military intervention against saddam hussein was judith miller judith miller writing for the new york times had us convinced that saddam hussein was trying to make an atomic bomb it is iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons however that is at the top of the administration's list of worries and forms a key part of its case for a minute to come pain to overthrow mr hussein in two thousand and fifteen she admitted that she was wrong about her w m d stories now judith miller is on fox news she's become a full member of the council on foreign relations and she is treated as credible on mainstream media when she talks about chemical weapons in syria but point out of this action we choose to do or the red line weekend that used chemical weapons which bashar assad and russia aided by russia and iran have begun to use we can we take the impunity. and then there's sean hannity the prime time fox personality these are his words back in two thousand and three this madman has killed a million and a hip people and gas children he has six he does it again just like many of his colleagues sean hannity was

and non-doing american alliance wanted to be rid of saddam hussein. i'm going to be to edwin in northern iraq he's buying his. bill the capital of the kurdish area. he wanted to join the last five to still living in baghdad but it's too dangerous that. which is not to say at the least safe islamic states frontline is just a short drive from the bill city center. so there is no. problem with just. eyeballed this house is a step being like dream almost to. ask . you know what maybe just maybe in thirty forty fifty sixty years time jews would reconnect with their both place. it could die with me but if i don't see that my dream in my lifetime i can east i know i set it in motion. of course i know i'm going for a bit for the behavior there i longing for but it does my body that. i knew all morning for that if you still natural. but you don't go there. i don't want to go back. there's a lot of people who left baghdad in the good times so they have a nice nest. subject your memory of it. i know that my memory is just marred by the loss of my dear uncle. ira

military intervention against saddam hussein was judith miller judith miller writing for the new york this is don't even make it into the spotlight. the men in this country seem to think that because there's a patriarchy that means that they have the power of a woman and i think that's how they're great cultural stuff. and he was that he to national tennis player. and i was with him for about eighteen months. before he may be. in his column one day next to the tennis courts about two weeks off to the incident i try to tell my mother and dismissed me as a speaking rubbish. to the creation actually trying. to be. starting to say that they. didn't destroy. those things with i mean maybe still to this day. a couple of friends and i took a trip to cape town dance floor. i remember took shots with some of my friends and . that's what i remember until i woke up the next morning and there was a. liquid that was not. mining that was on my body. and people have the right to say to me that i asked for it like who asked for something that is so painful and i think he also sees it like that where

regime under saddam hussein launched an attack on iran. and out terrorist an us and iran at that time but after the war and then gradually after until after saddam was overthrown they became much weaker more recently though they've been receiving a large amount of funding from foreign powers and the iranians believe it's linked to thought it had no access cut off by the opposition from its own border syrian regime border forces retreated from the border and the opposition forces took over the posts and raised their flag it wasn't until june last year when the syrian army began to recapture those parts of the country and it did so with the help of a rainy and pro-war rainy and forces who have proven to be a considerable power. but in the world of the u.s. state department iran give us and taketh because apparently on its own soil it forces the same terrorists it kills in syria it's a crazy standing of reality and it's had but this is very common in the united states rand is helping the syrians defeat these terrorists and their countries but

when saddam hussein needed to please the americans hearing straight to be peace. but it's too dangerous for jews to actually worship. baghdad was the center of the jewish war for over fifteen hundred years. they were both in color mode bob you know in your cohort. why isis is put so much into iraq. i can't live. with the fact that my grandfather he's very. you know we've abandoned him we just say goodbye back. but it's way. could everything. oh i don't know gave in the back. while it claims i was egyptian president is it makes a public appearance following the season of the sleaze seen by the first twin suicide took place my father could see that it was a momentous thing happening in the middle east. it was the first time that nationalism asserted itself i remember he used to listen to news day and night he couldn't get away from it one minute. the women i mean probably david done good settling in my brother who were not happy. feeling a kind of exile. behind the sort of facade of easygoing life. all house was on the river front and the royal palace was on the oth

david: subsequently president bush decided to invade iraq to topple saddam hussein.in light of hindsight, had you known there were no weapons of mass destruction, would you have still gone forward? condoleezza: i say to people what you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not yesterday. we simply believed as all the intelligence agencies around the world did, that he had weapons of mass destruction and was reconstituting them quickly, and it was on that basis that we decided that you finally had to do what the international community had been threatening to do, to have serious consequences. in retrospect, i don't know if we had known what we would have done. i still think the world is better off without saddam hussein. he was a cancer in the region. while iraq went through an extraordinarily difficult time, and the thing i would do differently is how we rebuilt iraq. i think we made a lot of mistakes post war. i would rather be iraqi than syrian today. iraq has a chance to be a stabilizing element because they have an accountable government, the kurds and

had a consistent policy of fighting al qaeda in afghanistan, fighting isis in syria, fighting saddam husseinn iraq. president trump's best buddies in the region have a record, almost a consistent record of supporting al qaeda in afghan, supporting the taliban in afghanistan, supporting saddam hussein in iraq, supporting the extremists in syria, and now bombing civilians in yemen. people who are bombing civilians in yemen are not iranians, they're american allies using american planes, american ammunitions, killing innocent children in a school bus. >> you're talking, of course, about saudi arabia. >>> next when we come back, iraq, why the trump administration evacuated a consulate in basra this weex, a -- week, and blamed iran for it. i'll ask the foreign minister when we come back. great question. see, for a full service brokerage like ours, that's tough to do. schwab does it. next question. do you offer a satisfaction guarantee? a what now? a satisfaction guarantee. like schwab does. man: (scoffing) what are you teaching these kids? ask your broker if they offer award-winning full service

david: subsequently president bush decided to invade iraq to topple saddam hussein.in light of hindsight, had you known there were no weapons of mass destruction, would you have still gone forward? condoleezza: welcome me know, i always say to people what you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday. we simply believed as all the intelligence agencies around the world did, that he had weapons of mass destruction and was reconstituting them quickly, and it was on that basis that we decided that you finally had to do what the international community had been threatening to do, to have serious consequences. in retrospect, i don't know if we had known what we would have done. i will say this. i still think the world is better off without saddam hussein. he was a cancer in the region. and while iraq went through an extraordinarily difficult time, and the thing i would do differently is how we rebuilt iraq. i think we made a lot of mistakes post war. but i will say this, i would rather be iraqi than syrian today. iraq has a chance to be a

had a consistent policy of fighting al qaeda in afghanistan, fighting isis in syria, fighting saddam husseinn iraq. president trump's best buddies in the region have a record, almost a consistent record of supporting al qaeda in afghan, supporting the taliban in afghanistan, supporting saddam hussein in iraq, supporting the extremists in syria, and now bombing civilians in yemen. people who are bombing civilians in yemen are not iranians, they're american allies using american planes, american ammunitions, killing innocent children in a school bus. >> you're talking, of course, about saudi arabia. >> next, iraq, why the trump administration evacuated a consulate in basra this week and played iran for it. i'll ask the foreign minister when we come back. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait...and keep it off. looking good, patrick. i know. (vo) go national. go like a pr

he thought it was the right thing to do, he thought saddam hussein had to be taken out. secondly, he thought we are going to win this work quickly. presidents who win wars quickly are popular. i would like to see congress impeach me when i have a 90% approval rating. he thought the war would have been over by several weeks. brian: what did he say to you when you asked him why he did not go and take saddam hussein out in 1991 and his son ends up having to do it years later? every member of the bush administration will give you the same answer, which is borne out by the documentary evidence as well. no one in 1991 in the bush administration including dick cheney thought it was a good idea to go on to baghdad. the reasons they gave are hunting for us today. they suggested the iraqis would treat us like a foreign occupying force. they suggested it would create ethnic and religious tensions that could lead to civil war. they thought it would put tremendous strain on the israeli-palestinian issue, the center of so much middle east politics. frankly, bush recognized if you owne

they don't know saddam hussein cut 50% of the population is under 30, you have to be happy because the kurds are ruling, that kind of identity policy had been enough until today. it doesn't really fly anymore. the public wants services, jobs, the opportunities of any other neighbor they have, this government does not deliver that. the options of the election in a way give us on one hand the option of another unity government, the continuation of the status quo or perhaps what we are seeing, some part of the ruling elite, the ruling coalition, we may actually have for the first time, identified serious opposition. that would be putting iraq on a different trajectory, probably closer to political maturity. i think the kurds, in a way, this is mainly about who in the shiite house is going to be the core of the next government. looking back at the charge, and then waiting for them to make up their act and then they're going to join that government. being in baghdad, being part of the government, went back to gaining positions like the presidency, the deputy prime minister, some of those po

kinds of criticism i mean it would be like the iranians claiming that the united states supported saddam hussein bombing iran and killing loads of iranians it's exactly like that and i'll tell you something else if it was the other way around washington would not hesitate to point the finger of blame towards iran if they had half a chance to do so if there be an atrocity in some other part of the world interesting also the drays of may has been meeting with the rouhani on the sidelines of the un u.k. and russia on the same side about the u.s. violation of the nuclear threat well that's right the u.s. is increasingly isolated on the global stage because everybody else involved in the iranian nuclear deal is still standing by it but washington's quite happy to bully and threaten the companies in the european union saying if you do business with iran you can't do business with us you've got to make your choice ok well ever since we were the labor conference but you've chosen a headline about your leader of the liberal democrats well let's give the lib dems some jew as well the independent reports w

saddam hussein's iraq u.s. u.k. backed israel then saudi backed yemen get off its libya. as well as china the fact that obama's usa would not join is perhaps no surprise given his use of drone assassination but what about india going to be something to do with the nuclear armed line of control and disputed kashmir. the sounds of pellet gun shots yelling and smoke from tear gas canisters filled the air in several towns in indian administered kashmir this week muslims are celebrating the eat or festival of sacrifice leaving many streets quiet. not here in shrine. joining me now is the former president of britain's parliamentary group on guys we're lord ahmed boredom and thank you for coming on before we get to the events in kashmir and things are moving faster than your comment about them a saying that just appearing on this program risks being a propaganda to mourn loving me uproot inspired us ahead i don't think that that's a very good representation of british values which is freedom of press is very important to have that different view i mean he reappeared on iranian p

given out by social media we'll see on saturday thirty eight years to the day you came back to saddam hussein invaded iraq saddam would go on to use w m d against the islamic republic with the knowledge of both the u.k. and u.s. government. please. please. notice anything she. said as that. night. so there was a built. in into him about the question of how they not. look . for the look i. don't want the money i don't want to worry about. something that really none of us want to. mislead just. a phone call from the. aunt of a shuffle stemming we have been down. in the world and we'll get a little off and then you know what. shall i do you saw that this idol of the. leaks last leak out. when you. look at the distant cousin was it's a book called the but. it's going strong it's about seeing. just chill. at that level that you need to do not know what are in just. a tragic chain of events or intentional provocation after the dawning of a russian military plane in syria israel russia and syria look for the guilty party we look at how far this may go. also ahead on the program this hour greece relo

immediately moving from bin from bin laden looking for him immediately moving into we're going to stop saddam hussein because we think he may have bombs and by the way one of the things i learned in my eight hundred years of doing this stuff is when the cia starts saying we have high confidence high confidence that there are these remember weapons of mass destruction in iraq high confidence and so when they say again as the democrats go out saying we have high confidence the russians actually won the war won the election you know the intervening and that's why hillary lost not because she ran a terrible complainer or she was a very likable. we lost because the russians fixed the election somehow some magical way i'm troubled by all that so i want i want more facts the allegations that russia intervened to sway the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and trump and his campaign colluded with the russians during the election you all skeptical of both those claims why i'm skeptical of the russia because i have i've been doing this for as i say hundreds of years i have sources inside who are i can g

that far away bureaucrats and rogue judges would strike fear into the hearts of the likes of saddam hussein hitler stalin and gadhafi is preposterous even cruel time and again history has proven that the only deterrent to evil an atrocity is what franklin roosevelt once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies a power that perversely could be threatened by the i.c.c. as vague definition of aggression crimes thus we see paradoxically that the dangers of the international criminal court stem from both its potential strength and its manifest weakness. fourth the international criminal court is superfluous given that the message to q.s. judicial systems already hold american citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards u.s. service members in the field must operate fully in accordance with the laws of armed conflict when violations of law do occur the united states takes appropriate and swift action to hold perpetrators accountable we are a democratic nation with the most robust system of investigation accountability and transparency in the world we believe in the r

support to saddam hussein that if that support disappeared they came all it's of that. void. very very cute and i think frank was also vulnerabilities. these c.d.'s then are more interested in discussing with them often they go for that beef. we of course have crops that elections for the united states of america. they lie there defend and made of secret all the contacts at the piano obviously and this she had some all over it said smith bass it's all know it can be a little bit of an american that yes. in the aftermath of the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war the united states and the soviet union co-hosted a peace conference in the spanish capital of madrid we have an opportunity. i think a real opportunity to see. arabs arab states. sitting down face to face and direct negotiations with israel. will let the will dock. idea because you have that show me a yes. and no nor one of them at the moment and. where you. men are all going for this the media that obama know who has been joining us. oh yes. the others in yellow blue with. him in the two of them philammon e.c.s. in

over saddam hussein's iraq he went out to an aircraft carrier and put on a boat much eckert and stood there like tom cruise but look at the way he package that i mean he was basically making a woman. and so i think russians on the other hand towards that dreadful reality for them.

production capacity was ten million barrels per day and in one thousand nine hundred august when saddam hussein forces entered the coate their war old put an embargo undecided not to buy oil from kuwait and. iraq so five mutambara spent a day of oil was lost from the war market and saw that even decided in a crash very interesting program and put the old experts engineers to try to increase production within the next six months or so and they did their best they could domestic knowledge of the best engineering planning and so on and yet six months nathan eighty nine hundred ninety one eight point five million barrels per day so then nami no cap acidy which was ten. at the time they were producing about five five and a half they thought zero or there would be five mean about hispanic coming off the side that maybe ought to compensate for the loss of ford from a coate on iraq and yet it was eight point five and not ten million by a spare day so i have my view is that the extra spare capacity of nominated two may not actually be available maybe one point five or sec and it will take some time to b

strengthen a highly militarized pro-american political and security order but in prior decades it was saddam hussein's iraq that stood at the precipice of strong independent military power in the middle east and before that it was government nasr egypt that challenge the united states so this is not new in terms of the regional dynamics and it's not new in terms of the dynamics in washington but it's also important to keep in mind that today it's critically important for the united states as as policymakers see it here in washington this is not my personal opinion to keep the islamic republic of iran itself weak divided and sapped of its energies keeping it consciously entangled in military conflict and to pair that with emboldening israel and having countries that might that would challenge iran to be tied to an alliance that includes israel because once you're in an alliance in the arab and muslim world with israel there's really no turning back because your populations don't support that so the only way that you as a government can get support to continue to be part of that alliance is to stay alig

that the iraqis, and the iraqi prosecutors, the man who i'd —— prosecuted saddam hussein, identifiedussein, identified 11. autopsies were not performed on the bodies because of the muslim tradition of burying within 24 hours. that said, there have been over 85,000 iraqi civilians killed since this tragedy. but, with respect, that is not your problem. the problem is that your country was responsible for these deaths, described by the attorney for the district of colombia last —— colombia at one of the trials, he said it was an outrageous attack with devastating concentrate —— consequences are so many with devastating concentrate —— consequences are so many families. he said that as the verdict was announced he said i pray this verdict will bring some sense of comfort to the survivors of what he called a massacre prosecutors can say whatever they need to to win a case. but it has not been clear, even within the courts at washington, dc, the first time that prosecutors brought charges it was thrown out for misconduct. the second time was overturned in an appeals court because the prosec

campaign it ran in the years following the revolution and how a meek a force is for alongside saddam husseinduring the iran iraq war however the organization has cultivated powerful friends abroad britain lifted its designation as a terrorist organization in two thousand and eight the e.u. did the same in two thousand and nine and the united states in two thousand and twelve after the m e k was forced out of iraq it was the us who brokered a deal to resettle them in albania where their social media campaign against the islamic republic continues this activity. a is very much focused on the debate in the west because i think the intention is in part to prepare public opinion in the west for whatever kind of regime change agenda washington is pursuing if the regime continues its nuclear aspirations it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before these i make a members they have no way back they are absolutely desperate and you know are probably willing to get behind anything it's not like what happens on social media stays there anymore it feel to the mainstream media there is so much

campaign it run in the years following the revolution and how a meek a forces fought alongside saddam husseinduring the iran iraq war however the organization has cultivated powerful friends abroad britain lifted its designation as a terrorist organization in two thousand and eight the e.u. did the same in two thousand and nine and the united states in two thousand and twelve after the m e k was forced out of iraq it was the us who brokered a deal to resettle them in albania where the social media campaign against the islamic republic continues this activity is very much focused on the debate in the west because i think the intention is in part to prepare public opinion in the west for whatever kind of regime change agenda washington is pursuing if the regime continues its nuclear aspirations it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before these and make a member as they have no way back they are absolutely desperate and you know are probably willing to get behind anything it's not like what happens on social media stays there anymore it filters way into mainstream media there is so

over saddam hussein's iraq he went to an aircraft carrier and put on a boat much eckert and like tom cruise but look at the way he package that i mean he was basically making a little woman. and so i think russians on the other hand war is a dreadful reality for them this this this wonderful new tradition of the much of the poke to russians this because nothing funny about it is serious and i'm sure that russia will be there to extend your question little bit i'm sure that russia will be the last country in the world to abandon its nuclear deterrent i think russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow walk against invasion or war by a superior coalition of speaking about this affair superior outside coalition force as those tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for russia russia is

saddam hussein, when he invaded iran at the beginning of the errani raqqa war, called on the arabs of—— iran—iraq war. just give us an idea, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this was a horrific attack and the pictures are a horrific attack and the pictures a re really a horrific attack and the pictures are really upsetting and difficult to watch. how unusual is to have an attack like this in highly unusual. few and far between. there was an isis terrorist attack in iran last year that killed almost more people than this. it is very shocking to iranians. it will help the government to reinforce the narrative that we have to fight these transnational cini jihadists abroad, because otherwise the fight will come to us. —— sunni. abroad, because otherwise the fight will come to us. -- sunni. what do you think the response will be? in all likelihood, a crackdown in those areas. it is a very strategic area to iran. it is home to two seaports, it is oil—rich, it is of great strategic importance. so i think there will be a securitisation of that area, and ethnic iranian arabs who have

over saddam hussein's iraq he went to an aircraft carrier and put on a boat much eckert and stood there like tom cruise but look at the way he package that i mean he was basically making a woman. and so i think russians on the other hand towards that dreadful reality for them this this this wonderful new tradition of the much of the poke to russians this because nothing funny about it is serious and i'm sure that russia will get to extend your question little bit i'm sure that russia will be the last country in the world to abandon its nuclear deterrent i think russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow walk against invasion no wolf but it's the period coalition of photos speaking about disappear disappear outside coalition force as those tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for rus

my trip to the same and after accusations of human rights abuses and corruption of president saddam hussein and the government was seen as a fresh start but critics say their failed to deliver on many election promises. there are many things working in my head to rajapakse his favor right now there are the everyday issues that are brought people onto the streets combined with what's perceived to be a weak unstable government into someone who's regarded as the strongman of sri lankan politics who clearly sees an opportunity the government says it is achievable goals but needs more time mahinda rajapakse his son who's seen as a potential future leader of sri lanka says time is up for the government until people doesn't want it to and where they get higher there could be a higher tax. i'm sure the people doesn't have on a change that they're all that has certainly stopped them losing jobs. and that the unemployment rate is going up mahinda rajapaksa is calling for political change but he's barred from becoming president again because of the constitutional two term limits but as he proved when

forces invaded and forced gunmen from control of the city after the fall of saddam hussein. by spring twenty fourteen large areas had been seized by eisold fighters. two years later fallujah was freed after a long seized by the iraqi army but much of it had been destroyed. the local government says it's rebuilding as fast as it can and that's giving some iraqis hope for the future but they're different and i'm against it but when we got back to fallujah after the liberation we saw so much destruction and we estimated at least five years for the total reconstruction of fallujah now we're seeing some sort of efforts to rebuild the reconstruction of fallujah as part of a bigger building program in iraq which is being managed from here in baghdad to have the ministry of construction and housing budgets are tight and it's up to the individual cities to manage the money to get. new projects are needed to improve things after i sold and also to fix the huge damage that affected the city as a whole this would require much support from the central government. but getting the proper c

idiocy of this and the culturally to see is just amazing you invade and regime change iraq remove saddam hussein and you get a shia majority democratic iraq that makes allies with iran and invites them to bring missiles into its own country why not the us has missiles all over the world this short range ballistic missile and iraq was easier in its rich sovereignty back by him by his coalition of the willing and you know these missiles are you know are short range of two hundred to seven hundred kilometers they are just enough to hit riyadh. tel of eve and the us military bases in qatar and elsewhere in the middle east if the us launches an attack on iran and that's exactly what they're there for as a as a backup measure and why should an iraqi allow their own lies with iran and you know they're complaining though about iranians in syria where there weren't any iranians in the city of affair until you find half the jihadi is in the world to try to overthrow the syrian government now the iranians are in syria invited legally by the syrians who know it haven't you don't get to decide who syrians al