will help iraq train its security forces and develop its economy, but we will support a secure and united iraq as a partner and never as a patron. finally, just as america can never tolerate violence, we must never alter or forget our principles. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. the fear and anger that was provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals. we are taking concrete actions to change course. i have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the united states. i have ordered the president -- prison at guantanamo bay closed by early next year. [applause] america will defend itself, respectful of the stock -- respect all the sovereignty of nations and rule of law. we will do so in partnership with muslim communities which are also threatened. the sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in this community, the sooner we will all be safer. the second major source of tension that we needed to discuss -- we need to discuss, is the situation between israelis, pakistanis, and the arab world. america's strong bo

we will support and secure a united iraq as a partner and

strategic framework agreement, which sets forth the way forward for the relationship between the united states and iraq. there is a lot going on. i wanted to come down and talk about some of what we are doing, and i would be happy to take your questions. >> do you believe -- you use the words detention and expulsion. do you believe a mihm tear dupe de coupe dettat has occurred? >> we think this has evolved into a coupe. the president as you know has been expelled. another person has been statuted for the president, but we think that this is a fast-moving situation that requires con sfant attention chrks we are providing to it along with our bilateral partners and through the oas as our multilateral vehicle. we are encouraging there be a delegation going to honduras following the extraordinary general assembly tomorrow to begin working with the parties to try to restore constitutional order. so we are who he woulding any formal legal determination, but i think the reality is that having expelled the president -- we have a lot of work to do to try to help the people get back on the democratic path they h

strategic framework agreement, which sets forth the way forward for the relationship between the united states and iraq. so there is a lot going on, and i wanted to come down and talk about some of what we are doing, and i would be happy to take some of your questions. >> do you believe that a military coup de-tat has taken place in honduras, or are you studying a formal legal determination that a coup has taken place, and that would trigger the aid appropriations cut-off that is required under u.s. law? >> well, we do think this has evolved into a coup. the. , as you know, has been expelled -- the president, as you know, has been expelled. another person has been substituted for the president. but we think that had is a fast-moving situation that requires constant attention, which we are certainly providing to it, along with our bilateral pat ners, and through the o.a.s. as our multilateral vehicle. we are en-- encouraging that there be a delegation going to honduras following the extraordinary general assembly tomorrow to begin working with the parties to try to restore constitutional order. so we ar

frs regional actions are going on, we are supporting field units and continue to support field units in iraq as our presence there is being drawn down and shifting our emphasis to afghanistan and pakistan where the effort is ramping up now. last week, during my trip, i was checking on intelligence support both for military and the civil units we have there. we sent analysts, we have increased card collection, we have thick in the communications network and the objective is to give a fine grain understanding of both the physical and human terrain in order to enable success for the military and civil units that are there. but, at the same time that we are focusing a great deal at the tactical level to success, we are also in the business of assessing how that policy is doing. so, for example, when the decisions were made by president obama on the iraq policy, the withdrawal of forces there, the further shipped to iraq, taking over the responsibilities there, there are a number of things during that transition that we were concerned about, sectarian violence, some of the outside influences and

it sets forth the way forward for the relationship between the united states and iraq. there is a lot going on, and i wanted to come down and talk about some of what we are doing. i will be happy to take questions. >> do you believe detention and expulsion, do you believe that a merritt -- military coup d'etat has taken place? does that triggered the appropriation aid cut off that is required under u.s. law? >> we do think that this has evolved into a coup. the president has been expelled. another person has been substituted for the president. we think this is a fast-moving situation that requires constant attention, which we are providing to it, along with our bilateral partners and through the oas. we are encouraging and a delegation going to honduras tomorrow to begin working with the parties to try to restore constitutional order. we are withholding any former legal discrimination. the reality is that having expelled the president, we have a lot of work to do to try to help the hondurans in the democratic path they have been on for a number of years.

embassy, not the government of iraq and the united states mission assistance in iraq. u.s. forces will continue to conduct security operations throughout iraqi security force partners. our combined efforts will established a layer of defense as iraqis secure the city's. they will secure the borders in an attempt to eliminate safe havens and sanctuaries, and eliminate freedom of movement of insurgents and prevent the facilitation of foreign fighters. the u.s. is committed to full transparent indeed committed implementation of the security freeman -- implementation of the security agreement. the iraqi people should be proud of the dedication and sacrifice of the iraqi security forces and government of iraq. their accomplishments in preparing for this day are commendable. the american people can also be very proud of the soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians who have worked so hard over the past years and sacrificed so much in helping the people of iraq progress towards a peaceful and democratic society. with that, i would be happy to take your questions. >> we will start w

support and the united nations to get iraq out from chapter 7 of the u.n. charter and restore full sovereignty with no limitations remain from the past dictatorship and so forth. what is the u.s. position on that? >> the u.s., as you know, in the council, there are some eight or 10 council resolutions that deal with the so-called chapter 7 issue. coral to article 25 of the security agreement, the one that deals with this issue of u.s. troops out of the cities, there is an article, article 25, that deals with the u.s. committing ourselves to assisting iraq to get off chapter 7. if you look at the article 27, it refers specifically to our view that iraq is no longer a regional threat to peace and security in the region and on that behaves, it is our desire to help them get off article 7. obviously, this also involves helping iraq, as i mentioned before, work to have a better relationship with its neighbors, and we would like to see an iraq-kuwait relationship that continues to improve and we will continue to be engaged in that. >> is the u.s. going to take an

kyle was commissioned in the united states army as a second lieutenant on the eve of his college graduation ceremony and subsequently deployed to iraq on october 3, 2006. in addition to his dedication to his unit and his country, kyle is equally remembered for his devotion to his family. and to his friends. as recalled in a may 31, 2007, article in "the austin american statesman," kyle was a devoted son, a protective big brother and a loyal friend who was still known in his old neighborhood for rounding up friends to take care of a local problem while all the adults were at work. mr. speaker, first lieutenant kyle west's life stands as a testament to the bravery and devotion of the heroic men and women who have served and continue to serve our nation at home and abroad. it is my sincere hope that we can honor this young soldier through the passage of h.r. 2422 and rename the georgetown, texas, postal facility as the lieutenant kyle g. west post office building. i urge my colleagues to do the same and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from californ

the artistic career i had been built in 13 years and the united states was focused largely on iraq. how had gained critical notice from provocative projects and various other rumination of war and u.s. intervention but i saw this work as a matter of fighting for human rights for my country as a whole, commentary and activism on collective level with his death and the war and the political torture in iraq had become intensely personal. now every report of h. atrocities from displacement and casualty's of civilians killed by americans my purse or a family blown up by and prisoners called away hit me like a kick in the stomach. my family despair and pain were ever present in my mind and with every news stories of death and disaster in iraq i could viscerally imagine the pain and loss of countless other families the ringing of my phone was perpetual torment each time entering i would become terrified at the fault of what news might be coming to me. the death toll in iraq was rapidly rising and i was in constant fear of losing another family member.

yet, i believe just as strongly that it would be a mistake for our country to attack iraq without explicit united nations authorization. i believe such an attack would violate international law." we need to think for a minute and digest what this means. even though mr. koh believed that attacking iraq would be in the best interest of america and the world, he believed that we should wait on explicit directions from the united nations before we act. both this commentary and his testimony before the senate foreign relations committee demonstrate that mr. koh's belief that if our president and congress empowered by our constitution decide military action is needed to defend our nation from harm, that we must get united nations' approval or actions are illegal. this is an incredible position for the chief legal advisor to the state department to adhere to. some may argue that mr. koh's position on the iraq war is merely a principled liberal position. however, his belief that countries -- the presiding officer: the senator has spoken for ten minutes. mr. demint: i ask unanimous consent for one more mi

iraq. he was talking about this weapon of mass destruction and the entire district of the united states, boom, a worldly to get scared. he also participated and i recommend everybody look it up it is called project for a new american sentry which basically says we should dominate the middle east and anything less than a pearl harbor type of event will not motivate the united states and attack iraq and afghanistan and get a out of there. >> host: lots there, we will get a response. thanks for the call. >> guest: rumsfeld, just to correct the record here, did not fire general shinseki although it is commonly thought that he did. he actually didn't fire any general. the only person he fired was the army secretary, tom white, a number of people feel that perhaps he should have fired more people. his successor, bob gates has now dismissed the number is six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under shinseki by allowing the word to be publicized 18 months or so early of who shinseki would be replaced with at the end of his term as the chief of staff but shinseki was allowed to serve out h

i served twice in iraq as a united states marine and i would have to respectfully oppose this amendment. and the reason is this. the best exit strategy is to actually win. that's the best exit strategy. to go in there, win the fight, kill out al qaeda, kill taliban, have the state department work with the local afghan people, then we can leave after we have success over there. that's how we won in iraq. we won in iraq once we stopped worrying about losing. we had the surge, and now we're successful in iraq. that's what we need in afghanistan. the way that we're going to lose afghanistan is if we start focusing on how we're going to pull out successfully. well, we need to do is win, win hard and win strong and then we can all come home. i'd have to -- mr. mckeon: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. duncan: i thank the ranking member from california. i will yield back and respectfully oppose this amendment as a united states marine, as a united states congressman and representing all of our men and women in uniform fighting for all of us. let's win and get the job done and then we can c

it said that only a large event would motivate the united states to attack iraq and afghanistan. host: there is a lot there. we will get our guest's response. guest: he did not fire the general, although it is commonly thought that he did. the only person he fired was the architect -- army secretary, tom white. a number of people feel he should have fired more people. his successor, bob gates, as now dismissed six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under the general by allowing word to be publicized 18 months early of who he would be replaced with at the end of his term as army chief of staff. but he was allowed to serve out his term. there is no question there were a lot of strains between them and with other members of the joint chiefs of staff. they resented being sidelined by rumsfeld who could beat overbearing and domineering. -- who could be overbearing and domineering. there are a number of 4-star officers and others who are that way. it is a tough culture. when you look closely at a number of the major decisions, you can see that as much as rumsfeld is to blam

we can do need that to the iraqi government, returning to the united states, use it elsewhere in iraq or move it to afghanistan, transfer to other government agencies, sell it and it has no commercial value, scrap it. we are asking people to make those decisions and they may not know what is needed in another base. so they might decide we should give it away when we are still going to purchase it somewhere else and bring it from the united states to afghanistan when it was in iraq and we could have gotten it from there. >> so it speaks to the need for more coordination. >> and is it worth it to ship it home? it's simple to say we ought to give it to the iraqi is. well maybe that is the right decision. to follow-up on commissioner shays first point, i think that we need to think hard as does the subcommittee. there is an inherent implied concern that we have too many contractors. whether we do or not i'm not prepared to answer that and the joint staff is in fact got a task force looking at what things are procrit to be contract out, and it goes to governmental and those things. but how

i fully support section 235 relating to iraq refugees whom the united states has a special obligation to help. there are more than 4.7 million iraqis currently displaced within their own country and in neighboring states. sadly, however, this situation has not improved much. and yet the principal reason, i believe, this crisis has not received the attention that it deserves it because iraqis are not living in refugee camps. instead, they are a mobile population scattered throughout the region. this fact alone makes -- has made this humanitarian crisis virtually invisible to the international community. however, for those iraqis who remain stranded, jobless and deprived of essential services with conditions worsening by the day, this deepening crisis  only threatens to further destabilize the entire region. section 235 of this legislation is an important step towards fulfilling our obligation to assist the iraqi people recover from years of war and conflict. if a picture is really worth 1,000 words, then all one must do is look into the face of an iraqi refugee as i have who has had a

united states reliance on contractors has reached unprecedented levels of the last eight years, reaching upwards of a court of a million contractors on the ground in iraq and afghanistan from the department defense alone. that does not even include those working for the department of state in the united states agency for international development or other agencies. it is an extraordinary number by all accounts but civilian contractors in a contract endermic elwell members of personnel related expenditures as the land the opposite trend occurred with respect to oversight. the united states national security department allowed their program oversight staff and expertise to dwindle to the point in many circumstances contractors have been hired to oversee other contractors work. report after report had identified the key need to rebuild branch oversight capacity but as yet we have seen little to show for it. we need to fix a broken contract and oversight function in the executive branch and add to it a oversight from independent sources of congress. that was the product of efforts by several of us in congress dating back to 2005. at that time it became cle

saidformer un weapons inspectors ao was against the war in iraq said the united states was strming a military culture. i always wondered, if no child left behind was a strategy to deliberately cause more students to fail so that their only job option would be to join the military. we have army and marine recruiters who show videos of actual combat, and those virtual reality war games that kids play t entice them to join the military. my question is, am i that far off base to select a link between the pentagon and the government plan to funnel failed students into the military? t host: in racecourse, miss dohrn and mr. ayers discussed militarization of u.s. schools. thad you like to respond to her comments? un guest: i will link her comments with one that came before, we need universal service but it doesn't have to ice,ll military. we need universal service. l go to another question, we should have a couple times in t r life. we should probably have it at 18, 30, 40, 60. >> every 10 years. >> every 20 years. th the fact is taking a year out and doing something that is a range of opti

acts, there have been for over 1,000 years but this is what is very important, the united states is withdrawing from iraq, that was set in place by bush and in due course we will be out of afghanistan. we'll certainly with alexander the great and the russians in the british could not do, we will not do. what comes next? when i started to write the book it was controversial because i asserted the russian empire was reasserting itself was less controversial never take two years to write a book. [laughter] clearly the united states and the russians are in a minor competition. this is not a cold war in a sense they're not supporting wars of national liberation everywhere, it is not a new nuclear confrontation where the our hands of the scientist is one minutes away from midnight but nevertheless it is a serious confrontation because as soon as russia of reunites itself, the border is with europe and on the northern european plain common this time the border is not in a central germany, it is on the polish border. and the russians are extremely interested in what the americans are doing in poland such as givi

[applause] >> wafaa bilal was born in iraq and lived there until 1992 when he moved to the united states. he is an assistant professor at new york university tisch school of the arts. to find out more visit wafaa bilal.com. >> tonight poncy c-span2's booktv, after words and dispatches from the war room, stanley greenberg on advising bill clinton, tony blair and nelson mandela. >> sunday on washington journal author richard wolf and his new book renegade, the making of a president. it is a biography of barack obama based on interviews conducted during the 2008 campaign. it begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and we will show it to you again at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on booktv. >> booksellers convention at the center in new york city, he was stacy lewis the director from city lights booksellers san francisco. would you have coming out this fall? >> will come of this fall we have a couple books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays. it is our first book that has been published in about four years that covers the emcee is particularly interested in, racism, sex

united states do? iran is in the same situation. we invaded iraq and afghanistan , but both border iran. what is the iranian government to do? they have to have some method from deterring the united states from invading them. that could be a very popular point of view. so, you cannot really blame iran for attempting to have some kind of a power against the united states. host: if we go with your notion that this is a defensive posture, how do we go about assuring them that we are not going to attack them and that they do not necessarily need this defensive mechanism? caller: showed genuine intent to leave these countries. leaving them in a better state than we found them. that is the only thing that we can do. we need to leave iraq better than we left it. we have to leave afghanistan better than we left it. that is the only thing that we can do. host: if you want to send us comments on twitter, the address is twitter.com/c-spanwj. the address for the e-mail is a journal@c-span.org. democratic line, good morning. keith. caller: i do not think that the iranian administration has put the oba

most prominently north korea, iraq and our own country of the united states of america. for shorthand purposes, i will call these countries the axis of disobedience." close quote. to my fellow colleagues, i ask: do you accept the fact that the united states is part of an axis of disobedience? do you really think fighting back against the terrorists who struck on on 9/11 was disobedience? do you think that we should have a legal adviser in the state department who believes that international law ill defined, not applicable should be pride to -- applied be to affect his judgment on america. the legal adviser for the state department should be an advocate for the nation, not a detractor. if i remember correctly, after september 11th, by a vote of 77 members of the senate plus a majority in the house we made the determination to go to war in iraq to make sure that we didn't suffer further attacks. it was in compliance with the united nations resolution. i say, by the way, that was a legal international resolution. now, a lot of people will say that mr. koh had a distinguishe

number having the demonstrators themselves see the united states calling for regime change, a loaded term in that part of the world following the iraq war in becomes more complicated. it answers the united states into something that would complicate the demonstrators' cause. host: guest: let's go to the phones. -- host: but the to the phones. caller: i would like to talk about the history ofiran. we overthrew the government in 1973 by the cia and we install shah was a mass-murder. look at what we have done to those people? what you talk about what is going on ingaza, send all your news people there and to what is happening to those people in gaza. we spent $500 million to destabilize the iranian elections and what you see now with all the cellphone and twitter -- that is where our money when. when will america stop being one big hit agree? i'm sick of these elected officials and so-called expert to get on tv and have no, have no idea of the history of this country and what we have done tuesday iranian people. host: historical perspective can be a big part of this. guest: yes, the caller raises a good point. obama raised couthe quest

iraq. you know, and essentially the united states made some very critical mistakes, and even now. he first was the inadequacy of the troops that went into iraq, which meant that while we could topple a regime, we could not restore law and order. and so when mass looting occurred, american troops all too often found themselves standing on the sidelines having to watch it because it wasn't their mission and we didn't have enough troops to do much about it. it significantly eroded iraqi public, and it's in who we were and what we were about. then secondly paul bremer who was then sort of the guy in charge, put in charge by both rumsfeld and bush, overturned some decisions of the american military had been trying to make in order to restore law and order, and to essentially try to rebuild some kind of structure. the first was his decision to disband the iraqi military, which had been at odds with what our own military was trying to do. by doing that, of course, he essentially created a couple hundred thousand unemployed families whose main source of income was an armed military, traine

united states -- forces of the united states and died as a result of performing military service in iraq or afghanistan after september 11, 2001. the bill ensures the continuation of the department of education's experimental site program on existing campuses for another year and defines a successful program as one that reduces administrative cost and increases student services without additional cost to the government. in closing, mr. speaker, i would like to thank our committee chairman, representative george miller from california, and our ranking member, john kline, along with our ranking member -- john klein, along with our ranking member on the subcommittee, representative guthrie of kentucky, toer --er for expediting this legislation and helping us make these needed corrections in a bipartisan manner. i urge all my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 1777. thank you. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of this legi

we saw that in the auction yesterday of oil rights in the united states and international oil companies now negotiating with iraq for rights to buy more iraqi oil. the long-term answer is i think increasingly going to be finding other ways to drive our global economy. but for a while, at least, petrochemicals, hydrocarbons will be an important engine of the world economy and we are going to need iraqi oil. our friends around the e world will meet iraqi oil >> here's a look at our schedule for tonight. at 8:00 eastern, general ray odierno briefs reporters on the latest military operations in that country, including the withdrawal of u.s. troops from baghdad and other huge rural areas. we will have that in its entirety at 8:00 p.m. eastern. the winter of minnesota's said erase is expected to speak shortly. this is a live picture outside mr. franken's home in minneapolis. it comes after his republican challenger conceded the race just a short time ago. here is part of that statement. >> i just had a conversation with al franken, congratulating him on his victory. i told them that is the best job he will ever have,

neither afghanistan or iraq pose any threat, military or economic, to the united states. there are a lot of people who feel we should of been out there a long time ago. that being said, supporting the troops also when they come back home, to make sure that they have hospitals, therapy, all kinds of help that they need. the highest suicide rate per soldier of any war. but going back to the beginning of the war -- and i think "newsweek" was very fair, but i think the press, the fourth estate really fell asleep at the wheel. the wheat now see that these were not miscalculations on mistakes of intelligence but calculated lies to get us into the war from the bush-cheney administration. guest: well, i think that the debate over the pre-war intelligence is fascinating. i think the debate over the role of the press is particularly telling. and i had this conversation, as you might imagine, a lot with people. i don't know that i agree with the emergence of conventional wisdom that the press completely missed that there were questions about the case for war. you can find it too man

program for certain iraqi and afghan nationals employed by or on behalf of the united states in both afghanistan and iraq. as a member of the house oversight committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs subcommittee, i've been to iraq and afghanistan on numerous occasions and i've had the pleasure of meeting with some of the brave iraqi and afghan workers who actually serve right beside our own men and women in uniform as interpreters and assistants in the military operations and also the civil operations that are going on in both those countries. extremely dangerous work. and they do deserve incredible recognition for taking a very difficult position in aiding our troops and their mission. and they are deserving of our admiration. there is a sad truth, however, that in choosing to support u.s. forces in iraq and in afghanistan to rebuild their countries, they're also putting their lives on the line and those of their families. the insurgents in iraq and in afghanistan have targeted these hardworking patriots and their families in hopes of terrorizing the local people and discourag

since 2003 the united kingdom has also spent over 500 million pounds in iraq for humanitarian assistance, infrastructure and promoting economic growth. support to the house sector has included 189 projects in basra including the refurbishment of general hospital and the building of children's hospital. as a whole the international community has rehabilitated over 5,000 schools as well as constructing entirely new schools. and despite high unemployment on the scale of the global recession economic growth this year is predicted to be nearly 7%. signet ring challenges remain including that of finding it very sustainable solution to the sharing of iraq's oil reserves but iraq's future is now in its own hands in the hands of its people and as politicians and we must pay a tribute to the iraqi people's interests and pledge to them our continuing support. but it will be support three different from the kind we provided for the last six years. as the house knows our military mission ended with the last combat patrol in basra on 30th april, as of today there are fewer than 500 british troops in i

united states and domestic context. there is no special exception in the act for wartime sole sourcing, and the same exceptions that have been used in the past, used to date in iraqhave been used in the domestic united states. you would run into the same problems. >> is part of your activity asking for these jna's to see what justification was given for the sole source? >> we do look not just that the justification and authority, the jna, for these contracts, but at the subsequent documentation, and we have been going through following up. the miers' often very superficial. just well, it's the exception for existential circumstances or this is the only available contractor and we followed those of tuzee whether it really has to be done without competition. >> i might add the plant that this was a very

i've served in iraq two times as a united states marine and i've served in afghanistan once. i was over there in 2007. i was fighting and word came across from here in the states in october of 2007 that said several hundred state department employees express thared resentment over a policy that could force them to serve in iraq where they might lose -- or they might lose their jobs. they actually called going over to iraq and afghanistan a potential death sentence. so these are state department employees, diplomats, the same ones we're asking to go to pakistan and afghanistan, which is arguably the most dangerous area right now in the entire world, we're asking them to go over the exact same people called going over to iraq a potential death sentence. i would equate this to sending diplomats to katrina-destroyed new orleans in 2005 instead of the national guard. we're going to send diplomats to louisiana. we aren't going to send national guard or emergency service, we're going to send diplomats. as opposed to giving general petraeus, as the president asked for, funding to hel

if at all possible and, you know, when we were convincing the rest of the world to go to iraq with us, at the united nations in the grand assembly hall there's a huge mural where everybody gathers which is picasso's mural that tries to human collateral damage. our government decided to cover that the night before when colin powell tried to convince everybody to go to war with us. they just didn't want people looking at what war is all about, you know? and that scares other people. we didn't even notice, really. google that. it's a fascinating thing and we didn't even notice. europe should noticed it. >> the next question is, in your recent pbs program you interviewed mostly young educated people and they were pro-american. what about the old people? do they like americans? >> well, i was just there for 12 days and i don't know -- my only experience is anecdotal and everywhere i went these old ladies sitting in the village that you saw in the show, they were old and provincial as you probably could imagine and, you know, they just were laughing about the thing. i didn't feel they were angry with me o

he has now served two tours in iraq and one in afghanistan. his unit was called lions of the desert because of the courage in which they carried out their missions. near the end of his most recent tour, he was injured by an i.e.d. and suffered burns over almost 40% of his body. in the months since then, he has put the same determination in his recovery that he put into his military service. with the strong support of his family and own spirit, he's making great progress and doing well. masket, when a reporter called and spoke with him, he just completed a 5k race in florida. joe's recovery is going well and making ambitious plans. it's no surprise he is looking for new ways to use his talents to serve our country in law enforcement and maybe even running for political office. we have a tremendous country here in the united states. we're not perfect, but we're still the envy of a large majority of people around the world. through all the generations of american history, people like joe have quietly stepped forward to take on the nation's toughest jobs.

issues like israel, palestine, iraq, corporations with iran fall in a different category because that is a much more clear-cut difference. that sensibility does seem to unite people in the arab world from the atlantic to the gulf when it comes to issues like iraq and palestine. host: we are monitoring aljazeera now. is this what most of the world is now seeing? this is what we are getting right now? is there one version around the world or is it different here in united states? guest: what we are seeing here is international aljazeera. there are obviously two strands. there is one in arabic which is broadcast on satellite and you can see whether you have -- where you have set alight in any part of the world. you have aljazeera english which is broadcast on cable and it is still trying to put itself on cable on a large scale here in united states. incidentally, if i may do it quick and fort up as your english, as joof july 1, it will be on cable in the washington, d.c., area. these are two different strands. in many ways they represent two slightly different perspectives on the world. out the serb -- aljazeera arabic is catering to a specifically arab audie