muslims in america and about putting them on the wrong side. we just heard from mike viqueria, our guy in washington to say the president was really front and cen

war, the invasion of iraq the removal of saddam hussein.nly repudiate the 2001 authorization but the 2002 authorization, but the 2001 authorization as well, but from what i'm hearing from white house officials, he doesn't want to do that. >> not repudiate it, but essentially, the expiration date for this targeted authority, fresh authority to go after isil should dove tail with an expiration date or revision of the 2001 aumf. otherwise, you're spending an awful lot of time trying to design the framework for the isil effort, sort of trying to arrange the front door while you're leaving the back door wide open. i mean any future executive could put american ground forces into combat virtually anywhere in the world where they find there are al qaeda, you know presence or affiliated al qaeda presence. again, the president himself said two years ago, he wanted to revise and ultimately repeal it. so that's what we're calling for. >> the president doesn't even believe he needs this formal new authority from congress to go ahead and wage this war a

. >> this general served in saddam hussein's army. when it was dissolved in 2003 many like him found themselves without a job and a place in iraq. many felt bitter about how they were treated by the fall in sudan. he said that this group does not represent him. but neither do the sunni. these men may represent many communities, but iraq's shia are not among them. there is still little reconciliation. they want authorities to speed up plans to create a national guard, made up of people from the area. >> the sons of the city know who are good and who are terrorists. we were all terrorists or at least suspects. >> commanders hearsay that the national guard is important where the mainly shia army may not be trusted. defeating isil in this strategic and i'llly highly symbolic city of mosul could be the start of another conflict in iraq. al jazeera. northern iraq. >> more on all the stories we've been covering at our website www.aljazeera.com. woman, a president who would help us look in the mirror and see ourselves honestly.

. >> saddam hussein's regime ordered humans to have their ears removed. last june, paula gowland fell off her bad so badly she had to have an amputation. amaduras is giving her the surgery to be able to have a clip on leg. fewer than 400 patients have received the implants which allow them to receive artificial limbs. >> now gowland is having surgery, and most of it is covered by healed by health insurance. price will fall once row bow robo-lims become morelimbsbecome more. >> always here, the tiger has been revered. there are monuments to this rare beast documented around the city. four miles out of town, biologist and tiger expert briefs his team. part of a team surveying. they have to be alert. every now and then humans are attacked and killed. they know tigers are nearby. the snow apparently is an open book you can read if you know how. a tiger's age and gender can be identified from their paw prints and the number of tiger cubs there are. >> this is the male we met earlier, over there. he passed through around three days ago. >> given dire state of t

. >> this general has served in saddam hussein's army. many like him found themselves without a place in iraq. commanders and fighters were birth about how they were treated after the fall of saddam. these men say the armed group doesn't represent them but neither does the shiez militia. the fight to push out i.s.i.l. from the city of mowlz may be a while away. it's not just a question of being ready militarily. the battle for iraq's second largest city will require a political decision. these men may represent many communities but iraq's shia are not among them. there is still little reconciliation. sunnis want the authorities to speed up plans to create the national guard. the plan involves establishing an armed force made up of people from the area. >> the sons of the city know who are good and who are terrorist. they won't treat everyone badly like the way the army used to treat us in mosul. we were all terrorists or at least suspects. >> reporter: commanders say the national guard is important in areas where the mainly shiez army may

there's year in mozu -- his year in mozul and saddam hussein's dictatorship got under jesse's skin. art making became one of the ways he discharged -- he missed -- he displays the discharge of his military experience. many pieces are kitschy images of saddam hussein, portraits of himself, and ironic messages to the tyrant. the ceramic pots included here incorporate other war memories. they depict images of archaeological antiquities found in the ancient biblical city of nineveh, just across the tigris river from mozul. albrecht's determination to create an art practice that investigates the traumas of war is part -- is in part a result of the war story he heard from relatives while growing up. three generations of his family served in four different wars. world war i, world war ii, vietnam, and iraq. his great uncle, ever do moss was gassed while serving during the first world war. and afterwards was nearly always drunk. such stories motivate albrecht and inform the messages conveyed in his artwork about war. the war that traumatized jesse's great uncle and cause him to turn to drin

that is why we went to the war in 1990 '91 against saddam hussein because he threatened saudi arabiaugh saudi arabia has built its armed forces isis professes to believe the exact same kind of islam taught in saudi arabia. now saudi arabia has resorted to this extraordinary torturing and horrible things that isis has done but it is a fundamentalist islam and it is difficult for saudi arabia, when they look at isis, it is like a knife coming at them. and some of our allies helped organize and provide the initial funding for isis because they wanted to make use of the religious zel outs to -- zel you thes to fight the shia and iran and it was easier to go after them ran than commit their own armed forces to commit to that. and it is not that they are reliant on the united states and the united states position is that we are powerful and not in the region. and so for that reason we have been called on to be useful. >> and don't forget al baghdadi was sitting in a u.s. prison camp during the iraq war. and i want to play you a sound bite from air holder because there is another question b

the americans got rid of your enemy, saddam hussein. isn't the enemy of your enemy your friend? of saddam and the evil baathists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. our salvation from saddam was only with the grace of god. >> simon: if getting rid of saddam was a favor of god, why was it that god waited until the americans came in to do the job? >> al sadr: all praises to allah, he works in mysterious ways. >> kroft: what did bob bring to the story? >> mihailovich: he'd always bring an enthusiasm and a curiosity, a natural curiosity. and you could get him to do just about anything. >> simon: today is intel... >> mihailovich: we went to an intel factory, and he gets in a clean suit in the clean room that they have there. >> simon: it's supposed to have curative powers. >> mihailovich: you could put him in an oil bath in baku azerbaijan. you could, uh, get him on a vertical treadmill to test out gravity, what it would be like if you were walking on the moon. he was at a 90 degree angle. >> we should sign you up for the astronaut corps. >> simon: i'd sign. >> kroft: were t

. >> reporter: this general served in saddam hussein's army. when it was dissolved in 2003 many soldiers like him found themselves without a job. grievances were exploited by i.s.i.l. but these men say the armed group doesn't represent them but neither does the shia militias, that are leading the way against iraqi government. the fight to push out i.s.i.l. from the city of mosul may be a while away. it is not just a question of being ready militarily, the battle for iraq's second largest city will require a political decision. these men may represent many communities but iraq's shia are not among them. sunnies want the authority to speed up plans to back the national guard. establishing an armed force in each province made up of people from every area. >> national guard to be created the sons of the city know who are good and who are terrorists. we won't treat everybody badly. we want all terrorists or at least suspects. >> command here shows the national guard is important where the mainly shia army may not be trusted. defeating i.s.i.l. in th

the military came out of the gulf war, and we were all geared up to finish the job against saddam hussein, one senior officer said to me, it was the war we wanted to fight. what he told the in september of 1998, he did not want to fight in kosovo or in europe, and i said, chief, where do you want to fight? and he said, iraq, and i said, do we want to fight anywhere, do we? so there was this assumption and sandy was talking about anxiety. first there was this thing about putting peacekeeping forces on the ground in somalia, and there was a joke about real men not doing military operations other than war, they just do real war, and here was the clinton administration and the president directing us to use military force in very unconventional ways. and then came the problem in kosovo, where what started as an air campaign, we could not be sure. as winter approach, we had to have another alternative to sibley sain, g, mr. president, we have run out of targets, and we could just want dirt or surrender -- as winter approach, we had to have another alternative to simply saying gee, mr. president

saddam hussein had taken over his oil rich neighbor six months earlier. the u.s.whelmeds the iraqis quickly and took 10,000 troops prisoner. four days later president george h.w. bush announced a cease-fire in kuwait was liberated. u.s. troops would invade iraq again 12 years later and thousands of american forces are back inside that country facing a very different en my after the offensive that began 24 years ago today. when news breaks out we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. the dow up almost 100 points and that, ladies and gentlemen, ring the bell, is a brand new record. the dow at an all-time high, everything terrible? it is not. this is quite good. have great day. see you later. >>> welcome, everybody, i'm kneel cavuto. we might not know what to call isis but it's clear what they like to call christian, prisoners or worse. because just days after the terrorist beheaded 21 egyptian christians reports today the terror group rounded up to 100 syrian christians. no one knows what has happened to them, but former defense s

we defeated saddam hussein's well-equipped army in three weeks while losing about 150 troops.yone think we cannot take out isis? apparently some think that, roy. mark new zealand bill regarding your decision for a mercenary army to defeat isis, i believe people all over the world would contribute to the cost. shouldn't be necessary an international rapidly deployed force would be overseen by the u.s. congress. i agree with alan colmes, isis is not a threat to the usa. pat, lakeland florida. thank goodness bill bennett is writing about the dangers of marijuana. it's so much stronger than it was in the '60s. i witness children suffer dra dramatically from it during my 40 years in law enforcement. florida, a lot of pot smokers lead productive lives. stop the reefer madness. georgia, bill, how did you get where you are being so ignorant and all? can only say america's a great country, folks. brookfield, wisconsin. bill, just want you to know that your staff at billoreilly.com is topnotch. my order was confirmed and dispatched very quickly. that's great to hear. the books and "the

when he said this shall not stand, i remember watching on tv, this was saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait. you know i knew he meant it. and the purpose, of course was the defend an ally from a ruthless thug. and he defined that in terms of our national interest. and it was a clear, clear position. and he didn't waver, you know? there was a lot of angst and pressure. curiously enough, when it came time for congressional authorization which neither of us needed to get but both of us decided to and, frankly his decision to do so was instructive to us at the white house, it was a close senate vote. 52-48 or manager like that. i mean -- or something like that. it wasn't an overwhelming sentiment to supporting this shall not stand. but they went. and achieved the objective. to show you with how things have changed in the post-9/11 world, like dad, we decided to go to the the congress. unlike the vote when he was proposing to get saddam out of kuwait, our vote was overwhelming to authorize the president to deal with saddam hussein. overwhelming. matter of fact, a lot of people now currently in t

it was like obviously like i'm still broken up about saddam hussein being gone. [ laughter ] >> seth:ing bangs -- sort of -- >> seth: oh i see. it's like your way of doing that. that's your way of doing that. >> exactly. bangs are liz's way of getting stuck in a trench. >> seth: spider hole. >> yes, exactly. yes. >> seth: your characters, two of my favorites are the rich dicks. >> yes. >> seth: do people -- because you play the worst two rich guys. >> thank you. >> seth: who love drugs. >> yes they do. >> seth: they don't care for other people. >> not in the least. >> seth: but you get approached -- do people approach you as fans of theirs, when people approach you as fans of theirs, do they sometimes reveal themselves to maybe also be rich dicks? >> yeah, it tends to be that way with most of the characters. so a rich dick will come up to me and be like, "hey man." do you want to -- they also then will approach me to do drugs with them. [ laughter ] >> seth: right, right. >> they'll be like, "hey man do you want to go do some 'shnee'?" which is what we call it on the show. but also th

well, saddam hussein is dead and gone.ava el-assad is dead and gone, and his son has his hands full with a collapsing syria. what is the balance p balancing act now? >> if you look at the king's father the challenges he had was state-based. you had the problem of a hostile regime in iraq and syria. now the difficulty is the break down of states, collapse of borders, and i.s.i.s.'s attempts to erase borders between countries. the transnational and non-state threats are of a different kind than jordan faced in the past and you see the consequences with the refugee populations that jordan had to absorb and the difficulty making peace with neighbours, because they are torn apart from within. >> do you agree, is it a tougher assignment being the king of the kingdom of century. >> yes. it's never been easy, it has always been a balancing act. it may be an existential crisis than the leadership faced. you have a non-governmental group, but one that is threatening the legitimacy and stability of the regime itself. they are not shy

. >> reporter: this general served in saddam hussein's army when it was dissolved in 2003 many iraqi sunnies like him found themselves without a job and without a place in the new iraq. commanders and fighters are bitter about the way they were treated after the fall of saddam. those grievances were exploited by isil, but these men say that the armed group does not represent them. but neither do the militias that lead the fight against isil on behalf of the iraqi government. the fight to push isil out of the area may be awhile away. it's not just a question of being ready militarily, it will require a political decision. these men may represent many communities. but iraq shia are not among them. there is still little reconciliation. sunnies want the authorities to speed up plans to create the national guard. the u.s.-backed plan involves establishing an armed force in each province made up of people in each area. >> they want national guards to be created. they won't treat everybody badly the way that the army did in mosul. we were all terrorists or at least suspects. >> reporter: th

saddam hussein used to throw dissidents into bagged avirile cats as a form of torture. the difference with isis they advertise it. publicity it the thing. i late to say it they are counting on the west to do their bidding for them. isis wants to be the western news editor. their kind of function in propaganda. we're talking about this awesome, i should say horrifying brutality. again, this is going to lead to lee krutment. they are going to swell the ranks of theirs organization because of what they've just done. >> none of what you said is good news but you know what you're talk ak. thank you very much. michael weis. >>> coming up meet the 2016 pander bears. chris christie, rand paul and even bobby jindal took turns pandering to the far right performing like dancing bears at the right wing circus. for christie a bed that just got worse with his administration facing a new criminal accusation. >>> and saying christians used eve during slavery and comments made at yesterday's national prayer breakfast triggered a holy war if will you from the hard right. lots of reaction

air effort against saddam hussein during desert storm we had 1,100 sorties a day. against saddam hue say in '93 we had 800. we are flying seven-strike sorties a day now. it isn't even pinpricks. and i think that the uae is seeing this halfhearted effort by the united states is not really doing what needs to be done. don't have leadership. >> this is one of the partners that was the most willing. it has been the united states most stal worth arab ally. it was one of the first to join. we can't even keep the partner who is are the most eager to help in this coalition battle. >> i rest my case counselor. that's exactly right. they are looking for leadership. and unfortunately the american leadership is not there today. and you're seeing the results because of that. we need to step it up and really conduct an air campaign and go against isis. and we can do that if we have the will and the leadership. >> i know you believe that only the arabs can defeat this ideology of radical islam. but it needs real leadership. and you as a retired general on the art of war. >> yes bu

>> yes, because the intelligence we had at the time suggested saddam hussein was trying to acquire the weapons. >> hunt: but it was wrong. but he was shooting at our airplanes, killing the kurds. >> hunt: knowing what we know now, would it have been better had we not gone in. >> is the world better off without saddam hussein muammar gadhafi and osama bin laden? i think so. are we better off leaving autocratic dictators in place who rape women and kill indiscriminately because it creates stability, the day we get to that point that we long for the days of gadhafi and is a damandsaddam is a bad day. >> hunt: will libya be better off? >> the libyans rose up against gadhafi, syrians rose up against assad and the arab spring is real. the vacuum is filled by terrorist organizations. first election in libya after the fall of gadhafi, islamists got 10% of the vote. here's what i think makes is better off, never to expect somebody to live in a dictatorship for your convenience. i'm not going to tell the young people of the arab world could you just suffer along because it's better for me? two t

in dealing with a society as complicated as iraq that once you take the lid off and saddam hussein with all his infinite brutality and oppressiveness kept the lid on society which had a lot of sectarian passions -- >> charlie: as we have seen. yeah. so it's an argument when you think about trying to contribute to those kind of changes in other societies of thinking about so what's the alternative? what comes after, which is a much harder question to address sometimes. >> charlie: and clearly we saw it there. we saw it in the arab spring. >> we did. that doesn't sometimes make the choices any easier because sometimes you have to act to avoid some humanitarian disaster, at least that's what drives the policy. but it's easy to underestimate the unintended consequences of some of those kinds of actions. >> charlie: to underestimate it. >> yes. >> charlie: so the president, what is it you understand the president's policy to be because of the lessons of iraq and afghanistan? >> just more general? >> charlie: yes. i think it's an argument -- it's not an argument against military dimension of,

chemical weapons, we did not surrender to saddam hussein.rga do need support from the international community. peshmerga need helmet night google vision as well as weapons to fight isil. >> let's say they ask to retake mosul, who then retakes the city who's in charge of governments, given there are many kurds in the city? >> one third of the city is kurdish, but we want to see a power-sharing arrangement. but the realities on the ground have changed since last year. therefore the best solution we would see is not a centralized system it is a consideration of three sovereign states within the boundaries of iraq. that ensures the shias and share the power in iraq. >> how are your relations right now with the government in baghdad? because there are still allegations coming from them that you're not paying your dues in terms of oil revenue. i mean there has always been tension. >> well, indeed we have joined the government in order to see a different government and the former prime minister. but unfortunately, the current government has been sa

i voted to threaten the use of force to make saddam hussein comply with the resolutions of the united nations. i believe that was right. but it was wrong to rush to war without building a true international coalition and with no plan to win the peace. so long as iraq remains an american intervention and not an international undertaking, we will face increasing danger and mounting casualties. being flown to an aircraft carrier and saying "mission accomplished" doesn't end a war. and the swagger of a president saying "bring 'em on" will never bring peace or safety to our troops. pride is no substitute for protecting our young men and women in uniform. half the names on the vietnam memorial are there because of pride, because of a president who refused to admit we were on the wrong road. pride is no excuse for making enemies overseas. it is time to return to the united nations, not with the arrogance of rumsfeld and wolfowitz, but with genuine respect. for the bush administration to reject the participation of allies and the u.n. is a miscalculation of colossal proportions. we need to en

for some reason the bushes felt compelled to get rid of saddam hussein and it was getting rid of saddamhussein a very bad man man, getting rid of him but just unleashed this evil and a much greater territory that threaten so many more people than the evilness of saddam hussein within iraq. so i think that, let me compliment the president. that is i do think there is an adequate use of special forces now and we are utilizing the air support and we could be doing that much more effectively. the president at least has we have drone strikes and i think that's great to find out some leader that is organizing these terrorist efforts and murdering hundreds if not thousands of people. let's target their leader and go in with the drone and get him. i think the president has that kind of strategy which i agree with but i don't agree with this president as he has not been able to wholeheartedly organize a coalition that would actually defeat radical islamic terrorism because he has got a problem with identifying who the good guys and the bad guys are. >> host: pennsylvania's next on the line for r

when under saddam hussein, surgeons were ordered to remove soldier's ears as punishment for desertion. he fled to australia. he is a world leading ovtyo integration surgeon. last june paula fell off her leg, breaking it so bad i that it had to be removed. the surgeons keen to learn how to treat soldiers are giving her the implant to clip on a new leg. >> this surgery is new. there are fewer than 10 surgeons in the world that carried it out. and fewer than 400 patients receiving the implants allowing it to attach to the limbs. >> six weeks after surgery. she has got used to her leg. >> i haven't used a wheelchair since coming out of hospital. after my shower i put my leg on. it's part of getting dressed. >> most of the surgery was covered by the health insurance. depending on the complexity they can cost between $100,000-$500,000, but prices will fall as they become more common >>> a conservation effort to save a predator is paying off. there are more siberian tigers in the russian far east >>> in the russian far east is a port city of v laddize vos tabbing. it was a naval base closed

they are a group of saddam hussein loyalists. salad am hussein was born in that town. they don't necessarily share the same goals as isil in establishing the is lallic caliphate but they want regime change here. >> reporter: when isil and the sumni rebels were in this town it became the focal point of the fighting. it took three months to break the siege and of an evidence of how tough a fight it was is everywhere. >> the siege lasted around 90 days. isil made two offensives. the last one was the fiercest. they tried to attack a holy shrine in the town tough battle. isil are well equipped but we fought back with the help of god, we fought into our last bullet. we succeeded, thanks to god. >> these militia fighters regular afighting exercises. they are confident they will prevail. they say they don't need any international help. >> despite that, isil controls huge swaths much territory and are proving difficult to push back. >> i want to bring you some breaking news we just received on the wire because it's reported that the islamic state of iraq in the levan has releas

bush as saying it was was -- it was good that he disarmed saddam hussein. >> you know, i think john kerry is carrying out a strategy that was designed in the white house and for him to be dragging the iraq war into what is clearly a debate over the iranian nuclear deal i think smacked of desperation. i think it was the secretary of state trying to pull another argument out of thing air. you're right, it doesn't float. i think they realize they are on weak ground. john kerry said you can't talk about the details of this deal because no one yet knows what they are. it hasn't been completed. >> what an extraordinary admission at this point. >> well, but that's so they can avoid criticism. but the framework is coming in from leaks from the administration, in particular one that came out this week is the idea of a sun set provision that anything that iran agrees to would phase out and go away perhaps within 10 or 15 -- >> after that 10 or 15 year period, iran would become a full fledged member of the -- >> nuclear nonproliferation deal. >> right. they can build as many centrifuges without rest

they are a group of saddam hussein loyalists. he was born in that town.y don't necessarily share the same goals as isil in the establishing the islamic caliphate but they want regime change here in iraq and sunni rule. >> when they besieged this area in mid-june it was this town that became the focal point of a fighting. it took three months to break the siege, an evidence of how tough a fight it was is everywhere. >> the seeming lasted around 90 days. isil made two offensives. the last one was the fiercest. they tried to attack a holy shrine in the town. it was tough battle. isil are well skipped but we fought back. with the help of god, we fought until our last budget and we succeeded, thanks to god. >> these militia fighters now regular firing exercises into isil territory. they are confident that they will prevail and they say they don't need any international help. despite that isil still control huge swaths of territory and are proving difficult to push back. imran khan. >>> japan has reportedly offered $15 million in aid to fight armed groups in th

decision to get rid of saddam hussein. we'll leave that aside for now. the question is this. i'm hearing from some iranians that iraqi shia don't really want to fight to take back the sunni areas, what they want to do is control baghdad south. similarly in syria where we have a partition of the country in effect. how would all of you react to the notion that what we're watching is simply the partition of these two countries and that the u.s. would like to keep them unified, particularly in the case of iraq, but the people who live there actually don't really care and iran doesn't really care as long as it has its corridor to lebanon, it's got its spheres of influence, particularly in iraq in the areas where most of the oil is? thanks. >> mike, p.j. you do you want to take that? >> well first the answer is partition sounds great until you address the map. and then you have to put the layers on it of identity, geography. it ssht that easy in iraq. can you see they are spreading out seems of shia and turkey communities that stretch into kirkuk and they are still well behind isis

the americans got rid of your enemy, saddam hussein. isn't the enemy of your enemy your friend? just housewives, they shouted, housewives with pistols in their dresses, revolvers in their bras. >> reporter: i used to watch a story, rewind the tape, and watch it again. >> i want to hear what you have to say. >> reporter: a dozen times. >> once a week, the lost boys saw their destiny on a bulletin board the staples of life. >> reporter: this one, about the lost boys of sudan i have practically memorized. >> he looked at the board, as if it were a holy scroll. >> reporter: any reporter could have shown you the picture, but only bob could take you there with his words. >> streams of boys became rivers, hundreds became thousands, until an exodus of biblical proportions was under way. >> reporter: i studied his stories, hoping that i just listened closely enough for long enough, i could be like him. >> we americans like to think we taught the filipinos democracy. well, tonight, they're teaching the world. >> reporter: i never told bob that. he was actually a hard man to compliment. ev

them or helped create them from iraqi refugees who went over to iran in the early 1980s to fight saddam hussein. they were ev

iran's eight-year-long war with saddam hussein's iraq is deeply, deeply felt.id? >> very afraid. my father was in france for two years out of eight. and it was not only my brother. many young people like him. eight years of war with a country that is supported by many big powers. >> and it is worth mentioning whatever you think, wherever we are now, that saddam supported by the u.s. government and with our full knowledge used sarin and mustard gas on hundreds of thousand of iranians. less known in america, known and felt by everyone in iran. >> and it was a mistake of the united states at that time. they made a bad memory for iranians. >> but still people are, indeed, really, really nice here. >> because people here don't hate americans. you had a coup. and then a revolution everything. and then we captured your embassy. we didn't kill each other. we didn't have a real fight. so it can be political misunderstanding which is resolved, which will be resolved maybe i hope. >> in shalam. >> in shalam. and now, save without settling. get 2 lines with 10gb of data fo

i went with a group of journalists and hope to cover the fall of saddam hussein and make my way down to baghdad. and in early april i entered iraq in late february, and in early april saddam fell. so i cover the initial moments. right around. the troops we will be pulled out american troops we will be pulled out of their humvees. the board kiss them, throw flowers, throw american flags. it throw american flags. it was an incredibly happy time. very quickly that moment ended and the insurgency started and i started doing in beds with the troops to try and see what was happening on that side because as a journalist a journalist i had a responsibility to cover all five. and so i went on many night raids with the american troops often they didn't share with the most ahead of time and we would go in the families would put the household whether a woman president often i was with the troops any of the troops. it wasn't their fault, but they weren't given that sort of training before we went in. in. covering the army, one of the groups in the insurgency and as a journalist they allowed us to

. >> this general served in saddam hussein's army. when it was dissolved in 2003 many like him found themselves without a job or a place in iraq. many felt bitter about the way they were treated after the fall of saddam. those people were exploited by isil. they say that this group does not represent them. the fight to push out isil from the city of mosul may an while away. it's not just a question of being ready militarily. the battle for iraq's second largest city. >> these men may represent many communities, but iraq's shia are not among them. sunnies want authority to speed up plans to create a national guard made up of people from the area. >> commanders in the national guard will be created. it won't treat every badly the way the army did in mosul. there we were all suspects. >> defeating isil in the strategic and highly symbolic city of mosul may be the beginning of the end of the armed group but it could be the start of another conflict in iraq. >> now the white house says it cannot confirm if a female american hostage has been

for some reason they got compelled to get rid of saddam hussein.was getting rid of saddam hussein that unleashed this evil in a much greater territory that threatens so many more people than just the evilness of saddam hussein within a iraq. let me couple met the president -- let me complement the president. there is an adequate use of special forces now. we are utilizing the air support. we could be using that much more effectively. we have drone strikes. i think that is great. you find out some later that is actually organizing these terrorist efforts that are murdering hundreds if not thousands of people, let us target that leader and go in with a drone and get him. i think the president has had that kind of strategy which i agree with. i don't agree with this president that he has not been able to wholeheartedly organize a coalition that would actually defeat radical islamic terrorism. he has a problem with identifying who the good guys and bad guys are there. host: pennsylvania is next. lawrence is waiting. good morning. caller: congressman, i