the u.s. withdrawal from iraq. eight years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq washington is negotiating its withdrawal from this war torn country has forty six thousand u.s. troops prepare to leave iraq is integrity and fragile democracy are threatened by the brewing animosity between arabs and kurds a factor that has made questionable the plan of a complete pullout i believe that we should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that we protect whatever progress we have made there. largely marginalized by iraqi arabs the kurdish minority has long since been vying for a form of independence which given the sweep of the arab spring could now be more possible than ever and if established kurdish state who could potentially entailed the breakup of iraq as well as changing the border of neighboring syria turkey and iran all home to significant kurdish minorities no other place in iraq symbolizes the tensions separating baghdad and kurdish leaders more than the province of kirk a source of some twenty percent of iraq's oil reserves kirk wh

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we saw this as a run-up to the iraq war. we trust the bush and administration that they trusted him mostly he helped to tell a handful of wise to get them into the war. >> host: we hear about the special relationship and given the status of that are there lies told between the two nations as well? tony blair and bill clinton were close george bush and tony blair were very close. >> i looked very carefully at the relationship between tony blair and the art -- bill clinton and george of the bush. i know a lot about the bush player relationship because both were involved to drag their countries into war march 2003. thin in both cases of 20 blair and the case of george of the bush there is evidence they told a handful of lies to their public but there is no evidence they told lies to each other. they worked hand in hand to drag the united states and britain into that war. >> host: did you write this book before wikileaks started? >> yes. i began a long time ago 2003. i got a call from a man who was with "the new york times" and w

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spending the year in iraq is not a true journalist. ways to go in the us. there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed. i thought all along the way the leave it out. of you to leave the twenty seven days going to publicize the people invited. by the leeds people started the base of the dialogue. chanting the slow wave sleep seems to. play slow let's. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we. covered. three. three. three. three. three. three. fifteen. when the. welcome to see and hear on monday's highlights of each stone step is fast wimbledon crown glossing world number one rough on the dollar and moving up to the standings . california groups once again he's a force to be reckoned with on the greens wrapping up his second season at the t.n.t. national. and gearing up for russian outlets take part in the last warm up event before next month's world finals these numbers came in morial outside of moscow. so there's a new name engraved on the wimbledon trophy after noble djokovic secured his first title on the all england c

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spending the year in iraq is not a true journalist. some ways to go in the u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed three. i thought all along the way the leave it out of my thumb in my. view would take me about twenty seven days in new delhi to publicize the people invited to make the lead species people started the base of the dialogue. the chanting the slow wave sleep from space. sure is that so much given to each musician on the mark when history was started its military withdrawal from iraq what does fate hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice to face with the news makers. the headlines here on our nato could be heading for new levels of cooperation on a missile defense system for europe. and russia city of. nato is bombing campaign over in libya hits fresh problems as the alliance who runs out of missiles with germany you turning on abstaining from the conflict so it can deliver a bail out towards what allies. i

bush's call to arms in 2003 in the march invasion of iraq than one usually encounters now even among ople who were supportive of the war, who were members of the bush administration. typical as my experience as a columnist to find people looking backwards really scratching their heads and saying, you know, glad it turned out better than people feared, but we have to be honest begin that what we now know, there were not weapons of massive destruction. there's a more enthusiastic account of your book and to read one brief passage talking about the moment of argumentation in the united nations, there's never been a clearer case using statehood to advance dictator's interest in ways that endangered the international system. let me just ask do you, as you look back, is there a little bit of doubt as to whether this was the right course to have taken? >> guest: no, i have no doubt that it was the right course to take. it was not conducted well, and we ran into enormous trowels in the state -- troubles in the state that really sank president bush's approach, but the decision to do it was abs

the market starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does feed hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is. bringing you the latest. from the. hungry for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. here in the russian capital. cooperation with moscow might be heading to a new level as the chief points to progress on the issue of. europe. talks with russia in the. meanwhile germany agrees to supply nato forces in libya with more munitions as the alliance runs short of weapons increasing. but the country has a joint criticism for deviating from its original position on intervention speculation. removed from the un a war crimes court for disrupting the proceedings from. the very hearing he had earlier. facing a genocide charges refused to enter a plea. not guilty on his behalf. ok those are the headlines. next we talk to a british activists about his or her. to break the blockade of gaza i do stay with us. today i'm talking to dr david how pain he says he's dedicated his life to fighting for justice in the

culture is that so much given to each musician on the mark when it's real it starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does faith hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is. twenty years ago this country. this is. what. you currently teach. where did it take the. world to. bring you the latest in science technology from. the future. to build a joint system with russia and doesn't find it necessary to provide moscow with legal guarantees the shield won't be targeting the country as plunges the deeper into a stalemate. runs out of. strike campaign over libya germany policy of abstaining from the conflict. to its war. crimes court forcing the not guilty plea on his behalf without it faces charges including genocide carried out in the. one sided justice. when he talked to a british antiwar activist about his own attempts to break through the blockade of gaza that's our special interview next. today i'm talking to dr david how payne who says he's dedicated his life to fighting for justice in the treatment of others he's very many opposed to the wars in iraq and afg

to spend in the year in iraq is military journalist i saw some ways to go in the u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed or even. i thought all along the link to do stuff to see about my family my mom's a huge the team of twenty seven days in new going to publicize and people invited the monkeys and i think the pope believes these new people started the base of the dialogue just. choosing the slogan or wait in the sun some stones. culture is that so much of a given to each musician the power of the timing of the mark when i see what starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does fate hold for the kurds and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is. hungry for the fulfillment we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. from. a. coupe the headlines here on our t.v. . could be heading to new levels of cooperation. system for your. campaign a fresh problem. with germany. abstaining from the conflict. bailed out. general. from the war crimes court forcing the judge to en

the universities in iraq were among the best in the arab world. quality of engineering, of intellectual work, famously, the iraqis were known as the germans of the arab world because they had this fairly rigorous approach. iraq was relatively speaking where women had substantial rights. i covered the war from the ground up and watched this from swe, 2004, 2005 -- what i saw a picking out the pegs of that whole system, taking down the army, an institution in which iraqis had some pride, independent of the way the views, kicking down all the institutions down of the baathist and every consequence of the country and what iraqi was left nothing was nothing about the primitive notion of religious sect and the tribe and the clan and that's the iraq we end up with and in our weird way our invasion of iraq pushed it back into that reforms to our continuing detriment. we're nowhere near out of the woods in for my judgment than when we entered in 2003. i want to respond it turns to the intellectual arguments in your book and not an emotional way. >> the way

this has become the deadliest that was the deadliest month in iraq for u.s. troops three since two thousand and eight for three years does not make the point that it's not safe for americans in iraq anymore it's absolutely not safe and that was and i think a lot of i don't know i say anymore not as if it really ever was but it's not to say it's an uptick in violence because as soon as you say we're going to start withdrawing the few troops that remain are going to be sitting ducks who knows what's going to happen if obama said he was going to pull our troops out he said i will i will in this war we didn't in the war he said they're not combat troops they're advise and assist brigade. advise and assist brigade troops what does that mean it means nothing it's just a name change that they say means they use those pretty words a lot and i want to ask you one thing you do with with the mainstream media they just nobody calls them on i'm very happy you brought that up that was going to be my next question you know something that really boggles my mind was over over

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the universities of iraq were among the best in the arab world. the quality of engineering, of intellectual work. famous leedy iraqi is more known as the germans of the arab world because they had this rigorous approach. iraq was a country relatively speaking where the women had a substantial right, and what i saw, and i covered the war on the ground in washington in 2003, 2004, a 2005, i saw the taking out of the whole system, taking down the army, an institution in which iraqi had some pride independence of the views, taking down all of the institutions which in the end meant every institution of consequence in the country, and what the iraqi is were left with is nothing but the primitive association of tried and plan and that is what iraq ended up with, and that is in a weird way our invasion of iraq ended up pushing it back into the pre-modern roots in the form of politics who are continuing. we are nowhere near out of the words in my judgment in 2003. i'm curious how you would react to that and in the intellectual arguments in your book but n

has a billion question of course this was all around the time of the invasion of iraq when tony blair was prime minister your own record saying that he is a psychopath and a war criminal the hell never stand trial will he who will one day i hope before i die now seventy one i hope before i die blair will have to answer for his crimes they are massive and he's now masquerading as a man of peace and a man of faith not sitting in the american trying to turn in jerusalem as head of the quartet representing russia in part extraordinary. the shams and a new to share our crimes of the greatest proportion because greece is the third reich and of course one of the main men blair spin doctor was alistair campbell has recently refuted claims that iraq does say it was designed to make the case for war campbell was. i'm sorry he's alive he's a well known to be a manipulator he was in fact the main motor of this i mean foreign government i don't interest myself in the personalities too much but i think he obviously has the while and the drive to keep this very nasty machine on the road and what imp

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the first p.o.w. woman taken in iraq, for example. t's go back to this whole issue because as you know one of the things i've been working on as the ranking woman on all the military issues in the house of representatives and 15 years now, my spire service in be congress, being on the armed services committee i've been really watching and seeing how the role of the woman is within the military ranks. so let's go back to something that's very important because you did something that i believe was very unique. you pushed the envelope in women being involved in combat in iraq. so let's talk a little bit about, um, first of all, what combat means. because, you know, some people think women shouldn't be involved in combat. talk to me a little bit about that. >> you know, combat is an interesting thing because, you know, a lot of marines think that to be in combat means you earn the combat action ribbon, or you've reached a certain level, or you have to be infantry in order to be in combat. but stepping back from that, if you look at just th

but the troubles in iraq which were so great at that time that it was the ride.you of course recall that bush was -- >> host: should that speech have been accompanied by very aggressive effort to push mubarak out? separation of freedom for the world. should we have said, we will start with the biggest arab country, historic center of the arab world, egypt? would you have liked to have seen that? >> guest: i think that should've been done but not at once. you have to deal with the dictator to try to make, get them out of their power, and to see the most -- >> host: you wouldn't call mubarak the dictator track you if you as a dictator he would still be in power. >> host: there is surely some truth to that, even monarchs are overthrown. let me take a revolution that you spent some time discussing. you focus on the of 1979, a year when there were many dramatic changes in this part of the world. in particular usually with the iranian revolution, which brought on a new system that ayatollah khamenei had been putting together, to rule by the clerics, and you described i

out of all of the stories you told, there were several. when you're in iraq or kuwait, what was your knowledge or most difficult situation you can across? >> guest: well, there's so many. >> i don't want to give them all away. >> guest: the beginning i was just learning to grapple with the idea when we were still in kuwait that is my unit was on kuwait, grabbling suddenly i was in combat even in to wait and so when the missiles started to get launched we thought they were coming right towards us because we would get the notice from the higher headquarters of the inbound and then we were trying to plot where it was going to land and so you really felt that sort of ayman, and there's like a gas alerts going off and everything and so that was hard, and especially because i had to control the mission at the same time in terms of looking at what the threat was coming and there were some very critical things we were doing at the time which is looking at the wheel well determining if there was any damage on behalf of the iraqi forces. because the was the indication

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the first p.o.w. woman taken in iraq for example. so let's go back because as you know, one of the things i've been working on on all the military issues in the house of representatives for 15 years now my entire congress service on the armed service committee i have been really watching and seeing how the role of the woman is within the military rank. so, that's go back to something that's really important because you did something i believe was unique. you pushed the envelope and women being involved in combat in iraq so let's talk a little bit about first of all what combat means. because some people think women shouldn't be involved in combat. talk about that. >> guest: combat is an interesting thing because a lot of people think to be in combat means you have reached a certain level or have to be infantry in order to be in combat. stepping back from that if you look at the definition of combat, it is any offensive action against enemy or a foreign forces that result in some type of conflict. with that definition in mind we have n

spending the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw some ways to go and u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying to get killed three. zero am. or am. i thought all along the length of the p.c. about five hundred miles. it would take me but twenty seven days in new coins and publicising people invited the more i think the hope leads to people started the base of the dialogue it's just. changing the slogan or a way to use them in some states. and. perfect world. to greet you the latest in science and psychology from the realms of russia. we've got the future covered. plug michigan free to couldn't take three claims court charges three. three kids three. three to close three blood blood video. streaming. live. to see. it. live. to clinics. top stories this hour marty nato says it's not going to build a joint anti-missile system with russia and doesn't find it necessary to provide moscow with legal guarantees the shield won't be targeting the country plunges the deeper into a stalemate. as the alliance runs out of missiles for its air strike camp

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the iraq war turned out to be a disaster and had negative effects for the war in afghanistan. it was an ill-conceived scheme. so on that resistance existed in congress and the american politics was basically correct. all the people who oppose the war were smart and president bush and his lieutenants were wrong. i have to be very clear here i do not think president bush and his lieutenants life for selfish reasons. they lied and they took the united states to the war and iraq because they thought that was in the american national interest. they thought they were doing good for america but the fact is they didn't. they didn't pursue a smart policy, and the naysayers have the stronger hand to play and it's just too bad they didn't carry it. estimate 1976 jimmy carter's campaign i will never lie to you was one of the lines he used to read did he live up to that? >> he told of least one why i know of and that is when it became clear that the iran rescue mission was going to be exposed she had his press secretary lie to the newsman who smelled this operation was about to take place

talks of a new between the united states and iraq on the potential sale of as many as thirty six f. sixteen fighter jets and surface to air missiles there's no estimate on how much a sale of this magnitude possible to previous sale of eighteen jets plus a necessary training weapons cost or point two billion dollars so it's going to be a pretty having one way or another it seems iraq will be used as a proxy agent of the military industrial complex for taking your tax money even into a foreign government then giving it back to them to buy weapons meanwhile economic distortions abound and people are out of work while capital that could be used to meet real human needs here at home is instead used to enrich the beneficiaries of empire and for more on that we turn to our own military analyst jake deliberate over who yesterday you were at the it would be memorial you got the footage we're going to have i don't know if it's slightly more or slightly less cheese didn't really have a sort of our one time because they were a little more cheese a little ok folks yes

show up are increasing fees at the mine for hours and we saw that big marches against the iraq war in two thousand and three i think brits and i was i said is it the center of it like the men's or just world we're going to start to see but maybe civil disobedience and even nonpayment of taxes just the only way to actually maintain our standard of living in a way i'm very optimistic about all these austerity measures because it will start to make people think that perhaps they don't need to get all these things from government perhaps we can do it for ourselves so i'm very optimistic about all that was charlie beach founder of the love police but earlier i spoke to gerald celente director of the trends institute i asked him about our current state of the global economy starting off here at home the news of math and layoffs on wall street specifically the financial giant goldman sachs here's what he had to say. i mean the goldman sachs gang oh yeah big crocodile tears and it's not only them it's many in the financial sector the economy continues to decline is no recovery in sight and it

it's been in the year in iraq is not a true journalist by the way still in the us congress is there just kind of wasting their time trying to get killed for. oh i was willing to give the life of. the vote twenty seven days to publicize the invite to the who. started the beat of the dialogue. choosing the slogan when the sun spins. little. h.l. martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. play a. little we'll. bring you the latest in signs and signals from around the world. we've gone to the future of coverage. download the official and see how occasional joe on the phone called touch from the q. stops to. see on the good. video on demand off season mind rules costs. are a sense feeds now in the palm of your. question on the job called. love apparently or something you can't have one without the other and that's the same way if you're going to support the troops you got to support the war first you don't support it eighteen care about shout about it. don't made it out yet be quiet if you can't. support it like it be quiet and a message from the pr

the time. that it was in fact my right as a u.s. citizen in iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. tissues of toilet paper imodium ibuprofen camel back butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring tone pants and then calories like trail mix or get in get or it can this is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. and everything is pretty much ready . for good weather if nothing else this walk moving me over make me feel like i'm doing my best right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day it was thought i. was. not saying this to say with an adult son but the banging. sound just start running because in the coming i mean this funny. getting to gather. shyness i'm glad dowling venezuela get out there with downloading a new get on the machines without the sound the same spiel that it's again looking to sing us to go. by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk through the return stuff or the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work you know in around that corner and there

the whole interview can come full circle. that you're sitting in iraq. and watch it for the fourth of july about rome prove it. and see how he dealt with the ghosts of war but protesting that it just hit with such force and that's exactly why i didn't think you. would so is following his example. because it's only. so reasonable that i had written to him as a vietnam veteran who's been in this real care for almost forty years and it's an honor to call you my dear and my friend and someone who is so. good like the only thing wrong in. thinking that. i'm driving right now a good friend and all my but i'd. like to get out of the army the army offered me twenty thousand dollars to be a muslim bonus in iraq so there's been one lump sum tax free twenty thousand dollars after iraq and knew how my loyalties can be abused and so while i still feel that my service is honorable and still full other people's service is honorable i could not realist no matter how much money they offered me just. shifts in numbers that we've seen recently says they're tied the utahns