these demonstrates the united states and iraq need to take further steps to bolster deterants and preserve security. we're working closely with iraq allies and armed forces to ensure the responses to any future north korean profs indication are effective and appropriate and integrated into alliance plans and conducted from an alliance perspective. further more through our extended deterant's policy committee we meet by annually to identify ways in which the full range of alliance capabilities including conventional forces, missile defense, nuclear capabilities, strategy and doctrine can be leveraged to maximize deterants. the potential for a north korean provocation in 2012 remains a major concern. the april 15th sentinel celebration commemoration of kim ill song's birth provides a milestone to show this become a strong and prosperous nation. kim joperhaps through a provocative act or display of force is a real possibility. the upcoming iraq particle men try and presidential elections in april and december respectively are opportunities for yang to disrupt and potentially influence south k

united states. and you do see britain and united states in iraq. the united states was a little bit more suspicious at that time. >> but we also see britain pulling out now. they had 40,000 troops in there, it won't be too long before they have 5,000 troops in there and we'll end up being there by ourselves. the french have never really supported our efforts there. you say in 1919, they got syria and lebanon. >> the french got syria and lebanon. the british got iraq and palestine which then they divided into palestine and jordan, or trans-jordan and part of pal leestine and part of tha became israel and the west bank and so on and trans-jordan became jordan. so, the -- i mean, i think the political circumstances are very different today. the british i think are pulling out of iraq. i think the americans are saying they're very pleased about it. dick cheney was on television the other night saying we see this as a very necessary move and a victory. i don't know. i suspect that british public opinion and opinion within the labor party is now i think

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far we've come, how far iraq has come, the profound challenges that remain, and where we hope to go in building a new and more normal relationship between iraq and the united states. rudy, you quoted president obama a moment ago. indeed, when the president, vice president, came to office they came with a commitment, to end the war in iraq, responsibly. both parts of that sentence are critical, end the war, responsibly. it meant two things. it meant bringing our troops home after nearly a decade of war, and as important, it meant helping the iraqis build a sovereign, stable, self-reliant country with a representative government that could become a partner in the region and not a safe haven for terrorists. on our first full day of work after the inauguration, president obama host add cabinet level meeting to begin charting a course toward that goal. a month later while the united states still had 144,000 troops in iraq, the president determined to withdraw u.s. forces from iraq cities by the summer of 2009, to end our combat mission and get down to 50,000 troops september 2010, and to fulfill president bush's security agreement with the iraqi government by with dra

prime minister maliki, iraqi leader allawi, leader bar zani and the united states ambassador to iraq. during the recent political standoff the united states remained the indispensable honest broker and the only one trusted by and in regular communication with all of the leading blocs in iraq. much of this engagement takes place quietly, unadvertised. but just because you don't see it, just because we don't say it, doesn't mean we're not doing it. we've also seen, i think in recent weeks, significant progress on a number of issues. every day we're cooperating with iraqis on the security threats that iraq still faces, on boosting and protecting iraq's vital energy sector, and supporting iraq's emergence as a member of the international community in good standing and responsible regional actor, and as i said there is progress on all of these fronts. for example, oil production is now at about 2.7 million barrels per day up from 1.8 million a day in 2005 and headed to over 3 million barrels a day by the end of this year. oil exports have provided much needed revenue that enabled lawmakers

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military saying and its trail the attack on iraq would be a bad idea and the word what's premature to us now with your i think all elements of the united states and attack on iraq only iran not only would be premature but crazy top u.s. intelligence officials are saying iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict you served as the us ambassador to israel at one time and obviously the u.s. and israel they're very close allies does israel really listen to washington i think it does but sometimes when it feels itself in extreme danger it takes its own advice and really interesting thing about these really situation is as far as i can see and people have been very clear in saying this that the heads of the three israeli intelligence service don't seem to be recommending a military attack they seem to be against it for good reasons it involves many too many risks some complications and it is unlikely to achieve in any serious and continuing way the objective of stopping the iranian program in fact i believe if you were to attack iran militarily under the current situation one result would be they would have a perfectly legitim

it would have on the department of veterans' affairs and those veterans returning from iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere outside of the united states. >> you're listening to c-span's radio washington today. we're heard on 91.1 fm and around the country at xm satellite radio 119. >> the president will be honoring more than 100 million troops by offering a small cross sex to a formal dinner at the white house. thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. i'm glad to be here. >> what are you expecting this evening? >> well, i was invited to attend a dinner at the white house by the president of the united states. and when i was told by sergeant major marine corps whose office was in charge of organizing the event for the 345 remarines, th would be a representative of all of the servicemen and women who served in iraq. and so it's -- it's an honor to be selected for that and to be able to represent them at the white house. and so i'm expecting to uphold that legacy of honor and courage that everybody has demonstrated in this war in iraq. >> when did you get word of your invite. >> it was a couple weeks ago. they cont

united states. for from iraq and it's ruined buildings lost and. i made contact with ross computing a twenty seven year old former marine who fought it flew you know he looks like a teenager prostitute is already a war veteran traumatized by his experience he decided to testify oh. this is me this is in fallujah and i'm really embarrassed to say that i'm kind of posing for this picture. you know i had the bandana on and i wanted to look tough and you know this is the mentality that we had while we are in there. they're tough war fighters and. you know these are the type of pictures i want to go home and tell my friends about. in fallujah ross was a radio operator it was his job to relay information to the other soldiers he was there for on the front line before the ground siege actually began if this was going to be the biggest battle since way city they were bombing the city really really heavily at this point and they put us on this hill outside the city kind of overlooking it the night before before the ground seizure began and at this point i r

as you aptly stated, and i quote, the future of politics will be decided in asia, not in afghanistan or iraq. and the united states will be right at the center of the action. thanks to your efforts, madam secretary, i believe the united states will be front and center, so i thank you for bucking tradition for your first trip overseas. on your first trip overseas you visited asia to convey a strong message that america's relationship across the asia pacific region are in dispen dispensable in your many trips since then, cambodia, myanmar, south korea, japan and beyond you have been about the commitment of making strategic commitments that will pay dividends many times over. i applaud you for recognizing the importance of pacific island nations in this multifaceted undertaking and in the context of this hearing with the foreign relations budget hearing i reiterate what you stated and i quote, those who say we can no longer afford to engage with the world have it exactly backward. we cannot afford not to. opening new markets for american businesses, to kurk nuclear proliferation to keep sea lanes free from com

united states broader strategic interests in syria and the region. the stability of syria is vital to this region, and to turkey and lebanon and iraq and israel. all of these countries and the united states have a strong interest in preventing a humanitarian crisis in syria. but perhaps most notably, syria is a pivotal country for iran. as senator mccain pointed out. syria is iran's only state ally in the region. and is crucial to iran's efforts to support those militants throughout the region who threaten israel and threaten regional stability. unrest in syria has already greatly weakened iran's position in the region. and it is clear that iran only stands to lose further as assad is weakened further. as groups such as hamas distance themselves from the assad regime, iran is quickly becoming the assad regime's lone backer. this shows the world the hypocracy of tehran. i cannot predict how the volatile situation in syria will unfold. but the united states made clear we are on the side of the syrian people. they must know that the international community has not under estimated either their suffering or impatience. we all wish there was a clear

she's being asked in the movie about strains in the relationship between britain and the united states over the issue of iraqnk the united states has always maintained a great relationship with the queen and john mccain will continue to have an open dialogue with her. >> governor, the queen is not the head of government in england. she's the head of state. >> well then who is the head of government? >> the prime minister. >> that scene has been confirmed as accurate by the man who was questioning sarah palin. he recalls the horror of learning that sarah palin knew absolutely nothing about one of ameri america's most important and historic allies. a nation that stood shoulder to shoulder with the united states during the first world war, the second world war, the gulf war, the iraq war, and in afghanistan. where one of the most important figures of 20th century history was britain's prime minister winston churchill. but according to sarah palin, it was the queen who governed the uk. and she says that the president wasn't properly vetted? as i said earlier, i know nothing about tdisposal of bodiy waste in alas

be especially towards the asia pacific region, as you stated, the future of politics will be decided in asia not in afghanistan or iraq. and the united states will be right at the center of the action. thanks to your effort madam secretary, i believe the united states will be front and center. so i thank you for bucking tradition for your first trip overseas, on your firsts trip, you visited asia to convey a strong message america's relationship is important and in your many trips since then, from china to south korea to japan and beyond, you've been about making the approximacommitment will be important many times over, i applaud you in recognizing the importance of the asian countries in the undertaking and in the foreign relations budget hearing i quote what you say, those that say we can no longer to engage in the world have it backward. we cannot afford not to. from opening new market s for american businesses, to curbing nuclear proliferation to keep the sea lanes free for commerce and navigation, our work abroad holds the key to our prosperity and security at home. i want to know for the record, that when americans saw more in

in the sense that they were captured during wartime and never given back following the us bombing of iraq in one thousand nine hundred one united states round up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kater our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and then nine hundred ninety nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo mania area macedonia hungary. and croatia following us were only go up garrison in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and you the following us barmy get invasion of iraq in two thousand the fray the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the wars and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. the presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so that's. what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that

all the way through the invasion of iraq by the united states in 2003 and the collapse of the central government. they believe that iraq is staging a diplomatic comeback. yesterday the iraqi foreign minister said quite forcefully that iraq is back on the scene and it is reclaiming its regional role. everybody is watching to see exactly what role that will be and which way the iraqis will lean. they have good relations with the iranians and the americans and there has been recently a diplomatic drive to improve relations with gulf arab countries, especially kuwait but also saudi arabia. seven waiting to see what kind of balancing -- everybody is waiting to see what kind of balancing act iraqi will play but they are trying to play strong regional role. >> thanks very much. we're talking about a potential rival the the world bank. the bric nations getting together. >> it is a fascinating concept. we're talking took into account fourth summit of the brics starting today in new delhi. brazil, russia, china and south africa which joined last year. a big group representing 45% of the world's

of that would depict the treatment of us or rather prisoners in custody of the united states government military in iraq and afghanistan there was a huge outcry. and dick cheney and his daughter liz cheney had attacked the administration for even considering to release those photos so what this administration had done is that they were preparing to go to the supreme courts to basically block the release of the photos because a lot of a lower court had ruled that they must be released to the a.c.l.u. who had sought them out and then they went and ended up working with congress and congress to change the law to basically change the freedom of information act that would allow anyone who sought such photographs or videos under the freedom of information act it allowed the secretary of defense to basically say no just this week ok just this week i mean this is it wednesday so i believe it was on monday the administration the director of the justice department's office of information policy had got have again gone to congress and basically sought congress's assistance in changing a lot. or adding to a cyber secur

and victims will be flown to the united states. >>> 9 years ago today u.s. and coalition forces invaded iraq in response to the september 11th terrorist attacks, american troops were sent to fight al qaeda and find weapons of mass destruction despite finding none the war continued for almost adecade. >>> hundreds of thousands of iraqis filled the streets in basra, marking nine years since the u.s. led invasion of iraq. but these followers of anti american shiite cleric are keeping their message toyish uhs close to home demanding better living conditions and more jobs. >> the government are not taking care of the people, of the poor, who have no food and drink, a bag of flour is $20, god can't accept this, the poor are suffering too much. >> a spokesman says they want the iraqi government to step up, with better paying jobs and public services, as well, as fights corruption now that u.s. troops have left iraq. american forces pulled out the last remaining combat troops from the country back in december, the official unemployment rate in iraq is 15%, although, the actual figure is believed to

name five countries you tell me which one seems out of place ready china iran saudi arabia iraq and the united states so which one is not like all the others. actually they all belong together they are the top five nations in the world at executing their own citizens and this international is out this week with a new report on the death penalty showing that only twenty out of the one hundred ninety eight nations worldwide carried out executions last year and as i just mentioned the united states is one of those nations are also the only western democracy to still use the death penalty where number one right but there's a there's actually some good news in this report and that's the nations that execute people are on the decline as interest international points out in this video. so what can we take away from this new study joining me now is jamal wakim campaigns director with amnesty international can all work on the show thank you sam great great to have you on so i mentioned a few of the findings already what are some other stuff in this report well what the report shows as you said is that countri

and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. >>> number one, china number two, iran. number four iraq and number five, the united statesey're not very many lists on which we come fifth after iran and iraq but that's because the lists of which countries are killing the largest number of prisoner, that list comes out once a year. today is the day the china is first. it's difficult company, right. in all of europe and all of the countries thse soviet union was belarus. japan didn't use the death penalty last year. didn't kill any of its prisoners. we did that 43 times last year. the number is going down for us. we may be the only modern industrialized nation that goes into our prison cells, takes people that are already incarcerated and kills them as quietly as possible. we may be the last industrialized country in the world that is doing that but we are doing that less. we killed 46 times in 2010 and 43 time last year. that's the direction that things are going for us in this field. the state of illinois banned the death penalty last year. oregon's governor adopted a moratorium on killing there. maryland and connecticut

the question and iran has sat down and cataloged all the things that it sees negative about the united states overthrow of nasr back support of the shah support of iraq during the eight year war the shoot down of the airplane by the cruiser of incense sanctions and all of these things hemming iraq iran iran what did they conclude they must want to change our government but they do have like reasons why we rationally do that just as we have reasons to believe that they have had your monitoring and bishan so that they have no interest in working with the united states that they want to develop a nuclear weapon so these are the difficult problem to protect them from of course wrote the course these are the difficult problems one has to move i have to tell you outside countries don't do very well overthrowing governments as both the soviet union and the united states have found out that we don't necessarily get to choose who will be the permanent successors it's not a good idea i've been around diplomacy for a long time let's talk about the u.s. push for regime change in syria very important thing that that they bring up is that. the fate of the syrian l

and pitfalls, as anything else. our geography has tremendously improved. now we know where greece is. we even know where afghanistan, iraq, and iran are. i remember when i came to the united states from iran to go to school, i had to fill out some applications and they have some boxes. the boxes were caucasian, black, asian, hispanic, etc.. i had to give a bit of thought to the purpose of these boxes in which box by fit in. so, i was born in iran and it is in the continent of asia, a marked agent. so, in asian. you should have seen the look on the administrator when i turned in my application. today those boxes no longer applied. we all live in one world and we are all the same. we are part of the same energy. we can no longer take the attitude of not in my backyard. in today's world, if someone in china sneezes, we all catch the flu in san francisco. we have seen the impact of such a ripple effect in the recent economic crisis. in today's global economy, peace in the least, the aids epidemic in africa, the world hunger crisis, and making sure that every child has access to a decent education is all -- our responsibility. we have to use diplomacy to prevent war. we have to have

united states. rather than building schools in iraq and afghanistan they would be helping america rebuild herself over the next generation. i would ask favorable consideration from colleagues. i thank you so much for listening. >> i now would recognize mr. stutzman for purposes of opposing the amendment for ten minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to start by saying i do oppose this amendment. even though i think the amendment is one that has good intentions, i think we can do better. i think we can do better than jobs for veterans that is only temporary. if you actually calculate out the billion dollars in spending that is being proposed here that would have to be raised by raising taxes, a billion dollars in taxes for a new temporary entitleme entitlement, i think we should -- if you break that down, billion dollars for 20,000 veterans that comes out to about $50,000 per veteran. i think we'd be better off taking those dollars and using them for education, training opportunities for veterans that we already currently have in place. so, mr. chairman, i believe we could do better than even this

that they can no longer simply snap their fingers and call the shots just ten years ago in the united states that was possible and that is exactly how the iraq working in new york times running the show in washington they didn't seem to me to consult the great powers to determine whether their course of action once acceptable to them the reset policy was put forward in theory to overcome the cold war mindset but a number of differences the remains between russia and the u.s. one of the biggest u.s. plans for a missile defense shield in europe washington still refuses to give moscow legal guarantees that it will target russian president elect's legs even which is set reset doesn't mean that russia has to give up its national interest or be unable to express history's some socially international issues. demeanor and i will obviously the result has nevertheless he was well because of the new well you trust it was a real will to reach an agreement which has allowed us to reach a new start treaty and you can also remember to sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy was and is with us battling russia was able to joi

in the case of the united states and iran, it failed at the first hurdle. .. to remove the powers in afghanistan and iraq. the real clear winner looks to be iran. the historic enemies have been removed and the u.s. dropped down forces in iraq and looks to be doing so in afghanistan by 2014. it will be a huge power vacuum in the region. my question is naturally iran would want to fill this vacuum. do you think it has willpower to actually do this, to project power throughout the region? do you think it has the ability? a lot of iranian military equipment is stuff that hasn't been updated or maintained so my question is do you think iran wants to fill this power vacuum and will it be able? >> there has been a lot of concern that iran has some sort of hegemonic aspiration to recreate the persian empire in the middle east. i find it extremely unlikely. if the iranians were to manage to gain hegemony it would last no longer than a week or so. they do not have the side -- hard powersoft power after the arabs spring. with the arabs spring has done more than anything else at least in the short term is undermine

boasted of waging a clean war but it continues to sacrifice generations of children both in iraq and the united states. in fallujah two to three deformed babies are born every day most live put a few hours. a space in the cemetery reserved for these victims grow steadily. just so. we'll do the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future of coverage. in motion would be soon which brightened if you move on sound from phones to impressions. from stunts on t.v. don't come. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm targeting welcome to the big picture. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . is to get the maximum political impact possible.

the challenges that remain, and where we have to go in building a new and more normal relationship between iraq and the united states. rudy, you quoted president obama and >> ago. when the president and the vice president came to office, they came with a commitment to end the war in iraq responsibly. both parts of that are critical. end the war responsibly. it meant bringing our troops home after nearly a decade of war and as important, it meant helping the iraqis build a sovereign, stable, self-reliant country, with a representative government that could become a partner in the region and not a safe haven for terrorists. on our first full day of work after the inauguration, president obama posted a cabinet level meeting to begin charting a course towards that goal. the president determined to withdraw u.s. forces from iraq cities by the summer of 2009, to end our combat mission and get down to 50,000 troops, and to withdraw all of our forces by december 31st, 2011. under the president's leadership, under the leadership of vice president biden, we have followed that to the letter. at every significant step, everyone

technology has been there and usually as a rule it's been applied to avoid genetic conditions, genetically based conditions, but this is an iraq that isn't regulated in the united states very effectively where as in the u.k., germany and france it's illegal to select embryos for example on sex. there is an industry here, for to the industry that in some cases about 40% of the cases in one survey offers family balancing the families that want to make these kind of selections based on that criteria. we have to see whether science goes or the knowledge of the genome as we find out about conditions not just disease but qualities like height come intelligence, propensity to alcoholism to the extent the of a genetic basis we may be facing interesting debates about what kinds of criteria can be used in this election. >> i realize your studies the atlantic democracies europe and the united states but what about some of the emerging superpower such as china. >> that is a project i'm working on now and it's quite striking how unique the western atlantic experience has been because these are countries in the united states and its major allies that we are leaders in this technolo

and sunni. there will be people coming in from iraq and it will turn into a greater conflict between the united states, russia and china and we'll veto any action. and it's an ethnic conflict with the others seeking to break away. this could be almost like the spanish civil war was in the 1930s. >> cue does to the congress for doing something on the bipartisan basis and extending the tax cut and the unemployment benefits. but once they get that done, they will give the president plenty of reasons the do nothing congress. they probably will not even get a transportation bill done which is a serious issue for infrastructure. >> i have a prediction for you today. the artist will win the best picture at the oscars and the best news for a silent hilariousness. >> is it 60 minutes. >> i think it's longer than that. i think it's two hours. >> others predicted it. >> i think it's a long shot myself. but we'll see. my prediction, look for the caucus system to be questioned this year after iowa and maine. will have been questions about count. unlike the regular primary system where you have professionals out th