they helped create the war machine that saddam hussein used and bake wait for example and to invade iran the united states and its european allies the so-called civilized world they gave saddam hussein chemical weapons they used chemical weapons the iraqis with the support of the united states how it should the city of the kurdish city in northern iraq almost in there almost seven thousand people were killed six thousand eight hundred i believe as a result of chemical weapons for the hussein use with the support of the west i personally survive to chemical attacks so these were crimes against humanity that the united states bears as much responsibility as saddam hussein after that when the united states imposed sanctions on the iraqi people after the defeat of the saddam forces in kuwait a million people were killed that i met and madeline albright back then said it was a price worth paying one million children died as a result and also after iraq was defeated in kuwait the iraqis rose up and they were about to overthrow the regime and then the united states allowed the regime to us

is disgusting and criminal beyond description the other point that needs to be made that while saddam hussein was in power there was no al qaeda in iraq in fact that on hussein would have been the first one to execute anyone who would have been found to be linked to al qaeda and then if we're to believe the official version of history after the occupation we're supposed to believe that this isis creation which is a creation of western intelligence agencies we're supposed to believe that all of a sudden all these humvees and all these american weapons just accidentally fell into the hands of isis which wreaked havoc cutting off heads all over that region all over iraq we're supposed to believe that that was an accident all the while as mohammed is mention and you've just mentioned our best friend and ally in saudi arabia which by the way is an extension of israel saudi arabia the export or of all of that while hobby doctrine which is the seabed of isis is our best friend and ally so we create. the context in which isis was created and isis has wreaked havoc and it was never a popular movement

are you prepared to accept that, even if it means saddam hussein will stay in place?y he said, yes, i will accept that. so that is why i went forward. so i went out and spent three days at the cia with the intelligence communities and prepared the document that i would present, and every word in there was approved by the cia, was written by the cia. and so we went. i gave the presentation. it seemed to go well. i was confident that it went well, but then within a few days or a couple of weeks, it started han embarrassed.o yes, i was i was mortified. because even though the president had used the same information, congress had used the same information, secretary rumsfeld, condoleezza rice, all of us were using the same information, but i'm the one who made the biggest presentation of it, so it all sort of fell on me. that is show business, huh? david: today in hindsight, would you say the invasion was a mistake? colin: i would say the execution of the invasion was not done properly. we abandoned the army without any discussion back in washington, and then we abandoned

well saddam hussein was on his way out to you he is heir apparent had been crippled the day is two sons but his heir apparent crippled an assassination attempt he was writing romance novels the country was disintegrating you would have probably ended up with another sunni military dictatorship but the whole idea that saddam hussein needed to be overthrown because he was a threat was completely fictitious thank you chris hedges from un contact you on r t the costs of war project based at brown university estimates that the war on terror has cost american taxpayers five point six t. trillion dollars since we invaded afghanistan in two thousand and one two years before we sent iraq into shock and awe that's pentagon spending plus future costs such as supporting veterans twelve zeros is tough for work and stiffs like us to conceptualize so think of it this way thirty two million dollars per hour and your share is twenty four thousand dollars the average downpayment on a house all we are saying is give peace a chance that is the big picture i'm holland cook in washington question more. or. i

removed from power. - i was stunned really by the degree to which we knew a great deal about saddam hussein's weapons programs and military. and about the bath party, and very little about the tribal or religious make up of iraq. that meant that when we went into iraq, we didn't have intellectual basis we needed to do proper planning. - [narrator] as us defense capabilities expand, so do concerns over the militarization of american foreign policy. - clearly, the center of gravity had moved to the pentagon, where it remains. that, i think, has become even more true under the trump administration, where the state department is not only having its budget cut, but it's being downgraded in more subtle ways, as being just a rather sort of useless tool in an outdated world. - now there is an emphasis on downgrading soft power. the trump administration is talking about relying much more heavily on hard power. particularly, military power. i think that is a mistake. then i need to buy more ammunition, ultimately. - after 2001, as we first flexed and used our military power, it became pretty obvious ho

because that the invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime is a disaster after disaster because the american invasion immediately created an absolute vacuum. in the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and moved times for the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibility is washing out into national still ahead in austria a government raid on the headquarters of the secret service is course a political storm there well have a look at that story preserve just after the break. that's. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be. the two going to be press was like before three in the morning can people go i'm interested always in the lines about how. best to. apply for many clips over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final scho

the iranian threat which stems from the revolution of 79 was underway quite apart from what saddam husseinoing. the iranians tried to get nuclear weapons for 25 years. >> tucker: you don't think he made iran stronger? >> at the fall of saddam did not make a round stronger. what made around stronger ultimately was the withdrawal of american forces in 2011. >> tucker: you're the only person i've met who thinks that. what would you say if you could sum up one lesson from what has happened in iraq? >> the overthrow of saddam hussein, that military action was a resounding success. i think the mistakes that were made subsequently, setting up the coalition provisional authority and others that followed from it are lessons about what to do after a regime is overthrown. i also point out because of president bush's surge policy, when his administration ended, stability had returned to iraq. it was on a place he would go for vacation. he turned it over to barack obama and ed fell apart subsequently. the point i think you need to understand is that life is complicated in the middle east. when you say

i you know everyone will have their opinion was the right to call from a bar for khadafy for saddam hussein for for for us to leave what has it meant for the middle east was that the right approach i think crisis group has had. as were in the past many times about the big flaws of u.s. policy that has tried to impose its will on other countries and often in ways that have hurt not just the countries but the u.s. as well as we've seen certainly in iraq that let's you know we could have that debate is a worthy debate to have because there's also the day what does one do if one sees massacres in countries whether it's from the wrong or in syria with hundreds of thousands of people are killed does the international community whoever that whatever that means does it have a responsibility to step in and to stop that they've got a real question that people have to face to which we don't have a good answer today but you know all of those questions will have plenty of time to resolve a need to be resolved but let's not use that as a reason not to address the media urgent question of how to stop the

i you know everyone will have their opinion was the right to call from a bar for khadafy for saddam hussein for for for us to leave what has it meant for the middle east was that the right approach i think crisis group has had. as were in the past many times about the big flaws of u.s. policy that has tried to impose its will on other countries and often in ways that have hurt not just the countries but in the u.s. as well as we've seen certainly in iraq that let's you know we could have that debate is a worthy debate to have because there's also the day what does one do if one sees massacres in countries whether it's from the wrong or in syria with hundreds of thousands of people are killed does the international community whoever that whatever that means does it have a responsibility to step in and to stop that they've got the real question that people have to face to which we don't have a good answer today but you know all of those questions will have plenty of time to resolve the need to be resolved but let's not use that as a reason not to address the media urgent question of how to st

because that the invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand. what followed after the who moved will of the regime is a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created. an absolute vacuum. in the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. transformed the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom with our limits. freedom without responsibility is. now a government raid on the austrian secret services headquarters and the suspension to its head of course a political uproar in the country austria's new right wing government suspects the country's intelligence agency the b.v.t. of holding data really it also accuses the agency's chief of corruption he's now been suspended a move the interior minister describes is unavoidable. this is the view as you know we have taken legal action against several officials from the b.b.c. intelligence agency it used by the prosecutor in this case i can tell you that effective immediately pizza grid ling is suspended as beauty director until further n

because that the invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime is a disaster after disaster because the american invasion immediately created an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and move times for the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. in other news the u.k. seeking a warrant to search the service of data mining firm k. bridge cambridge analytic are accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the danger of some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters by claims its information was used illegally in what some already calling the largest data leak in the company's history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit farfetched but that's exactly why u.k. data analytics company is in tro

because of that invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand what followed after the removal of the regime is a disaster after disaster because the american invasion immediately created an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and move transformed the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. now uses of facebook are questioning the credibility of the following revelations over personal data harvesting. the has details on the tech giant. and it should tell us then what search give us the details here what's been happening well delete facebook missed the hash tag that's been trending on twitter the social network users are your ears facebook played a part in getting donald trump into the white house data from fifty million facebook users was harvested by tramplings analytic company in what appears to be the largest leak in the social networks history. in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the univ

because that invasion removed saddam hussein from power. and the people. put it on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime as a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created. an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. times for the country from absolute dictatorship to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. the u.k. is seeking a warrant to search the servers of data mining for cambridge analytical accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the data of some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters facebook claims its information was used illegally what some are already calling the largest data leak in the social media giants history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit farfetched but that's exactly why u.k. data analytics company is in trouble with facebook in two thousand and f

is a lot of baloney because it wasn't there when we went in and we used it as an excuse we did saddam hussein had something to do with nine eleven and we had to go in and get all qaeda he didn't have it was all based on lies because of the disruption and the chaos in iraq al qaeda has moved in so they weren't a problem and saddam hussein was not friendly with with al qaida but now maybe there are some but it's a reaction to our policies our policies stir up these hatreds in the organizations of the radicals and there's a growing number of people recognize this unfortunately our governments whether they are of the democrat party or republican party they are generally in dorsi so idea that we have this moral obligation to straighten everything out and they use that as an excuse because we have to spread american exceptionalism and you know bring peace to the world but there's always other reasons for doing this and usually not too many of the american people understand that there's a group of people who see some secondary gain and there's a lot of profit to be unmade and oils and pour and all t

security council about anthrax claiming saddam hussein was behind it and is now a fellow at there are no is on the board of directors the new conservative think tank the council of foreign relations and he even admitted that he was he was lying but he really you know face no punishment i think most of all the greatest figure today is robert muller the former f.b.i. director who is now leading the justice department special investigation into alleged russian interference and he is he more than anyone is beloved by liberals as a hero who is going to take down trump with the silver bullet that just seems like it's so close but they can't quite get any continues to to feed this monster that is a total distraction from our devastating us foreign policy that continues to destroy countries today as a what where did muller fit into that whole women the iraq and although i get colin powell i get the take it reminded viewers of what we're both. kind of trifecta when he testified under oath and should you know perjured himself that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he should be

because that the invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and three people. put on there and. what followed after the removal of the regime is a disaster after disaster because the american invasion immediately created an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and move times for the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. now the u.k. seeking a warrant to search the service of data mining firm cambridge analytic are accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the date of some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters facebook claims though its information was used illegally and what some are already calling the largest data leak in the social media giants history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit farfetched but that's exactly why u.k. data analytics company is in trouble with faceboo

because that the invasion removed saddam hussein from power. and three people. put on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime as a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created. an absolute vacuum. in the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and mom turns for the country from absolute dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities and one of the darkest pages in the war has been the exposure of torture of iraqi prisoners by u.s. personnel at the abu ghraib prison and warning you may find the following images disturbing. or.

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when saddam hussein could have saved his country from the u.s.asion by asking for international presence tos.s.s.. the lie by the u.s. government saying there's chemical weapons sandrkt lie by saddam hussein pretendiding that he had them. well, these have led to the destruction of a country without resolving the problem of terrorism in the world. i think it was a it was a shame and so many years have gone by, and to this day, no one has been able to show anything of chemical apons it seems to me thahat the only chemical weapons the were,nd then terrorism goes on. amy: president lula, what is your assessment of president onald trump? >> i don't havavavavavavavavavav i think it's very unusual that there's a president of the republic of the most powerful country of the world who overns the country by twitter. find that very interesting. but in any evenent, i have to respect him because he's elected by the people of the united states. people of the united states, his he is going to serve term as he wishes, because the people of the united states gave

i will s say deftly the e worlds betterer off without saddam hussein in power, as are 25 million peopleho now have a chance to live in freedom. amy: that his former president 2010. bush speaking and you return home to a rack a couple of times a year, zahra ali, your character politic dissenters -- your parents are political dissenters. your response, both to bush and to blair? terminology, thisininininininis vocabulary in the u.k. and the u.s., it was a mistake, whatever. it was a crime, come on. it is a criminal war and these people have to be judged for their crimes, right? but also, i want to say something about this narrative proven to betic -- very antidemocratic. when we think of the context ant happened around it, we also have to talk about the fact that in iraq, despite the very terriblet , morehave citizens recently since 2015, we have very strong grassroots popular movement that questionedededede3 regime, women's rights activists involved in that movement. but the situation is that, in a to here,s that ts war on terror narratives is really used to justify any kind of repressio

vice president dick cheney lied when he told us, quote, there is no doubt that saddam hussein now is weapons of mass destruction. there iso no doubt he is amassig them to useai against our frien, against our allies and a against us come in the quote. dick cheney, not true. no one disagrees that saddam hussein was a brutal, murderous dictator, but it is now known he had nothing to do with 9/11, but the bush administration lied to the american people. iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. it was not connected to 9/11. the american people were misled by the bush administration into believing that the iraq war w ws necessary to prevent another 9/11. and congress did not challenge them on those claims. in a way that congress should have, with disastrous consequences. that was a republican administration. now let me tell you about a democratic administration where, once again, congress refused to assert its constitutional responsibilities. and let us go back to 1964, to a conflict that began on similarly false premises. president lyndon johnson cited an attack on a u.s. ship in the gulf

markings and fire on iraqi targets to get saddam hussein to fire against the plane claim that he had been attacking the united nations and used that to as a pretext for the invasion and this was seen to be a joint british and american plan according to philip sands who's one of britain's leading lawyers he somehow retained a copy of this plan so it's just one example of the kind of fabrications that the british establishment. think of in order to try and justify not only imperialism but support for american period was and then of course britain supplied the bulk of the forces to occupy parts for a in the south which is a crucial port for oil trade and. britain also would appear supply training for america's divide and conquer strategy were sunni and shia were played off against the other shia militias i think were being trained to assassinate sunny's and this helped to sow chaos and death and destruction in iraq. and if we look across the board of the whole region that's what's occurred basically from iraq for them and you look at the leaders dictators frankly but mubarak and saddam

markings and fire on iraqi targets to get saddam hussein to fire against the plane claim that he had been attacking the united nations and used that to as a pretext for the invasion and this was seen to be a joint british and american plan according to phillips says one of britain's leading lawyers saying the copy of this plan is just one example of the kind of fabrications that the british establishment. think of in order to try and justify not only imperialism but support for american period was and then of course britain supplied the bulk of the forces to occupy us for a in the south which is a crucial port for oil trade and. britain also it would appear supplied training for america's divide and conquer strategy were sunni and shia were played off against the other shia militias i think were being trained to assassinate sunny's and this helped to sow chaos death and destruction in iraq. and if we look across the border the whole region that's what's occurred basically from iraq for them and you look at the leaders dictators frankly but mubarak and saddam assad gadhafi all have be

iraq has permitted al qaeda to operate within its territory but of course there was no al qaeda saddam hussein sworn enemy in iraq just as there was no nuclear program no biological weapons program and no chemical warfare program no v.x. nerve gas even the doubly of the soldiers down by the usa was no longer extend in iraq which means bolton may find it hard to persuade u.s. allies of the necessity to start new wars against north korea iran china and russia while the world waits for an arguably more muscular response from moscow for monday's tit for tat diplomat expulsions it may be amazing to some that bolton didn't use novacek w m d as an argument for war against iraq in twenty zero three the war that arguably his new boss poses they lie ok said there were weapons of mass destruction there was none and they knew there were none there were no weapons of mass ok now of course today o.p.c. w. weapons of mass destruction inspectors are in england investigating whether w m d justifies a new war of sorts with russia joining me now is someone who's met trump's new national security advisor john bol

security council about anthrax claiming saddam hussein was behind it and is now a fellow at there are no is on the board of directors of the neo conservative think tank the council of foreign relations and he even admitted that he was he was lying but he really you know faced no punishment i think most of all the greatest figure today is robert muller the former f.b.i. director who is now leading the justice department special investigation into alleged russian interference and he is he more than anyone is beloved by liberals as a hero who is going to take down trump with the silver. bullet that just seems like it's so close but they can't quite get any continues to to feed this monster that is a total distraction from our devastating us foreign policy that continues to destroy countries today to get us all what word of muller fit into that hole in the very rock and although i get colin powell i get to take it remind the viewers avoid where moeller fits into that kind of trifecta where he testified under oath and should you know perjured himself that saddam hussein had weapons of mass

and iraqi and pain told us that they had first welcome the toppling of saddam hussein but then the invasion brought one catastrophe.

kind of check by saddam hussein who compressed everything.q, like venezuela, like vietnam also had a market dominant minority. the roughly 15% sunnis. though the sunnis are the same group that saddam hussein belonged to. they had controlled that country, politically, economically, militarily for hundreds of years. first, under the ottomans and the british who favored that sunni minority, ruling through them and mostly under saddam hussein, who favored the sunnis. not just that, it was not just that he allowed the sunnis to control the wealth, he persecuted the kurds and the shia majority. so once again, you have the same dynamic. a long dominant hated minority in this case is the sunnis. suddenly, we come in the united states and we think democracy is the panacea. we don't pay any attention to the tribal divisions, we just think if we have elections we are going to produce a wonderful free market democracy. nothing like that happened. instead, what happened is exactly what you would predict when you suddenly give majority rule to a country wh

feeling of happiness and joy because of that the invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime as a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created. an absolute vacuum. in the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and move turns for the country from absolute dictatorship to. through them with our limits. through them without those false abilities. now users of facebook are questioning the credibility of the service following revelations over personal data harvesting artie's initial sethi has the details now on the tech giant data battle. deletes facebook it's the hash tag that's been trending on twitter the social network users off your reus facebook played a part in getting donald trump into the white house from fifteen million facebook users was harvested by a troubling analytic company and what appears to be the largest leak in the social networks history in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambri