like i did in saddam hussein's iraq, so i said to myself, what's worse than this? nothing could be worse than this. well, i found out in the years since the invasion that the anarchy in iraq after saddam cell was much, much worse than the tyranny under his rule. whether caught up in a rush of patriotism or addicted to the ratings that rise when broadcaster is bang, the drums are too much of the american media bought into the eagle eyes on iraqi w. m. d. 's terrorist sleeper south than the us and saddam hussein's fictional links to outcome. new studios were flooded with ex, military officers turned front men for weapons manufacturers urging us to attack iraq, presented as experts were more like profit here. and the pentagon played a ordinating role in getting them on the air was turned to retire. general, joseph ralston also join me. general bernard, trainer, he's a retired marine corps, lieutenant general air force lieutenant general tom mac. and ernie who is with us in our foxes were briefing room. they were beltway band, former pentagon officials, who make out li

like i did in saddam hussein's iraq, so i said to myself, what's worse than this? nothing could be worse than this. well, i found out in the years since the invasion that the anarchy in iraq after saddam cell was much, much worse than the tyranny under his rule. whether caught up in a rush of patriotism or addicted to the ratings that rise when broadcasters bang, the drums of too much of the american media bought into the big lies on iraqi w. m. d. 's terrorist sleeper south than the us. and saddam hussein's fictional links to our new studios were flooded with ex, military officers turned front man for weapons manufacturers urging us to attack iraq presented as experts more like profit. here at the pentagon, played a coordinating role in getting them on the air. let's turn to retire general. joseph ralston, also joining me. general bernard, trainer, he's a retired marine corps lieutenant general, air force lieutenant general tom mac. and ernie who is with us in our foxes, were briefing room. they were beltway band with former pentagon officials who make out like, a

i open up a bureau of information, saddam hussein's ministry of information. i can't explain how paranoid that time was under saddam hussein, who weren't allowed to have cell phones. you could have any communication. i had a satellite phone, every night you are only allowed to use it under the guidance of the ministry, every night they would seal it and put a stamp on it in the morning there is a creepy guy would come open it for me and as a sidebar, this man had nog fingernails, they were ripd out like under torture and every day he would open my satellite phone and i would stare at his fingernails think, what did he do, what happened to this man something happened to him so terrible he was put in prison if his fingernails were ripped out. anyway, by some stroke of pure luckke i was given -- i got permission to drive the entire of iraq. this never happens. i think i had national geographic, pleading and bribing in the middle east, it's important, i got permission to make this trip. i knew i was seeing in iraq that would disappear forever once the invasion hap

your government supported saddam hussein.nment, western governments — to use against our country. i survived two chemical attacks. many of my friends didn't. iran never retaliated with chemical weapons. that's the difference between us and your governments. our government does not initiate conflict. all right, to be clear — cos, again, ijust want to try to be as specific and as brief as i can be — you're saying that, right now, tehran sees no difference between the biden administration and its strategy toward your country and that of donald trump? let's look at the evidence. the biden administration is using maximum pressure sanctions, the same sanctions that trump was using. why is he doing that? to get concessions from iran. that's exactly what trump wanted. trump imposed this array of sanctions under different labels called the "maximum pressure" campaign in order to force iran to change thejcpoa. that is exactly what biden is doing. otherwise, the deal is very clearfor all sides. the europeans know... all right. but it's

sanctions and british sanctions on iraq let alone the other economic sanctions had destroyed saddam hussein's capabilities. you knew that why did you switch? and i didn't know that either. no, that's putting words in my mouth. again, i knew that the sanctions have been unsuccessful news actually you really sanctions had been effective against saddam hussein. oh, hang. specifically in terms of hurting children and women and all manner of other people, salaam had no problems whatsoever. building castle after castle fortifications and buying things or is military and so forth. there were some validity to walk. pal said to validity that made saddam still a security problem with regard to his neighbors. and with regard to his own people, while tens of millions killed would or displace just finally did osama bin laden when, i mean, you've talked so eloquently about the corruption, the torture, the heroine, the relations between the cia and the i. s i in pakistan. and now the united states has lost so much. sure. so much in this world since the $911.00 attacks did he $7.00 trillion dollars counting

unsuccessful and whose actually you had said really some sanctions had been effective against saddam hussein. ordering specifically in terms of hurting children and women and all manner of other people, salaam had no problems whatsoever. building castle after castle and fortifications and buying things for his military and so forth. there were some validity to walk foul said to validity that made saddam still a security problem with regard to his neighbors. and with regard to his own people, while tens of millions killed would or displace just finally did osama bin laden when, i mean, you've talked so eloquently about the corruption, the torture, the heroine, the relations between the cia and the i. s i in pakistan. and now the united states has lost so much. sure. so much in this world since the $911.00 attacks did he $7.00 trillion dollars counting the cost over time to take care of the veterans weakness. they paid a lot of defense company salaries at the high borders that will have to hook to that. but i mean, did a when the in trying to destroy what was the origin, the idea of the americ

saddam hussein's ministry of information. i can't explain how paranoid that time was under saddam hussein. everything was bombed. we were allowed to have cell phones. you couldn't have any kind of communication. i had a satellite phone but every night you were only allowed to use it under the guidance of the ministry and every night they would seal it with sealing wax and put a stamp on it and in the morning there was a creepy guy that would come and open it for me and just as a sidebar this man had no fingernails . they had been ripped out like under torture and every day he would open my satellite phone and i would stare at his fingernails think what did he do that he was in saddam's prison? what happened to this man? something happened that was so terrible that he was putin prison and his fingernails were ripped out . my friendsstroke of pure luck , i was given ... i got permission to drive the entire length and width of the rack. this kind of thing never happens but i have an assignment for national geographic and after m

.# there can be no doubt that saddam hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produceany more, and he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction. i wish he would just do what nixon did and that's step down. someone ought to go up there and tell him, it's over. the plane's waiting for you, you're out. there are known knowns, there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns. that is to say there are things we now know we don't know. but there are also unknown unknowns. there are things we do not know we don't know. he sings. i, without qualification, apologise for the pain and the hurt and the indignity and the damage that apartheid has done to black, brown and indians in south africa. # from a distance, we all have enough...# too many good men and women in this party have remained silent. too many have done something which is known as keeping your head down. we even stand a chance together with the liberal party of winning a majority of seats. # and this is a song of every woman, man

because the last time we saw this was in '90/'91 when saddam hussein invaded kuwait, and said, i hereby annex kuwait. kuwait is now part of iraq. and the international community, you know, went to the united nations, we put together a coalition and condemned saddam hussein at the time and told him he had to withdraw. russia is a nuclear-armed country, so it's a little different, we're not going to put together an armed coalition, but we certainly need to deter putin and get him to try to stand back. and diplomatically, we need to put the pressure on russia, because he is challenging the international order. the rules of the road that govern and keep us safe and have kept us safe since world war ii. >> matt bradley, you're on the ground there. we're talking about ukraine from, you know, a distance. how is the situation where you are? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, jose, if you walk around kiev, like i've been doing, really, it's quite quiet. there's no panic. all the stores are open. people are walking around. you really don't get the feeling in this city that there is a massive world power

the boundaries in europe for the first time since world war ii, it was the same time as when saddam husseinhed a invasion and took away and said i know own kuwait. we launched the gulf war to regain sovereignty for kuwait back in the 1990's. i'm not saying we should have gone to war with russia over ukraine but we probably in retrospect could have taken a stronger line. that is why this moment is so important and dangerous because if we don't stand up now on the issue of ukraine, the russians will continue to push and they will push on nato. >> do you think of what the u.s. is talking about, these tough economic sanctions against russia, is that going to be enough of a deterrent? >> no. that is why think it is important the administration, the biden administration is talking about arming the ukrainians, helping them fight an insurgency if the russians launch another invasion. they are also talking about increasing the forces on the borders of russia ithe nato countries. demonstrating to russia all you are doing is making the situation more dangerous and frankly speaking, tre will be body ba

indicates a lack of harmony and reflects a hostile message conveyed across under iraq's post saddam hussein constitution. the parliament now has 30 days to elect the country's new president who will then ask the assemblies largest to block to form a government. the speaker says he wants to do all this in just to have that time. but choosing a prime minister, it will be difficult because she, i cleric milk to the solder. and the iranian backed parties have such different agendas and sundays drama points toward an even more difficult time when it comes to picking a cabinet theater will immaculate it to hardy, the losing party. they're expected to take legal actions at the supreme court. again shot and deployed the supporters to the streets guy, but that will not change anything. iraqis have waited for long to see the new house of representatives in session, but some feel that real change may once again be derailed by cic, terry and differences. some iraq, is it see the newly elected parliament as a chance to ent corruption and begin a new era. but in a landscape market by uncertainty and poli

let me remind you of that. iraq, was that shortly after saddam hussein switched from door in here, you know, all sales. you're starting to get money for that in euros, and just if you want, later on, iraq was born. in fact, everyone in europe is very concerned because most of the russian banks had, they were not with american bank, but when you repeat banks and now the europeans are asking, that is public. they're asking now to state to somehow soften the measures possible matters against russia. so that european banks now to me, when i was, i wanted to pick you up. if i may, i'm so sorry to jump in again. but, you know, for example, we talk about the dumping of dollars by russia. putin, as you said, has been doing this for years now. put in said russia has no choice. russia has no choice when the dollar has become weaponized unsanctioned to delay. but then you have no choice but to diversify and find other currencies to work into russia, solver, and well fund as you well know, was it last year it dumped all of it's us dollars? absolutely. billions of us dollars. again, put in saying,

like saddam hussein still fighting his little like sharks and just about with someone from tikrit. i know i'm doing it. i know i'm constantly thinking that people i dislike must be to the right of me and must be obnoxious in that the world, and supporters to design my ideology so it has certain people in its sights, and certain sentimental people, sentimental vision of people that i don't know, thomas, if you imagine relatives of yours who suffered under segregation the way that i imagine my appellation relatives, but i definitely will take some time to tell you that it's west virginia have been left out of everything at all our resources should go to senator joe manchin because those are my people and i've like some sentimental attachment to them come some actual attachments. sigh think maybe we can talk about the definition of elite is. it's laughable how the four of us meet the criteria for the professional class and our educations, and i think we're turning on some of our peers that rob is the wrong way and passing them off as political arguments. i completely agree with batya

another war by taking out saddam hussein and then the next sequence shows the ground where not a single one of the -- bunker buster bombs hit the bunkers. they were supposed to hit. so this air force fantasy about the effectiveness of technology continues to be an issue, i think even today and so it what do you gentlemen think because this still strikes me the air force is up here. they're not on the ground like infantry and they're doing these things and they're sure they're technology works and nothing is perfect. malcolm well, you know in disrespect they're not that different from any. devotee of new technology. they sound to me like a lot of ceos of silicon valley startups. one in particular is in the courts right now having to do with blood tests, you know, the thing about technological obsessives is that you don't get where you want to go unless you have an outlandish belief in your own experiment. right? and so that's a necessary that kind of outsized belief is a necessary ingredient of embarking on the experiment in the first place, but it is also powerfully contributes to you b

far from pulling out of iraq after the overthrow of saddam hussein, the u.s.y stayed on for years. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: it was anct of illegal aggression which stabilized iraq and csed terrible suffering f the cilian population. i would describe the iact of the last two decades as catastroic. correspondent: eat u.s. never managed to put a democratic framework in place, as terrorism and violent crime convulsed iraq. u.s. troops pulled out into 1011 , only to return three years later as the so-called islamic state threaten to take over. washington bed an international coalition and declared i.s. defeated in 2017. now, american combat troops are leaving again, and most iraqis are glad to see him go. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: of course i want the americans out. we need to be independent. we can't have foreigners occupying our great country. correspondent: the occupiers must leave iraq, they have harmed us all. the u.s. withdrawal could provide iran with an opening and embolden i.s., so washington is replacing combat troops wi

the reason we went to desert shield and desert storm as we didn't signal to saddam hussein that headleynvaded kuwait tha we would respond with military force for the same thing is happening right now we are mobilizing 8500 troops without the nato force even being stood up no one clearly understands what we're trying to accomplish and i think that if russia was to invade because we can't even come to a clear understanding o what's happening because i don' think the generals have a clear plan or are advising correctly, we could end up in a much worse position than we are now. >> you made reference to the troops being wrecked i'd like t be clear on what eastern europe means, we have a clip of joe biden saying that just a short time ago. >> have you decided how soon yo would be moving it troops to eastern europe? >> i will be moving them when the nato countries [inaudible]. >> without getting into all the technical aspects of nato and what it's authorized to do and not do, it seems like what is the point if we have to put american troops unilaterally to eastern europe. >> i have read the ru

a you, us led coalition invaded a rat. saddam hussein was overthrown, and more than 100000 iraqis were killed no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. the supposed evidence was false. with the u. s. reputation fell even further due to human rights violations and crimes like those committed at the, the grip prison. and due to drone footage like this, published by wiki lease, it shows an attack on mostly unarmed direct hire. one of the victims was a journalist. the images were a propaganda gift to all enemies of the u. s. player. the days of the u. s. presenting itself as a moral role model. we're over, but it isn't the only country to wage war based on lies. when russia invaded ukraine and next crimea, i became increasingly interested in the disinformation campaign that ensued. i think it's absolutely accurate to say that ukraine was the testing ground. ah, it was all about muddying the information's face, making it impossible to distinguish what the reality was about what was happening and ukraine the ukrainians were painted as the aggressors. blaming the victim is a very common

saddam hussein and his giant human shredder, is propaganda.wish it were back in reporting on the uyghurs since. [two bells tolling] and i'm not going to stop now but i agree with you on most of that but i think china, the regime is murderous commies and they shouldn't have the olympics in the first place. >> adrian fans responsible for most of the propaganda, he's had to walk back a lot of the numbers his claims are they've expanded birth control and that amounts to genocide. when you say a million dead, it sounds like you are describing a war zone. kennedy: you can call it torture or birth-control or whatever term they want to use, i didn't like it when britney spears was under conservatorship and i don't like birth-control under the hands of the commies. and they are masters at propaganda. >> but the entire population of china is not free. that doesn't mean people are being exterminated by the millions, that's not the same, it's not true. kennedy: okay fine, let's say it's 100,000, that's 100,000 too many for me. meanwhile amazon must be see

where the first thing that happens is the tearing down of an enormous statue of saddam hussein. i am not by any means going to say i'm so sorry that we don't have a statue of joseph stalin saddam hussein these days we are a better planet without them. how do you arrive at decisions for people who are represented by statues who have not been around for 150 years or 200 years or something like that? i think there has to be something more of a process then i have seen in some of the latest wave of statue toppling. so we developed the decision tree. let's ask a series of five questions. the answer the first question move to the second when the answer the second we moved to the third and so forth through the fifth. now, there is no guarantee in this decision tree of a result. is not intended to produce a certain result. what it is intended to produce is we have fought through this. we havee looked at this illogically. we have come to this conclusion as a result of a process and not just impulse. at the end of the process we decide this statue should be removed that's fine at least ha

in i baghdad, one of the first things that happened is tearing down off an enormous statue of saddam hussein i'm not by any means going to sit here and say i'm sorry we don't have a statute of joseph stalin and saddam hussein these days, i think we are b better to plan without. how do we arrive at decisions for people represented by statues that haven't been around for 150 years or 200 years or something like that? i think it has to be more of a process than i've seen in the latest ways of statute toppling and removers we develop the decision tree which basically says let's ask a series of questions. depending on answer the first question and remove to the second depending on the second, third and so forth. nothere's no guarantee in this decision tree, no guarantee a result. it's not intended to produce a certain result. it is intended to produce thought through this. we've looked at this logically. we prompted us inclusion as a result of a process not just impulse. if atmp the end of the process e decide statue to be removed been fine, at least we've done in the process. the thing i'm most