we needed saddam hussein. first brigade was a large unit with thousands of soldiers, and the mission of the brigade was establishing stability. the challenge to that was dealing with the physical reality of an armed insurgency. >> the u.s. military estimates there are between 4,000 and 5,000 mid-level ba'athist opposition fighters. >> [ bleep ]! >> one miff patroof my patrols ambushed on the east side of the tigris river. three american soldiers were killed. >> at the same time it was part of our duty to assist the special operations command. an elite assault element. their focus was really hvts, high value targets. >> coalition governments have identified a list of key regime leaders, 55 individuals who may be pursued, killed or captured. >> the special operations forces could go into the most dangerous target and do it at zero to minimal casualty because of their skills. these are extraordinarily gifted and trained men. you did not want to be the objective of their attention. >> in 2003, the organization i w

and then he said to me, if i tell you where saddam hussein is, they'll kill me. d to him, but you're they. you're the top one. you're the only person that doesn't have ramifications for giving up saddam. give him up and you won't be the leader of the insurgency. you'll be the one who stood up to the plate, to the dictator. that will be you, and your family walks. and i know he was listening to me. i know he was. i had to leave at 7:00. and they were banging on my door going -- i mean, 7:00 came, and they came in and said you're out, man. you've got to be at your manifest. and i told him, i said, i'm leaving here. you're going to die in here a prisoner, a terrorist, and you won't have another shot because nobody knows what you can do. nobody knows what you can do. this is it. and he's like, i can't do it. and i said you're going to change your mind, and you're going to want to do it. and when you're going to want to do it, you have to make them come talk to you. i said go crazy. bang on the walls of the cell, go nuts, and make them come talk to you. and i left. so

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operation red dawn captured one of the most wanted men in the world, in 2,003, capturing saddam hussein >> capturing this man was crucial c to the rise of a free iraq. >> o rarmy specialist adam rog of north ridgeville was just 22 when he found himself in an elite group called the super 12. >> from our company,y, to be security for saddam hussein. >> orrogerson and his group guarded saddam hussein for over six months and then walking int his execution. >> > wawe could hear all the so of his execution. and then we witness them holding his body above their heads, cherry and shooting off ak-47s. crazy experience. >> azrogerson was scaled, motivated, he lived through the combat chaos, watched over a defiant dictator serve in the u with pride for years. >> today, rogerson lives in northeast ohioo with his wife, and two children living with posttraumatic stress disorder i have ptsd and lots of people are afraid of ito. >> he cannot find a job but he has foundnd tremendous help at louis stokes cleveland va medical center. >> en alejust to be around guys have been through things and no judge. >

was supporting iraq and saddam hussein. then they turn against him, he did not have weapons of mass distraction, why weren't we waited for the un weapons inspectors who said wait, hans and other sane way, let us do our work but president bush was intent on attacking iraq from almost a minute, give it a a day or two after september 11, you hear his national security czar another saying he was talking about iraq when we understood falwell it wasn't coming from there. another issue that is kind of a sacred cow with the media that must be challenged is the questioning of saudi arabia and the role that it has played over the years. if you ask most people who was in those planes that went into the world trade center? you would think given the response of the united states that it was iraq he's. 15 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. what did president bush to get the time? he's on the truman balcony smoking a cigar with smoking a cigar with the saudi ambassador to the united states within a few days. what are they doing w

so long as saddam hussein remained in power kept a lid on the secular state at the time. he needed if you want to say it, his military, to keep the lid on. that is absolutely correct. i have been thinking is there another foreign policy decision that might outrank bush's decision to go to war in iraq and the only one i could come up with was harry truman's decision to drop the atomic weapon on hiroshima and nagasaki. that is the only thing i can think of. >> lbj's decision in vietnam? >> the point you made earlier in vietnam, there is no carryover, no isis, no war of terrorism and so forth came out of the vietnam war is there in here, that is the distinction between the two. >> another question about colin powell. i wanted to ask your thoughts about colin powell, he is like a tragic hero. he might have a lot of remorse but his story -- there is light on his story. >> there is a good biography about colin powell written by the reported to the washington post and powell is a tragic figure. bush wanted him, his first cabinet appointee but he was quickly shut out by the white

but by saying words which inadvertently encouraged people to rise up against saddam hussein. the second reason is more important, and that is that all available evidence from all intelligence agencies throughout the entire world suggested that we are going to ask how long saddam hussein is going to last in the spring of 1991 after his thorough rafting of his -- routing of his forces should not be measured in terms of days but rather ours. the full expectation is that saddam hussein's people within his government are going to take him out, because that is what happens when you're a dictator who loses your army and their sisters of -- and embarrasses yourself. there is a real sense that the bush administration was wrong in overstating rhetorically and notgnizing that they were hippocratic in their words, but they also thought it would not there much at all because was about to be a coup in iraq in the first place. on the second question on whether or not the united states ,nd mistake in electing clinton to points. ints. po it is remarkably difficult for one party sustain the wh

december 2003 the catcher of saddam hussein. >> the capture of this man was crucial to the -- he said he found himself in an elite group called super 12. >> a group of guys that were hand selected for my company to be personal security for saddam hussein. >> rogerson and his group guarded saddam hussein 24/seven for six months, ultimately walking him to his death. >> we heard the hanging. you could hear all the sound and then we witnessed them carrying his body up above their heads and cheering and shooting off ak-47's. it was a crazy experience. rogerson was highly skilled and motivated. he lived through the chaos of combat, watched over a defiant dictator, and served the united states of america with great pride for years. northeast ohio with his wife and two small children. he has posttraumatic stress disorder and the struggle israel. >> sometimes i have to take it hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day. i have ptsd i think a lot of people look at that and are afraid of it. >> rogerson can't find a job that has found tremendous help in the louisville stokes medical center. >> j

ignorance, i nepotism corruption religious tensions kept at bay by strongman activities like saddam hussein and in the old houses you have the locks but if you don't open the doors they will make it worse. that is a situation that is very fragile you could put your finger through the wall instead united states put its shoulder through though wall of iraq is started a sequence of events so eight years of direct military action began to unleash all of the demons that are pent-up then with the eight years of the above administration supporting the revolution in egypt ended days later not in bahrain to support the uprising militarily but then not in syria. then zigzagged through the middle east. so the combined effect of military action very soon to be zigzag unleashed and that the lease their right to is broken. it is a period of chaos. it is a physical embodiment id if you continue this model you can speculate where it goes from here than what we will see next is a series of strong mid reemerging in egypt is probably the first example in there will be more to come. the people of the region wi

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and, two, that there would be the ability to turn the keys over to a follow-on government after saddam husseinn out of office. >> we got him. >> saddam being captured, all of a sudden you had all this like sense of relief. okay. maybe you have these top ten guys, the army is going to capitulate. they'll give you their banners and we can all go home. forget it. >> that strategy was a failed strategy and we didn't know it. >> after saddam was captured, i think the plan had been to leave. to give the keys to a replacement government, but there was no replacement government. the looting that occurred right after the fall of baghdad showed that there was almost no ability to govern. so had we left, i think we would have appeared extraordinarily irresponsible, as though we had knocked something over and set it on fire and then driven it out. those iraqis who actually thought life would get demonstrably better were very disappointed because it actually got worse. in 120-degree heat, no electricity, no garbage pick-up, no sewage, little law and order. so they became restless. >> we created a huge vacu

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region to someplace where you have leadership and responsible governance but it doesn't have to be saddam hussein. so that's the framework of the book. that i tell it through the people i know him through the places i've lived and the characters i need along the wayt in the 256 pages of anecdotes i hope that it is you get to follow along the journey that spent a 20 year journey so far in arriving in the middle east not really a knowing what i landed into to become a journalist and then moving along in the process and just watching all hell breaks loose. with that preamble i would like to take some of your questions if there's anything specifically that you have in mind. i want to take this opportunity to say thank you for coming and reading books i wrote in myrotev other journalists and authors.s. [applause] for those born in the early '90s we look at an entire generation that are now in their 20s today. today. what hope do you see for the people that are in part of this turmoil? .. the new generation lived for the last 15 years in a period of terrible strife been living the era of a persian the

saddam hussein had been in power for almost as long as muammar gadhafi and for the first time in good ways and bad, the american invasion of iraq brought in what was possible throughout the region. could these totalitarian regimes collapse and what would take their place. >> rose: we still don't know the answer to that question, do we? >> i think we're starting to in a lot of places and it's not a good answer. >> rose: what is the answer, then? take libya, gadhafi. you have a bunch of tribes, a government they're trying to support but we're not shiewmplet what is going to be demanded to create and maintain stability? we're now engaged in a battle against i.s.i.s. in libya. >> right. i think libya is a great example of what happened. libya is one of the so-called artificial states created along with iraq and syria. >> rose: when we say who created them, clearly it was the brits and the french. >> and in libya's case the italians. >> rose: right. so they joined together these lands that under the ottomans were largely autonomous and had little to do with each other. they joined together

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. >> bets on the prediction market in trade even predicted when saddam hussein saddam hussein would betured. the odds on that date tripled in price. >> when saddam hussein was found hiding at the bottom of the hole. >> in-trade accurately predicted "american idol" winners, and oscar winners. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> part of what makes prediction markets work is the wisdom in crowds. some people betting here may be fools making bad bets but the crowd of people probably won't. you see that on the tv show "who wants to be a millionaire." >> can i ask the audience? >> you want to ask the audience? >> contestants can ask the audience, or an expert. >> the experts do pretty well. they get the answer right 65% of the time. but the audience gets it right 91% of the time. >> yes! $50,000! >> political prediction markets have a long history. 100 years ago, they were popular. >> they weren't really legal for the most part but they reported. newspapers reported on them because it's what they had to report on them. these were bookies, i guess. >> yes. >> in fact there was more money trad

it's not simply to get to baghdad and pull down saddam hussein. the object of the exercise must be to conclusively achieve our political purposes and by that standarstandard of the americanl officer corps has not performed all that well because we either have not achieved our political purposes were when we thought we achieved then it turned out that our accomplishments were reversible premis, so the pointt to pick on the general but how is it the greatest military in the world exercise at the highest levels and leave something to be desired. we need to take another approach to develop the senior commanders to selecting them? it impedes that effort to subject to the military leaders to the critical scrutiny that is needed and i have to tell you but doesn't seem there is any particular willingness to undertake any sort of critical welected the cardinal archbishos of the american church to undertake a critical scrutiny when the church that i love goes badly. it takes outsiders i think sympathetic and empathetic outsiders to provide that kind of crit

forces to destroy the regime of saddam hussein.he arguments have raged ever since into the rights and wrongs of the war in iraq and the subsequent events. had longt an inquiry been anticipated. it was 12 limes and 2.5 million words. although its findings were strong, it did not have the huge impact originally envisioned. he concluded that there had been a rush to war without peaceful options looked at and there had been too little planning for the postinvasion timeframe. mps responded to the inquiry report. >> the decision to invade iraq in 2003 on the basis of flawed intelligence about the weapons of mass destruction has had a far-reaching impact on us all. it has led to a fundamental break down in trust in politics and in our institutions of government. the tragedy is that while the governing class got itself it so horrifically wrong, many of our people got it right. >> the lack of planning has been evident since in relation to afghanistan, libya, syria, and most recently with absolutely no plan whatsoever in regards to brexit. >

. >> you have the same interior decorator as saddam hussein. >> and john all exiting the show. no reason given for the shake-up, but he tweeted a big thank you to all of his fans. >>> also trending today this olympic moment gone viral. swimmer michael phelps giving his opponent the "star wars" death stare. >> talk about game face. he was looking to get into his head before the qualifying race and phelps was having no part of it. >> more must-see olympics goes down today as team usa goes for gold in women's gymnastics. >> this is how the most elite gymnasts on the planet-cell brat when they win the olympics. >> team usa's pint-sized power houses are the team in rio. >> simone biles called the michael jordan of gymnastics and mary lou retton calling her the best she's ever seen. landing on the cover of "time" magazine. she's got bieber fiber. her >> and she's helped me mind my strength and power in and out of the gym so i definitely wouldn't be here without her. >> laurie hernandez is the youngest member of the team. some predicting this jersey girl will be a scene stealer making

saddam hussein is under a u.n. resolution not to threaten his neighbors or repress his own citizens. unfortunately, a lot of people have never been as concerned about the kurds as the united states has tried to be. we've been flying an operation to protect them out of tof turk for many years now. what happened is one of the kurdish leaders invited him to go up north, but we felt, since the whole world community had told him not to do it, that once he did it, we had to do something. we did not feel that i could commit -- i certainly didn't feel i should commit american troops to throw him out of where he had gone, and that was the only way to do that. so the appropriate thing strategically to do was to reduce his and the to threaten his neighbors. we did that by expanding what's called a no-fly zone by increasing our allies' control of the airspace from the border to the suburbs of baghdad. was it the right thing to do? i believe it was. is it fully effective? did it make him withdraw from the north? well, he has a

saddam hussein creates terrorists. they create extremists.ciaaid is a operative, you would be doing things very differently when it comes to isis, give us one or two were three things that you suggest -- you come from very different place in fighting isis. enormousrmous -- two things are different with president obama in my view on what should be done. we the take the fight to isis on the battlefield in a much more serious way, that includes more serious airstrikes and working with indigenous forces on the ground, developing them, taking a proactive role in that regard. includes better aligning, coming up with strategy, first of all. we need a conference of strategy to defeat isis. -- a comprehensive strategy to defeat isis. there have been issues between the obama administration and our allies because they don't agree on how we should go about destroying isis. that is meant that some of the allies aren't as engaged in the the second thing is we need to do a better job of fighting the elegy of radical islam is spirit -- islamist. we are doing

way saddam hussein is? scott: so there was the first invasion in 2003, what takes their place? you have rubberstamped parliaments in places. what filled the void was a reversion to tribal allegiance, clan allegiance, sectarian allegiance. and when the americans went into iraq, they had no clue what they were walking into. that there would be this withering out along these lines. charlie: did they even raise the question? scott: that is a good question. people that knew something about iraq at the time, i think they raised the issue, and they were brush to the side. they were considered unpatriotic for suggesting this to be anything other than a cakewalk. we would be greeted as liberators. let's just go through all of them. tunisia, there was the spark that created the arab spring. scott: that is right, it was a young fruit seller was being harassed by the local government. he set himself on fire in the process and died rum it. that set off -- right at the beginning of 2011, all these protests that led to th

ousting saddam hussein from kuwait. the economy was stagnant. pat buchanan was going after president bush for having a silver spoon in his mouth and being elitist and out of touch. it was a populist revolt within the republican party. he had another insurgent jerry brown coming in to try to and you have the new democrat bill clinton and george bush and suddenly ross perot is on larry king on cnn and he says i am going to run as an independent if i can be on the ballot in all 50 states. if drafted. i'm not going to out to run the typical campaign. if the people want my ideas about balancing the budget and stopping the outsourcing of jobs. he said special forces should have gone in and killed saddam hussein. he started soaring in the polls and became the darling of the spring of 1992. host: let's show that larry king live. the february 20th 1992 interview where ross perot announces his willingness to run. announces his willingness to run. >> let's go down to grassroots america were the people are hurting. people are saying, why are we in this mess

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donald trump website saddam hussein was good it killing terrorists so that was something to become, butssein creates other terrorist, extremists. >> you said is a former cia operative that you would be doing things are different when it comes to isis. give us one or two or three things you suggest. >> two enormous things are different with president obama and my view on what should be done. the first thing, we need to take the fight to isis on the battlefield in a much more serious way that includes airstrikes, working with indigenous forces on the ground, developing them to take a proactive role in that regard. it includes better aligning, coming up with strategy, first of all, we need a comprehensive strategy to beat isis and that should be done in concert with our allies. there have been issues between the obama administration and our allies because they do not agree on to how we should go about the story isis. -- destroying isis. they are not as engaged in the effort as we need them to be, frankly. the second thing to finish that, the second thing, we need to do a better job of figh

from the beginning bush was determined to remove saddam hussein. the intervention in afghanistan was simply a warm-up. he instructed the department of defense to prepare to invade iraq and ignored the findings of un weapons inspectors that he had no weapons of mass destruction. the planning for the invasion began early 2002 and the military assume the purpose was to remove saddam hussein, destroy whatever weapons of mass instruction might be found and leave iraq as soon as possible. they believe 90 days should be sufficient. that's what the military plan for. the invasion took place, saddam was captured and search for military weapons began and the military began to withdrawal, leaving it to the iraqis to work things out. as both the state department and the defense department sought, they had been liberated and i was up to the iraqis to move ahead on their own. the party remained in control, the army, the iraqi army remained in place in the senior leadership council established by general jay garner was developing plans and a rack was still a secu

compared to the person that takes over for saddam hussein, he will be considered a nice person. be the meanest and worst guy and he will have one thing, he will hate america and he will use it to flame. so, i mean, this is a total disaster. and you might as well get out now, you just are wasting time. >> that's what he wanted to do during the bush administration. get out. remember another clip yesterday, declare victory and get out, it's a disaster and civil war, we have no reason to be there. we are losing lives and treasure. >> we cannot stress enough that he was a private citizen and that was in 2007. in 2009 president obama was the president of the united states and had all the best intel available to him and should have known, what a private citizen said in '07 is different than what the president of the united states does in '09 and '10, and we know in the defense community not having a statement of force agreement caused the vacuum which allowed isis or al qaeda or whoever to regroup, reorganization. >> do you remember that so-called status of force agreement. the iraqi p

but i think the world is better off without saddam hussein. think we had stabilized iraq by the end of the bush administration. and i think what he's really doing in his answer is what he always does which is just to attack critics without any substance. there was no discussion of the role of u.s. alliances, no discussion of our nuclear arsenal and its modernization. no discussion of any of the serious national security issues russia, china that face the country. it's just an assault on character of his critics. >> so when he says the war was a blunder and was a mistake, he had done the interview before the war in which he seemed to support the war, but subseque subsequently says it was a disaster and tells his supporters don't listen to these 50 advisers, look at the mess they created. >> look, we could relitigate the war in iraq. i don't think there is any point in it. what is really at issue is the questions that face the country now, a resurgent russia, a challenge to the security of asia from china. the emergence potentially of a nuclear

>> the story in libya is not dissimilar to the story in iraq with saddam hussein or with syria, whiche have just been talking about. the problem is these are all divided societies -- politically divided, to some extent, the neck in question of tribe should play a role, but they are politically divided societies. to resume that there is one bad guy who everybody hates is the most simplistic misundersrstaing of the mdldle east.. the united statess through nato conducted a regime change operation inside libya just as they did in iraq. in both instances when the strong man was captured, when saddam hussein was could that -- capture, when gaddafi was captured, with a set to the captors is revealing. they said we are willing to negotiate. united states was not interested in negotiating. you remember when gaddafi was essentially lynched on the streets, or clinton heard the news and laughed and said, we came, we saw, we killed -- we conquered. this kind of attitude toward countries like syria, libya, iraq matt mead to underestimate whatever support these people had. you underestimate the divi

we change to saddam hussein but you get many saddam hussein after that.also international and american family. we are in the situation. i always say why when president obama said there is redline, why didn't he say sinjar is redline. because only this period is the most peaceful era in iraq. because these people, they have no arms. they are armless. so it was impossible to see the redline to protect kurdistan. more than that, sinjar. just left in the hands of daesh. we get to complicate the work more than what was possible to do. where we would like to arrive and what we would like you to do, like countries have had to do with our history because you are now partnership, we like or not, partnership in our country. first of all training and training and training. not only for police, for judicial come but also for politicians. we have a lake the leadership. i'm very sorry to say this, were our iraqi parliament members? nowhere. [applause] no one comes. do you know how many here in three days in iraqi parliament? know what of minorities represented, and see

we are actually hearing trump and his actual views and his views were praising saddam hussein, a massr, praising putin being apparently unaware that he's actually invaded another country and seized ground, threatening nato, loose talk about nuclear proliferation and then finally, the final straw was his insulting behavior to this grieving mother of one of our young troops killed in action. one of 60,000 killed and wounded fighting in iraq and afghanistan. this guy it seems to me has the wrong character to be president of the united states. >> does he strike you as sort of a character out of seven days in may? how do you see him politically, as somebody that will grab power like the man on horseback in historic terms, the mythical notion of a guy who comes in and does what he wants to do? >> i think that will be part of the danger. we have to have an acceptance of the constitution, of the notion of three co-equal branches of government. i don't think mr. trump will think any of that applies to him. you know, so i think the problem will be that most of life is off message and we are hea