it is based on a sense of partnership, shared interest, and respect each other as sovereign nations. iraq and the united states share an elemental bowl. and the prosperous iraq, the government is tenable to and serve the needs of the iraqi people. and work together at the most senior levels of government on governance and the rule of law, to energy and the environment. and ambassador jim jeffries and his top aides and a full spectrum of iraqi political leaders, speaker -- a host of others see these people routinely. this pace and level of access is greater than our embassies typically enjoy anywhere in the world. some also fear that our plan to reduce the size of our diplomatic platform in iraq is also a sign of abandonment but the opposite is the case. starting several years ago we planned conservatively in preparing for what was the biggest military to civilian transition in u.s. history sins the marshall plan. planning was done in the context of significant uncertainty. foremost security uncertainty. so planning was under way with troops and diplomatic steps, frequent -- this required planning for large, co

it's reflective of the relationship in the united states and iraq and what has evolved and how we have established mechanisms to be able to work on issues that are critical to both countries and energy is obviously one of those. it's fundamental to the economic future. it's fundamental to the ability to generate power for its own people. it's fundamental to supply international markets. and in that context, it's in the direct interest of the united states. we have been working together on how to support iraq's defense efforts to increase the production and iraq through its effort has reached a level of about 3 million barrels a day of production. last year the average was about 2.7 million barrels a day and the year before there was about 2.4 million barrels a day reflective of the consistent increase over time. one of the biggest issues we discussed was how to sustain that progress. one of the issues the deputy prime minister focused particular attention on was the importance of turning the energy resources and to the benefits of the iraqi people, and that is electricity generation so

over the last year the united states and iraq have sought to transform the alliance so that it remains viable, not only for the security of the korean peninsu peninsula, but also regionally and globally. we've frequently consult and coordinate with iraq counterparts across a variety of issues with immediate focus being on preparation for the transfer of wartime operational control and the relocation of u.s. forces on the korean peninsula. to ensure the alliance remains well positioned to promote peace and stability for decades to come, our two countries have a comprehensive plan under a strategic alliance 2015 framework to transition wartime operational control from the u.s. iraq combined forces kpand command to the iraq joint chiefs of staff by december 2015. this transition will enable iraq to take the lead role in the defense of its nation, while maintaining ander during u.s. defense commitment and compact. as part of that effort, general thurman will speak to this in more democrpth. we are wokking to relocate forces and the seoul metropolitan area to centralized locations south of

based on a sense of partnership, shared interests and objectives and respect for each other as sovereign nations. iraq and the united states shared elemental goal, a united, self-reliant, democratic and prosperous iraq that is well integrated in the region with the government that is accountable to and serves the needs of the iraqi people. under the strategic framework agreement, iraq and the united states continue to work together at the most senior levels of government on a wide range of issues turned governance and the rule of law to economic education to energy and environment. moreover ambassador jim jeffrey and his staff see the prime minister, his top aides and a full spectrum of iraqi political leaders and president telefon eight, speaker in the gac, a host of others routinely. this pays for level of access is greater than our embassies typically enjoyed anywhere else in the world. so i also fear that our plans to reduce the size of a diplomat that for a minute back is also the site of opinion in a peer but the opposite in fact is the case. starting several years ago we planned conservatively and preparing for what

you and our behalf of the state department and the department of energy let me judy hsu to the joint quiddity committee on energy. is reflective of the relationship between the united states in iraq and how it has evolved and how we have established mechanisms to be able to work on issues that matter critical for both countries and energy is obviously one of those. it's fundamental to the rising economic future and fundamental to the ability to generate power for its own people and fundamental to its ability to supply international markets and in that context a direct interest to the united states. we have been working together on how to support iraq's efforts to increase its oil production and indeed iraq's effort has reached a level of about 3 million barrels a day in production. last year the average was about 2.7 million barrels a day in the year before that it was about 2.4 million barrels a day reflective of the consistent increase over time and hence one of the issues we discussed was how to sustain that progress. one of the issues that deputy prime minister al shahristani focused particular attention on was the importance of turning iraq's energy resources into benefits t

of iraq's oil by pipeline to the north and west since syria undergoes its transition would help to reduce iranian pressure on iraq and align iraqi interests with those of europe and the united states. we have done too much pipeline diplomacy in iraq. of course, this means iraq's oil and gas would have to traverse kurdish and sunni-populated territory, which means domestic political reconciliation is a prerequisite. some see that as insurmountable. i see it as a challenge, one well worth overcoming. iraq should be tied umbilically by oil pipelines and gas pipelines to turkey and the mediterranean, not to hormuz. i'm also told by oil people it's more economic to take the oil out by pipeline to the north and west rather than through hormuz. finally, relationships. american influence inside iraq comes in part from good relationships with the main players with the obvious but i hope declining exception of the sadras. we are a kind of queening power within iraq. while they may still resent the occupation, iraqis of most stripes -- and i include mudlock in this -- look to the americans for protection. iraqis of all stripes believe that the united states is vital to re-establishing their

united states. far from iraq and it's ruined buildings lost. i made contact with ross complete a twenty seven year old former marine who fought it flu shot though he looks like a teenager roscoe putin 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 earlier and there. were 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 and 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 they told us this was going to be the biggest battle since we city vietnam they were bombing the city really really heavily at this point and they put us on this hill outside the city kind of overlooking at the night before before the ground siege began and at

conditions and once they can move to another state they can move their businesses they can move their assets they can move that only united states is not equipped and as as we showed in iraq we can't we can't even occupy a country we can we can barely conduct a four day war that was a six week what. america is it's a country where people are so there's so much opportunity people are so busy having fun. they don't want to go to work americans don't want to go to work because i think america has to be lied into war no actually it was tony blair that the united states is crippled. important because its commander in chief is a leftist here i respectfully disagree right here yes it's good that it's tasty from a set of attacks and so on to go but if i sort of conform you because of people like obama who can succeed or days into obama's administration he or she writes these drone strikes in pakistan who do you think about really is what when he came into office and actually when he was running he knew that his weak flank was the military so he picked pakistan and. he has killed more civilians and the left much and get away with it because they're left because the left is a relig

responsible for this united states that is the party think i think international left and a democratic party united states that went to war for saddam and against george bush when he went into iraq we should have settled their hands we should not have but you know we should have i give my damn. dave this is me and having a conversation with anyone should know this is not going to syria and that we should have stuck into iran but bush came under such hand. from the from the democrat there's never been such as seditious movement play a major american party they all supported the war not all of them but their leadership supported the war they voted in their majority in the senate for the war and then they turned against it and they lied saying that bush lied bush couldn't have lied about the intelligence because kerry and rockefeller and feinstein all the democrats stand on the intelligence committees they had better intelligence than julian in in the work that we do the work that wiki leaks does we. are pushing forward the bandys of a certain type of liberty it is we say protected by the first amendment that is the liberty to to reveal the truth about the world to protect the stor

al- assad, have reasons to move away from him, which would be inclusive and not a replica of what you saw in iraq. the united states is giving humanitarian and communications help. others are giving arms. i think it is premature to talk about a libyan-style intervention. it would be extraordinarily costly, and it is not clear what the end result would be. >> mr. panetta pushed for the prospect of regional spillover. we are starting to see that with refugees and skirmishes along the turkish border. how concerned are you about what is happening in syria causing regional unrest? >> is a real and legitimate concern. the terminologies that come to mind are iraq and lebanon. you have divisions in the country. you have outsiders with a stake in what happens. you have bordering countries that are worried about refugees. as bad as things are inside, there is a possibility for think the thing worse outside. again, you do not want to take the options off the table. fair enough. you want to look at army and humanitarian help. but it is very hard to dislodge a tyrant who has a real base of support, if he is willing to kill his

operation flex began in the united states and flex expanded into beyond the borders of the united states and there are people that get a stand and a certain few in iraq. a few in yemen. who were. entrapped. but they would use that method and trap it was used to blackmail them to become informants not lead to an arrest it was to blackmail them now in regards to become put he was implicated somehow in dealing with charles taylor. when he was a present liberia. he was accused of having ties with. our you have been serially young among other areas in the in the world of africa rather where he was accused of providing arms. usually when they want you they meeting federal authorities the a.t.f. f.b.i. they will arrange some type of operation with a lure you in an entrapment manner where you may be innocent of that particular crime but they'll use that arrest to pressure you to plead guilty on other arrests so having known the methods of the f.b.i. the a.t.f. which i work as the informant with those individual agencies not only the f.b.i. i would say entrapment is definitely there are other minority communities in america targeted asked in constantly as mus

another way to measure the success of the talks is that there are bilateral talks between the united states and iraq. iran very much wants to talk directly to the united states. iran feels that the united states is the country which is going to deliver the goods and at the beginning of this process, from 2003 to 2006, the europeans were doing most of the negotiating and the united states was not present at the table. diplomats told me that they always felt that the iranians were looking over their shoulders to state where were the americans to guarantee the kinds of security guarantees and the kinds of delivery of technology that would make the deal work. so i think a key sign of success of this meeting will be if there is a bilateral talk between the iranian representatives in between the american representatives. and the talk in geneva, the last two talks, there were no bilaterals between the americans and the iranians. if we get through this first round, and if we get to a second round, which would happen fairly quickly, that is where the real difficulties come in because you want to have the con

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and there was much fanfare about the end of the iraq war. and yet we see iraq descending further and further into chaos, and the united states has this massive embassy there, and it's actually increasing the number of private contractors that are going to be operating in iraq as the official u.s. military withdraws. in afghanistan the united states is increasingly moving toward a front and centering of the most lethal forces in the u.s. arsenal, those from the special operations command, the joint special operations command. all of america heard about the joint special operations command and seal team six because of the targeted assassination of osama bin laden. but, actually, the joint special operations command has been around for a long time and has been at the heart of some of the most lethal operations that the u.s. has carried out in declared battlefields and in undeclared battlefields, and we're going to be hearing a lot more from them in afghanistan because they're the lead force in doing the night raids, and that is the premier policy right now around the world, believing that there are a finite number of bad guys that simply need t

during the bush administration this came out through wiki leaks documents what the united states attack iraq you know go ahead and do it cut the head of the snake now the second best option for them is talking to the same. regime because syria is a rons ally and because iran syria is tied up in a strategic alliance across the region and saudi arabia wants a great alliance for reasons of its own those reasons also converge with the determination of the united states to break out alliance so you can see there is most definitely a very big gain going on here which will determine the middle east for a long time to come or certainly a massive geopolitical game ongoing here regional implications or ethnic implications are western playing it's it's it's a conversation that we don't have enough time for here and i see i'm afraid i jeremy thought so as a professor of middle eastern history and politics of bilking university and so thanks so much for coming on thanks very much. well as a somewhat hawks in washington you keep calling for military interference in syria or launching a preemptive strike on iran the majority of

united states has increased the number of private contractors that are going to be operating in iraq as the official u.s. military withdraws. in afghanistan the united states is increasingly moving toward front and center of the most lethal forces in the u.s. arsenal, those from the special operations command. all of america heard about the joint operations command field team 6 because of the assassination of osama bin laden but after the special operations command has been around for a long time and been at the heart of some of the most lethal operations the u.s. has carried out in declared battlefields than in and declared battlefields and we will hear more from them in afghanistan because they are the lead forces doing nothing and that is the premier policy around the world, believing there are a finite number of bad guys that need to be killed and the problem will be solved. i returned from a two week trip in yemen where the united states has been increasing its bombing in that country not just through drones the tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs and i assure you the civilians that are being killed in these bombings of fuelling a rage that will be difficult to stamp out. united stat

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

for this united states that is the point isn't going to change international left in the democratic party united states that went to war for saddam and against george bush when he went into iraq we should have settled their hand we should not have you know we should have i could buy them for something that they've given this is a mapping program to which i should have stuck into syria and that we should have stuck into iran but bush came under such a panic. from it from the democrat there's never been such a seditious movement by a major american party they all supported the war not all of them but their leadership supported the war they voted in their majority of the senate at the door and then they turned against it and the light saying that bush lied bush couldn't have lied about the intelligence because kerry and rockefeller and feinstein all the democrats sat on the intelligence committees they had their intelligence then julian in in the words agreed to the work that wiki leaks does we. are pushing forward the boundaries of a certain type of liberty it is we say protected by the first amendment that is the liberty to to reveal the truth about the world to protect a stor

responsible for this united states that is the party says that vengeance in this the left in the democratic party united states that went to war for saddam and against george bush when he went into iraq we should have settled their hands we should not have you know we should have occupied them for things that they have in this is am not going to run credit which i should have this is not going to syria and that we should have stuck it to iran but bush came under such a talent. from the from the democrat there's never been such as seditious movement by a major american party they all supported the war not all of them but the leadership supported them or they voted in their majority in the senate but the or and then they turned against it and they lied saying that bush lied bush couldn't have lied . about the intelligence because kerry and rockefeller and feinstein all the democrats sat on the intelligence committees they had their intelligence then julian in in the work that we do the work that wiki leaks does we are. pushing forward the boundaries of a certain type of liberty that is we say protected by the first amendment that is the liberty to to reveal the truth about the world to

iraq. the united states is giving some humanitarian and communications helps. others are giving arms. it is premature to think about a libyan style type of intervention. it would be extraordinarily costly and it is not clear to me what the end result would be. >> the other issue was the prospect of some sort of regional spillover. we're already starting to see that with the refugees and skirmishes along the turkish border. how concerned are you? >> it is a real concern and is a legitimate concern. the two analogies that come to mind are iraq and lebanon. you have all sorts of divisions within the country. you have outsiders to have a stake in what happens. as bad as things are inside, there is a possibility for things getting worse outside. that is why you do not want to take options off the table, fair enough. you want to look at humanitarian help. it is very hard to dislodge a tirade that has a real base of support if he is willing to kill his own people, unless you're willing to go in there and go to war. and do what the world is not doing in libya. and sit there for quite awhile a

relationship between frost and joey in the united nations security council christmas time really to be against. the united states and britain and backless in the balance taking up to the iraq war people will tell you very very briefly this could have a big impact on the e.u. at the moment if we do see so cozy go just briefly a u. economic mathematic very briefly. because there's even an appearance of goldman sachs in the european financial structures and so on i don't i don't think we can make predictions there's continuity but certainly so cozy was a cool. part of washington and perhaps your presidents a socialist president will give us a little bit more of its republican you know traditions. pendants poised on hold on loop other world scale as well as within the european union we shall try to hear from you once again thank you for your time a show chossudovsky live on the line from montreal. media currency crisis. cuts. tragic integration. who will be left standing with. the french election on r.t.e. . but life here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour a chance to live. to suffer as in india put their hope in a new law to allow western life

and want to move away from the iraq and afghanistan. under robert gates gates was very clear that the united states had to fight the wars that it was fighting right now before it moved on to the next war but now that we've moved on to secretary of defense panetta and we move mostly out of iraq. any time you want to get into some should leave seems to appear there the navy and air force are very eager to think about what their next conflict might look like they're happy to have the focus back on them about what they can do i thought the navy the air force cited a maybe not so nice the army there but so in that sense as we look at the strategic shift in actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are most of them have focusing on and then. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict which i don't can also in sort of a lesser included case be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets that are part of this is a command pretty easy to shift over to the middle east a place any kind of crisi

one part might have book is these track things in the united states and the key one we're in now is the post-911 era of war in iraq, war in afghanistan and it's not surprising to me that we have a revisiting here of this more teddy roosevelt culture. >> we've got 20 seconds left and that's all. do you want to make a closing comment and i'll call on you for about 10 seconds. david. >> i think -- i do think the film is antisemitic in the sense that it does any more than any other jesus film in american history to exonerate pile last time and blame jesus. >> and yet there is so much a jewish jesus including questions from the passover, why ishis night different from all other nights and it's again this schizophrenia, we need to answer that question who is jesus and we're still working on it. that question who is jesus and we're still working on it. >> thank you so much, david, and that question who is jesus and we're still working on it. >> thank you so much, david, and complicated. intimidating. something other people get to do. but once you take the first step. you'll find there's nothing standing in your way. metl

and saudi arabia, proxy attacks against u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan not bring about a military response from the united states directly against iran. it's in large part why they use proxies to use arm's length to prevent us to doing that. on the other hand, you know, it's hard to argue that president obama, you know, i know he got the peace prize in 2009 but he's not a, you know, he's not against using force when it's in the important interest of the united states. you mentioned the osama bin laden raid and the surge in afghanistan was politically risky and a major escalation of that conflict. clearly this is a president who is willing to use force when he judges it's in the national interest. he's made the argument that iran's nuclear risk crosses that threshold. he said he's not bluffing. and a nuclear iran is unacceptable. it's pretty clear to me. the question is do we have to become even clearer in the way that matt suggests. i don't know. i think those threats are pretty clear and, oh, by the way we have 40,000 forces in the gulf with pointing objects right at the iranians. we have another hundred thousand forces on thei

right i think several points one is we are going to iraq for now both the united states and europe have law cut i was all assistance to mali except for basic humanitarian assistance feeding people from the drought and famine all the development assistance when cotton certainly military assistance has been cut so at some point they're going to have to make a decision whether the whole at hearing to the principle of no extra legal unconstitutional changes of government where that creates a tension with security concerns and i agree with with james there are other in person we have to recognize not just the u.s. and europe interest but the neighboring countries have their own interests and their own spins of they're going to put on this both in terms of defending themselves and in the greater balance of power within the sub region so for example today general carter ham the commander of the u.s. africa command is in algeria meeting with the algerian president and his top advisors clearly the perspective they're going to get for algeria on this crisis is going to be entirely different from