backed by force, and then if saddam hussein actually agree, as tony blair said to president bush, we need to take yes for an answer. tony blair did not expect. yes. no. that hussein would say yes. nor did president bush expect hussein to say to saddam hussein to say yes. but they acknowledged to one another and their national security advisers talked to one another about this, that if saddam hussein actually did say, yes, if he did cooperate with the new resolution, if he did disclose and or relinquish his alleged weapons of mass destruction, then we would have to live with this regime. but we would never get to know this unless we unless he was threatened with force. whether he would agree or not was up to saddam hussein. and so he could have agreed. he could have been more forthcoming at an earlier moment. hans blix wants. it to be more and ultimately he couldn't give up what he didn't have. ultimately, he couldn't give up what he what he couldn't have. but he could have been much more forthcoming in terms of the bluff cooperation. well, yes. i mean, and that's one of the interestin

intelligence agency believed, around the world, according to american summaries, believed that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. now, jock itch iraq apparently, there's evidence -- shamrock did not believe saddam celeb weapons of mass to structure however, the information that i've seen suggested that at least americans said the french intelligence agencies also believed that he had weapons of mass distraction. so this was a widespread perception. my suggestion here though is that there could've been reasons, the should of been reasons based on what information was available at time for policymakers to step back as i just suggested with regard to secretary rumsfeld. but there's also the interesting moment in december of 2002 when condi rice is talking to george tenet about what is a real information that we can demonstrate to the american people that there's unquestionably weapons of mass distraction, and tenant and some of his leading analysts tell her what it is. and she's very disappointed by that and she says to tenant, she says in her own memoir, you know, i thought the evi

today marks 20 years since the fall of the regime of the late iraqi president saddam hussein.003, then us president george w bush launched operation "iraqi freedom" with a ground invasion by thousands of us and british troops, under the pretext of destroying iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. having ruled iraq with an iron fist since 1979, saddam went to ground until his hiding place was discovered by us troops eight months afterwards. he was later tried, convicted and hanged on the morning of december 30, 2006. i've been talking to balsam mustafa a reseach fellow at warwick university about life in baghdad during saddam hussein's rule. living under the dictatorship was very hard, and before the invasion also there was a wave of wars and conflicts, and also the economic sanctions. we were living through hardships and it felt like we were living in a big prison, and we were longing, or many of us were longing, to see saddam hussein's rule and the ba'athist regime come to an end one day, but we would never think at that moment that what would follow would be

on one hand i wanted saddam hussein to be gone.after one year of being set up in baghdad was something that was really hard to comprehend. i was happy to see him gone, but at the same time this was led by us troops and allies. it was not at the hands of iraqis, but the hand of invaders. however, there was a sentiment of optimism and hope for a better future. but unfortunately, that did not last very long and the feelings, the feelings of... there was a moment of tranquillity on that day in particular, when the war was over and we realised the far—fetched idea of 35 years of dictatorship finally came to an end, there was a moment of calmness and peace, but this did not last very long and the shift that we felt occurred later gradually, but also quickly and the first stage was the toppling of the statue by the us troops. then the us troops' failure to protect iraqi institutions, except for the ministry of oil. but all other institutions, including universities and the university i studied in was left unprotected and there was a lot o

today marks 20 years since the fall of the regime of the late iraqi president saddam hussein.ing thousands of us and british troops, claiming that iraq had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. my colleague lucy grey spoke to balsam mustafa, a research fellow at warwick university, about life in baghdad during saddam hussein's rule. living under the dictatorship was very hard, and before the invasion also, there was a wave of wars and conflicts, and also the economic sanctions. so, we were living through hardships and it felt like we were living in a big prison. and we were longing, or many of us were longing, to see saddam hussein's rule and the ba'athist regime come to an end one day, but we would never think at that moment that what would follow would be much worse, because saddam hussein's dictatorship and tyranny, for us, was the maximum level of brutality. so, just talk me through how you felt in 2003, then. we're watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppled and peoplejumping around on top of it and it being drag

and some were said to be pro saddam hussein. hundreds of other countries i know that i do not want to go to war for. this is the kind of discussion that we got where dissent was treated as unpatriotic. etc. i got more than 60 angry emails, all of them negative and i will recount the detail but publications i dealt with were less interested in running anything of mine much less on foreign policy, and even in this institute we felt the tremors of this debate, how difficult it was for some people to accept that this perhaps was not a good war. and what is very important and what bothers me the most out of all of this is the refusal of the foreign policy community to reconsider and rethink their positions. and to have any accountability for decisions that were made. there are few out there, and i know some of my friends might dare -- snare at these people and may be unhappy due to see. david from is someone who has indicated looking back that this did not turn out how they wanted. and indicating some reticence for pursuing those for

>> for us, the issue was getting rid of saddam hussein.brutal dictator, a tyranny that has really gripped this country, committed genocide against its own people, used chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction to exterminate the kurds, many, many other iraqis in southern iraq a elsewhere have been committed to mass graves, a regime that has committed wars of aggression. a country that was kunder sanctions. r us, war was not the best option. we would have rather done it ourselves. we would have rather been able to topple saddam hussein using our own means. so for us, the american led intervention meant a great opportunity to get rid of this regime and allow the polity of iraq to move on and hopefully develop a functioning democracy in the heart of the islamic middle east. if you ask me and ask other iraqis, and no doubt outsiders, we will all have to acknowledge this hasot been achieved the way we hoped to. >> one of the main challenges iraq faces today is rampant corruption. >> yes. >> would you say this is a direct result of the po

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let's take - ourselves back 20 years that iconic image of saddam hussein?ificance of the falling of saddam hussein, why was it such a turning point? it was the end of saddam husseinand as president he had driven iraq into many different, the iran—iraq war, the invasion of kuwait, sanctions, so any iraqis, we forget this today, many iraqis, as i say, were cautiously looking to see, can the americans and allies give us democracy? indie can the americans and allies give us democracy?— can the americans and allies give us democra ? ~ ., �* ., ., . ., ., democracy? we don't want a dictator. we want freedoms, _ democracy? we don't want a dictator. we want freedoms, we _ democracy? we don't want a dictator. we want freedoms, we want - democracy? we don't want a dictator. we want freedoms, we want a - democracy? we don't want a dictator. we want freedoms, we want a better| we want freedoms, we want a better standard of living. but for all the trappings of democracy, elections, constitutions, what ended up giving to the iraqis was actually a corrupt political system

this is saddam hussein's insurgency to start with. he had unlimited amount of money -- billions and billions of dollars. normally, in the typical now based insurgency, they are starving for capital. they had an unlimited amount of money. they had unlimited arms and ammunition. i took a helicopter ride with dave when i was going up to see him in roseville, and i think it took us 15 minutes to fly over an ammo depot. i said, what is that down there? it was like flying across fort campbell, kentucky. it was all an ammunition depot. so they had no shortage of arms, ammunition, money, and human beings. what else did they have? they ran a country for years and wanted to take it back. this is what we were up against and we did not understand that. we just did not. then our friend, osama bin laden, what did he do? he issues a fata and they came by the thousands and thousands. one way ticket into damascus, drive to the border, light luggage, no ticket going home, and they passed through there over and over again. and they joined that. so we we

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this is saddam hussein's insurgency to start with. he had unlimited amount of money , billions and billions of dollars. normally in the typical insurgency, they are starving for capital. they had an unlimited amount of money, unlimited arms and ammunition. i took a helicopter ride when i was going up to see him in roseville and i think it took us 15 minutes to fly over an ammo depot. i said what is that down there? it was like flying across kentucky. it was all an ammunition deck -- ammunition depot. so they had no shortage of money, ammunitions, and human beings. they ran a country for years and wanted to take it back. this is what we were up against and we did not understand that. we just did not. then our friend, osama bin laden, he issues a fata and they came by the thousands and thousands. one way ticket into damascus, life luggage, no ticket going home, and they passed through there over and over again. and they joined that. so we were up against something that was dramatically significant i'm suggesting. i hear the problems abo

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the british p. m. justified is decision by saying it was the only way to make saddam hussein comply. i still find the laurel for his advice. some convincing. there must, at the very least be an argument that the un security council has agreed there is a breach. the only issue is, can we use force and why not? if it is the only way to compliance the u. s. and the u. k. launched a 4 day bombing campaign against iraq and december of 1998. after the event. us president bill quinton, q. saddam hussein, a breach and commitment to the un developing weapons of mass destruction and not withdrawing his forces from kuwait as many as 1400 iraqi soldiers were killed and strikes on around a 100 military facilities. political commentator anthony webber believes that tony blair should face legal action, says he blatantly light to the u. k. parliament and the british people. if you look at what's happened in iraq, that's why we had the situation where the u. k. parliament was offensively lied, said, i'm sure it does. i'll tell you. but i was, as always said, he's a christian and they got, she does br

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are we all know what happened to could daffy and saddam hussein? my cousins, my concern of my question to you mister lindsey is, could any country expect retaliation from washington? as countries do continue to move further away from the dollar as the history has been interesting and depending from what perspective we look at it, you can make your own ideologies but times of very different. now those, like i said, now it's multi polar. everybody needs everybody to see the issue. i think rory is that we're having a reserve currency in your favor. it gives you a certain amount of privilege, but that privilege is also accompanied with a responsibility. and the word in there for expects you to be here in a manner, and that is more responsible, more mature. you also have to kind of be couple your own interest with the global interest. so i guess every country around the world, especially the u. s. i'm sure even the u. s. is aware of all this, and that's the reason why the claims are now moving it's, it's essentially a function of becoming a multi bullet

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and they threw a barbecue in saddam hussein's palace.re were 19-year-old soldiers in swimming trunks, doing cannon balls into the pool, munching on corn and eating hot dogs and hamburgers and in the midst of all this, paul bremmer, who had overseen a period of absolute chaos and hubris and mismanagement, shed a tear and was talking about what a great job he had done. and then president bush came on via video link and told everyone in his texas twang to enjoy a good barbecue. there were no iraqis there. there were only americans and i think it was very symbolic of what was to come. >> absolutely. you were a teenager at the time, living in the united states. what did your family experience during these first few years in the war? >> we never thought iraq -- my family were all iraqis and we believed democracy would finally come to that country. we were finally going to be free . i was worried about my relatives. i was worried about my grandma, my grandpa who was still in iraq. my cousins could not -- we had to pay to get them out. my other

not liberation or the struggle to save poor kuwait from the evil iraq, it was the overthrow of saddam husseinurned away from the west and wanted to sell his oil reserves . in iraq, not only for dollars was in the same way, the arab spring events in egypt , tunisia, syria helped to destabilize the entire region, because a destabilized region is easier to control. the reason why us hegemony on march 24, 1999, the destruction of yugoslavia is broadcast live. witnesses of those terrible events , sarjan's lawyer, lekich, and general bazhederdelevich can tell in detail about what happened in those terrible days that felt this american democracy of the country. the legitimacy of which they are trying to justify the tyranny of the sloboda regime on milosevic the real reasons are the economic independence of yugoslavia and its refusal to join nato lawyer goron peternievich, has been working with documents confirming the crime for many years nato on his home soil. it was to put the balkans under control during the nineties and today their ambition and strategy is to encircle russia because of the natur

k. terrace organization that fought for saddam hussein. and then as now, base in europe, it has base is across europe and albania. they 2 are constantly working against iran. they've killed 17000 new ones and terrorist attacks and they to constantly see funding. so these different groups, the monarchists, the different terrorists organizations like such as the terrace groups that are based in northern iraq, or in the no man's land in pakistan near the iranian border. all these different groups are constantly fighting one another in order to get a bigger piece of the take cake from the u. s. government because the money that the united states, the europeans, israelis, among others, have been providing these different groups. there's always a, a huge amount of competition. they know that they're never going to rule over the iranian people, but it is a huge business. yeah, it certainly seems that way, and it's another case of follow the money. now the reception here was interesting because israel's intelligence minister says that this exiled

exactly 2 decades ago, a large statue of the iraqi leader, saddam hussein was toppled in baghdad. the monument was brought down by a rockies with the help with us marines. the event received extensive media coverage with many headlining it as the end of the hussein era. but it wasn't the end of involvement in the country for us forces. 2 years after the invasion began, american troops gun down 2004 civilians, including women and children. and the town of had date that one of the 8 marines involved pleaded guilty to negligence. all of their charges, including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault, were dismissed. archie steve sweeney traveled the country to investigate the incident and the legacy, the u. s. war left behind. i d. there was a town. the very few people outside of iraq knew before 2003. but it soon became known throughout the world of the us. marines went on the rampage, massacring 24 people like fallujah. this was also a revenge attack. it followed the killing of a you, a soldier and a roadside bomb here. but the victims were women. the elderly and children

how many mutilated refugees were wounded, moreover , the leaders of these countries, saddam hussein,ere destroyed, they say arkadafi, sloboda, trifles, one of these guys received an arrest warrant, one of them punished, one of them accuses. no one has even received the nobel peace prize. this is obama in the course of our discussions , the sailor mikhalkov told me in the mirror. he is instead of fools. those whom i was offered to look for the sword of krivoruchko. you know this is a joke. what are the similarities between piggy macron schultz zelensky bursuls fondyrlyan damn, they are similar, because like piggy they all have in their ass an alien hand that rules the name. sad stories happen not only with individuals, but even with whole strange ones . for example, once upon a time there was a country, amazing culture of history. wonderful can and alive food. wonderful nature cinematographers from wonderful people called the country, georgia in 1801. she joined russia because she was on the verge of complete extermination by the persians inside russia - a wonderful original peasant.

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-led invasion that toppled saddam hussein, but while this young population could be a driver for growthmany find themselves shut out of iraq's oil-rich economy and political process. our special correspondent met three young iraqis from the predominately sheer, sunni, and kurdish areas, all of whom are disappointed by the promises of democratic rule. >> he was in third grade when the united states inved iraq, but even as an eight-year-old, he understood it was a turning point for the country. >> at the beginning of each class, we had to say, "long live the leader, saddam hussein." after the regime fell, the teacher insulted saddam and said, do not repeat that slogan anymore. say "long live iraqi." >> we are at the iconic place worsen arm's statue was toppled on april 9, 2003. the pictures were broadcast around the world, signaling the beginning of a new era, but 20 years on, t generation that grew up in the shadow of the american invasion is increasingly disappointed. >> the leaders of the american invasion said that a generation of freedom will emerge that is raised on freedom and the

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