. >> saddam hussein sends a substantial fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaiti border shocking in washington and other than western capitals. saddam had a million-man army and if it invades kuwait, he could very quickly lurch into saudi arabia and the saudis would not have been able to resist. all the oil is on the eastern side of the country right there on the border with iraq. [ speaking foreign language ] >> iraq invaded and took over its tiny neighbor kuwait today. the government of dictator saddam hussein claimed it went in at the invitation of revolutionaries who's had overthrown the kuwaiti government. no western authority accepted that story. >> many americans are concerned that there may be a war. >> what is required of mr. bush to say to the americans that he doesn't want war. >> if you had been in the room with saddam hussein and interviewed him for an hour and 15 minutes and spent another hour and a half with him after the interview, i think you would have reached the same conclusion. no question saddam hussein was a stone cold killer. this is the opening o

children of monsters which looks at the lives of 20 dictators including stalin, mussolini, and saddam hussein. >> it jay, what were you doing in albania in 2002? >> i was on the state department speaking tour, there's a boast, it happened happened since. but it was interesting. in 2000 to about ten years after the collapse of communism in albania the country was in bad shape and still is,. >> this book i'm holding onto with hundreds of names on it, children of monsters came out of that. >> albania has suffered under terrible dictatorship, one of the worst that man has ever known. the thing closest to a was the dictatorship of -- and north korea. albania was like the personal dungeon no one left the country, known came in, it was almost the perfect tierney, so i was being shown around, the capital by young men. it occurred to me task did he have children? i cannot imagine being a son or daughter of him, to stand albania #to go out? would you think, would you like? , magazine writer some eyes looking for my next meal which is the next magazine topic. and i thought it should be his children and

the saddam hussein foreign minister was a christian. so the idea of this overtaking of sectarianism is something that is always been present but has been amplified i think by the influence of outsiders like iran and has been influenced by outsiders like those that from al qaeda and other terrorist organizations. and other radicals because iraq was not a radical country in that respect. saddam hussein started acting that way and so the religion after the 19 one gulf war because he wanted to be more relevant within the world of islam. he wants to be able to attract more of those folks so that he could then use them to increase his sphere of influence. other questions? >> hi tom. understanding the media reality they're the most, how reliable would you say that the us is as a partner today. how much of a hit and credibility did we take but again, prematurely working away from a mission? i'm thinking about syria today. how bad is that. how much did the insurgency and everything if you weigh this up because of the skittishness of the public a

saddam hussein's foreign minister was a christian. so the idea of this overtaking of the sectarianism is always present but has been amplified i think by the influence of outsiders like iran in focus from al qaeda and other activist organizations in the radicals because iraq was not a radical country in that respect. saddam hussein started acting that way and found religion after the 1991 gulf war because he wanted to be more relevant in the world of islam he wanted to be able to attract more of those folks so that he could use them to increase his sphere of influence. another question. >> understanding the media realities of how reliable would you say the u.s. is as a part are today and how much of a hit in credibility do we get by prematurely walking away from a mission, how much did it know they could wait this out because of the skittishness of the public and the reliability of the news media to paint the picture? >> that is a good question and it goes to this gentleman's question about the very long view which some people may say

saddam hussein's foreign minister was a christian. so, the idea of this overtaking of the secretary and is and that is always present, but has been amplified, i think by the influence of outsiders like iran and influenced by outsiders like those from al qaeda and other terrorist organizations and other radicals because iraq was not a radical country in that respect. saddam hussein started acting that way and sort of found religion after the 1991 gulf war because he wanted to be more relevant within the world of islam. he wanted to be able to attract more of those folks so that he could then use them to increase his sphere of influence. other questions? >> understanding the media reality, how a reliable way you say the us is partners today? , chip a hit did we take by again prematurely walking away from a mission, thinking about syria today? how bad is that in how much is the insurgency taking away because of the skittishness of the public and reliability of the news media to paint the picture. >> it's a good question and gets to this

for trying to discredit her husband who was a diplomat that investigated the possibility that saddam husseinad purchased yellow uranium and concluded it was unlikely saddam hussein had bought the nuclear fuel-making material. this is problematic for bush administration officials because they justified the invasion of iraq by arguing that saddam hussein was developing nuclear weapons. nbc's edward lawrence is in d.c. this morning. >> reporter: she has a go fund me page now to buy a controlling interest in twitter, with the sole goal of deleting president trump's twitter account. she wants to raise $1 billion. currently they have about $35,000 they have raised on this. she writes on the go fund me page that president donald trump said horrible things. she goes on to say that the president's tweets are read around the world. and could spark a war around the world. it says on the page if they don't reach their goal, they'll still buy stock in twitter and try to get the account removed during t grass roo grassroots muzzle muzzle cantwell i've made no secret of that." >>> over 140 million cubic fe

saddam hussein and the people of the arab nation says the mother of all wars have started. earlier in the week that information ministry has received its own satellite dish and the foreign ministry -- somebody knocking on the door, john and i are going to hide. >> we opened the door and there were several armed iraqui people, and several of them could speak broken english and said what are you doing here, you should be in the bonker. i fell to minis and said i won't don't, i don't care about the war. so i got up and we continued coverage for the next 12 hours. >> what is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea, a new world order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universe sall aspirations of mankind, peace and security, freedom and the rule of love. >> george bush was one of the youngest pilots in the navy during his second war world war. shot down survived. and that experience was so surreal for george bush. and so, there is a realization that if you can use overwhelming air power you're going to be able to trip not on

similarly, in iraq under saddam hussein, and saddam hussein was a bad man, but even under saddam hussein christian serve in the parliament and the cabinet took a practice their faith freely and openly and they were successful in business. thanks to george w. bush invasion of iraq and the subsequent civil war, almost the entire iraqi christian community has left for jordan, the uk and the united states, the same thing is happening in syria. there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy. it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually seen. it's called diplomacy. whether trump likes assad's politics or not, the only way to say that country from becoming a failed state or an isis state is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders, including the syrians, the russians, and whether we like it or not, the iranians are we going to have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere, nor should he. whether we like it or not, this is the internationally recognized government of syria. and that is no matter what trump and obama have said. we

caller: i would just like to say pedt the same people who clap when saddam hussein went down because he did that things in that country, they complained going down inue our country, the people doing that in our country. i'm so embarrassed that our president would be quite the kkk to the protesters, but he would --er eqauate the keith,e will go next to florida, republican line. caller: good morning. welcome to america. caller, color -- president trump did not equate the moral equivalency between the two groups. he was equating the violence. both sides were violent. i had to say that. i don't understand how we got here. eight years ago we elected a black president twice. we have gone from being the greatest country and things like no gay marriage by the president elected at the time to where we are now. things are moving so fast. a lot of these people were not offended until they were told they were offended. i think it is a slippery slope. your effort you contextualize these monuments. where i see america going is this conscious movement to divide this country. things are moving so fa

by removing saddam hussein, we allowed the shiites to take the majority. so now we have iran and iraq as allies. and we created 300,000 sunni terrorists overnight by dismembering saddam hussein's sunni army. they joined al qaeda. they joined isis. so we need to remember who is involved in the mess that right now europe is suffering from with the influx of refugees. >> i'm glad you brought that full circle. and it raises this issue for me in part because some of the -- some of the viewers know this already, of course. i got embroiled on this on "meet the press" and the weekend where president trum health care plan made this statement in an interview with bill o'reilly about russia and the u.s. and this is the conversation. he said what do you think, you think we're so innocent? so they jumped all over him for making this ugly comparison between russia and the u.s. and my point on that was the point you're making about a different set of facts here. but my point was that on that one issue, donald trump is right. i quoted my grandmother who said to me all the

caller: i would just like to say pedt the same people who clap when saddam hussein went down because he did that things in that country, they complained going down inue our country, the people doing that in our country. i'm so embarrassed that our president would be quite the kkk to the protesters, but he would --er eqauate the keith,e will go next to florida, republican line. caller: good morning. welcome to america. caller, color -- president trump did not equate the moral equivalency between the two groups. he was equating the violence. both sides were violent. i had to say that. i don't understand how we got here. eight years ago we elected a black president twice. we have gone from being the greatest country and things like no gay marriage by the president elected at the time to where we are now. things are moving so fast. a lot of these people were not offended until they were told they were offended. i think it is a slippery slope. your effort you contextualize these monuments. where i see america going is this conscious movement to divide this country. things are moving so fa

similarly in iraq, under saddam hussein -- he was a bad man, but even under saddam hussein, christians served in the parliament and cabinet. they practiced their faith really and openly and they were successful in business. angst to george w. bush's invasion of iraq, almost the entire iraqi christian community has left for jordan, the u.k., and the united states. the same thing is now happening in syria. there is a solution to all of this, but it is not sexy, quick or easy. it is something that many of us have heard about, but haven't actually seen. it is called diplomacy. whether trump likes assad's politics or not, the only way to save the country is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders including the syrians, the russians, and the iranians. we will have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere. nor should he. whether we like it or not, his is the internationally recognized government of syria and that is no matter what trump and obama have said. we should respect that and we should sit across the table from bashar al-assad. thank you very much. mr. solomon: tha

people before we invaded believed that saddam hussein had something to do with nine eleven mind you because of his ties with al qaeda amassed a full. mainstream media operation in cooperation with these people who want to make a war in iraq that's what we're seeing now now i have to say there was one exception in all this time two thousand and three we know about we know about now in two thousand and seven there was an honest manager intelligence who ran an estimate saying iran had stopped working on its nuclear weapons at the end of two thousand and three and had not resume work on that that's big ok that was honest and that is the only estimate in my experience and i've been around a while that played a huge role and stopping a war because bush and cheney were hell bent on stopping a war in their last year in office two thousand and eight so we have to say that you know there that doubtless some honest analysts left in the cia and other parts of the intelligence community they have been completely suppressed most of them i suppose and quit now but there is hope still that come to the fore

in 2008 eric schmidt came and asked us what is the worst thing that saddam hussein did? some of ussi entered -- answered some said the uprising. i think the worst legacy is that we had a choice of which one to choose. if we ask that question 2014 we would of had one answer this is the worse saying that has happened in the 21st century so far and i hope it is the last such of its beecher -- beecher because iraq is a place of minorities. there is a documentary written around that is a very vivid description of what she sees when she goes there.eally but at the turn of the last century there would have known that but they left their mark and in fact, this is something taken into account when they started working and if you look at of a preamble the elements of plurality in the multiple nature of the iraqi is imprinted so this is something they have to live with it and have chosen as a result the federal structure us to take into account. arak 2017 is not iraq of 2014. the iraqi army in 2017 is not the same of 2014 the government and the people are not the same i was recentl

isis was brought in and came to power after we went after saddam hussein and pulled him out. came to power.is we only went over there because bush wanted their oil. look it up. some of what the president said in his speech are three takeaways, including, number one, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made. second, the consequences of andd exit are predictable unacceptable, and third, said the president, i concluded that threats we face in afghanistan and the broader region arguments. that 20in the speech u.s. designated foreign terrorist organizations are active in afghanistan, and pakistan, the highest concentration in any region of the world. let's get rocking him, north carolina. jonathan, jonathan on the independent nine -- line, welcome. i voted for barack obama twice and voted for donald trump that ame, and i believe lot of the democrats are grabbing at straws now. earlier caller talking about , and another caller trying to say that the war against terror is anything like the war in vietnam. the war

similarly, in iraq, under saddam hussein, and he was a bad man, be but even under him , christian served in the parliament and the cabinet and they practice their faith freely and openly and they were successful in business. thanks to george w. bush invasion of iraq and subsequent civil war, almost the entire iraqi christian community has left for jordan, the uk and the united states, the same thing is now happening in syria. there is a solution to all this, but it's not quick or easy. it is something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually seen. it's called diplomacy. whether trump likes his politics or not, the only way to save that country from becoming a failed state or nicest state is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders, including the syrians, the russians, and whether we like it or not, the iranians. we have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere, nor should he, whether we like it or not, his is the internationally recognized government of syria. that is no matter what trump and obama have said. we should respect that and we should sit across

former chemical weapons facilities saddam hussein. it was actually told to me. that they knew that. contaminated. flabbergasted. i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was safer. themselves and all this is about is. how to dispose of. waste. the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board. making decisions often. and the way i believe all these illnesses can inventor invented it in part because they can hear is incinerators most of them went for offline if they found out. in the mean if they would have realized. and we didn't. we didn't fix the mess in the took action to fix it. he didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good then an indemnity folks s

they have looked at what happened to saddam hussein, to moammar gadhafi who ended up dead on a slab with american help. so as far as that goes, they are not going to give that up. there are no easy ways to see how this crisis can be involved, craig. >> miguel, you are again in the natural zone. what do the next 24 hours look like here? >> reporter: those that live here say they have to go living on business as usual. there's not much they can do. as a matter of fact, they have trust and confidence in the u.s. military. and really, they say, it is up to them as it is always confident. the military takes up about a third of this island. so that was those in uniform everywhere around this island, about 15 to 20 miles at length and at the narrow point, 4 miles wide. so for them, that's very reassuring. >> cynthia, a final thought? >> yes, i think the secretary defense mattis' statement yesterday said, quote, the u.s. is prepared, rehearsed and ready. it could be nicer language than the president used, more artful, but i think it's the same poignant information. >> a big thanks to you. and a

the speakers spoke about how these communities speak about saddam hussein, isis, the tensions, we've been in iraq since 2003. we asked in partnership with the institute and also the partners in the senate for peace building and facilitators to ask the communities themselves what do they see as a source of conflict in the future and what does the reconciliation mean to them. this is each group in the communities come each political stream within the communities defines these issues and approach it in different time scale. all of them unanimously was how you don't look at this problem just from the perspective. it is just one of the many things we suffer from yes it may be the one that made news in the recent future that we have to look at this issue from two layers, the national player and i also like metaphors i see it as a ship in this he is having the closest were going for conflict and it has many damages on that ship and water is coming from many places that you try to address all these issues focusing only on the minorities issues in the picture would be just one that would prev

he was the diplomat investigating that saddam hussein had purchased yellow cake uranium. this was problematic for bush administration officials, because they justified the invasion of iraq by arguing that saddam was developing nuclear weapons. nbc's edward lawrence has more. why is valerie plame wilson making news now? >> reporter: she has a go fund me page now to buy a controlling interest in twitter, with the sole goal of deleting president trump's twitter account. she wants to raise $1 billion. $33,000 has already been pledged. she says the president has said some horrible things. she adds on the page that the president's tweets are read around the world and could spark a military confrontation that could go nuclear. it says on the page if they don't reach their goal, they'll still buy stock in twitter and try to get the account removed during the shareholder's meeting. frances? >> a long way to go. we'll see where she goes from there. edward, thank you. >>> the following stories that we're going to bring you now are caught on camera. this may be difficult for some view

from five different bases in iraq these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities the saddam hussein. operator it was actually told to me by a former k.b.r. employee that they knew the. meeting it was contaminated. flabbergasted inquiry i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was . suggested and try to wrap themselves in all this is about is second guessing military decisions about how to dispose of. waste disposal of waste the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board k.b.r. was wrong in making decisions often concealing what they were doing from the military . they know what i believe in all these. preventive part because they can here's the incinerators. offline if they were to found out. in i mea

was blown by the bush administration in 2003 when her husband contradicted their theories on saddam hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction. she has launched a campaign to .ry and purchase twitter her goal is $1 billion to buy a controlling share of the publicly traded company. bloomberg pointing out that a controlling share of twitter would actually cost closer to $6 billion. we may not have to worry about that i suppose. as of last count she is at just over 35,000. genie: thank you for that look at the business news. time to check in on the press review. we are taking a look on what has been making headlines around the world today. a conflict we don't talk about enough in the media. the war in yemen. >> that's right. it started in march 2015. according to this piece on the front page of the new york times yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and really there are plenty to choose from in the world right now. have destroyedgs much of the infrastructure in the country and medical facilities. doctors hadn't been paid in a year. there was a deadly cholera outbreak. the saudi's h

not only saddam hussein, but the whole country. i was going to ask you about the united states.he role of the united states. president trump, for the last six months in power in washington... do you believe the americans are actually understanding just how dangerous the situation in iraq is? i don't think they are understanding, i don't think they want to understand. i think even in their conflict on isis, they were only thinking on the military side of things. they wouldn't even look at how to prepare for post—isis, what to do what to do in mosul and elsewhere. america have a very distinct imagination for the greater middle east area. not only iraq. donald trump has made it plain that as far as he is concerned, his primary focus and responsibility is to destroy so—called islamic state and protect america from terrorism in iraq, in syria, and that is, beyond all else, his objective. fine, we don't dispute this. and political, as well as... to take care of iraq and the future of iraq, because after all, they hold legal responsibility when they dismantle the country. abolish the a

these groups have not only suffered at the hands of isis but under the rule of saddam hussein and from intermittent conflict with other iraqis, continue to fight for their right as citizens and work to ensure a safe future for all iraqis. over the years of the united states institute of peace have supported iraqi minorities in local and national governments and ensuring fair representation safety and security for all iraqis. works to find practical solutions for preventing and resolving violent conflict. this is what we do. we do this by working on the ground in iraq and other countries around the world with local partners so they can become catalysts for peace in their own communities. we have been in iraq uninterrupted since two thousand three with offices in baghdad. in iraq focus on local communities in various parts of iraq including areas recently liberated from isis through dialogue, fostering inclusion, facilitating joint solving. we continue to support the alliance of iraqi minorities, a coalition of civil society organizations the provides a voice for minority groups and work

when they overthrew saddam hussein, they dismantled the whole country.the united states. one factor we have not discussed is the role of the united states. president trump, for the last six months in power in washington... do you believe the americans are actually understanding just how dangerous the situation in iraq is? i don't think they are understanding, i don't think they want to understand. i think even in the conflict on isis, they were only thinking on the military side of things. they wouldn't even look at how to prepare for post—isis, what to do in mosul and elsewhere. that is why america have lost... america have a very distinct imagination for the greater middle east area. donald trump has made it plain that as far as he is concerned, his primary focus and responsibility is to destroy so—called islamic state and protect america from terrorism in iraq, in syria, and that is, beyond all else, his objective. fine, we don't dispute this. 0n the other hand, he should take into account care of what is legal and political, as well as... taking care

about is what happened in libya because they didn't have nuclear weapons or what happened to saddam hussein because he didn't have nuclear weapons and i think we we need to ratchet things down a little bit on our own side and there have been efforts in the past to you know curtail nuclear testing such as part of nuclear test ban treaty of one thousand sixty three but this effort obviously didn't eliminate it so in your eyes what are the dangers of countries possessing a massive stockpiles. well it's it's not so much the danger of the stockpiles it's the danger of an inadvertent miscommunication between superpowers who have or any other looking for power that have their weapons like india and pakistan that have their weapons on high alert and these weapons are connected with thousands and thousands of electronic devices and on the other end of the electronic devices are human beings which are capable of making mistakes very easily i don't know whether you want to use you know i can tell you lots of stories about how we came far too close. to having an accidental nuclear war start nest how it

do you remember what they did to saddam hussein? they killed him in the most brutal way possible.ere did isis come from? from the fact that the us thought it had a democratic position and it didn't. it's a well known fact that there's a global shortage of human organs for transplant. pigs have long been seen as a viable source for organ transplants to humans, due to their size, but until now their genetic code has presented a challenge. scientists in the us now say they have made a significant advancement in this area and clinical trials could possibly start in around two years time. pioneering medical researcher professor robert winston has been researching the potential use of pigs organs for the past few years. he joined us a short time ago. the thing about an animal or a human heart as it —— is it grows with the person and of course no mechanical device can do that, so if you replace a heart on a child it will grow with a child. so the pig is ideal. you don't actually use a big pig. ideal. you don't actually use a big pig, it is called a mini peak. americans use the same kind

you know we took we in libya we took out gadhafi in iraq we took out saddam hussein that you know do. really work out well doing that so this is a change in policy from the obama policy in the early trump policy. recognition one that the policy isn't working that since. the intervention of russia and iran has been so powerful in terms of giving assad the backing that he needed that taking out assad is very unlikely right now and the other is a look around at what comes afterwards and i think in understanding that now we have to broker what comes afterwards now rather then thinking we can overthrow assad and then figure out who and. it seems to me crazy for us to be in a proxy war with russia and it seems crazy for me to mean for us to be antagonizing iran at a time you know their major regional player. or in my off on no you're absolutely right and unfortunately with the moment that we're in terms of the tremendous antagonism that the press and the democratic party have against russian interference in u.s. elections or involvement with the trumpet ministration the working with the rus

north korean missiles reaching america it would seem very unlikely just the same way of you know saddam hussein being able to reach you know europe and america like that seems very hypothetical but not realistic so i do think you're looking a situation that very much as a regional issue america needs to work with china on this front instead of basically doing what it's doing which is arming you know countries like taiwan to the tune of one point four billion dollars so makes you have to see question well if you know if we're sending more billions to taiwan is china basically using a bit of a power play with this north korea card to say look we can't we have missiles to guys so let's negotiate i mean that's that might be what's really happening and you know i hope that this all does kind of shake out i think we all can hope that there's a shake out as just being you know ok everyone's kind of making their little power plays there was kind of inflaming certain things just to show water that sort of you know look at the subordinates show off you know back kind of thing and you hope it does and in

i've seen it look at the iraqi seventy six to twenty three and there was just no evidence that saddam hussein really had weapons of mass destruction so that's what can happen and here we see it happen again it's a it's a american tragedy what is president trump's best next move with vladimir putin he's in count of a political tight spot right now what can he do well i would suggest going back to the corporate chiefs yours and and putin has expressed an interest in doing that detente perestroika and and it ultimately the goal working with our european allies is to have russia because they are european eventually join the e.u. i mean from the urals that's most of the populated russia part of europe and that it's what would make sense and slowly integrate their form get them into democracy in some of the issues that we have with. their differences in how they run their government and free press and all those issues but over time that's what does happen if you start work together. do you think that the situation in crimea will change after the people there voted at the ninety five percent our rat

moammar gadhafi when he decided to give up his nuclear weapons we'll look at what has happened to saddam hussein when he decided to give up his nuclear weapons the only way they feel they can stop the u.s. from trying to overthrow them is to have nuclear weapons so if we went ahead with the freeze for freeze that went into peace talks that ended up with a peace treaty because the one nine hundred fifty three. korean armistice never resulted in peace treaty that would be the avenue to deescalation on this could be a breakthrough that donald trump could take credit for for years is that beautiful red bell either below nobody will give you those so the missile system. we are installing in this town some juice return to where you were you visited just last week yes. the that missile system is entirely defensive is it not i don't i'm not i don't understand frankly be a. you know i get the objection of the local people we don't want the defensive missile system here because that puts us in the crosshairs i understand that but i understand that across south korea there's been an objection to putting a

i think when you when you talk about it with a nuclear state which are acworth wasn't because saddam hussein didn't have nuclear weapons it's even more dangerous i should i should add i suppose the world war two japan and germany arguably that was regime change but that was not the united states and iran going you know we're going to i mean that was a war that was a whole completely different but yeah it wasn't like preemptively you know we're going to let's look at this guy we don't like on anymore. but i do think it's important for your viewers to know that there is this solution of a freeze for freeze this freeze of u.s. war games in. the u.s. and south korea's part in a. yes it's been proposed by the chinese by the russians and the north koreans have been twenty fifteen in two thousand and sixteen so we should all be calling for a freeze for freeze right and that is basically we stop the war games off their coast they stop building missiles and throwing them into the area where we do the war games and then we start talking that makes sense or up should certainly go ok so as a libertarian