if we did not get involved in vietnam, if bush did not take us into iraq, if we were not in afghanistane did not have these ridiculous tax reductions, we would not have the deficit. if the wars that bush started were put on budget, we would not have had to go to china at to borrow the money. you can blame who you want. but what do we have to do about it to fix it now? now is the time to come to get there and make certain that we are strong enough to be able to have debates as to whether or not we should pull out of afghanistan. i do not think we should have been there in the first place, but that is not going to help us resolve the problems that we are facing today. host: someone on twitter asks the following question. guest: they told us that if we were to consider reducing the corporate rate to allow them to be more competitive, that instead of keeping the money overseas where they do not have to pay american taxes, that it would be willing to invest in the united states of america. they said by investing in the united states at a high corporate rate, they actually lose money. the ful

rational to look at the last few years and to look at all of the status from figures that told us that getting into iraq would be a good idea of establishment figures that told us that we needed to bail out banking institutions you know sometimes you can trust the establishment in other times you can't and it's not so easy for the average person who doesn't have time to study the issue just going about living their lives to determine one from the other that's an excellent point excellent point connor thanks so much for being with us on the case thanks for having me or shit wildfires tornadoes flooding heat waves you name it extreme weather is becoming all too frequent all around the world but don't expect that to change the minds of many republicans when it comes to climate change what will change their mind though election reform it literally pays off to deny climate change in america today to get the oil barons like the koch brothers out of our apollo. and i guarantee that the ranks of climate change deniers in our government will shrink dramatically. coming up main street america is on life support w

i was opposed to us going into iraq from the very beginning. i did not see a military threat from iraq. i know a lot of is being said about weapons of mass destruction, but what i thought and what i said was that we have the military surveillance capability to see a rapid roll out any weapons of mass destruction. if we do that, we can go in and address that situation. i thought if we went into iraq, we would find ourselves in a civil war for which there rubino and. afghanistan, initially, we were attacked. we attack back. we are at war with terrorism. we are at war with al qaeda. having been in afghanistan for six months, we effectively have wiped out al qaeda. that was 10 years ago. we are building roads, schools, bridges, highways, and hospitals in iraq and afghanistan. we are using 43 cents out of every dollar to do that. do we not have that same me here? and worst of all, servicemen and women are losing their lives. libya. when we went into libya, i issued a paper. i am opposed to what we are doing here a through z. where was the military t

if we did not get involved in vietnam, if bush did not take us into iraq, if we were not in afghanistan, if we did not have these ridiculous tax reductions, we would not have the deficit. if the wars that bush started were put on budget, we would not have had to go to china at to borrow the money. you can blame who you want. but what do we have to do about it to fix it now? now is the time to come to get there and make certain that we are strong enough to be able to have debates as to whether or not we should pull out of afghanistan. i do not think we should have been there in the first place, but that is not going to help us resolve the problems that we are facing today. host: someone on twitter asks the following question. guest: they told us that if we were to consider reducing the corporate rate to allow them to be more competitive, that instead of keeping the money overseas where they do not have to pay american taxes, that it would be willing to invest in the united states of america. they said by investing in the united states at a high corporate rate, they actually lose money. t

if we did not get involved in vietnam, if bush did not take us into iraq, if we were not in afghanistanif we did not have these ridiculous tax reductions, we would not have the deficit. if the wars that bush started were put on budget, we would not have had to go to china at to borrow the money. you can blame who you want. but what do we have to do about it to fix it now? now is the time to come to get there and make certain that we are strong enough to be able to have debates as to whether or not we should pull out of afghanistan. i do not think we should have been there in the first place, but that is not going to help us resolve the problems that we are facing today. host: someone on twitter asks the following question. guest: they told us that if we were to consider reducing the corporate rate to allow them to be more competitive, that instead of keeping the money overseas where they do not have to pay american taxes, that it would be willing to invest in the united states of america. they said by investing in the united states at a high corporate rate, they actually lose money. the

i was opposed to us going into iraq from the very beginning. i did not see a military threat from iraq. i know a lot was being said about weapons of mass destruction, but what i thought and said was, we have military surveillance capability to see iraq rolled out weapons of mass destruction. if they do that, we can go in and address the situation. i thought if we went into iraq, we would find ourselves in a civil war to which there would be no end. afghanistan, initially, i thought that was totally warranted. we were attacked, we attacked back. we are at war with terrorism, with al qaeda. but having been in afghanistan for six months, we had effectively wiped out al qaeda. that was 10 years ago. we are building roads, schools, bridges, hospitals, highways in iraq and afghanistan, borrowing 43 cents out of every dollar to do that. don't we have the same needs and our own country? worst of all, servicemen and women are losing their lives. libya. when we went into libya, i issued a paper. i am opposed to what we're doing here. where was the milita

into iraq. they did not ask us to come in there. why should iraqis repaid united states?st: i told the prime minister that we were on the edge of a financial crisis. people have to understand that with $1.5 trillion more in spending than we take in revenues, that was 3 years in a row. we are on the way to a major financial crisis in our country. i explained that to him and said, you know, we have spent up to $1 trillion in iraq freeing them from saddam hussein, not to mention the sacrifice of so many who have lost loved ones, not to mention the tens of thousands coming home without legs are parts of their face being blown away. americans have made such sacrifices to get rid of sussien, and give you a chance, and iraq will be one of the richest countries in the world, they have oil and natural gas, more than saudi arabia. now that we have read you from this corrupt, a vicious dictator and we are near crisis, maybe when you are wealthy and prosperous a few years from now, you might think about repaying the united states for this contribution that we made. they acted in salt

if we could have figured out how to have our excursion into iraq only cost us $150 billion, we'd giveguy the nobel prize in economics. it's cost us trillions. had to refocus our efforts in afghanistan, and we are paying those bills from many, many years ago. >> you want weiner to resign? >> look, i think that the president -- i'd stand by what the president said and stand by what the leaders said. i think that -- that that's problem the best route for him to go. >> thanks for coming to new hampshire. >> happy to do it. >> the candidates are arriving. you saw some of the pictures. newt gingrich arriving at st. anselm only moments ago. he's getting ready for the debate. find out what the voters want to hear from the candidates. that's coming up. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor a

iraq. five u.s. service members have been killed. this is a new video coming into usecurity officials say they were killed during an early morning mortar attack at a u.s. military base in southeastern baghdad. it is the single largest loss of life among u.s. troops in iraq in recent months. iraq's interior of ministry also telling cnn, at least 17 people were also killed. there was some confusion as to whether or not it was the same attack, but the clarification is that people were killed in a series of other explosions that took place across iraq today. >>> also, just into cnn, former international monetary fund chief, dominique strauss-kahn arriving at court for his arraignment. there is the picture that we just got. he's expected to enter a formal not guilty plea on sexual assault charges. he is accused of trying to rape a hotel maid in new york city last month. >>> and high winds blowing a massive wildfire across northern arizona right now. the wallow fire has already burned more than 180,000 acres. containment is still at zero. 2,200 people have been chased from

us vonnie to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following us bombing at invasion of iraq in two thousand and three 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. herman presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some of. what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that go. visit him and move to one to five test has been at first but soon you run trolls daily so you can save one being on your first quite a long time and may hit that age as that will give way pay for college get something i want to do for a long time and join students active never never wanted this job so it had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being deployed to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but

for you to explore for instance some money never sleeps to us auditors to look into the disappearance of more than six billion dollars for iraq with the cash now unaccounted for. and sauna diplomacy finished diplomats are held word of a steamy prize for promoting sauna culture abroad and helping forge international relations find out more at our key dot com. now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world nato warplanes bombed tripoli overnight as rebels moved closer to the capital but forcing back broken off and troops smoke and fire were seen rising from a number of areas across the city state t.v. said the blast had rocked military and civilian areas although there were no immediate reports of casualties. the u.s. has accused of the sudanese government of blocking aid deliveries to thousands of people fleeing fighting in the disputed region and us president barack obama has called for a cease fire following a devastating bombing campaign near the north-south border one hundred fifty thousand people have been displaced either side of the border because of tensions ahead of south sudan's formal independenc

into libya and also wanting us to get out of afghanistan. what authorization it did president bush have to go into iraq which cost us a fortune? republicans are so concerned about our deficit. what happened during the eight years at that bush was in as the president? the republicans were running the country and they were spending money as if it was their money. they were spending the taxpayers' money, and now you are so concerned about our deficit and trying to put the deficit on the backs of the people who are losing their jobs, losing their homes, and now you still want to keep the tax cuts for the rich and give corporate america and all of the bank's all of the loopholes that they have? i think the american people -- the republicans are destroying our country, and we are not as stupid as you think we are. guest: there is a lot to respond to their so i will do the best i can. look, i do not see the libyan question as deficit-related. i think if we go to war, we ought to authorize it by congress. iraq was authorized as was afghanistan. president bush got the authorization just as his father did back in the gulf war. i think t

into libya and also wanting us to get out of afghanistan. what authorization it did president bush have to go into iraq which cost us a fortune? now the republicans are so concerned about our deficit. what happened during the eight years at that bush was in as the president? the republicans were running the country and they were spending money as if it was their money. they were spending the taxpayers' money, and now you are so concerned about our deficit and trying to put the deficit on the backs of the people who are losing their jobs, losing their homes, and now you still want to keep the tax cuts for the rich and give corporate america and all of the bank'sll of the loopholes that they have? i think the american people -- the republicans are destroying our country, and we are not a stupid as you think we are. guest: there is a lot to respond to their so i will do the best i can. look, i do not see the libyan question as deficit-related. i think if we go to war, we ought to authorize it by congress. iraq was authorized as was afghanistan. president bush got the authorization just as his father did back in the gulf war. i th

what's in the best interest of the united states to protect us against a potential threat the president did that as he was planning on moving into iraq and received the authorization of congress that he needed you know we're going to the lawyers sort out what he needed to do and what he didn't need to do awesome more war government run health care and more abortions so when i ask question it i don't hear her but i want him a little dance party on saturday. yeah that one awkward we inserted gratuitous plug for our of it outstanding so it will you come dance with me on saturday to help us stand up for the first amendment of the constitution and i was very proud that i had a one state police class after another we had the largest state police in the history of our state so there you have it the g.o.p. front runner our favorite answered obama is a white version of obama who put hair and lies oh wait obama said he was anti-war and people believed him and it was that we didn't fall for your crap in two thousand and eight we're not going to do it again and i pray that the seventeen percent of the republican party who thinks you would be jus

tween iraq and afghanistan and now into libya actually no discussion with the people of the us or with the congress it's a violation of the war powers act it's illegal and it is really strong demands that congress play the role of which they are elected to. pressure is also mounting on syria although russia has said it won't back another intervention do you think nato countries i will take action anyway and what do you think the consequences of something like that would be. well it's important to recognize that the u.s. is already taking action in syria but there is a real destabilization growing there for years there has been sanctions on syria syria is occupied. by israel all with u.s. funding so there has been a long time u.s. intervention u.s. sanctions u.s. destabilization it's even been reported in the us press the washington post here in the. us. actual intervention funding of the opposition groups within syria orchestrating. programs who thinks look through a lot of social networking programs doing everything they can do in opposition to destabilize the country now syria like e

com for you to explore for example money never sleeps us out of there is a look into the disappearance of more than six billion dollars man for iraq where the cash now account for. and sought out diplomacy finished diplomats are awarded a steamy prize for promoting song culture abroad and helping forge international relations find out more. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five people accused of informing the cia ahead of the raid in which osama bin laden was killed the owner of a safe house run a by the cia to watch bin laden's compound is believed to be one of the detainee another is an army major who reportedly copied the license plate numbers of cars visiting the al qaida leaders compound the director of the cia raised the issue during a surprise visit to pakistan last week. syria says it's now safe for thousands of people who fled violence in the town of juicer all sure to turn over eight thousand civilians have taken refuge in neighboring turkey alone with all your military crackdown of the uprising against president bashar lawson the government says

iraq invasion. i checked into the hospital and they give us a certificate for a gas mask tent the babies. adults are caring around gas masks for fear that saddam hussein would fire chemical weapons. that says so much about the psychology of the conflict. we say it is no exaggeration to say on the day they are born, israelis begin preparing for war. host: you are at npr. guest: i worked on the "addition" -- morning edition" program. host: our caller, tom, is back. caller: how is it going this morning? because of the uprising in africa, why do you think the uprising is so severe now? due to american change and status with the president and everything? give me your notation on by the uprising there in africa and it seems to have been an uprising in the united states. guest: i believe you are referring to the north african countries that have exploded companies, libya, and egypt. something that has caught people by surprise. what you see in places that are frozen in time or the have one autocratic leader, there is not an allegory venue to practice any kind of normal politics where there are -

that president bush and vice president dick cheney should be impeached for not telling us the truth about going into iraq. i did not do that with any great enthusiasm. iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and nothing to do with 9/11. iraq did not have capability of attacking the united states. we have waged a $3 trillion war against iraq that we will be paying for and the people of iraq will pay for with horrible casualties, destruction of their nation. i would say, i led the effort in the house of representatives and right from the beginning in challenging the bush administration marching towards war. this is not a partisan matter. whether it is a republican president or a democratic president, this constitution has to survive and prevail. i am a democrat. i like to support my democratic presidents. i am not going to shirk my duties to uphold the constitution if i feel that someone who happens to be a democrat is going beyond what the constitution permits for a chief executive. host: another e-mail for you, congressman kucinich. guest: it does, but it still does not trust the constitution. the un sec

that part of the world that their narrative is not true you go into iraq you wonder do you help the al qaeda narrative so we haven't used our you know power wisely and we spent a lot of money you want to go to war in iraq why don't we raise taxes ok so people would have to feel that there wasn't so not only we're not racial we caught them and that did contribute to part of the deficit in the direct cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan which were not paid for its one point five trillion right now the indirect cost cutting you know caring for the thousands of people wounded and mentally and physically and everything. like that is going to be posix trillion dollars so what about that i mean who is the big enemy of china getting ready to innovate and if china ever wanted to do something negative i mean they have enough of our current then why do you have health insurance what's the big problem you're young you're healthy what's a problem and what have a lot of my problems true with bankrupting me that meant i couldn't pay my bill clinton and her health insurance bankrupting you is that fifty percent of your how many wha

in that part of the world that their narrative is not true you go into iraq you don't do you help the al qaeda narrative so we haven't used our you know power wisely and we spend a lot of money and want to go to war in iraq why don't we raise taxes ok so people would have to feel that there wasn't so not only are we not raised that we caught and that these contribute to part of the deficit i mean the direct cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan which were not paid for is one point five trillion right now the indirect cost couldn't get a caring for the thousands of people wounded and mentally and physically and everything. like that kind of is going to be about six trillion dollars so what about that i mean who's the big enemy is china getting ready to invade and if china ever wanted to do something negative i mean you know nothing are the important and why do you have health insurance what's the big problem you're young you're healthy what's a problem if you look at what my health insurance was bankrupting me and it meant that i couldn't pay my bills and health insurance bankrupting you is it fifty percent how many wha

that president bush and vice president dick cheney should be impeached for not telling us the truth about going into iraq. i did not do that with any great enthusiasm. iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and nothing to do with 9/11. iraq did not have capability of attacking the united states. we have waged a $3 trillion war against iraq that we will be paying for and the people of iraq will pay for with horrible casualties, destruction of their nation. i would say, i led the effort in the house of representatives and right from the beginning in challenging the bush administration marching towards war. this is not a partisan matter. whether it is a republican president or a democratic president, this constitution has to survive and prevail. i am a democrat. i like to support my democratic presidents. i am not going to shirk my duties to uphold the constitution if i feel that someone who happens to be a democrat is going beyond what the constitution permits for a chief executive. host: another e-mail for you, congressman kucinich. guest: it does, but it still does not trust the constitution. the un sec

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second -- our second daughter amelia was born just on the eve of the iraq invasion and when we checked into the hospital, they gave us is certificate for a gas mask tent for the babies. adults would carry around gas masks because of the fear that saddam would fire chemical weapons at israel. and that to us said so much about the psychology of the conflict and there's a line in the book where we say, it is literally no exaggeration to say on the day that they are born israelis begin preparing for war. >> host: and greg you now at npr? >> guest: i am. i help edit npr's morning edition program. >> host: and when you were in israel you were with the "new york times"? >> guest: i was with the "new york times," that's correct. >> host: tom is back on the republican line in tampa, florida. go ahead. >> caller: yes. hi. >> host: we're listening, tom. >> caller: hi jennifer and greg. how are you doing this morning. >> guest: good, good. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i want to ask a little question there. due to the uprising there in africa, why do you think the uprising is, you know, so severe now due to america change and

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us. let's start with square one. everyone has heard of kurdistan and heard of the kurds, but i do not think we know much about what you are all about. how does kurdistan's into iraq? >> kurdistan region is the northern part of iraq. it is basically made up of three provinces similar to your states in the north -- but the area is administered by the kurdistan regional government. it encompasses parts of other governments as well. we have about 5 million kurds in iraq. >> how many people in iraq altogether? >> between 26 million to 28 million. we have not had a sense is in many years and we hope to have one soon which will give us more concrete numbers. >> so you are a round of 5 million. >> that would be a conservative estimate. >> we hear about that shia and we hear about the cities. do they have their own culture and language? >> we have our own ethnic identity. it is kurdish. we are kurds, but within that broad umbrella of an ethnic identity, there are various different religions. sunni muslim kurds and shiite muslim kurds. yet some who are christian and some who are jewish, but most of them are out of the country right now. we also have a large indigenous popu

last hour basis of iraq or the noises i would often doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for them speed. since the into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you think else you get everything you needed. the peninsula within the arctic circle is russia's northernmost point a group of sportsman skiing in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue is of the care of regional rescue services receive a request for assistance they do not know how long it will take them to reach the scene a lot depends on distance the terrain and weather conditions they have vivid memories of what happened to a group of skiers from st petersburg a few years ago. which is one of those who know all too well what the full force of an avalanche feels like. to go but as i approach the edge to get ready for the descent. i mean yes i was knocked over with such force from my close and happened in the shuttle and everything became unfastened. i sensed i was tumbling down at top speed with an enormous mass of something pressing on me it was like bei

will we first went into iraq -- when we first went into b iraq, i felt strongly that some of the money we were spending should be eventually pay back to usn they increased their oil revenues. i still feel that way today. that may be part of the way i was reluctant in including and ignoring the president of the war powers resolution of 1974 to just simply go into libya, a third front costing us more and more money that we did not provide for except for borrowing more money. i think the president should abide by the war powers resolution, as president bush did in 2002 when he came to the congress and got overwhelming support in action in afghanistan and iraq. host: steny hoyer was talking about this yesterday. >> this is a serious issue. you put this on suspension. our country is in crisis from the physical standpoint. i don't think the pendulum has any idea what the facts are. -- from a physical standpoint -- fiscal standpoint. under brooklyn, less than 40. -- this is an important issue. this is not the adult moment that speaker boehner spoke. the budget you voted for increase the debt by $1.9 trillion between now and october 1 of this ye

they're going into other financial partnerships with other people so that means they are cheating on us. >> we have no intention of leaving iraq. it was pretty clear in our opening statements. we have asked for assistance -- >> the american people think we have left. you have no intention of leaving and everybody else in the country except those who are finely attuned which is a limited audience thinks we have already done that her it i would suggest that is a disaster. it will not just be iraq on the plate in the situation. somebody in the administration really has to start thinking about that long term even if long term only means five-seven years. how you sell a billion dollar program to people who think they are done with the payments? >> deputy secretary nyes will be chairing a roundtable discussion on friday with approximately ce 30o's of major companies to talk about the opportunities of investing in iraq. he will also be meeting and having a number of press interviews along with ambassador geoffrey to make the case that iraq is worth all the effort and worth the long-term commitment we have made. thank you. >> those pe

us here on r.t. effect will congress putting into question u.s. military involvement have ongoing action in libya do you think. from his circle experiences specially the recent ones in iraq and afghanistan we can predict that it's really going to have very little effect to washington is much more jittery when it comes to war these days thanks to their experiences in the middle east but also seemed to in the past the congress have. taken on such initiatives and questioned the wisdom of. previous presidents did very little really start what is taking place and i don't think libya is going to be the exception i mean you were there in the usa i was talking to a commentator in the u.s. not long ago and he was saying about a could be impeach this is that really likely. no not truly i mean we've seen worse things happening you know iraq is the prime example i mean the fact the whole war was under the rug of of weapons of mass destructions and all of that and we discovered that it was a ploy it was largely an intelligence glory and it was done for political reasons and for a really pre-decided military edge and then political agenda and the president wasn't beached and in fact o