in the al qaeda and iraq network. they're coming mainly from the region. but we do assess from our best intelligence assessments that the suicide bombers are foreign fighters. right now, they do not impose a direct threat to us or our personnel but pose a direct threat to the citizenship of iraq. the suicide bombers 12 a month to now 30 or 40 a month has a pernicious effect on the discourse in the country. car bombs, the iraqis have been able to protect against car bomb ms. you don't see mass casualty car bomb attacks that you used to see. a lot of bombs but casualties are lower, the suicide bombers are able to get to funerals, mosques, populated areas and cause mass casualties that has a devastating effect on the country. a serious problem and a regional problem. >> last in the remaining moments, we're meeting in baghdad. you state that you detected for the first time acknowledgment that government of iraq missteps may have made the problem worse. and as i noted in my statement, this is not the feeling that ranking me

this is the american generals in iraq. planning out of their campaigns on the calendar, as you noticed them every day it still says something -- it says something about the american army in the beginning of the war. it was the ostensibly focused, very tactfully and operational excellence the it didn't know a lot about counterinsurgency. so the idea that they would go out and kill and capture insurgent terrorist operatives and it would be rated after raid after raid, and not a lot of thought into the other aspects of counterinsurgency but we eventually became very good at but not in 2003. so we were there now and things were spiraling downward, although not rapidly. what were we going to do? that was a good question but i don't think we had a good answer to it. we lacked a strategy to guide the way forward and down that the troop level i know a brigade commander we lacked an operational concept that rose -- of operations of each unit in iraq in a uniform and coherent manner. and we lacked enough resources, particularly group

the british experience in iraq is worth the americans variance in iraq. and we are really pleased to have both of you here and we will come up to the podium now. >> thank you, peter, thank you for the kind introduction and thank you for coming today. i really appreciate the new america foundation and i appreciate being able to sponsor this talk. i was not going to write this book. although i knew that there was a story to be told. i was going to let it take some time and there is a history of the iraq war. but in the summer of 2000 and i was at a conference with a who's who of experts in the united states. of course what to do in afghanistan in 2010 was an issue of major concern in the united states and invariably the discussion evolves what had happened during the search. and not one of them had a holistic understanding of the iraq war and research. and so the liberation of the philippines in 19441945 is going to be the subject of my next book and we are writing about people and they are going to disagree with what we have to say about this. and i decided

the u.s. to carry out attacks here. al qaeda and iraq has been empowered by prison breaks and by the syrian civil war, it has been fueled by the alienation of much of the sunni population from the shia dominated government in baghdad. skilled atecome very exploring this sect. rest. the power grab has given them much ammunition. this is a point that elliott and underscoredd and with president maliki when he visit last fall. the u.s. moves to send military equipment to help the iraqis fight these terrorists. appropriate intelligence can be shared as well. iraqis should know that their relations with iran and the slow pace of political reconciliation raised serious congressional concerns. while he may not be up to it, he tot take steps to lead iraq a post-sectarian era. only a iraqis can control their future. but if we don't want to see in a rack with large swaths of , we must be willing to lend an appropriate hand. and now we will go to opening comments. mr. angle from new york. >> enqueue for holding this important hearing on iraq and the

the united states has paid a high price to help liberate iraq from the menace of al-qaeda. it is frustrating that al-qaeda is gaining ground back in iraq. al-qaeda's resurgence is directly related to prime minister maliki's mishandling of his government. incompetence and corruption seem to be the norm. he centralized power, alienated the sunnis and brought back shia hit squads. he has allowed iranian-supported operate i haves to kill m -- operatives to kill dissidents now on seven occasions without consequences. the last time you were here, mr. mcgurk, you testified before my subcommittee and ileana ros-lehtinen's subcommittee. i predicted that there would be another attack. seven days after you testified in december, camp liberty was attacked again. all this chaos has created an environment ripe for al-qaeda. al-qaeda's reestablishing a safe haven to plan and launch attacks outside the region. that is totally unacceptable trend. the question is, what is the united states going to do? and i yield back the remainder of my time. >> in the 1940s we occupied countries. no one do

, the arms going into iraq? > the iraqis have been pretty careful get off on in terms of security cooperation with iran and so far that kept that line fairly firm. i have seen reports like that but i would not take it too seriously. iraq has made clear they want a long-term institutional relationship with the trendy. they want the united states to be the backbone of their military. that's why they want platforms like an apache helicopter system. when we sell a country a helicopter we're not giving them an attack helicopter. we are buying a 30 year relationship in terms of training pilots, logistics, maintenance. that's why we feel it's important. the f-16 program is the same. we want iraq to have a long-term institutional relationship military to military with the trendy. general austin's visit last week he knows the iraqi commanders. they have bled together in the streets in the fields of baghdad and the outskirts and all throughout iraq. they have a very deep, deep relationships. i was in those meetings, and yo

the u.n. imposed on iraq, was more detrimental to the social fabric of iraq and anything else. people associate with the united states with sanctions. not so -- not saddam with it. saddam was not impacted by this. he kept it off for food, getting away with, they smuggle system. he greeted and economy, in parallel, also to do with smuggling. so he in a way legitimized smuggling in iraq. so now that you have all the impact moving onto new chapter, so you need to cleanse yourself of that process. that takes a while. as to the first question, what was the first again? [inaudible] >> the media element. it's easier to sell bad news. that's one of them. it's easier to define a country in a binary way. it's easy. it's a simple as that. it's more complicated to try hard to understand society, the complexity of the society. and by the way, i'm not saying that we are clearing our own mind which had we are wearing and which others are not. i think we are sometimes unclear as which had we are wearing because of the complexities of the society spent his we will be this event now. we will go t

the u.s. interest ae find them. in iraq whether you like it or not, orioles, iran, al qaeda, the various interest are at stake in iraq do we need to do what we can -- >> let them kill each other, i'm sorry. if it means that we are going to end our treasure and more of our blood, we've already spent thousands of lives of american soldiers. we have done enough. and i'm so happy that you now can report to us that fewer negotiations to provide a residual american military force in iraq was not successful. i'm very happy that we don't have a bunch of american troops in that mess. we are holding him responsible for the murders in his own ranks, for the military that he commands to go into the camp and camp liberty and murder unarmed refugees. this is a no-win situation for us. both sides seem to be evil and both sides are off. one must question. i have 30 seconds. who is financing? we talked about 100 trucks and all of this equipment costs money. the bullets even cost money. ak-47s cost money, rockets cost money. who is paying fo

in iraq, the islamic state of iraq and levant or isil. i will discuss the current situation in rah dad my -- ramadi and fallujah. isil is well known to us. its former incarnation, aqi, was a focus of u.s. and iraqi security efforts over many years beginning with the rise of its first leader more than a decade ago. its current leader is a designated global terrorist under u.s. law and we believe is currently based in syria. his mission is clearly stated in his own statements, to carve out a zone of governing territory from baghdad through syria to lebanon. the syria conflict over the past two years provide a platform for isil to gain resources, recruits and safe havens. while the reice number of -- precise number of fighters is unknown, james clapper last week testified there are likely 26,000 extremist fighters in syria including 7,000 foreign fighters. many of these fighters are affiliated with isil. isil in its earlier incarnation inflicted mass casualty attacks in iraq. over the years 2011 and 2012. it was not until early last year that

the u.n. imposed on iraq was more detrimental to the social fabric of iraq than anything else. ople associated the united states with sanctions. not saddam. saddam was not impacted by this. he kept the link palaces. food, getting away with a smuggling system. he more or less created an economy and parallel with the normal economy but also a to do with smuggling and with the galaxy. he legitimized smuggling in iraq. so now we have that as well. now you have all of that impact moving on to a new chapter called post-2003. you need to cleanse yourself of that process and procedures and culture and that takes up while. after the first question again? >> [indiscernible] >> the media element. it is easier to sell bad news. it is more complicated to try hard to understand a society than the complexity of a society. by the way, i'm not saying that we are clear in our own minds which had we are wearing and what others are not. i'm saying we are sometimes unclear on what has we are wary because of the various complexities of the society, which is to do with the element of shia, sunnis, kur

iraq. afghanistan as the good war that we should have been there even if we shouldn't in iraq. people tended to hear what they to hear. on civil liberty as well. talked a very good game but 2008 month before the voted ion at denver he only the foreign intelligence amendments bill essentially indemnify y comes in , the tell spying in surveillance that wasn't legal. retroactively rubber stamped that. hen he made that vote i knew the fix was in. >> go back to the original come talkasked to you about the book and the column, did you get much reaction out of the column? >> i got a fair amount of column.n out of the virtually all of it was positive in that as we discussed there say, gaps n, shall we in his recollection or things he says in one place that don't things he said somewhere else. so much , it's not about about gates other than he person in important this drama called iraq/afghanistan the war on associated issues profound effect on the american psyche. want to realize a less y're sort of id underneath our bravado about how good we are. practice things like torture and try to

right at the heart and the height of the iraq war in afghanistan as well. now the figures are alarming. i have more on the top of the ones that you have just given. for example, we know that 1200 people send elicit payments. 200 officers are involved. two, two star general generals u believe. there were 106,000 individual payments made over the eight-year life of this scheme. $29 million paid out in total wrongly, as you said and, if you add the whole scheme together the bit that was legal with the bit that was illegal. you get $500 million they recruited around 150,000 people for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. well, now bring in claire the senator from missouri, she's spitting tacks over this, hopping mad about it and called together today the financial and oversight committee and they really grilled a panel of people that they know about. she said as far as she was concerned it's discouraging and the whole scheme is probably against federal law. take a look. >> the army has determined in its investigation that the entire program was illegal from the beg

the u.n. american investigator, arms inspector in iraq, that that was not the case. certain news organizations like mcclatchy did give very good coverage of the whole issue. when you read some of their pieces, it was much more ambiguous. >> where were you when the whole iraq thing started, starting with in 1991, were you working on the hill? >> i was working on the hill as military legislative assistant to congressman kasich who was on the armed services committee. that gave me a pretty busy portfolio. >> and now he is republican governor of ohio. when we saw that we didn't raise the money for the war, how did that track on capitol hill? he was the chairman of the budget committee. was there ever demand that we raise the money before we spend it? >> are you talking about 1991? >> the last 20 years of all this expenditure. >> at the time, he was not chairman. one little wrinkle that bypassed that, it was less controversial, at least in my view, the whole 1991 war insofar as saddam hussein had demonstrably invaded another country. that made it different. the other thin

in particular -- the problem in iraq in particular, and it's really true both in iraq and afghanistan, is what began as swift military victories quickly degenerated into long and grinding wars. in the case of iraq, it was always believed that it would be a short-term commitment, i think. it would be interesting to ask those who were participants in the decision making had they known in march 2003 that the country would be at war in iraq for six or seven more years whether they would have made the decision they did. but this assumption that the war would be short or that its end was right around the corner afflicted the department of defense as badly as it did the decision makers themselves. and because everyone assumed that the war would be over quickly, there was a great reluctance inside do defense to -- inside defense to spend significant sums of money on equipment that might be needed to protect the troops but that might be useful only in iraq or afghanistan. as i describe it in the book, the department of defense is organized to plan for war, motto wage war -- not

iraq. sort ofrt of the normal paradigm of iraq. just look at the quick historical perspective, sometimes in baghdad, you have the two key cities which present different civilizations as well. the british mandate, countryence, iraq as a was always rich within the region. in the gulf country, they used to send their kids to baghdad university. they are a key member in the united nations, the league of nations before the arab league, as well. growth as a monarchy until 1958. from 1958, you have the military rule. they rolled from 1963 for a few months and then in 1968, the political party of saddam hussein. 2003, president ruled. he was useless. it had an adverse impact on the iraqis as well. the changes affect the fabric of society. it is the vision of the dictator thewith the people on they most country that had u.s. sanctions against it. in 2003, you had the u.s. invasion. a number ofwe had milestones from a democratic point of view. we had the elections, the provisional elections three times during the national elections three tim

war and of course you got the first iraq war a war back in the ninety's him talking about how it was never a war because of wars wasn't two armies fighting each other and i want to play you a clip of just the best point to point from that clip. i wondered about that during the persian gulf war those intelligence reports would come out iraq incredible weapons and credible weapons. how do you know that. well. we looked at the receipt. if only you were alive to see the horrible failures of the two thousand and three and i remember watching that during the beginning of the second iraq war and being like it's an iraq war and it's bush and we have the receipts it's all over. you know it was amazing you know it was your favorite i guess hicks moment well i mean there's a lot i mean i always loved when he would go after marketing because that is not something you really see from a lot of comedians i mean or even you know it's people that speak in general in front of crowds and he would go you know he said marketers kill yourselves a

in the height of the iraq war. 1200 now stand accused of illegal payments. including 200 officers, 2-2 start generals can you believe. 106,000 payments were made under this. m total the entire scheme, part of which was legal, cost around $500 million they got around 150,000 people signed up for the army for their money. now, clair mckaskel who is the democratic senator from missouri, she is very very angry about this. she is absolutely spitting tacks. calling it discouraging and disappointing that this happened at all, and saying the entire scheme, not just the obviously illegal bit, was in fact illegal from the get go that the entire program was illegal from the beginning. they certainly do not condone the illegal bit, but they point out that the iraq war was not going well in 2005, afghanistan wasn't going very well in 2005 either, and this kind of scheme was the only way of encouraging people to join up. think about it, you would be safer for you joined the navy or air force, than even the national guard, because you could be called to iraq or afghanistan,

about extremist christianity make headlines in the me to some of the outlets during the peaks of the iraq and afghan war but this topic has certainly kind of disappeared and been brushed aside and not discussed as opposed to you know the role of islam like you just mentioned and as it turns out this issue is certainly still around and it's a very serious one because it's not only affecting as it turned out and we've discovered you know the enemy but it's also affecting our soldiers at home because of in some cases very severe pressure that is being imposed on them of being either of a different religion or not being christian enough like you said and another shocking thing to discover was that we were told that apparently this kind of understanding that extremist christianity exists in the u.s. military goes up quite high in the ranks and that people even addressing this issue with the high ranking officials are just basically told to stop talking about it or else and what sort of tangible facts does this type of religious expression have on both the military as a whole and the population

the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america say the same thing. so we may have disagreements on this bill. people may choose to vote against it, for whatever reason. people may offer amendments that we love to see. some of them may be good, some of them may not be so good. but let us respect those folks who have given so much to this country. let's not demean the veterans community by killing this bill because of something to do with iran sanctions. that has nothing to do with veterans' needs. so i hope we have a -- continue to have a vigorous debate on this amendment. i see my friend from florida over here. people want to vote for it, good, want to vote against it, fine. but let's not -- let's not play the same, old politics which so disgust the american people. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: mr. president, if i could inquire as to the pending business before the senate is the veterans bill? the motion to proceed? the presiding officer: it is indeed the motion to procee

waye have come such a long from that debate over the iraq war. lk about the turnaround and what has happened. it has been moving gradually. former president sarkozy was initiating the saw -- the thaw in tone with washington, d.c. salon has picked up on that theme by being pragmatic on -- hollande has picked up on that theme by being pragmatic on security issues. the sheer fact that the iraq war is over and we are not name-calling in the same way as before -- that's enough for --ple not to go back to that's enough for people to go back to a rooted interest in the transatlantic relationship. policymakers like working with france. they are very focused on whether france and president hollande will move the european economy forward or backward. it has such immediate backlash on the american market. it will matter very much to americans. obviously aren't perfect. there was this french delegation that went to iran earlier this week. that earned a reprimand from the u.s. headscourse you will bump at sometimes. part of it is personality. the two residents

in the region is considering iraq as an invading country. >> that is no longer the case. >> iraq is too weak and too fragile. we need to have a safeguard against that visually. i think that is the key driver. we need to have a strong relationship with all. we cannot afford to have a weak relationship or an adverse relationship at any of the four levels. we have too much meat and we have too much of a desire to have some relationship. we are no longer going to draw the line and say we do not want a relationship with iran because we can't see the benefit to that. we have a lot of religious tourism from iran. waterways, shared waterways, shared oil wells and so on. so we cannot afford to have [applause] -- [indiscernible] we can afford having a good relationship with iran and with the iraqi state. tell me another country in the region that have such a permanent relationship with both countries. nine. but we are the only one because we are choosing it. we are not still being dictated on us. >> your question is very important. areorically, iraq and egypt the two powerful significant force in

. >> during the run-up to the iraq war, abramson was the d.c. bureau chief for the paper, which she says ransom seriously flawed stories. >> we were, i think, not diligent enough. >> i talk to her about the future of the paper and about accusations that the paper is too far left. welcome to "talk to al jazeera," jill. >> thanks so much, john. >> tell us what it's like to be the editor of "the new york times" for the last couple of years. did you dream about this? >> it's something i have dreamed about since i've been a professional journalist. i never expected that i would actually have this job, but some part of me always, yes, certainly dreamed of working for "the new york times." i grew up here in manhattan. my family actually had two home delivery subscriptions to ""the times"," because my mother was a passionate puzzler, but she couldn't stand to have the puzzle ripped out. she didn't want anyone to touch the section the puzzle was in. my father had to have his own "new york times." >> let me dive right into the news, then, and talk a littl

camps and safe havens in the remote regions of western iraq. 'm confident particularly as the missiles develop even more ability to deploy them and also with the apache helicopters in the other things they are able to do with their iraqi partners that they will not have the safe haven in those areas and that's one reason they are moving into urban areas. >> i have called for him believe that the united states should help the iraqi government in a limited way using air power to take out these safe havens because this congress, this house, has passed a use of force agreement that a sickly says, i attack al qaeda. we have the responsibility to do that. that man rescue another brief question. dismantling what they decide as an advanced al qaeda plot within their borders. there is this strategy and a near war grand strategy. moving them in in the far threat would be in the u.s. homeland. do you believe the situation we are seeing and that it is the qi toof eight q why -- a wanton attack on the american homeland? >> my file is iraq sewing focused on i

. >> johnny walker is the codename of an iraqi translator who helped the navy seals root out terrorists in iraq following the insurgency. johnny walker accompanied the seals on over 1000 missions and discredited with savings -- saving dozens of them along with iraqis. next, jim defelice and johnny walker talk about mr. walker's experience. this is about an hour. >> first of all, thank you, everybody, for coming out. we really appreciate the support, and going to kind of winged a little bit, keep it easy and will just take it where it goes, right? a lot of people have been asking why did come how did this book come about, why did you write this book, and i have to say that the book actually started in the way i've been working on this book for almost four years now. while i was working on "american sniper" which i wrote with chris kyle, whose another great, great american. one night chris and i were hanging around in his den and we're looking at some pictures. a picture came up of some guys who were about to go out on a seal mission, and i noticed that one of them was a lot taller than the other

there were 77 votes in the senate authorizing the iraq war. most women senators voted yes. y woman who voted yes who is accused of voting yes simply to prove her toughness. and most men senators voted yes, too. and none of them have been accused of voting yes to prove their toughness, including chuck schumer, hillary clinton's new york partner in the senate who voted yes. barbara boxer voted no. dianne feinstein voted yes and no one attributed either one of those to gender. one group of senate democrats who unanimously voted yes were all of the senators who planned to run for president. joe biden voted yes, chris dodd voted yes, john edwards voted yes, john kerry coyote voeted yes, joe lieberman voted yes and hillary clinton voted yes. they all voted yes and they all ran for president. you can debate why hillary clinton voted for the iraq war and presidential ambition probably had something to do with it. but gendjengender clearly had n to do with it. o'reilly ended his segment by asking his democrat and republican women guests if they wanted to be president. and each of the

putting call squabbles a site such as the french refusal to support the iraq war never out of the us buying the two men are expected to get down to business today the white house talks covering iran syria and traits. today the united states and france are enjoying a level of trust not seen in more than a decade. that's why this visit is the rice pie for both. for obama. battered by domestic gridlock and for all along that was personalized is under scrutiny back home chevron rover year i knew was watching them. eu foreign ministers have said they may use targeted sanctions against ukraine is the most resorts. anti government protests is on the island in the month of street action against the president. a key security posts is all the productions and attacks on protest is. the cbc in brussels on monday mrs said they decided to keep a straight six engines every sad. in case the situation in ukraine but ones. when we listen to what we need to have a d one season mediate and jimbo sanctions. however we decided to do that again targeted sanctions. if ever the situation becomes class which

he previously was serving as the iraq ambassador to japan. corer to joining the commie lived in united kingdom for 29 years working in the i.t. sector. he held senior management positions inter-american -- into american companies. he played an active role in advocating for democracy and the rule of law and iraq during a period when iraq was under the dictatorship of saddam hussein. he is fluent in english and kurdish. he was born in baghdad. you can follow him on twitter. presiding over this event is our wonderful professor known to everyone not only here, but any sisent who has ever been to , knows professor site you'd -- professor sayid. as i tell them when i come back , he remains a rock star. when i reassure them that he is still teaching, they are pleased to hear it. he has a variety of expertise including broader issues of peace and conflict resolutions. on conflict work resolution is being honored in march of the international studies association meeting in toronto. there will be a panel that sayid.s professor thank you for organizing t

. >>> the black flag of the islamic state of iraq has been raised in baghdad. >> remember the war in re, done that war president obama repeatedly has taken credit for ending. mission accomplished to borrow a phrase from his predecessor. iraq once more is burning. bombings and executions of civilians are now daily occurrences and last month alone more than 1,000 civilians died in attacks from al qaeda and other terrorist franchises. the black flag of al qaeda flies over the cities, epic battles in the marine corps panteon. we could have told you so say the cynical. yet there is no escaping the lessens of iraq and afghanistan. endless war never was an american option. sherman long ago declared war is too serious a matterer to leave to soldiers. we guess that's why we hear reports of hundreds of contractors, millions of americans streaming to iraq. it's a new kind of army that makes a profit for the defense industry without burdening taxpayers. taxpayers will ante up for the $6 billion in military equipment. secretary of state john kerry, the vietnam vet who years ago testified against h

that's the result of stepping out of iraq and handing that country over. that's the result of not focusing on the negotiations necessary toest tab learn a status of forces agreement in iraq that could have povided the security and stability and training necessary for the iraqis to protect themselves from the outside influence that now has a powerful influence in those places that were paid for, some of them more than nce, and that encludes fallujah, in american blood, mr. speaker. that's iraq. afghanistan. the president found himself pushed into a situation what where he had to order a surge, even though he jected the surge ordered by president bush in iraq and it was all by objective accounts a successful surge in iraq. president obama, mr. speaker, ordered the surge of a minimum number of troops in afghanistan and i recall general mcchrystal laying out the numbers, i don't have them exactly committed to memory but something to the extent of 75,000 troops will get the job done, 50,000 it will take a while and maybe we'll get a job done but if you get down

the scale of what is involved, particularly the al qaeda elements in iraq, and the level theestruction they have in level of killing they are doing is just terrible. >> thank you very much. chairman,ou, mr. director clapper, general flynn. fornt to thank you both being here and thank you for your service helping to protect our nation. i also want to thank the men and women military and civilian with you both. start byike to focusing on al qaeda. sustained counterterrorism pressure, key organizational setbacks and the emergence of other power centers of the global extremist movement have put core al qaeda on a downward trajectory since 2008. all is ask you what your core definition of core al qaeda is. >> why definition is the -- it isp group process they was meant by that. they have been found a degraded, not slumberland it is -- not eliminated by any respect. >> what is the value of that distinction? >> i think for an organization like al qaeda and the arabian peninsula, it poses a much greater tactical near-term operational threats to the homeland. is the ideological center of al qae

the time. johnny, we thought you were still in iraq. with the book, our book came out, "american sniper" came out, and chris was actually doing a book signing, i think, in california, ask johnny went out -- and johnny went out and just showed up. and chris, as chris told the story later on, chris said i called him up -- i thought he was dead and called him up and made him stand up in front of the room and told everyone truth, that johnny walker -- chris kyle is known as a man who saved a lot of seal lives and a lot of iraqi leaves, and -- lives, and crust told that crowd and has told me and has told everybody he could that johnny walker safed more seals and more americans and more iraqis than chris ever could. it was just a remarkable story, and i'm not sure if it was the next day, but soon after chris got hold of our publisher, our editor, actually, peter hubbard who's really been a big help for us and said, peter, you are doing this book, boy. in this man is really important. and that's kind of where we started. so, johnny, why don't y

it's known as isis, the islamic state of iraq and syria. has been battling the syrian government, as well as other rebel groups. some of which are moderate and supported by the west. it wants to oppose a fundamentalist version of islam of people under its control. and the brutality carried out by this isis force is so extreme that it's been highly dangerous for journalists to report from areas under its control. but now as isis is being forced out of some areas, cnn's senior internation international correspondent, r arwa damon travels to adana in northern syria to witness the human devastation left in its wake. we should warn you, some of these images in this exclusive report are very disturbing. >> reporter: this grave has been dug up before. the bodies unidentified, reburied in the same spot. in video filmed at the time, gruesome images of the corpses of four men. it's among many mass graves rebel fighters unearthed. from radical fighters who once were their allies. now weeks later, a family hopes for closure. we found a foot and a shoe

and the reality is that not everyone in iraq. an agreement with the path of an iranian style which is basically bringing the run back into mexican into many sections but it's just seem plausible to you that the head of state broadcasting can basically overrule the president of the country and delay in a match that price delay the french president's interview well will be run as the yuan is different and i'm switching concrete certain that it is possible that one of broadcasting events to go on to conclusions yet. i think that's us specially these very tense days of the roads going through. we should not forget that doesn't draw me disliking both neoconservatives radicals out of washington d c as we witnessed as well as local radicals in iraq. all of these people when tehran not to be able to be in a position for their safe to come back and smashed into me and so we have to help dismiss these people in this government by cooperating by sending in business. by allowing them giving them a chance to show the other it's closing doors a

i want to thank the iraq-afghanistan veterans of america. they tweeted the other day -- and i quote -- "the senate should not get distracted while debating and voting on the vets bill, iran sanctions, obamacare, et cetera, aren't relevant to s. 1982." they are absolutely right. let's talk about veterans' needs. now, some other republican colleagues in objecting to this bill have said they can't vote for it because it is not bipartisan enough and it's not been fully marked up in committee. well, that's not quite true. almost all of the provisions in this bill did come out of the committee. in fact, two of the major components of this bill, two separate omnibus bills were passed by unanimous vote. you can't get much more bipartisan than when you have two major provisions in a bill passing with all republican and democrats voting for it. that's pretty bipartisan from where i come from. furthermore, this legislation contains a number of provisions offered and supported by republican members of the veterans' committee. in fact, to the best of my k

but you were operating in a war zone right so that the military in iraq and afghanistan for example had very strict rules of engagement did you follow them. sure depending on which customer you're working for whether you're working for the u.s. military or u.s. state department they all have very similar rules of engagement. and ours were defensive you'd have to go through a whole use of force continuum kinds of things you have to do before lethal force would be would be used but i guess what i'm what i'm asking is that if a mercenary commits a crime in combat who holds them responsible because in an army for example there was a hierarchy always someone above you looking over your shoulder and if you do something that you know. who who was doing that inside blackwater thing the hierarchy think well you know the rules of engagement again come from the government that you're working for technically you know the work we're doing for the state department which we got a lot of unwelcome attention for they were not mercenaries i mean they were american guys. former u.s. servicemen themselves

the obama administration failed and now you have the disaster. iraq is gone. that's my opinion. getting this back. if the level is that they are not going to attack their allies or our allies and mot going to be able to attack us, then we have succeeded because they no longer have a dictator and somebody is going to build nuclear weapons. but if your idea of success is a peaceful nation that tries to work against iran and the other evil regeimes in the area, we have failed. if they trained in iraq like afghanistan, here's the scary part for me. i have a 13-year-old son. i don't want my 13-year-old son to have to join the marine corps in ten years to go back to iraq to fix the mistakes that this president made when he abandoned everything we fought for there. >> let's go back to that for a moment. the status of forces agreement that was never decided upon. would that have made a difference or do you feel like troops needed to be there longer to secure a little more stability on the ground or was it never going to take hold? >> the status of forces agreement would have made sure we

only the four though iraq's not cause or any any size that that the tea house so iraq is definitely one of them and economics at the scene and the idea of of tours in iraq destroy iran's nutrition you gaze issues with the west international community is open every thursday to see the country serious about addressing its concerns over its nuclear program still hold overs of the sections is still in place. people here are confident that the future will bring peace and economic stability. the poll the costs of living went wrong. it's been very difficult far as the situation isn't ideal but we're optimistic to believe that we went to the frozen assets will be made available in the economy will come out to that yet. but don't hold up as enthusiastic to earn a living. well our time. he has shown it. none of them buying anything out of the old jokes then tuesday was the first at the residence here. they will take toward a full grown son to find an agreement and its natural sanctions off to get me through. since nineteen fourteen i need sunscreen to be the true government of china today china a

what happened in 2007 to the two reuter's journalists in iraq was a terrible tragedy and one that was brought home to all of us when we saw the footage that wikileaks released. and i think that really brought home the horror of modern war and why it is so dangerous. >> what you had there was apache helicopters firing on a group of people from at least 500 meters away, maybe a couple of kilometers away. you have the assumption that everyone in that group is of a type. you have the assumption that because there were weapons in that group, that everyone in that group was armed and somehow dangers. uh, and it became just a terrible tragedy that the uh, gunships fired on those people. our correspondents were killed, along with others. >> we need answers to the questions about how these situations happened. we've engaged, and we'll continue to engage very actively with the authorities, because we don't take for granted that people just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> they were walking with a group that-- where there were arms. now, in 2007 in baghdad, that was extrem

. -- who want a primary challenge. 71 on the left, they don like her vote on the iraq war or her paidon wall street type, there is some distrust of her from the lift, but problem with biden, obama is trying to push a tradeeal that labor does not like, and he voted for the iraq war too. >> the other element in the room, alleged affairs with clinton and you know rand paul wants to make an issue of bill clinton a fill answer fill an anderring and work pce harassment does that hurt her in. >> you know it, may, but it sill a leap. tracking hud band to wife -- husband that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. neil: might be more sympathy for her. >> it might, right. but, you know, i'm not one to make predicts, not sure which way union endorsements go but most late night comed yap comedians hope that foot in the mouth joe gets elections that is 4 years of beautiful fodder. neil: the idea of bill clinton at first man is great comic material too. >> i think that are rand paul he is looking, i think likely rand paul will run for president, he is looking atepublin nomination, bashing the clinton, a

the impact. leaven not uncommon jordan, iraq, turkey. what governments has been to in terms of posting refugees. unemployment rate, struggles to cope. each country in the region is affected. this is not just a humanitarian crisis. this is one that the government has at the top of the agenda. at the humanitarian side, this is the same time we're dealing with escalating crises. south sudan, the central of -- central african republic. i am pleased we're focusing on this issue. one of our main priorities in terms of this crisis is not to just deal with it as a humanitarian one but to look at the development, microeconomic aspects and to look at what we can bring in terms of military support. the above mentioned the u.s. congress and thanks and appreciation. i want to echo those that -- those things because it was because of that support that the united states is the number one donor in the region. and it was since this crisis began, over one-half billion in humanitarian support alone. so we have basically four -- four objectives related to th