during rolling thunder, the american bombing campaign of north vietnam in the 1960s, the chee niece gave a great amount of help. this was pivotal because the north, the chinese help is pivotal. the north has little hope of convincing the u.s. to negotiate or leave just with its own resources. by the mid 196 0z the chinese leaders are worried that there's going to be another war with the americans just like in korea. after 1964 during the gulf of tokin, we'll talk about that in a moment, we have the shooting between the north vietnam and the american navy, this convince bes the chinese that they had to commit troops to north vietnam as well. they have to do this because they're afraid maybe the americans might come into north vietnam. there's chinese troops there, probably they won't. the chinese made preparations to fight the americans if they had to. when the u.s. sent major combat units into havevietnam in 1965,y feared they might get an intervention. the ghost of korea hangs over both sides here in thinking about what to do. so in april of

the american general turned to mr. churchill and he said, mr. churchill, stop and think about it this way. he says the r.e.f. bombs at night and the american air force bombs in the daylight which means the germans are subjected to bombing around the clock. churchill clapped his hands, and said oh, that's great. he was delighted thinking about that. after the mission was over, we would return to home base and go in for a debriefing and what not. one of the nice features was you not only got a cup of coffee, but if you wanted a shot of whiskey, you could get that as well. so we had a chance to enjoy that sort of thing. we, of course, were very delighted when the world war 2 ended so that we could all pack up and go back home, which i was able to do, in june of 1945. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you for the opportunity to tell you a little bit about my background. >> there'll be more. mr. woods, question for you. 67 years ago today. >> yeah. >> you went ashore on iwo jima. you were there for another seven days, correct? 11 days, excuse me. over the course of those 11 days, what was the greatest challenge you faced? yo

neighborhood is one of the hardest hit by the bombing half the buildings are in ruins not one wall has been spared by bullets. this former iraqi soldier was in the city during the american assault he lives just opposite this building totally destroyed. during the bombing he noticed suspicious explosions. just complicit in the just after the bombing began but the landscape changed going to see even the appearance of the sky chips the sky became kind of yellow it lasted for several days even the explosions read normal now i'm a fighter i was an officer in the iraqi army under the old regime i thought for seven years in the war against iraq some parts of missiles i've seen a lot of them i know what i'm talking about. but with these american bombs it was different they exploded in that they produce something abnormal something that i don't think i've ever seen before. this strange bomb that this resident refers to contain white phosphorus. a chemical incendiary weapon often compared to the napalm used in vietnam. according to the geneva convention. civilians and civilian objects may not be attacked in any circumstances by incendiary bombs. basically the use of white phospho

with the elections today, but long after the names "romney," "santorum" and "obama" are forgotten, if iran has the bomb able why on every child. what is the american national interest in the iranian bomb? all the arabs on our side are terrified and there will be hegemony over them. in the end, it would be a threat to the united states did not imminent, not the way it is too and israeli -- to an israeli. but they are lined with terrorists. we could lose a city, we could lose it in an hour, if iran decides to use it or do it in a way that could be untraceable. it would have us always on the damocles sword. that would change our relations with the world. these are people dedicated to the destruction not just of israel and moderate arabs but ultimately of the west. that is what we have to calculate. it does not mean they are going to attack tomorrow, but can we live with an iranian bomb? >> i have seen this movie before. we went through it when we went to war in 2001 on his promise that somehow there was going to be, as the secretary of state said, a mushroom cloud over the united states. it would be more effective argument if we had not heard in -- >

well, his generals came in and told him that the americans were bombing belgrade, and he basically told the general in charge to go on full nuclear alert. now, when you go on full nuclear alert, that doesn't mean you're going to fire your weapons. it means, though, that everybody in the world -- is going to be focused on that. the united states would know that -- we go on alert. and then you get a fwlok flock of geese on the radar screen and who knows what's going to happen. those are not the conditions you want to allow to happen. we can do better than that. and we certainly don't want to get down to the situation where you have -- we need to increase the warning time. let's hypothetically say that it's 30 minutes now, 20 minutes and the president gets down to four or five minutes to make a decision. we need to increase that to an hour. and we need to do it for the russians, too. we need to have military-to-military discussions about how we can geoff give our presidents more warning time and decision time. and once we get to an hour, we ought to get to two hours on both sides and then

what is the american national interest in the iranian bomb? a, as colby said, all the arabs on our side would be terrified and it would be hegemony over them. but in the end, it would be a threat to the united states did not imminent as it would be to the israelis. but they are aligned with terrorists, and we could lose the city, and i mean we could lose it in an hour, if iran decides to use it or does it in a way that would be untraceable. it would always be under the damocles sword. these are people dedicated to the destruction not just of israel and of the moderate arabs, but ultimately of the west. that is what we have to calculate. it does not mean that they will attack tomorrow, but in the end, can we live with an iranian bomb? >> i have seen this movie before. we went through it and we went to war in 2001 under this premise, that somehow there was going to be -- the secretary of state said that there would be a mushroom cloud of the united states. it would be a more effective argument if we had not heard it -- >> do you doubt iran is wo

orders an operation called cobra, where american bombers are going to do what's called a tactical bombing, instead of bombing factories in germany, they'll bomb the line between germans and americans and wipe out the germans so we can break out of this stalemate we're in. a number of -- more than 100 americans are killed and the bombs fall short. but right after it, bradley and patton go airborne to go check out the effects. and so patton is taking a photograph of bradley from his plane. at one time patton did go airborne and crossed over onto german lines and he freaked out to the pilot, he said, we can never do that. eisenhower will relieve me immediately. but patton was a licensed pilot. in fact, when third army was training in england, he would fly a fighter plane above the troops so they would be able to look up and identify, that is an american airplane and we don't fire on that one. and he takes photographs of the troops down below. basically they're going to sweep across the southern part of northern france. barreling through a lot of nonresistance. it's going to end up making a bag of germans called a fillet pocket. here is patton, eisen

the world jewish congress implored the american government to bomb auschwitz. the reply came five days later. i want to read it to you. quote, operations will be executed only by diverting considerable air support essential to the success of our forces elsewhere. in any case, it would be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources. my friends, here is the most remarkable sentence of all. i quote, such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the germans. think about that. even more vindictive action than the holocaust. my friends, 2012 is not 1944. the american government today is different. it's different. [ applause ] >> you heard that in president obama's speech yesterday, but here is my point. the jewish people are also different. today we have a state of our own and a purpose of a joint state. [ applause ] >> it is to defend jewish lives and secure the jewish future. [ applause ] >> never again will the jewish people be powerless. never again. [ applause ] >> that is why israel must have the ability to defend i

the biggest breakthrough by far of american intelligence during the period where. washington is to break wartime soviet codes. kim philby looks on as the americans pinpoint the source leaking intelligence about the development of a uranium bomb to the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty three the united states is ready itself to become the world's first superpower with the help of the nuclear bomb but it soon after the soviet union had created an exact replica when the americans eventually decrease of your radio grams they learned that the nuclear leakage originated at the british embassy the circle begins to narrow the field defines the soviet agent donald mclean on a list of suspects he felt obliged to tell mclean partly to protect himself because he didn't know how much mclain knew about his role. so he did. philby seeks help from a friend and fellow soviet agent guy burgess like philby burgess is working in washington at the same time moreover he's even living in philby's home. burgess's task is to meet mcclain in london to help him flee to the soviet union before he can be interrogated one of the things that kim philby had said to burgess go back and alert him but do not affect yourself because it will bring

difference in the muslim world if the israelis attack the americans give them the green light well they're going to use american aircraft american bombs american money and you know if you remember when the israelis attacked lebanon in two thousand and six they ran out of ordinance and we supplied them very publicly very very with a lot of fanfare and the muslim world doesn't forget these things we soon muslims are stupid you know when it happens they just meet us in iraq and they're about to be doesn't have cameras the end so really how stupid can they be now that i sound like it i. really appreciate you being on the show we're out of time for now we're going to have to leave it there but it's nice to know you always we appreciate your insight that was michael scheuer former cia intelligence officer also an author and professor. all right thanks and loose change are going to be our three on three stories chatting here per usual because we have talked a lot about money's influence in politics especially surrounding the citizens united decision and super pacs well now one billionaire says he and his super wealthy friends do not have suf

line between the germans and the americans and just wipe out the germans so we can sort of break out of this stalemate we're in. more than 100 americans are killed when the bombs fall short. but right after it, bradley and patton go airborne to go check out, you know, the effects. and so patton is taking a photograph of bradley from his plane. at one time patton did go airborne and crossed over onto german lines. you know, he freaked out to the pilot. he said we can never do that. eisenhower would relieve me immediately. but patton was a licensed pilot. and he would go up in airplanes. when 3rd army wasand,e would fl plane above them, the troops, so they would be able to look up and identify, okay, that's an american plane. we don't fire on that one. he takes a number of photographs of the troops down below. august 1st, 3rd army becomes operational. and it basically is going to sweep across the southern part of northern france, barrelling through a lot of nonresistance. and it's going to end up capturing, making a bag of germans what's called the fillet pocket. so here is patton, eisenhower, bradley and then courtney hodges because when the invasion of normand

morning they discussed the threat and the desire to keep iran from developing the capability to build a nuclear bomb. >> in americans look around the middle east today, they see one reliable, stable, faithful ally of the united states, and that's the democracy of israel. americans know that israel and the united states share common values that we defend common interests, that we face common enemies. iranians know that too. >> president obama said a nuclear iran would be unacceptable to the u.s. he also told a pro-israeli conference yesterday there's been too much talk, loose talk, rather, of war with iran. >>> the candidates are making last-minute pitches ahead of the super tuesday primaries. the republican presidential hopefuls are hoping to check the momentum of the mitt romney campaign. voters will be going to the polls in ten states tomorrow, including virginia. randall pinkston has our super tuesday preview. >> reporter: mitt romney is fighting hard to widen his lead in ohio with just 24 hours to go. >> you have a big say as to who are nominee is going to be. >> reporter: that state is the most watched race out

came the allied decision to bomb germany around the clock. american b-17s help carry the war to the german backyard. the decision to invade sicily also was reached. and in july of 1943, americans and british jumped off from africa on the preliminary leg to the first assault on the italian mainland. a strong partisan for the women's army core as important to our mobilization, the chief of staff made a point to be in washington the day the colonel was sworn in as its new commander. but the time the allied leaders convened at cairo in december 1943, the italian campaign was well underway and the war against the japanese demanded stepped up operations. the future of the china/burma/india theatre and the power had to be resolved. marshall took part in planning joint strategy with the russians. soviet demands for an expanded second front were addressed to the united states. it was george marshall who answered. when the chief of staff visited the pacific theatre on his return from tehran, the offensive was gaining speed. island by island, we were moving in o

from the north african meetings came the allied decision to bomb germany around the clock. american7s helped carry the war to the german backyard. the decision to invade sicily also was reached. and in july of 1943, americans and british jumped off from africa on thliane el mainland. a strong partisan for the women's army corps as important to our mobilization, the chief in washington the day colonel ovita coltnew coand commander. by the time the allied leaders convened at cairo in december 1943, the italian campaign was well under way and the war against the japanese demanded pe the future of the chinburm the problem of harnessing china's manpower had to be resolved. in tehran, marshall took part in planning joint strategy with the russians. soviet demands for an expanded second front were addressed to the united states. answered. when the chief of staff visited gaining speed.eatre on his island by island, we were moving in on japan. at good enough island in 1944 marshall listened to a firsthand report on the successful islands and the planned invasions of the marshalls. marshall c

the phases are on your outline. it's very badly executed. heavily bombed by the americans and ends in failure. some of the sources will say the north suffered 100,000 dead during this invasion. again, difficult with the numbers to know. but they did get some benefit. they took parts of south vietnam that they hadn't controlled before. they will hold these when they negotiate our withdrawal. now the failure of the easter offensive made the north vietnamese a lot more amenable toward cutting us a deal with the united states and getting out. they felt this was necessary. they get the americans out and then they can get what they want. it also cost jopp his job as the head of the army. he keeps his political office but he no longer runs the army. the communists decide for a while that they'll put the emphasis on political struggle after the americans leave. they have to rebuild their army, which they do. in october of 1973 they decide they're going to make another offensive. they decide in 1976 is what they're planning for, they'll launch a new offensive. jop says, no, let's go in '75. for once he

this had acknowledged al that there was an agreement between the americans and the yemeni government that they would say it was their bombs that was killing these people it wasn't the americans and he got just highlights the fact that this is a conflict whether we want to admit it or not and so in that sense the more that we see the military the cia overall start positioning themselves to use drones more does that just mean that the less that we're actually going to tell about our own military is actions or the cia's actions abroad see we've even seen it here with the a.c.l.u. trying to take on the government you know about being able to assassinate u.s. citizens abroad the cia said well we can't confirm or deny our drone programs they want to talk about it in court that's the worst part of all really because again this is just more war this is just more fighting on behalf of you and me and all american citizens and when you have no transparency at all and you shift it from the pentagon to the likes of the cia and the killing of americans like anwar locky and again this is what's out there right now and without any transp

. >> only days into the new administration, the vietcong attacked an american base and johnson called a cabinet meeting to sanction the bombing of north vietnam. >> johnson was not looking for advice but validation and it was actually johnson looking for ratification of what he already decided, he goes around the room asking all these people, his advisers to tell him what they think about this decision to launch these attack and humphrey announces he thinks it's a mistake. >> johnson was furious with him. and the bombing of the north began. >> congress gave us this authority, in all this 1964. to do whatever may be necessary, that's pretty far-reaching. the sky's the limit. >> while there may have been no limits on johnson's expansion of the vietnam war, there would now be limits on his vice president. >> i knew him intensely for those years of the '60s and that was the most tortured period of his life as he was trying to be vice president, serving the president who was taking us to war in vietnam. even if he had misgivings as an independent thinker. >> after their public disagreement, humphrey was frozen out of all discussio

the blood of afghans still inside of their bombs. they were killed mostly by a single shot to the head. the gunman, an american soldier, it is believed it. he gathered together their bodies, including children, and burned their bodies. they started with a prayer when the villagers came to the presidential palace. 11 people were killed in one home, said this village elder. they were acting like animals, smashing down doors. president karzai listened and appeared to agree that this was not the work of a single attacker. >> we believe it is not possible for one person to do that. in four rooms, people were killed. they were all brought together in one room and then put on fire. the afghan investigation team did not receive the cooperation that they inspected. >> the international mission has always known that the afghan people would only tolerate their presence for so long. the two events in quick succession, the accidental burning of the koran and the killings of poisoned that relationship. the army staff sergeant who was named as robert bales is heading to this maximum-security prison. this is a long way from a

people of libya and dictator gadhafi's brutal 40-year reign that included the lockerbie bombings that killed innocent americans. we must continue to support the strong military that is second to none. and as president obama made clear, the size and structure of our military and defense budgets have to be driven by a strategy, not the other way around. after this difficult fiscal period, we have to be more smarter and efficient in how we shape our defense budget. the strength of orge part on th strength of our economy and the long term strength of our economy depends in large part on putting together a plan to reduce our debt in a credible and predictable way. last year the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen warned policymakers of this risk. he said, our national debt is our biggest national security threat. from 2001 to 2010, the base pentagon budget, separate from the war effort, nearly doubled. in 2010, the united states spent more on defense than the next 17 countries combined. and more than half of the amount spent by those 17 countries was from seven nato countries and four o

clash with farmers protesting against the us free trade agreement that came into force earlier this month over sixty activists through paint bombs at the american embassy calling on manila to cancel its upcoming military exercises with washington the deal was initially signed in two thousand and seven but has been delayed due to political stumbling blocks in both nations. french president nicolas sarkozy has called for the gunman responsible for the country's worst terror act in years to be buried in france without argument he was responding to comments from the mayor of. to lose to describe mohammad merah funeral as protests in appropriate algeria where the terrorists father was born denied permission for a burial there due to security reasons iraq killed seven people including three children before being shot dead in a standoff with police last week. and time for the money markets with r.t. to a new bushel i understand the world's top bond fund now prefers russia to america yes is a better investment according to pimco founder bill gross he sees better value in russia's five year bonds and u.s. treasuries after the putin government yes they h

and police in the philippines have clashed with farmers protesting a us free trade agreement that came into force earlier this month over sixty activists through paint bombs of the american embassy calling on military council it's not coming military exercises with washington the deal was initially signed in two thousand and seven but has been delayed due to political stumbling blocks in both nations. the mayor of to lose has delayed the funeral of the gunman responsible for france's worst terror attack in years calling it inappropriate and a ceremony was due to be held on thursday after mohamed father's a native algeria excuse me denied permission for a burial due to security reasons the man killed seven people including three children before he was shot dead in a standoff with police last week. right shortly is daniel with a business but for now the republican candidates are still slugging it out for the right to challenge democratic president barack obama in november election but there are many people frustrated that with only two real alternatives their views are not being properly represented at these gun h.q. can't reports. in american politics three is a crowd thr

police in the philippines of clashed with farmers protesting a us free trade agreement that came into force earlier this month over sixty activists through paint bombs at the american embassy calling on manila to cancel its upcoming military exercises with washington the deal was initially signed in two thousand and seven but has been delayed due to political stumbling blocks in both nations. pope benedict the sixteenth has called for an end to the half a century old u.s. trade embargo imposed on cuba on its final day a visit to the island the pontiff said the restrictive economic measures quote unfairly burden its people earlier the pope met fidel castro and celebrated a huge mass on the site which marks the communist revolution during his three day trip he also called on the government to continue reforms. of toulouse gunman responsible for france's worst terror attack in years will be buried in a muslim ceremony in the country later today his father's native algeria denied permission for a funeral there for security reasons mohamed merah killed seven people including three children before he was shot dead in a standoff with police last week. interest few moments

police in the philippines have clashed with farmers protesting a us free trade agreement that came into effect earlier this month more than sixty activists through pink bombs at the american embassy calling on the philippines to cancel their upcoming military exercises with the u.s. farmers are angry at being displaced from land and due to be used for drills by the two thousand and seven deal has been delayed due to political stumbling blocks in both nations. have a look here finally to ireland where two and a half ton elephant named baby escaped from a circus in the town of blackpool the forty year old elephant romp through a car park before charging a busy jurist excuse me a busy junction just on its way to a shopping center of the baby said she ran away because she didn't want to take a shower she was brought under control and be returned to the circus shortly after . well republican candidates continue to battle it out in the primaries across the country in the hopes of challenging democratic president obama for the top job of a recent gallup poll suggests americans are not satisfied with only having two choices with around forty percent considering themselves indepen

the least. his generals came in and told him americans were bombing belgrade. he told the general to go on full nuclear alert. when you go on full nuclear alert, that doesn't mean you fire your weapons, but everybody in the world will be focused on that. the united states will go on ale alert. you get a flock of geese on the radar screen and who knows what will happen. those are not the things you want to have happen. we can do better than that. we don't want to get down to the situation where you have -- we need to increase the warning time. let's hypothetically say it is 30 minutes now and it is now down to 20 minutes. we need to increase that to an hour. we need to do it for the russians, too. we need military-to-military discussions about how we give the presidents more warning time and decision time. once we get to an hour, we should get to two hours on both sides. then we should get to 12 hours and a week and month. then at some point, nuclear weapons become less relevant. that is how we should aim. is it easy? no. will it take a lot of discussions? yes. w

those of you who are old enough to have lived through the so-called vietnam era, what you saw there is absolute atomic bomb disruption of the american mythos. civil religion was so damaged that people were struggling to try to find meaning in any kind of ritual - very, very difficult to be an american in 1970. you were either on one side or the other - you were bound into one civil religious thing or into another. yeah, janet? >> my friend, robert, went to war. he enlisted in the marines, and to this day, the u.s. flag has no special meaning for him, because its whole mythological symbolism was found, for his life, to be untrue. >> see, now there is a response the flag. i'm glad you brought the flag up, because this whole question about, "do i burn the flag? do i honor the flag?" during that time, people sewed the flag on their butts, people honored it, and it's a powerful, powerful symbol that unifies what we mean as america, but during that time, it did not, and that's what we're talking about. the power of symbolism in its political context is radically real. other elements, just in terms of what we see in terms - it infuses publ

the american people fail to see that the united states urgently needs new leadership? by now, it's clear. the american people do see the need. >> do you want castro to have the bomb?the u.n. treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? he says he's in, ah, no hurry, to pass it. hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now, before it mushrooms. hubert humphrey supports the u.n. treaty now, as do the 80 countries who have already signed it. let's stop the spread of the bomb, now. humphrey. there is no alternative. >> so, let me first go to jessica larkins and stephen kinney from st. peters college, get your reaction to those two ads, 1968. jessica, let's start with you. >> hi, yeah, i think that both of those ads are extreme little scary, you know? i mean, if i was to vote for president nixon, i might want to vote for him, you know, based on his ad but then i look at humphrey's ad, shoot, maybe i am afraid of president nixon, because i don't want the bomb to be in the wrong hands. i think both were very scary. >> stephen, what about you? >> i agree. and i want to say that i think in contemporary era, certainly candidates can use war images to inf

there are rumors in afghanistan that days before the slaying, american troops threatened retaliation for bombings. >> certainly there are no need threat -- no threats of retaliation by american soldiers. >> the lawyer representing staff les said he wases suffering from headaches prior to being shipped off to afghanistan last year. a suspect has been talking to police and their profile has been emerging. we know his name is mohammed merah. he says he has been training with al qaeda in hostile territory. police are telling him they are cutting off negotiations. we will continue to keep an eye on the situation. >> ravens wide receiver anquan boldin is going long. >> he is heading to africa. find out why he is going now. >> hoping to make it safer for maryland first responders. that story, coming up. >> mild temperatures and a few showers on hd doppler in parts of maryland. check out the seven-day forecast, coming up next. cloudy skies and temperatures near 70. near 70. you're probably muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because

the american scientific magazine. it is postulated with the computers of 100 bombs going off between indian and pakistan.the computer models, a couple hundred people killed very quickly. the consequences of the global cooling that take place over the next five or six years, there would be 1 billion to 2 billion people starved to death around the world. do two nations have if we have a conflict with im y implicatio implications, it would not be an over and out conflict. you have to take out the defensive missiles. if you were serious about it, you have to take out the nuclear sites and certainly not one or two. there are a lot more than that. sid dlr sidrel reminded us you need to take out the electrical grid, also. it would have implications to the nuclear program. since they threatened to close the persian gulf, you need to take out the navy and a lot of their air force. this is not a raid like we have seen before on iraq and syria. this is a big deal. has a lot of consequences. we have to think through it. i do believe there is some hope because the iranians are in a real economic squeeze now. first of

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