the iraq war expanded that group of people. at nyu we looked at jihadi terrorist attacks around the world before and after the iraq war, and they were up seven fold. now all of that was afghanistan and iraq, but even when you take these out of the equations they went up in europe and other places, so the iraq war was st was intelligence agency said in the national intelligence estimate in 2007. so, it put the oil on the fire and gave them live in a new lease on life, but al qaeda, which is only learning organization, made mistakes that in iraq over time didn't end, not only in iraq but in a wider war. >> host: let me ask you a question if i could, sort of shifting to osama bin laden's officious because in the book you describe what he's doing largely to his beef with american foreign policy, the rule but we played in the middle east in particular and crushing of these regimes that he loathes to read in the tens of thousands of was in london has uttered he was largely silent of freedoms and values, which was a book that president

we did a big one on the iraq war a few years ago. we brought in people like naomi klein and others to talk about the contractors in iraq. what that was all about. the economics behind it. and we took questions and it was great interactive thing. and the tape of that, the cd of it and the online version of it went viral as people like to say now. was used all over the country by other antiwar organizations. and i think was very helpful in helping to shape some of that dialog. i'll stick to one aspect of dan's second question which is on the divides within the jewish community. i think that there is enormous shifting going on right now in the political discourse the political discussions in this country across-the-board but in the jewish community more than anywhere else. i think that the rise of organizations like jewish voice for peace which now has chapters in, i don't know, 10 or 15 different cities around the u.s. have 100,000 members. there's a host of organizations like that. the big coalition that i work with, the u.s. campaign

the iraq war expanded that group of people just in absolute numbers and. we look at the jihadis terrorist attacks around the world before and after the iraq war and they went up sevenfold and a lot of that was afghanistan and iraq but even when you take these out of the equation the wind up in europe and other places, so the iraq war was caused as the national intelligence estimate in 2007. so it put the wheel on the fire and gave bin laden late new lease on life, but al qaeda which is not a learning organization made mistakes in iraq that over time did it moly in iraq in the wider war. >> host: let me ask a question if i could to the osama bin laden motivation because in the book you describe large what he's doing towards the american foreign policy, the role of the plan in particular in these regimes, and you say that in all of the tens of thousands of ford's bin laden has ordered his largely silent about american freedoms and values which was a point that president bush went on and on about the freedoms, but tuesday he doesn't seem to care but the belief

they tried different medications and different doses, and nothing would work. >> narrator: before the iraq war, american soldiers in combat zones were not allowed to take psychiatric medications. but by the time of the surge, more than 20,000 us troops in afghanistan and iraq were taking anti-depressants and sleeping pills. these drugs enable the army to keep soldiers with post- traumatic stress on the battlefield. >> ptsd is a very difficult disorder to treat. i can't change the days that occurred, the events that occurred. i can't go back and affect the memories until they start talking about them. what i use medications for is to treat very specific side effects. i don't want somebody in a helplessness mode in a combat environment. i want to make sure that i don't have, you know, someone with suicidal thoughts where everyone is armed. i want to be able to manage that effectively. if i can treat it there and optimize their recovery, that's valuable. >> narrator: but some civilian psychiatrists are concerned that these could be inappropriate drugs for a war zone. dr. joseph glenmullen has stu

lessons between -- letters between tony blair and george bush will not be testified into the iraq war in korea. whiskey that has been buried in the south pole for more than 100 years. >> prosecutors in haiti have charged the former leader jean- claude duvalier for misappropriation of funds during his 15-year-old that ended in 1986. he is also known as baby doc. he was detained and charged. they have to decide if the case will go ahead. >> he is known as baby doc. jean-claude duvalier is no longer a young man. he is a reminder of a dark past. they wear occurs student accused of torturing political opponents urging they were accused of torturing political opponents. he may finally face justice. he has been formally charged with corruption comment that, and other crimes. it is a move that will be applauded by human-rights groups across the world. why have they returned now? hon>> it is adds to the birdmen. >> he has arrived at a sensitive time. the dictators say he is there to the people of haiti. >> the chinese president has been attending a private dinner with president obama. it is th

but i'm fairly confident there'll be no more wars like the korean war or the vietnam war or the gulf war or the war in bosnia or the war in iraq or the war in afghanistan. because those are wars that were elective wars. they were not forced any directly upon the united states. we could argue a bit about afghanistan but you could have bombed the al qaeda cancer and come home. i think we've come to the end of those wars. it started with a war of 1898. we have come to the in because we have run out of money. in the 20 century americans could have guns and butter both it will just have a hard time having better. one less thing and then it will start. and that is that some people say that social security is not going to survive. social security will become bankrupt and so don't have a social security if your 25 years old and just are your career. those people are wrong and i will tell you why they are wrong. because social security will be the last federal program steny. social security will be there after the pentagon has been vacated at lee's death to someone else. why do i know this? because every year, every six months, never c

obviously jumped on this statement many still follow her new york times reporting on the run up to the iraq war for helping push that myth that iraq had w m d's now when it was revealed that there were no w m d's after the us had already invaded really was question about her reporting and she told michael massing author of the book now they tell us the following she said my job as a reporter wasn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself but to tell times readers what the government thought about iraq's arsenal to jude it just takes all the resources at their word never double check the facts what is saw and is totally wrong here just think maybe if she would have done her job we may not have been involved in the iraq war since two thousand and three we would have lost more than forty seven hundred soldiers maybe if julian assange and wiki leaks were around back in two thousand and three due to actual reporting this war may have never happened. now there's still much more to come on today's show so big names like rudy giuliani michael mackay c. a

my second time and the london bureau chief was it during the iraq war. the bbc had some very aggressive coverage which was more critical in the run-up to the iraq war than what was here in the u.s. that was very helpful, journalistically. there was one point, after a correspondent published what i thought was a very helpful piece about the sexing up of the data from the blair administration, error by and saying that it was perfect information that was perfectly frigid purposely issued, the governor general and chairman of directors at the board of the bbc were forced to resign, a very telling moment meaning the government, even in a country like britain, we are not used to it in the united states and it raises the question of if we're going to a more publicly funded system, how do we make sure that the ultimate -- autonomy of journalists is maintained. >> so, let's stay on that note a little bit. "the oakland tribune" fell on hard times. how you think about the government stepping in? >> i agree with my colleague, but let's talk about how we get there. we

and add the cost of the two wars, you know, when they do the military budget, they don't include the actual wars we're fighting. so if you add the military budget and the wars in iraqand afghanistan, it's over a trillion dollars. if we're wasting that, how do we ever imagine we're going to get out of this economic crisis that we're in right now? so that's what i think president obama should talk about. >> host: red forest tweets in, would you say that life in iraq is better or worse post-saddam? please explain. >> guest: i think that the years of war have been far worse for people in iraq. saddam hussein's regime was terribly repressive. but for ordinary iraqis day-to-day life went on. there were, there were hundreds of thousands of people who were imprisoned at various points, political prisoners, repression. but for most iraqis life went on. iraq had the most advanced health care system anywhere in the region. it's where wealthy saudis would go when they needed heart surgery or brain surgery. iraqis had the best education system, free right up through university and postgraduate work. in fact, iraqis traveled all over the world and then went home. they weren't al

he made the statement at the end of four and a half hours of testimony before the iraq war inquiry inondon. in a written statement, he acknowledged he had discounted advice from his attorney general in 2003 that the invion of iraq may not legal without the backing of the u.n.. the former prime minister said he viewed that advice as provisional. so berlin is hopping. fashion week in green week. >> double the amount of visitors expected for the world's biggest food fair. i do not know the two go hand- in-hand. but i would not mind eating my way through this. food prices have been one topic that consumers are concerned about. dioxin has been another. the gornment has made ves t make sur the dioxin scandal does not occur again. producers of announced plans to introduce controls. high levels of cancer causing dioxin found in northern germany, prompting some consumers to steer clear of eggs and pork. many have started buying organic food instead. it is a boon for the organic farmers, but it is costing conventional farmers a lot of money. >> bread and salt for on the menu as this year's part

way it was presented not the post facto idea to iraq were expanded a group of people and in absolute numbers looking at jihad the terrorist attacks before and after the iraq war and went up severalfold but they also went with europe and other places. the iraq war was from the u.s. intelligence agency in 2007. put oil on the fire and gave bin laden a new lease of life but al qaeda which is not to learning organization made mistakes that over time did it in. >> host: let me ask a question shifting to the osama bin laden motivations. because in the book you describe what he's doing largely to his beef with american inform policy level we have played to prop up these regimes in do say all of these that he has uttered he was silent about american freedoms and values which is that president bush won on and on that he does not care about the believes of the crusaders but focus on american for policy and the middle east. how do explain this letter you released? >> he did not write it. go ahead. >> >> but october 14th that is a database it was attributed to him and in recall you to stop your oppression by using a lot of good stuff in there with 70 did not seem to appr

war. and yet the american public, it's just not front and center. the economy is so important for so many people. the war is not going as badly as iraq. it's going somewhat ok. and so it's just not a subject of political contention right now in the same way that if you go back to 2006, the iraq war, was just the absolute center of every debate that you could have. tavis: to your point, people are concerned and i understand it. perhaps even more concerned about the economy, about jobs. americans care most about pocketbook issues. but here's the rub. these two things are inextricably linked, are they not? >> well, they are and they aren't. i mean, the afghan war is expensive. $100 billion a year. tavis: exactly. >> however, that's about 1% of g.d.p. the american economy is a very large one. between the vietnam war we were spending 10% of g.d.p. on the vietnam war. so by historical standards, this is a relatively small defense expenditure. and of course we were attacked from afghanistan on 9/11 and we do have an obligation to try and get things more or less right there and not to turn it into switzerland but at least leave a relatively st

was the iraq war worth more than 4300 american lives and wounded? and i conclude by saying that if even if we could lower the number of u.s. casualty numbers to zero that should not consent or secure our consent to the slaughter of foreigners in on just wars. 100,000 at least died in the iraq war. some estimates run as high as 500,000. people who think that we will continue to conduct war like this in exchange for a guarantee of our own safety don't have a very high opinion of americans will character to lead the major premise of this book which i want to close by reaffirming is - we will not kill and die without being convinced the struggle was justified on the grounds of legitimate self-defense or moral duty. the current war system seems designed consciously or unconsciously to wean us from the habit of a demanding justification's for war, morrill justifications for war. it's an act of faith perhaps to assert that this will not work, that americans will remain unwilling to fight except for because they are convinced as just, but i'm going to keep t

blair is due to testify before the iraq war inquiry on friday but he won't reveal the details with corresponding with george w. bush in the build up to the invasion in two thousand and three the british government rejected requests from being wire you for the letters to be published because they said it was closure when damaged britain's relations with the us blair himself was reported to consider the correspondents personally their own war inquiry is investigating why the u.k. support of the un beth in the invasion british politician jeremy corbyn was with the labor party when it was in power under blair it's just over an hour in in just over an hour rather he tells us either the investigation would have more credibility if it went before an international court. if the european politicians former head of government in the case of tony blair was actually brought before the. international court in the hague and investigated the rest of the world would have far more respect for the international process was the moment the most prominent people who've come before that have been. the attempts to res

." >> tony blair and is questioned again about the iraq war. this time he says he has for grabs. clients of course i regret deeply the loss of life whether from our own armed forces, family in to help people or a iraqis themselves. >> 3 died in albania against corruption. the pope voice is concerned about morality in public officials. welcome to "bbc world news." broadcast in pbs in america. a teenage boy has been tied to the wall of a psychiatric unit for three years. goodbye to the gas guzzler. one man's mission to turn the gulf region away from greed. great britain's former prime minister face his toughest questioning yet about the decision to go to war in iraq. he admitted a ignoring earlier advice from his most senior legal adviser that an attack might be illegal. he did say to some he did profoundly regret the loss of life in iraq. >> there was no slipping in through a side door. tony blair walked through the main entrance. there were barely a dozen protesters to see him. he took his place at the witness table. the talked about the private letters he sent to george bush in t

that was up period if anything, the opposition to the war in iraq in 2002, very much a parallel to thesocial divide around vietnam but even more powerful. even more people were against this looming war in iraq, it looked inevitable, there was a moment that culminated on february 15th, 2003, when people all around the world held protests in the streets on the same day. 665 cities and countries across the world, it began with the sun as the sun rose in the south pacific, in australia and new zealand and small island states and followed the sun throughout the day and in capitals around the world, largest demonstration ever held whether it was particularly true in the countries where troops are -- government forced by the u.s. to join what was known as the coalition of the willing. what we call the coalition of the coerced. places like london, rome, madrid and barcelona it was even bigger, these were going to war with the u.s. and in the u.s. new york, at the foot of the united nations and san francisco there were and billions of people. the guinness book of world records said it was the l

again i think we're seeing an exact replay of what happened in the iraq war when journalists were going out and publishing this information that was detrimental to the government's case building up a building a case to go toward iraq and you saw the way that they went into hiding soon is like the government was going to come down to the valerie plame with a very prime was a name was leaked to the press. i think everyone got petrified and they got scared it is amazing that you find in a country like the united states which has basically the word of the free press is in the world with a potential to have one of the for its presence in the world. so when there's no need to you have first amendment rights you can you can say what you want you're protected by the constitution and you've got wiki leaks which is doing exactly what us journalists should be doing which is going out and speaking truth to power publishing documents publishing government documents and breaking stories when you have and it's just not the pressure be blowing up in support this it's amazing that they're no find it abs

tony blair faces his toughest questions yet about the decision to go to war in iraq. welcome to bbc news. coming up later for you, pope benedict makes a moral appeal. and shot in the netherlands over pictures of a teenager in a psychiatric hospital. >> congresswoman deferreds was shot in the head and is being transferred to a rehabilitation center in texas. people lined the streets as she was driven to the airport. they described her condition as spectacular with great potential for recovery. >> very few thought that she would leave this hospital so soon. they departed through of cheering crowds. many turned out. she was cheerful and smiled when she heard them. from the ambulance, she was carried to a waiting plane. members of her family and her medical team were also on board for the two-hour journey. on the way to the next phase of her recovery. this will be her home for the coming weeks or months. renowned for its work with brain injuries. they are encouraged by their initial assessment. >> from a neurological point of view, she came in and was hoyle alert, away, ca

former british prime minister tony blair is due to testify before the iraq war in korea later today the hearing caught up with a british m.p. an anti-war activist jeremy corbyn who was with the labor party when it was in power under blair stay with us. we are here as tony blair appears before the chilcote inquiry for the second time jeremy cotton thanks very much for talking to r.t. now this as i've said is not the first time that blair is appearing before the iraq inquiry can you just remind us what happened last time will he was very nervous to begin with came into the room and was asked some questions of a moderately robust way about the evidence leading up to his decision to recommend to parliament that we know very few to rock and then the latter part of the year it turned into a sort of tony blair lecture in defense of his policies on what he calls humanitarian intervention and then went on to warn the whole world about what he perceived to be the danger from iran and i thought the whole thing was a travesty because this is meant to be an inquiry looking into the absolute final de

the civil war in iraq didn't begin in 2006 with the bombings. it began in 2003 when the americans won the war they basically lost the war. they dispatched the iraqi army for the most part didn't even fight. and leaving aside the occupation or wrong decision to go to war with this rather wrong. if you're going to be an occupier, if you're going to invade a country at least give it confidently, and we couldn't even do that, so the military planners, colonels and the like knew from experience in haiti, bosnia, kosovo, conflict in the world you need a significant number of troops for the post war phase because you're not going to devastate. they weren't grads of the troop it's going to be a quick easy war we can with 150,000 troops i think and created this immediate vacuum chipping away the government to security forces, electricity. everything was done and you have a pervasive sense of lawlessness that remains to this date to read this isn't unique to iraq. if he took new york city and got rid of the mayor and the police and electricity and creative

when defending its record in the iraq war the us is quick to point to the tens of billions of dollars in spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and gross inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little sign of improvement in their daily lives that means many are forced to do whatever they can to scrape by as. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that most families too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting plastic and metal that will be shipped abroad for recycling a reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me six acres of back that's trash to many this is just waste but for the families here this is not only their livelihood but also their home over two thousand people live on baghdad's landfill. making their homes out of the garbage that the rest of the city throws away there's no running water or electricity and certainly no

the u.s. war in afghanistan," "understanding the u.s.-iran crisis, "ending the iraq war." are there more in the series to come? >> guest: there's another one that i didn't write on islam, "understanding us -- islam." i think there are more to come. i don't think i'm going to write another primer for a while. i'm a little tired of the genre. i think they're important and useful tools for activists, for people trying to understand hot issues as they emerge. i think my next book is likely to be something a little more challenging for me rather than another primer. >> host: have you started the next book? >> guest: i haven't. i've got some ideas. i want to do some study. i have the honor of getting -- i've been invited by the lennon foundation to do a writers' retreat in martha, texas, in, later this spring, and i'm looking forward to having five weeks to read and to study and to maybe begin some writing. >> host: that's -- talk a little bit more about that foundation and that texas connection. i mean, it's kind of an odd, odd thing, isn't it? >> guest: i depress it is. >> host

civil service has blocked the iraq war inquiry from publishing and home of its descent from tony blairouse to whom george bush -- to president george w. bush. they are disappointed by the decision. they said it would harm britain's international relations. during his 15-year rule, he was deposed in 1986. he was detained and charged after the supplies returned to haiti. the prime minister has retained the leadership of his party, choosing to back him in a secret confident valid. the polish investigation of a plane crash has accused russia of failing to warn pilots. the official russian inquiry has accused polish officials of putting the pilots under psychological pressure to land despite bad weather. tunisia's new government looks to be in tatters. the streets erupted again. protesters are angry at the survival of the old regime under a new guise. will that be enough to ensure their supply? >> this is not the sound or the side of the city returning to a peaceful stability. instead, the center erupted in violence against today. the protesters make it very clear they will not accept the n

united states would like to end the iraq war by keeping the military bases there keeping fifty thousand troops there keeping enough control of the economy so that if the iraqis do anything at all that the united states and its investors don't like we can immediately kill another hundred thousand iraqis and while in afghanistan the u.s. is still spending billions trying to win the hearts and minds of the people looks to some like resources are going in a different direction you can drive a lot and for at least a mile and a half there will be a wall and there is some kind of big american construction of ammunition depots and . i was seeing happening on the other side of that wall in the other side of the road you see the people who are displaced are actually living in tents without heaters and with blankets and through cold winter afghans left out in the cold war as the u.s. government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay in the stor r t new york. the war in afghanistan looks here to stay but it perhaps is only scratching the

." >> tony blair is called for questioning about the iraq war. this time he says he has regrets. >> of course i regret profoundly the loss of life from our own armed forces and those of other nations, civilians and iraqis themselves. >> three-night in albania in protests against -- 3 die in albania in protests against the government. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast on pbs in america and around the globe. coming up later, footage of television, a teenage boy who has been tied to a wall in a psychiatric unit for three years. goodbye to the gas guzzler. one man's mission to turn the gulf region free. >> great britain's former prime minister tony blair is facing his toughest question of yeah -- question yet about the idea to go to iraq. he admitted ignoring advice from his senior legal adviser that it might be legal. he pledged to support the u.s. one year before the invasion. he said he deeply and profoundly regretted the loss of life in iraq. >> there was no slipping in through a side door. tony blair walked in through the main entrance. it w

and still to come in the program a repeat performance of the iraq war inquiry in the form of the prime minister of his decision to invade iraq in two thousand and three it is second appearance tony blair is asked to clarify his previous testimony got more coming up also. on the russian spies in from the cold and on the t.v. . chapman show and what she's now revealing just a couple of minutes time. less than two hours from now russian business one of the alleged arms delivered to boot is set to appear in a u.s. court for a pretrial hearing he's facing charges of conspiring to kill americans and supplying weapons to terrorists while bush maintains his innocence the media continues to label him the merchant of death. reports. you. are one of three. true to form hollywood and most of the us love a great villain in the film lord of war nicolas cage please have your was officials celebrate his arrest the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate who is this merchant of death and why is he getting all of this attention with both the u.s. a court of eighty is cultivated this image of

condition so strongly that they think that it's almost like religion or the fight based but this idea that when we go to war and iraqthe kind of pinnacle of the neoconservative domination of the american fought and a lot of think tanks including liberal, not my own but most think tanks in the city boughta into that war as did most of congress and a lot of people many of whom may have been private dissenters but to the group think tanks over and one in the national security council in the run-up to the war i could wake up and get my news from fox news, get my newspaper and read "the washington times," drive to work and by the time i get to the office there will be reports on my desk from the neoconservative think tanks funded by the same group of people but they were so effected at constructing their chamber they forgot to leave an air hole to leave the reality check and so it became this course that took over the narrative and there are dissenters as you talk about to beat could you talk about the patterns of dissent? >> guest: what was fascinating to me at two levels because i have spent so many years doing researc

this. >> guest: i shot video and have done voiceover and studio interviews from and about the iraq warand the afghanistan war, piracy, the conflict in central africa or conflicts in central africa, and that might be all. i think so, yeah. >> host: ptsd? this. >> guest: myself? not formally diagnosed. i had a rather hairy experience in chad in the summer of 2008 and came home feeling not quite like myself. and managed to, you know, through the help of family and good friends and a lot of beer managed to right myself, i guess. i don't think that the trauma i've experienced compares to what an american soldier who spends 15 months on deployment in afghanistan or iraq, my experiences don't compare to that, but sure, sure, i've had some stress. >> host: we're going to put the numbers up on the screen in case you would like to talk with david axe about how journalists cover war and how it effected them. these are pictures here, these are drawings of when david axe went home to detroit. and what i noted on these is that you slept in quite late every morning, and you didn't look like you were