. >> saddam hussein sends a substantial fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaiti bordering in washington and other 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 had overthrown the kuwaiti government. no western authority accepted that story. >> many americans are concerned that there may be a war. [ speaking foreign language ] >> 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.

they supported saddam hussein. let's start where it started.am hussein during eight years of war against iran. after the war, iran resisted that aggression and saddam hussein immediately turned his weapons against them. we came to their support. they have forgotten that. we neglected the history, forgot the history, and went to the support of the kuwaitis. after that, they supported al qaeda in afghanistan. they shouldn't forget that. they have made all the wrong choices. they tried to undermine the democratically elected government of iraq. they were on the wrong side of history. all through. and iran was on the right side. it's not that we want to spread our influence. we believe in stability of the region. we believe also in stability of every single government in the region. it is in our interest. we have offered to our arab neighbors to engage in confidence building measures, in security structures for our region. we've been saying that time and again. unfortunately, some seek their interests through tension and through conflict and i beli

you overthrow saddam hussein.in the army of saddam hussein must not be in the army and must be persecuted in the civil service. those are the people who went to join al-qaeda. those are the people who have been setting up 70%, or 80% of isis right now in iraq. so are we addressing any of those issues? or are we just at the moment saying we are fighting them? we will worry about that tomorrow, yes. they are already in somalia, north africa, and so on. i agree with you in one respect. the american funding, for example, for the anti—isis campaign is 20, 30 times fold what has been earmarked in iraq for the post—isis rebuilding and supporting the liberal processes. but we must go one step before the iraqi us invasion. shi'ites, all the disparate groups, in syria, as well, with all of the different tribes and ethnicities and minorities, have all been pushed under the surface by long—standing dictators. that's how we got into the situation in the first place. we got into the situation because america invaded iraq, becau

of iraq along with the israelis they should remember that when the americans were supporting saddam hussein and giving him chemical weapons and during the and fall operation after the two thousand and one war with iraq the americans allowed saddam hussein to use his helicopters and take back territory where two million curry iraqi kurds went to iran and iran allowed all of them into the country and also when i say this but as i mean we all remember when isis attacked and took most of the barzani did nothing. and when isis packed out of being in the right when the americans refused to help as i asked them five times to help and the city was on the verge of falling the iranians when i when mr baez only asked the iranian for help they immediately came in and general soleimani himself personally went to add a b. and ok to lead the let me let me let me go to let me go to martin here before we go to the break here martin i did that the real crux of the story is that what happened if you look at the major kurdish populations they're all very key to this if assad makes a deal on some kind of region

saddam hussein's foreign minister was a christian, a coptic christian.so the idea of this overtaking the sectarianism is something that has always been present, but has been amplified a think by the influence of outsiders like iran and it has been influenced from al qaeda acting that way, found the world of islam did they wait us out because and he gets to this gentleman's some people may say look. maybe that's one of country we were not necessarily going know, then when you not only tell commander-in-chief, look we will the commander-in-chief says the national security adviser goes guys grimaces, don't worry about it. the last eight years during the, look him more at some we have an administration that is talking about just such a way that and where did he go went to russia about an enormous amount of influence the consequence that we did, you know to me, we jobs to americans in certain the ultimately you know >> thank you. [applause] [applause] >> tom, on behalf of the union laid president mike sullivan who couldn't be here tonight, i'd like to present

the nikkei asian review of course these are again the things that i was saying is like saddam hussein or moammar gadhafi just announce stuff without a well laid ground plan in place for the consequences of their statements the same thing here what jim rickards had been warning about like when the u.s. went the nuclear option said we're kind of people often swift as soon as you do that you know like well ok now we're going to have to devise our own systems here the same thing it's like. we keep implying sanctions sanctions which just harm the people usually have the general population of a nation not the elite so you do that over and over again and then eventually people are going to say well we have to devise a new sort of trading mechanism something i think in the history books will go down as the billy mays with presidents you know billy mays is the probably the most famous t.v. huckster of them all like billy mays here for the fabulous much about it because life they conduct right i mean look at those commercials he did for trump steaks and i asked donald trump i love steak is why

urging again you mentioned saddam hussein a monarch and alfie and they were like oh we're going to do this and of course they didn't have a plan china doesn't do that it took a decade maybe two decades to lay a ground or for this and not tell us the art of war well they exist because in other words if they don't dollars onto the world market the dollar would collapse faster than they could hedge against it but by aggressively buying gold as regards others i've been talking about a sceptical russia they're now they now have a hedge so they dump dollars into the market or everyone dumps dollars is great for gold so they're a hedge they've got a hedge against dollar collapse the u.s. stance oblio as gold but many argue that has been loaned out as part of the attempt to keep the dollar high and gold cheap you know this guy minucci it works for trump in the treasury assistant secretary in the treasury secretary wanted to take in charge he recently went there for an auction held up a gold bar but unfortunately that gold bars been loaned out minucci doesn't tell us this because he's a fraud

you could remove saddam hussein and leaf leave which i believe would've been a false choice you grab some general and oppose them with absolute authority. basically treating one dictator for another. you attempt to secure the country and build institutions that can support a more participatory pluralistic intolerant governing structure. they tackled this extraordinary task with great passion and commitment sacrificing much with their efforts going unnoticed as a situation worsened do it to the rise of al qaeda in iraq. unfortunately a government that is the mission went on often failed to aggressively defend its own policy. the issue of competing

they were almost executed by saddam hussein. he basically wanted dictate to them. these men who were in their 70s i was talking to this gentleman and he said there's a lot of work to be done. to rebuild the judiciary here. they were the original lawyers. the thick glasses. and he knew i was a lawyer too. he said we had been here before he wasn't talking about the pre- saddam era he was reaching back to this great history there was a sense of confidence in his voice. and that is a way that these folks. they love to suggest. that they really didn't want us there. to begin with. not wanting ear country to be occupied is very different than not understanding the need for having troops there and not having a vision for what the country could be. i have a conversation and got to know him very well the deputy mayor of baghdad. he came back to me and he said how was your trip. i'm so angry. is he angry with me. he said i'm not angry with you i am angry with us. i am angry with this idea that we allowed this. i've seen the world now. i've been to europe now and i've seen wh

says it is considering selling its consumer health business >>> and remember what happened to saddam hussein, words of warning from russian president vladimir putin to north korea as he uses his speech at the become r ishgbric summit >>> good morning we have a lot to get through let's kick things off with a look at the markets. the stoxx 600 is up by 0.3%, recovering from yesterday's small losses to the tune of 0.5% yesterday we were under the spell of the latest aggression coming out of north korea, but it seems like we're moving on today. when it comes to the insdices on by one, when it comes to the ftse, dax and cac, they're all in the green the xetra dax is eking out a gain of respectable 0.6% merck is one of the top performers there the ftse 100 up by 0.3%. we have that big m&a deal this morning which is pushing the mid cap index higher aveva jumping nicely there, up by more than 20% schneider doing well on the french market. >>> when it comes to the sectors, this is the picture autos, foods, beverages, basic resources among the best f performers >>> quick look at the latest data out of

now is independence and almost the entire world is against them tonight the people who survived saddam hussein are about to face baghdad's troops' yet again i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. he said great people of kurdistan you did not allow anyone to break your will when you voted yes to independence. we will impose national authority across the whole of iraq including the kurdish region. and this is not a threat. that instead of threatening and punishments let's start a serious dialogue to be good neighbors. we will use all the tools of the constitution and the law and we will surprise them. then we might face hardships but i'm sure the future will be bright that. we say little but i will speak for themselves the most important is that the will of the people of kurdistan could not be broken. also on the show tonight the trump train in the german election and the one leader whose final term in office may be all about making that train jumped the tracks the new york times columnist roger cohen is my guest tonight will be here in about eight minutes we begin the day with a lesson in the

and saddam hussein was saying was. there the idea of producing the weapons of mass destruction still under the predicts looking for w z they killed so i'm just saying. he is family in that suit them to say when they launch their military operations i think his children got killed i think it's a grandson got shot. the whole country's was destroyed and saddam hussein was. well we all know how this happened we all remember what happened there and the officials and the people in north korea remember well. what happens in iraq so. do you think that you can really rely on the sanctions and this will make north korea of course. it will. drop the idea of rice yes which they creating the weapons of mass destruction in russia russia in the case. against these aspirations by north korea we regard. vocative intentions to but you also cannot forget what happened in iraq and libya. we should remember this is well enough cories not going to forget about those stunts if you will or do you selfish any sanctions relief in this but yes i

and that's why i said the word indirectly in other words obviously saddam hussein. nothing to do with al qaeda and iraq in all of that other business but what i think president bush did however was take a emotionally fragile united states and took the political opportunity to invade iraq based on sort of the aftermath of nine eleven so i would say it was indirectly tied that nine eleven sort of created a political space that allowed president bush to then go off on to this completely different adventure in iraq so they're related but they're not they're not related in direct substance going into iraq after nine eleven was a horrendous move and we're still dealing with those repr cautions what i was saying at all is that in the absence of nine eleven we wouldn't have gone into iraq but there's a very good article by a scholar name call him kaufman which shows the bump in u.s. support for going into iraq pre and post nine eleven and so in that sense nine eleven had a direct effect but it was very unfortunate because of course iraq was not responsible for those terrori

everyone remembers what happens with iraq and saddam hussein to stop the production of weapons of mass destruction regardless under the pretext of searching for those weapons saddam chauffeurs destroyed them alongside his family members. if you look at either and they remember that in north korea do you think that just because of sanctions north korea will forget its policy of creating weapons of mass destruction to russia condemns those north korean actions we think they are a provocation then you can hear should cause all the koreans as i told one of my colleagues yesterday that i would rather eat grass than give up on their nuclear program unless they feel safe to to do. with president putin was pointing out that the u.s. response towards north korea has been sanctions are good as seems likely as well with yet more sanctions but president putin was a pains to point out that he feels that this is a dead end approach he doesn't back the new clear eyes of the potential in fact he and president xi of china i mean very much against it saying that he was unacceptable but he believes that

in avoid the fate of saddam hussein in a rock or qaddafi in libya.ng to his neighbours and the united states. we need some sort of proposal. we have had diplomatic tracks before. it would involve somebody getting together. i think without preconditions at this stage. to size up preconditions at this stage. to size up the position. i'm not sure i have convinced myself even as i am saying this. it will be very difficult without it looking as if the west and the international community is eating humble pie. thank you. hospital managers in england have called for an emergency financial bail—out, saying they are bracing themselves for the worst winter in recent years. nhs providers — which represents the vast majority of health trusts — says at least £200 million of extra funding is needed to pay for more staff and beds. but the department of health says the nhs is better prepared for winter this year than ever before, as angus crawford reports. winter can put hospitals under severe pressure. it's a time when there is an increasing demand, more patients n

weakened that fight and he brought in interestingly reference to saddam hussein. he said that saddam was a dictator and he committed crimes against the people of iraq and he said that he didn't want to see those kind of crimes potentially happening here again. as i think you mentioned there there have been obviously a lot of threats made by the government the most recent one we're hearing now is that the kurdish authorities have been given three days to hand over control of their airports and airspace or face some sort of air in bargo here those threats continue they are being ramped up by other countries notably turkey and iran in the region so what we heard there was potential i suppose less threatening. but very much more emphasis on unification on a complete rejection of this referendum he's already said that he is not going to discuss it with the kurdish regional government sees it as being completely on constitutional but perhaps in that speech one could say that there was less of a sort of threatening tone to it but those threats as i say from turkey and ira

benchmark backed by gold now of course the important thing is you mention moammar gadhafi and saddam hussein iraq and libya those were oil producers so they are one thing but the consumer. your customer is always right and i want to show you this chart because china of course is a mega importer of oil from around the world the us is a mega producer of oil it's one of the top three producers of oil in the world here is chinese crude oil imports russia is the number one from there for their imports twenty nine point two percent of that angola saudi arabia iraq oman. venezuela brazil kuwait and other so it's very wide range of nations that they'll accept that basically will be able to buy gold in exchange for get gold and in exchange for their oil so i mean it's pretty significant. so they've been preparing with this for a while because they're offering you on in the price a new one but a lot of nations will be like well do we want the yuan do we want the currency risk or do we want to everybody takes gold right the keyword there is d. dollar as a.

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absolutely i mean since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three has been a bone of contention between the two sides and article one forty of the constitution which is the one that was supposed to deal with the issue of the disputed. calling for population census and then a referendum basically asking the same question that this is more or less the same question i would say that was asked in this referendum people there were supposed to answer whether they wanted to be part of the kurdish region or remain. part of the central government in baghdad that never happened in the meantime there's a lot of accusations that after the fall of saddam hussein hundreds of thousands of kurds have relocated to kirkuk they say that they had been pushed out of kirkuk on the former regime it is at the heart of all that also because turkey has something to do. turkmen. community there it's the second largest after the kurds today at least that is according to what we're told by officials there and it is a big pipeline that goes from there to goods have done that by plan goes from. all the way to

they send us the shia paramilitary forces to scare us we are mountain people we're not afraid of saddam hussein and now we're not afraid of a molecule or. a bill is plastered with kurdish colors there's a spike in national pride ever since the referendum for self-determination was announced kurds also proud of their president muscled barzani who stands firm despite international pressure to postpone the referendum the majority of the five million registered voters are expected to say yes the vote is also taking place in the disputed territories currently under control of the kurdish forces but one of the biggest challenges is that most of the people from those areas are now scattered around the kurdish region many of them living in camps here there is none of the joy celebrations seen just a short drive away what is more worried about the fate of her son she hasn't heard from him since he was captured by i still about a year ago from the town of sin. we already lost our homes our town on neighbors the life we've known for thirty or forty years we will say yes but who knows if we look at our rig

didn't work out nine hundred seventy five when the us was supporting a rebellion by kurds against saddam hussein when they pushed the shah and saddam to come to an agreement on the shuttle out of water way to the shah's favor and saddam was then given a green light to remaster credit cards henry kissinger said at the time that politics is not a missionary activity my fear of the kurds of syria is that as the war does come to a conclusion that the us will abandon them and allow the trucks to deal with them on that without any interference that's a possibility i hope it doesn't happen say the kurds the big aka suddenly in terms of economic philosophy that some people say it's of the neo marxist movement really not that akin to door trail to know it was well behaved turkey traditionally it was a communist movement but it is moved on a great deal in those states particularly since because of the fall of communism and also because a dollar or two on the leader of the p.k. who is a true christian has and sells come up with new policies new ideas and was very much in favor of a ceasefire with the turki

that was saddam hussein. and so there were effectively no institutions to think of or we thought underneath him. and so the distance between people's desire now that they overthrown the dictator, and the institutions there to channel all of those passion. there's a great distance and you don't have much time. i relate in book that we made a lot of mistakes. we undervalued the potential for the tribes, the sunni tribes to play an important role. we didn't understand the tribes. when we got back with the surge in 2007 the tribes were a big part of the reason we were able to defeat al qaeda in iraq. think we didn't fully understand the implications of the disbanding of the army which wasn't supposed to take place and in the fog of war a lot happened. one thing want people to understand about iraq, we did no go to iraq to bring democracy to iraq. that's an urban legend. i was in the meeting. it's not true. we went to iraq because we thought we had a security problem in a saddam hussein who had re built out weapon

eight thousand people of his tribe were killed during the repression by saddam hussein and he is let's say the first president of the kurdish region post u.s. led invasion does want to leave a legacy is a part of that playing in all of this but i think also. it is now it's a become now a power card for him he can go he's been extremely frustrated with how things have been going on with the central government in baghdad since before prime minister but i think the problems really started and the former prime minister nuri al maliki that's when everything started going wrong between the two sides so he's going to try to use this card i think at this point to get as much as he can out of the central government really carrying an independent state at this stage with all that's going on in the region with the fight against with the pressure from the united states is something that he knows could be political suicide thank you. well iran has to stand with iraq and against the outcome of the referendum the government installed new missile systems close to the border with kurdish areas while tu

forget that civilians in many of our cities became the targets of long-range missile attacks by saddam hussein during his eight-year war of aggression against us. we will never allow our people to become victims of such catastrophic delusions again. instability and extremist violence have only been exacerbated in our region through the military interventions of extra-regional actors. the same powers that try to sell ever more of their deadly weapons to other states by accusing iran of fomenting instability. i want to emphasize that foreign intervention and the inquisition of alien wishes on the people of the region will only widen and deepen the crises in our region. the crises in syria, yemen and bahrain do not have military solutions and can only be resolved through cessation of hostilities, and the acceptance of the will and wishes of the populaces. the united states government should explain to its own people why, after spending billions of dollars of the assets of the people of america, and of our region, instead of contribute to peace and stability, it is only brought war, misery, povert

he doesn't want to go the way of saddam hussein in iraq or colonel gadaffi of libya.nt to colonel gadaffi of libya. he doesn't want to be deposed and he thinks nukes are a deterrent? he kind of has a point. he apparently looks at videos of gaddafi's painful demise and sees that... and looks at what happened in iran, they had a nuclear deal to try to stop that regime from pushing forward with the nuclear programme. look at the power that such a small country, with such limited resources, that has been a pariah state for so long, and yet it is gripping the most powerful man in the world. it is top of his agenda. he has got a point, unfortunately. you do wonder whether the trump dimension will actually break the deadlock that we have had to live with so long. let's look at some of the other stories. the times have a story about university secrets being stolen by cyber gangs? looks like the journalists have done freedom of information work, looking at the numberof information work, looking at the number of successful cyber attacks on different british universities. they s

kurdish autonomous region in the kurdish city of how loved the site of the poison gas attack by saddam hussein's forces that killed thousands almost thirty years ago. a symbol of why many here want independence. we support the referendum if it's in the interest of the people people will not support it though it will cause more wars or cause people to flee their homes we have had enough of wars and deportation we do not want more wars and destruction of our homes. before the vote kurdish regional government president massoud barzani explained why he was pressing ahead you know that they are less unfortunately the state that we have right now in iraq it is a theocratic sectarian state. now. it is the. i would like to underline that we are never ever going back to back to renegotiate for us in baghdad the iraqi prime minister body condemned the referendum. what the map of iraq is endangered by a tense and division and tearing us apart discrimination between iraqi citizens on a nationalistic or ethnic basis exposes iraq to dangers known only to god turkey's deputy prime minister big dig said kurdish

you can see where he is coming from, he seemed good darcy removed, and saddam hussein for his decided'm not going to allow a regime change. he's looking at this as a regime change and he wants nuclear weapons. he also knows america can't do much to north korea without hurting other interests around. particularly the south and japan. the fate of the guardian as well. michel barnier and david davis clash. i thought florence was supposed to have unlocked the whole thing? maybe not. there had been hopes in some quarters, the brexit camp certainly, hope that this would unlock everything and we would be fine. but actually, i fear that those negotiating brexit on our behalf at the momentjust don't understand europe. they don't understand how to deal with it. this idea that we tell you what we're willing to give and they should be grateful to us, or that we explained to europe what we wa nt that we explained to europe what we want and somehow they will make it happen. it is not the way that one gets the best out of negotiations and what the eu are basically saying is yes, you've told us some

war, 2003 iraq war, go back to them, it was always being said that one of the problems was that saddam husseinogether oi'i in his brutal way kept iraq together on all of the different factions, sunnl on all of the different factions, sunni, shi'ite and kurds. if he wasn't there it would fragment could whistle that almost immediately with the kurdish and shi'ite uprising. i cannot do business with a national government and want to go their own way and of course they have the potential of oil wealth which boys them up. but the kurds was always feeling betrayed either by the occupied government in iraq or their international eyes and look at them recently, in terms of peshmerga, fighting against islamic states, and what is their reward?” fighting against islamic states, and what is their reward? i think they would see it as that they are more secular than the state as it is ruled from baghdad, they don't like the corruption as they feared but let's look at what this would mean for the region. i was going to ask this question. the reason it was always so dangerous with george bush senior saying we