agencies admit iran does not have a nuclear weapons program nor the most white house official tells the times iraq's about to use chemical weapons it was a law i know the most white house official told the times syria's about to use chemical weapons mainstream repeating it without question or even told things that don't exist iraq supposedly had some chemical agent fifteen it was a lawyer in twenty thirteenth e.i.a. claims a quote compelling case syria is using the same thing now the only problem is there's no such thing as agent fifteen leaked emails as america is trying to plant a chemical weapon which washington says would justify invasion we've got a new offer it's about syria again qatar is proposing attractive deal where the idea is approved by washington will have to deliver a chemical weapon to homs similar to those that assad should have proposed are enormous talk to kevin barrett the same lawyers from iraq chemicals that don't see exist that nobody even troyer americans have a terrible time you. and trying to imagine that their leaders could ever act you know less than morally upright way

free them from saddam's reign was that the reality on the ground what were iraqis being told at the time iraq is was told that they would be looking to this baby swift operation. and then the u.s. would help them be. people had very high expectations from my experience there was a split in public opinion as some people actually do believe that these schemes and they did want to give us a chance to go and change the dictates of themselves and other people including myself thought that iraq should be given a chance to change to change that but then you know have the u.s. . to help them to pace themselves and even though there was a split in public perception at the time when did it kind of shift because obviously there was a lot more opposition very quickly as we realize that the war was not accomplished in the three months that bush had claimed it to be i think a few months. specially when the command was shifted from north to pole there was a complete shift in. program out this meant to me start the infamous. process and. complete the action so people. from that time because them until that m

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the regime was brutal all the time. >> we have the whole world on a table. onhow has our expenditures iraq affected our ability to operate elsewhere? the united states is the number one superpower. we have the largest economy. so we manage to remain engaged in other parts of the world. but that does not refer to the proposition that the war iraq was excessively expensive, not only morally but financially and physically. and it has not contributed to great regional stability but has and has greater regional instability. the phenomenon described is increasingly pervasive. whenever there are murderers groups during nasty things, the united states has to go in and deal with it. i think it -- that is the kind of policy that our adversaries would like to see our top decline -- to see our power decline. it would be a gift to them. sure we can maintain reasonable and stable policy towards the far east. we're doing it. i also will also draw -- i hope we will also draw lessons from the conflicts we have been in recent years. >> the question of syria. it seems to have echos about the kinds of choices

the first time, u.s. military command no longer has a presence here in iraq. this is now a sovereign nation. >> richard spent eight years in iraq. he is in another key part of the region in israel. he is waiting for president obama who arrives in jerusalem tomorrow morning. good morning. >> good to be with you. >> i want to ask you, we sit here ten years later and you spent a tremendous amount of time in that part of the world. what is our standing in the world now after the invasion of iraq and obviously what we said was going to happen, we were going to sprout up with democracies and did not occur right away. there was a revolution in libya and other areas. what is our standing right now? >> the peak of u.s. power was probably right after the u.s. invasion. the u.s. went in and toppled saddam hussein and iran was frightened at the time. the syrian regime was worried that tanks would start heading out of baghdad and go to damascus. once the civil war began in iraq and sunnis and shiites started to fight and american troops were caught in the quagmyre, there wa

lawrence lindsay, white house economic adviser at the time, made war with iraq make it sound like it uldn't cause a dent in the u.s. economy. a washington times interview quotes him saying, "the likely economic effects would be relatively small. if the united states goes to war in iraq to depose saddam hussein." he went on to praise the war's upside. "the key issue is oil and a regime change in iraq would facilitate an increase in world oil which would tend to lower oil prices here." in 2002 -- there's more of this. >> oil prices went up. the number i always used to say when i talk about iraq often and paul and i would have these debates and when this was really in conscience, $20 billion on air-conditioning in iraq per year during the height of the year. $20 billion on air-conditioning in iraq and afghanistan. >> in 2002, richard pearl, chairman of the defense policy board said we are not talking about a massive ip vags along the lines of '91. we're talking about a much more modest effort in which the united states would assist iraqis in freeing their country. let me get over to paul

and at the same time, we should not lose sight of the fact that if we do repeat vis-a-vis iran what we did vis-a-vis iraq, we'll probably be engaged in a conflict that's more protracted and more regionally widespread than was the case with iraq a decade ago. so these are some of the concerns that are in history. beyond that let me make one more observation about the nature of war. democracies are very able to wage total war if they are attacked. they are not so good, they're not predisposed, i think they're mentally not prepared to wage total war if they have themselves started a war but were not attacked. it's an important psychological as well as historical difference. we were able to break the will of the germans in large measure by massive air assaults under civilian population. yes, of course, it was justified by the need to disrupt transportation, undermine industry, but a great part of the motive was also let's break their will by destroying and burning their cities and then, of course, in the course of destroying and burning their cities, killing as many civilians as possible. the most classical

the notion, we all argued about at the time, to somehow if you broke iraq, a bad administration, you uld replace it with something like democracy. then the neocons, the intellectuals would say this. somehow that would spread around the region. i haven't heard that argument. >> no, well, because it obviously didn't work. >> we've had the arab spring, though, which is a much more rocky proposal. >> to some extent, let's not forget the role of ahmed chalabi. >> the guy in the gold shoes, the gold pants. >> the iraqi exile, snake oil salesman as we called him at "newsweek" at one point. wolfowitz gave the interview the other day of the "sunday times" of london. he was one of chalabi's champions. you know, wolfowitz, fife, pearl, all them. >> tony miller. chalabi, he said the other day he wasn't straight with us. >> okay. >> this is one of the first mea culpas on that i've heard yet. >> if you want to believe something, you'll believe anything. the war was sold to the public, however, as necessary to stop a mad man who was intent on, here's the key word, amassing an arsenal of weapons incl

the time. world one the whole a table. expenditures on iraq affected our ability to operate elsewhere? the united states is the number one superpower. we have the largest economy. so we manage to remain engaged in other parts of the world. but that does not refer to the proposition that the war iraq was excessively expensive, not only morally but financially and physically. and it has not contributed to great regional stability but has and has greater regional instability. is phenomenon described increasingly pervasive. murderershere are groups during nasty things, the united states has to go in and deal with it. -- that is the kind of policy that our adversaries would like to see our top decline -- to see our power decline. it would be a gift to them. i'm sure we contain -- maintain question of syria. echos about have the kinds of choices and difficulties of intertwined military and political considerations we faced in director >> of syria, we got off on the wrong foot. the president declared publicly that assad of syria has to go. that was a trustee had to make. one would assume that

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 john burbs of the "new york times." >>ke the numbers killed, iraqis, americans, very high n

it was predicated on the assumption, which i think at the time both governments in united states and in iraq, shared, that there would be a successor security agreement. the intent on the sides was a signal for the first time since the 1958 revolution that overthrew the monarchy that rock was going to be a strategic partner of the u.s. in particular and of the world in general. exists,eement still still in force, but i think the full withdrawal of u.s. military, except for the small contingent left for training and equipping, reduced our leverage. i would say one other thing. you can still have substantial leverage in international politics without military forces. i am not sure that we have taken full advantage of those opportunities, and i hope very much as we enter a second obama administration that the administration is going to have a greater and deeper focus on the importance of iraq and did engage iraq more fully, more frequently, and at higher levels, because we have seen what happens when the relationship deteriorates, as it did after 1958, and particularly under saddam. with our mi

lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says iraqas changed the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and what do we do we mount a war of aggression in iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right in the world looks at that and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely in a leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedge among today many of those who cheered for the iraq war on t.v. shows in the in their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states were t

the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the various that's occurred in the time of the former regime it is not comparable to the number of freely is by the politicians and the current government today iraq is facing a new political crisis there is tension on the ground between the sunni provinces and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolved it can lead to more significant problems including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization the region. an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left a rocky soil. how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions every day there is killing every day there is terrorism. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years to seek out of r.t. iraq. you as a taxpayer is probably asking how much mall they'll have to spend on iraq on top of w

the neocons came to power with an agenda for regime change in iraq. on 9/11 they were salivating. the general of the joint chiefs at the timeall these guys started iraq, iraq, iraq, at the first meeting after 9/11. the fact is these guys had a mission to try to redraw the maps of the middle east. that's a fact. and dick cheney did not invent the idea of the executive branch being a dictatorship when it comes to foreign policy in america. unfortunately president obama has continued some of the things cheney, rumsfeld and these guys laid the groundwork for earlier. my god, cheney headed up halliburton for the 1990s. he had oil on the mind all the time. the irony is the u.s. isn't winning the oil in iraq. these guys failed at their own game, the neocons. >> mike, as you look forward at iraq's, from iraq's current position into the future, what are your expectations for that nation? >> it's a great question, martin. you know, it's the crucial question, as we think about this day. i was just on a tv show with foreign minister zubari of iraq. he was disappointed in his own colleagues in hair inability to compromise on key issues

the sick. we spent ten years trying to build a nation in iraq. it's time to do some nation building here at home. joining me now is former democratic congressman, patrick murphy. he was the first iraq war veteran to serve in congress. and richard wolffe, msnbc.com executive editor. thank you both for joining me. >> thanks, reverend. >> congressman, you served there. what are your thoughts tonight about this war that bush and cheney led us into? >> well, reverend, it still breaks my heart. the fact is, when i was there ten years ago, i lost 19 men in my unit. >> 19. >> 19 men in my unit. of the almost 4,500 we lost total. not one person in the bush administration has been held accountable. not one. they haven't even apologized. i mean, it was one of the biggest strategic catastrophes in our nation's history. our troops did an amazing e ini. they did the job they could do. but they were shorthanded. the american public was misled in this war. they completely said it was about 9/11, a connection. then they said it was about weapons of mass destruction. neithe

the pentagon. i was interested to look at what iraq looks like and feels like 10 years after the invasion. i am only here for 10 days this time. ae main story i wrote was sweeping story, taking a wide angle view at what the new iraq looks like, the sharp contrast, the challenges that remain. i am working on another story later this week, looking at what has become of the u.s. role in a rock and how that differs -- a rack how that differs from how -- what the u.s. should accomplish when it was drawing up plans for a post-military presence. ant: give our viewers and -- idea. what does it look like in iraq 10 years later? guest: sharp contrast. it is a group of very secure provinces. they have been able to attract a lot of foreign investment. the south, you also have a resurgence. have a economies doing fairly well, largely the result of a boom of religious tortas and -- toward. sunii are a mix of residents. -- they weren't really able to secure a foothold basing in the government. they don't feel they're getting the right kind of job opportunities. there is a lot of frustration that led to a wave of demonstration. they want to

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the question for you this morning, what did we learn from the iraq war? timeo war, and especially the kind of wars we fight today. they seem never-ending. but let me take you back ten years to march 19th, 2003. >> my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger. >> american military hardware made quick work of saddam hussein and his army. saddam's statue fell less than a month after the first tomahawk missiles were fired. in may of 2003, mr. bush infamously declared, mission accomplished, aboard the "uss abraham lincoln" >> major combat operations in iraq have ended and the battle of iraq, the united states and our allies have prevailed. the transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. our coalition will stay until our work is done. and then we will leave. >> of course, there was no mission accomplished, and it was only later we learned saddam hussein was bluffing. he had no weap

the "new york times." his new book is called "end game: theis inside story of the struggle for iraq." i am pleased to have him here back at this table. welcome. good to see you. >> glad to be here. >> rose: this is, many are say, the detailed history from t the military point of view of the iraqi war. is that a fair assessment? >> well, it-- i started out to do, that but actually, i did a little more than that in this sense-- i had a coauthor, general trainer -- a >> who you worked with before. >> i started out to do a book on the surge which i had covered before the surge, during the surge, and after the surge, onng the ground in iraq, and i concluded you couldn't really evaluate the surge until youal knew what was policy was before the surge and you couldn't evaluate whether the surge worked or didn't until you found out what happened afterwards. it became kind of a political military. and one thing i did try to do which a lot of american authors haven't done, frankly, is iha spent a lot of time talking to the iraqis, prime minister maliki, the head of the kurdishi reerkz the sunnis

it was predicated on the assumption, which i think at the time both governments in the united states and in iraq, that there would be a successor security agreement. the intent on the sides was a signal for the first time since the 1958 revolution that overthrew the monarchy that iraq was going to be a strategic partner of the u.s. in particular and of the world in general. that agreement still exists, still in force, but i think the full withdrawal of u.s. military, except for the small contingent left for training and equipping, reduced our leverage. i would say one other thing. you can still have substantial leverage in international politics without military forces. i am not sure that we have taken full advantage of those opportunities, and i hope very much as we enter a second obama administration that the administration is going to have a greater and deeper focus on the importance of iraq and engage iraq more fully, more frequently, and at higher levels, because we have seen what happens when the relationship deteriorates, as it did after 1958, and particularly under saddam. with our milit

it was predicated on the assumption, which i think at the time both governments in the united states and in iraq, shared, that there would be a successor security agreement. the intent on the sides was a signal for the first time since the 1958 revolution that overthrew the monarchy that rock -- iraq was going to be a strategic partner of the u.s. in particular and of the world in general. that agreement still exists, still in force, but i think the full withdrawal of u.s. military, except for the small contingent left for training and equipping, reduced our leverage. i would say one other thing. you can still have substantial leverage in international politics without military forces. i am not sure that we have taken full advantage of those opportunities, and i hope very much as we enter a second obama administration that the administration is going to have a greater and deeper focus on the importance of iraq and did engage iraq more fully, more frequently, and at higher levels, because we have seen what happens when the relationship deteriorates, as it did after 1958, and particularly under sa

when it comes to the wisdom of invading iraq, you have expired, all of you have. you had your time, you failed, it is over. >>> now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a good night. >>> today in washington, the latest skirmish in the republican civil war was fought by rand paul against rand paul. >> the republicans are just totally bam booze he willed now. >> the gop ordered an autopsy. >> 98 page autopsy. >> of its performance in the last election. >> they don't understand they're being suckered. >> it is all about outreach, not policy. >> to be clear, our principles are sound. >> outside of pushing for comprehensive immigration reform. >> if you wish to live and work in america. >> kentucky senator rand paul. >> we will find a place for you. >> raising his national profile. endorsed a path to citizenship. >> we will find a place for you. >> i am now a single issue voter against amnesty. >> it is all completely incoherent. >> we know we have problems and we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. >> the opposition to the iraq war led to a cru

american coalition forces are in the early stage of military operations to disarm iraq, free its people and defend the world from great danger. >> bret: since that time5 million american troops served inside iraq. nearly 4 ,500 were killed there. more than 32,000 american troops were wounded in iraq. more than 100 iraqis died in the fighting. more than a year after american troops left iraq is still bloody battlefield. today, as we said, series of apparently coordinated bombings. death toll is 65. could still rise. david is an international lawyer with the d.c. firm patton boggs and used to be head of the rule of law for the state department inside baghdad. he returned there this week to work on investment project and really spent the day trying to stay safe. he joins us now by phone live in baghdad after leaving his hotel due to the danger of the bombing attacks. dave, thank you for joining us. what can you tell us about today? >> thanks, bret. the ten-year anniversary of the invation of iraq was marked by some tension reminiscent of the worst days of the war. bombs went off across baghdad today is. resulting in multiple deaths and injury. as we dro

iraq. that was december of 2011. this week will mark the tenth anniversary of the iraq invasion. march 19th here in the states, march 20th baghdad timeerica's part of the war may be over but iraq remains a violent and unstable place. a car bomb killed at least ten people just today in northern iraq. >>> remember this face? it remains one of the most powerful and lasting images of america's involvement in the iraq war. this is a u.s. marine. his photo was taken by a "los angeles times" photographer in falluja in 2004. we wanted to check in and see where this marine is today so we asked the man who took the picture. >> i found myself involved in the assault in falluja. we were under constant enemy fire. >> looking back at it, fire, to have it justified. >> we were up on the rooftop and a break in the action, he propped up next to me and starting smoking a cigarette. >> after falluja i tried to act like it had never happened. >> it shows a kid that had basically gone through a horrifying experience, traumatic experience. >> the first time i thought about committing suicide was in iraq. maybe a week after we came out of falluja. >> i did

time soon in the u.s. side i think people gave it more time because of the skewed media coverage media blame rocky's for the failure of its right to play on some stereotypes of iraq he's being you know crazy violent and muslims who have been killing each other for for centuries so i don't think americans felt the impact that much but i mean the now when you look at the public opinion numbers there is a vast majority of americans would think that should not have happened in between and the war with iraq should not have happened to what extent was hussein successful in preventing introducing a warfare essentially civil war intersect tarion war between sunnies and shiites and i would rather see you give the personally i would give it to the iraqi system iraqis did not have a system based on security and affiliations until two thousand and three the governing. and that was introduced by the u.s. is the first instance in iraq's contemporary history that iraqis were picked based on this experience affiliations it never happened before in fact saddam had overthrown of democratically elected president but with the help of the united states as i recall back and i know you

the last ten years who seek out of r t iraq. well or more news to cover about twenty minutes time next hour people of el of cross-talk will join us to talk about the recent death of boris berezovsky to stay with us. if you can or not see. a clear image of iraq after a facial. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads full of danger. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. by god taxi on r.t. . when you have nowhere to live. when you don't have a family. when you have no one to ask for help you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and authorities alike fields out its convicts anonymous people like he used to be. done for the homeless on out say. choose your language. because we know if they sell some of. china's the fumes the concerns get to. choose the opinions that invigorating. choose the stories that impact the life choose the access to your office. it's been ten years since the war in iraq next year it seems pretty strange withdrawing from afghanistan and it provides a time perhaps for affection not just to look on what's gone past but also

and gauged in misleading the public check the bush administration said time and again that iraq was dangerous because it possessed weapons of mass destruction it was the very foundation on which the entire war was built today the bush administration and the world knows otherwise lack of transparency check the fact that the government will not disclose concrete numbers of how many iraqi civilians were actually killed during the years of aggression or even the true economic cost of the war are a testament to this point numbers of iraq and iraq the civilians killed range from fifty thousand to one million add another check for violation of international law during the height of the aggression the us used and left depleted uranium number three hundred sites around iraq sickening thousands along the way birth defects and infant mortality in cities like fallujah have increased at a rate of five times higher than anywhere else depleted uranium which to this day has not been cleaned questionable business practices check the military shady dealings with contractors like blackwater as well as the unexp

the iraq war? and if so, what is it? >> you know when we did "hubris" one of the things i thought was important to do is not time it to theq. the anniversary of the invasion is tomorrow and wednesday, but to time it sort of to the lying that got us into the invasion of iraq. i mean for me, the lessons are, the lessons that we've got to learn, which i'm not sure we've learned are about how we got there. the case to go to war was full of holes, it was made up. it was deliberately made up. and our political system, including the media, was not good enough, was not rigorous enough to ferret that out. so there was something wrong institutionally with the debate not being good enough. the other thing that happened was sort of a more meta problem. and that is that we thought that going to war would be easy in iraq. george w. bush did an interview with "reuters" after the supreme court case that decided he would be president and before he was inaugurated. he did a 45-minute interview with "reuters" in which before he was even sworn in, he was threatening to go to war with iraq. once 9/11 happened, they said how can we use this to

the "wall street journal" today supporting the war in iraq on its editorial page. of course, the "new york times" thinks it was foolish. no matter what you think. the iraq war has changed america. we now have a 17 trillion-dollar debt. and obviously iraq contributed to that we also have thousands of wounded warriors. the country must take care of. and we have an ideological battle over how to deal with villains like iran. as you may know, i supported the iraq war based upon weapons of mass destruction's intel. subsequently, i believe we could have removed saddam hussein in another way. that would not have been so damaging to america. i mean, the man had to go. he was a terrorist and an international outlaw. but in hindsight, we should have strangled him with a blockade and used our air power to destroy his infrastructure. talking points is not a second guesser. my opinion about the iraq war 10 years ago was based on reality. not ideology or party politics. but the reality for america has now changed. as we are seeing in afghanistan, we simply cannot impose democracy in human rights on nations th

sanctions and overt occupation in iraq the iraqi people are much worse off than they were just let you know in two hours time we go to exclusive interview with the former head of the iraqi intelligence services american office he told us that iraq has descended into chaos because the u.s. invasion lives along to plan for stabilizing the country. cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but i want to say your scenario is for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.d. replied just let us eva three him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos and now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three we did warn the americans that if the regime would fold iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold. in the egyptian capital protesters have gathered in front of the prosecutor general's office again today demanding his resignation voicing their anger against the muslim brotherhood on true's and carlos talk to now live father tell of t

disarm iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger. >> it turned out the world was not in grave danger. a cia analyst working in the counter terrorism center at the timeays now the prewar intelligence on iraq, quote, turned out to be bogus and that her job was, quote, keeping the really, really terrible versions of it out of our analysis. joining me now, that former cia analyst, nada bakos. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you published this article describing what it was like working in the cia at that time, and all the pressure you were under from the vice president's office. i wanted to show you this clip that you mentioned from "meet the press" back then. you mentioned it in your article. let's look at it again. >> we know he's out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al qaeda organization. >> in your article, you say were you shocked when you heard him say that. tell us about that. >> so we had already written an assessment talking about the relationship between iraq and al qaeda and we found there was no substantial c

the u.s. led invasion in iraq r.t. in the former u.k. deputy prime minister at the time reflects on the campaign. wealthy british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. been living this way to seventeen. different strict. clearly distinguish between their home. and garden their family and thinks the treasure. couldn't take three storage free. range free. free. free. food free board video for your media project free video dog party dot com. it's been ten years since the war in iraq next year it seems pretty strange withdrawing from afghanistan and it provides a time perhaps for affection not just to look all at what's gone pos but also with the prospects of intervention in syria war with iran looming almost lessons can be learned from pos decisions when we look forward to the feature to help us talk more about this i'm joined by the full the deputy prime minister under taney no prescott thank you very much for joining us we're talking abo

coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq and free its people and to defend the world from great danger. cenk: no, you didn't see that that wasn't a timep. that peace about all the violence in iraq was from today 10 years after we invaded iraq, still tremendous violence, 65 killed today. i'm glad we solved that problem and liberated iraq for democracy, it's working out so well. in fact, listen to all the numbers we've had number of citizen deaths, u.s. deaths, service members is 4,488 throughout the war. contractors, 3,400. wounded veterans, 32,221. how about iraqi civilians 134,000. the cost of the world $2.2 trillion, but because of interest and expenses, it could go up to $6 trillion. that war brought to you by the same people who said oh, god, we have such big deficits, what can we do, pay your social security and medicare you paid into your whole life. we're going to have to rob you on that because bush spent all your money on the iraq war. sorry, sorry we don't have enough money. by the way we'd love to start a war with iron. that could cost a couple trillion dollars. later, we'll rob you even more and say sorry we just don't hav

the other. is it just time to get out? also ten years on since the iraq war. was it worth it? >> the price was high and i think the price and lives is the one i feel the most acutely. >> an exclusive conversation with paul wolfowitz, who is often seen as the intellectual godfather of that war. >>> from war to love. what countries do americans love and hate. we have an actual list. >>> but, first, here's my take. just when you thought north korea could not get any stranger, it did. and the past few weeks this impositive rshed isolationed nation has tested a nuclear bomb, threatened a preementative nuclear attack on the united states and ended the korean war and declared its intention to rein bullets to its nbaer to the south. north korea is trying to get attention. negotiate a deal, get some goodies and then quietly start cheating on that deal. that has been the pattern in the past. but this time, the north koreans have gotten the attention of their ally, china, but not quite how they want to get it. in a remarkable shift, china, which sustains north korea economically, had dra

the news. you can accept us your favorite iraq lies via twitter if you don't have the time to call in. 1-800-steph. ♪ theme ♪ hal: as much as we're dealing with the important issue of the 10 year anniversary of the iraq war and the lies that led up to us getting into it in the first place, all of which have been demonstrated as being lies and that people making them were aware they were lies at the time, not mistakes, not confusion, not soft pedaling on this. i was going to show jacki my eggs if the whole trick. jacki: did you make a heart for me? hal: because jacki's with us today. jacki: you're getting sweeter as the week goes on. hal: i grow on you like a if you know gus. jacki: there's a treatment for that. hal: i avoid ointment. jacki: you're very anti ointment? hal: the word itself, i'd rather have the disease whatever it is. [ laughter ] jacki: are you ok with a gel? hal: yeah, gel sounds way better. jacki: ok, a lotion. hal: this is a trauma-healing gel, versus an ointment. ointment sounds like what's coming out in the first place that you need the gel to heal. jacki: you can have a healin

charles krauthammer at the time of the war krauthammer was a fox news contributor and columnist for the washington post and much like hayes use the power of the pen to argue that the iraq war would assure an unprecedented levels of democracy in the middle east in april of two thousand and two he wrote the washington post that time is running short saddam has weapons of mass destruction he's working on nuclear weapons and he has every incentive to pass them on to terrorists who will use them against us we cannot hold the self-defense of the united states hostage to the solving of a century old regional conflict krauthammer was one hundred percent wrong about the iraq. finally there's emmas in b.c. is joe scarborough he was one of the strongest proponents of war with iraq outside of fox news in march of two thousand and three p. to make claims that toppling saddam hussein would mean the end of his weapons of mass destruction in april of two thousand and three scarborough so that for six months george bush dick cheney and donald rumsfeld have been telling the world the people of iraq need to be liberated from saddam hussein's bloody reign has three weeks of showing us jus