iraq. all right ok as promised the rest of our troops in iraq will be in the field. fter nearly nine years. america's war in iraq will be over. from the initial ground invasion to a small or covert war fought by unmanned aircraft the face of the iraq war has evolved over the decade are the correspondent margaret howell takes a look now at how war tactics have changed since iraq. since the iraq invasion u.s. military tactics have switched from boots on the ground to robots in the air the cia and pentagon's first drone strike occurred in yemen in two thousand and two and sense then we've ratcheted up our drone activity under this administration the pentagon spending of unmanned aircraft has jumped from two hundred eighty four million in two thousand to nearly four billion last year the number of drones owned by the pentagon rocketed from less than two hundred two thousand two to seventy five hundred now while the bulk of these drones are small shoulder launched ravens heavily armed predators and reapers are also used to having accumulated one million hours of combat pat

american enterprise institute about the iraq war anniversary here's what he told our t.v. about why you rock isn't the state it's in today. i. want to get you into commentary as to what we can expect ten years later i don't really say that's right but all. that sort of transpired yesterday. fortunately for the. united states is no player since. he has. received letters received some strange don't let anybody take. ten years later hundreds of thousands of lives trillions of dollars spent what is the result of all of it earlier i was joined by a former alaskan senator micro valen sara flounders co-director of the international action center she's also the author of the book war without victory i started out by asking senator gravelle was it worth it it was a criminal act i mean if we adhere to the nuremberg principles united states committed a criminal act we know who the criminals are and for some reason we don't prosecute them is really something wrong with our national morality now sara what do you think are we better off today than we were te

role in the region and iraq's relationship with the united states. let's start off with domestic politics. iraq today is a tinderbox with red-hot embers inside, disputes about political power. it seems the government is crumbling. notfinance minister will leave the anbar province for fear of being arrested. another has been boycotting government meetings in the capital and remaining in the kurdish-controlled north. and ministers have also to foist that they will boycott the government in recent days. i would like the panel to give their assessment of the domestic situation, and let me start with ambassador crocker. if prime minister maliki turning himself into an autocrat? >> is a great question, and i thought you had a great quotation from the article two days ago. iraq is haunted by its past. maliki is haunted by his past, recent and not so recent, in my view. he came out of a clandestine movement that was severely persecuted under the saddam years. that conditions his behavior. it is said in iraq by the prime minister that only two men successfully

iraq will. go on. right ok as promised the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. fter nearly nine years. america's war in iraq will be over. such. as day that we reflect on the war in iraq we want to examine the economic impact of this very costly conflict r.c. laurie harshness joins us now to land hi there laurie so this war cost several lives but also an enormous amount of money what kind of an economic impact has the war had. sure well if you're someone that profits off of war it's had a very positive impact but for the rest of us it's been pretty catastrophic conservative estimates have it at over seven hundred billion dollars and some estimates have it. in the trillions but either way you slice it that comes out to more than two hundred dollars two hundred million dollars a day which is out of control for ten years every single day two hundred million dollars so it's not the biggest ticket item on our credit card bill right now but it's pretty catastrophic an incredible amount of money and we know that a billion dr this report came out billions of dollars have

the war. and what is life like for those inside iraq r.t. has a correspondent inside the war torn country we'll have a report from the ground just ahead. and sent to jail for exposing a security flaw we'll tell you about a man who came across private info online and never use the information but he's heading to prison. it's wednesday march twentieth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t what began today in iraq where an al qaeda affiliate took credit for a series of bombings the blasts resulted in at least sixty dead on the ten year anniversary of the iraq war it's a war that killed nearly five thousand u.s. soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the beginning there were a few voices against the waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senate if you can recall he called for the impeachment of president george bush and dick cheney liar

tonight, the tenth anniversary of the war in iraq. we talk first with michael gordon, chief military w correspondent for the "new york times." his new book is called "end game: the inside story of the struggle for iraq." >> clearly, this notion that it was going to be a turnkey operation, we'll hand over to them, that don rumsfeld, doug feif, his deputy, believed it. it just turned out to be utterly infeasible. then president busk brought in jerry bermy, and t pendulum swung from we're going to hand this over to them, get our, troops down to 20 or 30,0000 within a matter of months. i was in baghdad when toams. franks went to brief of brief his own commands, or that. i was outside the meeting room in this big marble palace. to we're bringing a viceroy,re we're going to occupy the country. >> rose: we conclude thisgo evening with the further s consideration of the tenthev anniversary of the iraqi war, the look at not only its lessons but implications of the future. fouad ajami of the hoover ?iewrkz dexter filkins of the "new yorker," and

iraq. because the story of iraq is not over. and we shouldn't just put thisov chapter behind us and say we're done with it. there were opportunities to be engaged with iraq by the u.s. government on the level of common citizens. there's a tbalt for influence in iraq right now, between the iranian, americans, the turkz, the saudis -- >> but we still have influence, you're saying? >> we still have influence. not as much as we used to, the game's not over, and it's in our interest to be to remain engaged in iraq and try to, to the best we can, shape politics there and make it more congruent with our own foreign policy. >> rose: but i hear you saying were can't tell yet because we't don't know. is that what you're saying? k >> i think the judgment of i history say complicated one. i think that the invasion gavenk the iraqi people an opportunity they would not have had under saddam hussein or under his sons to build a different type of society. i think the invasion camedi at high a cost to the united states and the iraqis themselves

today is the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war a long term legacy of the iraq war be the people of iraq better off today than they were ten years ago also rush limbaugh says republicans aren't conservative enough facts seem to say otherwise don't think we'll ask our guests. and for years activists have been trying to expose the dirty little secrets of america's factory farms but now their efforts are coming under attack so who's trying to cover up the secrets of the agriculture industry and i take. you need to know this today is the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war and while we can calculate casualties and expenditures we may never know it's true human caused and like us on march nineteenth two thousand and three the american military invaded a country that had never attacked us and had no plans to do so president bush said this to the american people from the oval office. my fellow citizens at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free the people and to defend the world from grave danger on

speak to congressman acoustic himself i first asked him about oil being a motivating factor for the iraq war particularly in light of bush's former speechwriter coming out to validate that claim and here's what he had to say. the very beginning it was very clear that there was no legitimate reason to go into iraq the only compelling reason would be to try to help corner the market on oil didn't work out that way for those who thought that it would but the fact of the matter is oil was so. well known as to be a motivating factor that when i ran for president two thousand and four going cross the country i'd ask audiences tell me what this is about this war is about in three letters and thousands of people would respond simultaneously oil there it was it's not it was never a secret. in two thousand and seven congressman you actually introduced articles of impeachment against george bush and dick cheney when you look at things like nixon for wiretapping clinton being ousted for an affair how is it that these two men could not be held accountable for initiating an illegal war based on known

role in the region and iraq's relationship with the united states. let's start off with domestic politics. iraq today is a tinderbox with red-hot embers inside, disputes about political power. it seems the government is crumbling. the finance minister will not leave the anbar province for fear of being arrested. another has been boycotting government meetings in the capital and remaining in the kurdish-controlled north. and ministers have also to foist that they will boycott the government in recent days. i would like the panel to give their assessment of the domestic situation, and let me start with ambassador crocker. if prime minister maliki turning himself into an autocrat? >> is a great question, and i thought you had a great quotation from the article two days ago. iraq is haunted by its past. maliki is haunted by his past, recent and not so recent, in my view. he came out of a clandestine movement that was severely persecuted under the saddam years. that conditions his behavior. it is said in iraq by the prime minister that only two men success

national security council and finally we cross the jeff mullard he is chair of the board at iraq veterans against the war right crosstalk rules in effect gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i go to you first ten years on has the united states achieved any of its strategic goals that wanted back ten years ago no and what has to be remembered i mean the iraq war quite simply is the most horrendous thing my government has done in my lifetime it is the most egregious crime of the twenty first century through a process of systematic manipulation of intelligence and outright lies to the american people the bush administration waged a war without the justification of self defense that makes it a war crime under international law. the supreme international crime in the words of the nuremberg tribunal the true cost of the war will never be known although some valiant efforts have been made peer reviewed studies back in two thousand and six put the iraqi death count at six hundred fifty thousand. that's an unimaginable number we have almost five thousand troops dead and we

the u.s. invasion into iraq. we would take a look back and go inside any video library and show you some moments from over the past 10 years of the iraq war. we will begin with february, 2003, when secretary of state powell made remarks. [video clip] caller: saddam was in support -- this support continues. poison and terror is new. is old.s of iraq the combination is lethal. with this track whether -- record, iraqi denials of terrorism taking place along the other iraqi denials of weapons of mass destruction. it is all a web of lies. when we confront a regime that harbors ambitions for domination, hides weapons of national distraction -- destruction, we are confronting the past, we are confronting the present. unless we act, we are confronting a more frightening future. from 2003, powell for very of that year, talking about evidence for iraq's weapons program. 10th anniversary is barely noted in washington dc -- host: some more supporters disagreed with critics, saying president bush made the right decision on rem

way the world war in iraq is now a minute forward was good for him harlem entry democracy the oil is flowing and we're going to see what happens in the next round of elections jeff go ahead jeff douglas admit douglas take that step then it wasn't just a bad idea it was criminal it was flat out a criminal act. douglas correct that's your opinion ok you don't that's his opinion no that's a yes or of international law that the bush administration knew that you know what they were saying was was not true well then he might have a point but the fact is everyone thought saddam hussein had nuclear or had a weapons of mass destruction program why i have days when he's thought everything iranians are not answering the spot on this gentleman everyone invalid go ahead i'm wrong one hundred percent on that many many people knew that iraq had no weapons of mass destruction members of the bush administration i'm sure of it knew he didn't have met weapons of mass destruction the downing street memo if you read it contains in

the u.s. can force events inside iraq? we have been waiting 34 years since the islamic revolution in iran for such a moment, i am not sure that is a feasible strategy. if our influence is at a low ebb in the region, i would suggest that that is because we have not chosen to use it. we are a great power. we are seen throughout the world, including the middle east, as a great power, so we are largely seen as absent on -- but we are largely seen as absent on key issues in key countries at key times. i think for the dynamic to change that you described, it is not a question of waiting for maliki or ahmadinejad to go, it is a question of whether we are going to start punching at least up to our weight again. >> a little further back. yes. >> could you give us the view from turkey and baghdad and the relations between maliki and erdogan, where turkey has closer to the kurds over the past three, four, five years? >> i will hand that over to the ambassador. [laughter] interconnecteds with the turks supporting the -- perception of

one more thing about al qaeda before the war against iraq the u.s. media talked a lot about abu musaab cari who allegedly was in iraq and had connections with the iraqi regime we searched but didn't find miss sampson we had no connections with mossad or al qaeda there was an attempt to establish a connection with the taliban through one of the ministers who was in pakistan for iraqi intelligence proposed this but foreign minister tariq aziz said that it was an unstable regime and it wouldn't benefit iraq to have relations with it did iraq actually have w m d that could threaten the entire world or the region where. they fabricated a certain problem analyzed it and drew their conclusions based on that the data they receive from various sources was untrue this was their attempt of swaying public opinion in terms of the intelligence operation iraq was a closed country and they obviously had no sources within the country that would have told them the truth so they relied on other sources that fed them lies such as for instance photos of trucks portable la

ten years ago the invasion of iraq began. hat followed, zambrano hussein's regime was top would u.s. troops found themselves in a quagmire as civil war broke out. the u.s. adopted a counter insurgency strategy. whether it really succeeded is till a matter of intense debate. there is no debate that it prepared the ground for a u.s. pullout, allowing president obama's spokesman jay carney to remind reporters today that this president fulfilled his promise to end the war. >> he fill filled that promise in a way that allowed iraq to have the best possible chance to provide for a better future. >> however in baghdad that better future must seem very far away. 19 car bombs blasted the city this morning killing 57 and wounding 190 more. you can add them to the casualties of this war. more than 4400 soldiers killed, 32,000 wounded. this does not include civilian contractors or allied soldiers or thousands of u.s. troops suffering from p.p.s.d. on the iraqi side, there are no firm numbers but at least 122,000 iraqi civilians died as a

the proper medicines this was. two and u.n. officials to u.n. on voice to iraq resigned in protest in the one nine hundred ninety s. because of how terrible the sanctions were one of them described it as genocidal we killed so many people in that country and destroyed the country's infrastructure even before we invaded in the illegal war of two thousand and three that the real war in iraq is more than two decades long and it's been led by the united states and to say that you know iraq's problems were their own i mean it is a radical misreading of history and it's just you know it's fine to say saddam was a bad guy no one defend saddam hussein but it has no bearing on whether or not the war was justified whether or not iraq would have been fine without us interventionism douglas what kind of legacy does this leave the united states in the region ten years on do you think. it's deeply ambiguous look again no one's defending going into iraq it was not a good idea if i'm not clear about that it was not a good idea for us to invade iraq you have a cat he said you ad

the u.s. occupation of iraq none of the arab forces that were willing to fight with us and the way we're going to invade iraq. once you got to iraq and took it over took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put into place that's a very volatile part of the world i mean if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off part of it. the syrians would like to have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to claim fought over for eight years in the north you get to the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire if you will that far in trying to. cheney knew exactly what was going to happen with the invasion of course they knew you said in an article that the steps that would need to be taken to rectify the wrongs involve the prosecution of politicians i mean would you. to see the bush officials who knowingly lied be put on trial we have about a minute or so i mean i think many americans including myself would like to see all the decisions we too

that vote for the iraq war has held against them. on the republican side, nixon still does have a secret plan to end the war. on the republican side, iraq was a war of liberation if you ask them in 2013. on the republican side the iraq war is what kept us safe so we wouldn't get attacked again the way we did on 9/11 if you ask them in 2011. that smoking gun could have been a mushroom cloud. thank god we went in. we have been through two presidential election cycles since then, and this is still the top line at the republican party, trying to sell us the same lie. and until the republican party gets right on this, the history will never be told honestly because it will always be told as a contested and partisan thing. how does this get right? >>> the problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapon. but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend agai

were abuzz with the talking points of the bush administration echoing claims that iraq has. it's hands on yellowcake uranium uranium and then it had a massive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction thanks to the media's repeated claims that iraq and saddam hussein remediate threats to our nation in the weeks leading up to the invasion nearly three quarters of americans believe the lie promoted by donald rumsfeld the saddam hussein was somehow involved in the attacks of nine eleven one of the biggest proponents of the iraq war was fox's bill o'reilly nearly every day leading off up to the invasion of iraq or rally used his pedestal on fox so-called news to pitch the pro-war lies of the bush administration in march of two thousand and three prior to the invasion of iraq o'reilly interviewed actress and political activist jeanine garofalo about her opposition towards going to war with iraq and asked her what she would do if she was wrong with her about iraq particularly. if you are wrong all right and if the united states and they will this is going to happen goes in liberate ir

>> the sectarian war is back in iraq. right now what you are seeing is the emergence of three almost separate countries in iraq. is a shiite state run by the prime minister of maliki to iran that feels this is a moment in its religious journey of shiite muslims. that contains important shiite religious sites. in the sunni heartland areas of fallujah which was invaded twice by u.s. forces to try to get down radical sunni extremists, some linked to al qaeda. you have a new sense of sunni identity. they feel threatened by the state of maliki. they feel that the americans came in and drove them from power. saddam hussein was a sunni. they fuel after ruling iraq for 1400 years, they have suddenly been driven from power. they are also looking to sunnis just to the north in syria and you can see that there is a bit of a feeling of sunni continuity that stretches from fallujah all the way up to the city that is an entire region in conflict. the third part that is emerging is effectively a kurdish state. the dream of curd stan is a

the war. and what does let life like for those inside iraq r.t. has a correspondent inside the war torn country or harbor a porch from the ground just ahead. plus of the hunger strike of guantanamo bay detainees continues it turns out they're not alone tonight right outside the white house a vigil draws attention to the strike coming up we'll have a report on the gathering. it's wednesday march twentieth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. well again today and iraq where an al qaeda affiliate took credit for a series of bombings the blasts that resulted in at least sixty dead on the ten year anniversary of the iraq war it's a war that killed nearly five thousand u.s. soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis estimated dead and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the very beginning there were a few voices against waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senator if you can rec

have ended in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed oh yes who could forget the mission accomplished aircraft carrier photo op less than three months after the invasion and of course that leads us to where we are today ten years on there are estimates of up to three trillion dollars bill loans and see invasion with over a million human beings dead and countless others left traumatized or disabled for life in iraq is now riddled with sectarian violence yes this was a post nine eleven world and people were terrified remember it was a period of freedom fries jingoistic propaganda and lists fear mongering during this time of strife people look to the media to cut through the noise because in times of war that's when the tough questions are needed the most but that didn't happen instead the administration set their agenda and the media diligence. he followed suit but not only was the press completely and questioning the administration they were practically reprinting government press releases as breaking news instead of being the

after the break ten years after the start of the iraq war and the shills for the bush administration the corporate media had yet to apologize for being so wrong and for misleading an entire nation prison time we all got the apology we deserved more on that in tonight's deleted. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot but you sir are a fool you know what that is my self a little bit i want usa to feature is not the only liberal democrats template you. can stick your beliefs about it's. going to support any of the structures from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us sensationalistic garbage because of breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. looks. more. importantly. my. place. it's crude news not even three weeks after the devastating sequester budget cuts went into effect and small businesses across

has witnessed in the last three months. what iraq have experienced in the last decade. pressure on the government is coming mostly from iraq as soon as all the iraqi courts and most of the. really supportive of the demonstrations it is more sectarian then how would it look like for many people are very what about c.d.'s scenario in iraq especially with the lack of capacity of the iraqi government to deal with these issues so there is so much what are you in the country on what is going to happen next but we can't say definitely but the situation is a million times worse than it was five years ago and it was ten years ago and that's what people are what about what will happen five years from now absolutely let's talk about the effects of the occupation i know that you yourself helped initiate one of the first casualty counts on the ground i'm still seeing the highest death toll push from the establishment at around one hundred thousand civilians i'm sure that were both aware of a very comprehensive study done by opinion research busin

the right battlefield. and what that means is getting out of iraq. >> the long war in iraq will come to an end by the end of this year. across america, our servicemen and women will be reunited with their families. today, i can say that our troops in iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. >> our troops are home. the iraq war is over. but today too many republicans haven't learned the lessons of this tragedy. dick cheney himself says he has no regrets. >> it is a wartime situation. it was more important to be successful than it was to be loved. if i had to do it over again, i would do it in a minute. >> and here's what a new republican congressman, a veteran considered a rising star in the party, said just last week. >> are we fighting too many wars? and i would say no. we're fighting one war. and it's a war against radical islamic jihad. final question is, can we afford this war? the answer is yes, we can afford it. >> he's wrong. the truth is, we are fighting too many wars. and we can't afford any more. every dollar spent on a bomb in iraq was a dollar not spent here at home. a dollar not spent on

what happened with the software. so i had iraq continues to be marred by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion we look at how stability in the country is proving to be the face of. rebels and the government in syria playing the blame for a comical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of a foreign intervention in a more. wealthy british style. market . find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. reports. technology innovation. developments from around russia. when their own country can't offer them a living. sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't like to wonder just. the dream of millions of migrants the children might choose their. i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become. to find a way home. but i welcome back a wave of deadly violence and assassinations have the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of iraq at least sixty five people were killed in a series of blasts in baghdad on tuesday wh

is moving closer to war with iran will iran be the next iraq. no i don't think we're headed towards a war with iran. iran has the ability to defend itself. and there would be a catastrophe if there was a nuclear strike on iran because of the effect of the fallout across the subcontinent but there would also be a catastrophe because or iran has an ability to retaliate and retaliation would be against israel. we have to recognize that we're in a new era which requires us to settle our differences without killing each other and without threatening mass destruction against one nation against another and so we have to use diplomacy with iran we have to we have to build a relationship there and they asked me based on trust you know we can do this communicate frequently and we haven't done that yet but we need to sinister really great to have you on terry unfortunately we are at a time but that was a former congress ohio congressman dennis q. senate. well no one really no one really knows the reality of war more than the men and women who serve overseas

bush announced the start of the invasion of iraq. he told americans we were doing it to prevent a terror attack on us. here he is. george w. >> our nation enters this conflict reluctantly. yet, our purpose is sure. the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. and i assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory. >> is he doing this -- i can't figure out george w. bush. maybe he's vacuous, working for cheney, or moved by the winds. he says in the opening speech why we went to war that very day, there'll be no half measures. no substitute for victory. was that because his dad stopped short of taking baghdad? >> i think there were a lot of reasons that drove the whole administration in this direction. there was the neocons pushing for change. >> ideological. >> ideological throughout

from day one, i didn't agree with the invasion of iraq. but i always knew how important it was to support our troops. especially when they came home. the president talked about it in his state of the union. >> we will keep faith with our veterans. investing in world class care, including mental health care. for our wounded warriors. supporting our military families. giving our veterans the benefits and education and job opportunities that they have earned. >> over 1.1 million americans served in iraq, and over 32,000 returned home with severe combat wounds. it's a big reason why 45% of veterans from iraq and afghanistan are seeking disability assistant. it's a staggering number. the wait time for that help is even worse. on average, it's over 300 days for our newest veterans. our veterans deserve better. yes, some of us marched against the war. but we did not march against the troops. we did not march against those that served the country. it seems that some of us was against the war and some that were for the war are now against the warrio

sanctions of the one nine hundred ninety s. for iraq the future really remains uncertain at the moment and i tell you the military campaign in iraq was supposed to throw the regime of saddam hussein and protect the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction saddam was toppled w m d's were never found. takes a look at whether the means could justify the end in the iraqi war. what's for the thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that pose in several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the intent of saddam hussein against his own people we've already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baat

which became the deadliest day in iraq. from the capital a decade after a western coalition stepped in to bring freedom and democracy stability they still are leading the nation. iraq in the immediate moment is dealing with the numerous political problems there's tension on the ground between the sunni populations in the shia led government there's conflict over oil deals frustration with the political system accusations of corruption and strife and of course the daily insurgency the attacks that of course have gone down significantly since the height of the war that still continue as evidenced by the blast in baghdad and so i think many iraqis that you speak to will say you know what yes we're free that saddam hussein is gone but at what cost is it worth it to have these daily attacks this violence one man that we spoke to in the city of kirkuk just today said yes i'm free to go out of my house today the question is whether i will return alive and i think that says quite a lot about the situation in iraq faces today nearly

yes, our men and women in the military did a good job in iraq. but george bush gets no credit for starting that war in the first place. hey, see you right back here tomorrow. have a good one. >> this is "the bill press show." ♪ theme ♪ >> well, it's day three of the hostage negotiation known as he will's park sitting in for stephanie while she's on vacation. >> i'm locked and letting us back in. >> it's amazing approximate. no one has thought in the middle of the night to come in. it's becoming like as far as i'm concerned, like we camped out here jacki and tony and myself and rebecca's outside to send messages to the rest of the world. the only time we can communicate with other people is when we're on the air. >> what are we asking for? >> our demands? >> yeah. >> an immediate cessation of the sequester cuts. paul ryan explaining his budget in a standing filibuster without his mother present. >> i was thinking gummi bears. >> i was getting to that. you have to have one crazy demand according to steve martin so you can plead insanity. >> presiden

the u.s. invasion of iraq. ught from the premise of the threat posed by weapons that we now know do not actually exist. we think of the iraq war as a moment of radical discontinue newty born of the trauma of 9/11. in iraq the war perpetuated a long legacy of devastation visited upon the country by the united states. the 1991 gulf war which destroyed the country's infrastructure followed by the u.s.-led sanctions prevented it from being rebuilt along with hussein's legendary cruelty resulted in the near total destruction of the country's economy. the american bill for this latest war in iraq, according to a new study, will ultimately be $2.2 trillion which includes the cost of care for veterans who were injured in the war. as far as human cost goes the war claimed the lives of more than 4400 u.s. service people wounding over 100,000 more. to say nothing of the u.s. service members who survived two and throw tours of iraq, missed birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, struggled to keep relationships together and r