well peter i think comparisons to iraq are odious. start with what's true and what's not president obama was forthright. telling america and the world why we must intervene in libya might disagree with his decision but who can do without the evidence that he used to build a case to oppose a bloodbath it was everywhere before our eyes this was not true of bush and iraq eight years ago the comparison as i say is odious the reasons bush concocted for going to war didn't pass the sniff test bush and cheney told the world that iraqi leader saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was giving them to terrorists that we would be greeted as liberators they hated broadly that saddam was and i'm not eleven and none of this was true now with my friends on the right what you believe bush and cheney are such things in good space. they're welcome to that but still these were some obvious lies metaphysically through bribery a man named curveball code named curveball just last. recent few weeks has acknowledged that he lied. there was a

well peter i think comparisons to iraq are odious. start with what's true and what's not president obama was forthright in telling america and the world why we must intervene in libya one might disagree with his decision but who can doubt the evidence that he used to build the case to oppose a bloodbath it was everywhere before our eyes this was not true of bush and iraq eight years ago the comparison as i say is odious the reasons bush concocted for going to war didn't pass the sniff test bush and cheney told the world that iraqi leader saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was giving them to terrorists that we would be greeted as liberators they had a broadly that saddam was and i'm not eleven and none of this was true now it's my friends on the right one hundred such things in good faith. they're welcome to that but still these were some of these lies manifestly bribery. curveball just lies. and the recent few weeks has acknowledged that he lied. there was a lot of evidence that. al libi lied and probably ok but yo

iraq. afghanistan and now. yes the u.s. involvement in libya let's get it done let's zero in these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by m.s.n. he sees most liberal talk show host rachel now and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military intervention and so you're exactly right i think we have to do it it is a moral decision at this point so you might be thinking well that's just because the u.s. involvement in libya falls under a democratic president but as it turns out and s n b c has had a longstanding love affair with war remember actually banfield oh my god. she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three. kansas state university. just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the coverage what didn't you

iraq the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again our sea unit moving into a libya dr dog rocky who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas that i was given a written memorandum will lie about the health and environment a particular a mission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now there some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. i suspect just because it's the kind of cat and the people there and the just saying hey look everybody is dying here they go over answer and i think gentlemen of the nations and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted uranium has a hoffa life of four and a house billion years hence it's this production by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. so could the silent killer be raring its ugly head in th

iraq the health a picture of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing the movement into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i was given a written memorandum to lie about to help in a particular a mission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now there some fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya i suspect this. kind of has. to start saying hey look everybody here. and nations and so forth i don't think anyone it pleaded you rhenium has a half life of four and a house dealing in years hence it's description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . well for more on the situation in libya let's cross live now to patrick henningsen he's a london based journalist and managing editor of the twenty first century why

and a lot of people are comparing this to iraq and afghanistan but this this is a bit different isn't it i mean after all these are strikes to support what was essentially initially a popular uprising yes but as i say it was an intervention not to save the revolution but to subvert revolution and and it's as well here is also to remember an important element of the history in iraq especially actually from the first gulf war because there were no flows on with no fly zones were imposed on northern and southern iraq just after the coalition had defeated saddam hussein they allowed saddam hussein's helicopters to fly under the cover of the no fly zone to put down the rising of the marsh arabs in the size it's not inconceivable actually that if they come to a cease fire if they come to some kind of settlement they will allow gadhafi to put down the remnants of a rebellion here as well so the fact that we're fighting gadhafi now doesn't preclude that it didn't in iraq the fact that a no fly zone by well being used against the rebels in the future and could this turn into an out there in ir

we didn't have iraq in our heads. we had a.f.c. -- afghanistan in our heads and we had about 20,000 in our heads and hundreds of thousands who were volunteering. in retrospect, that recommendation to take volunteers was not a good one. the reason being that when we went intooring we then needed significantly -- into iraq we then needed significantly more reservists. then we determined that those who served already would not serve a second tour until everybody -- everyone has served a first tour. the result of that was that a unit that was to be deployed might have had 20% or 30% of its folks still deployed. we had to go to other units. over time two units replacing one became four units replacing one, became eight units replacing one. and it all goes back to the original premise that we would take volunteers in afghanistan. i was one of those supportive of that. in retrospect, not a good idea. next in, afghanistan, there was a great deal of discussion amongst the u.s., the afghan government and our nato alleys as to t

>> our portfolio covered all funding for iraq. it's very broadly defined, not just hard reconstruction but the iraq security force fund, the economic support fund, the iraq relief fund, the commanders response perhaps and the i.n.l. fund. that's what >> mr. richardson, do you care to comment? >> we are at the present time coordinating with the state department. but we are making progress. let me back up on the sustainment issue . like we have learned -- based on that is what my response was. >> that helps. thank you. >> a thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank all three of you for being here today. thank you for your service and that of your staff. to varying degrees, i found each of your statements profoundly disturbing. that is not a criticism of you or your staff. you accurately laid out the situation. you put it best mr. blair when you say we continue to find the same contract and problems. the department continues to struggle to get it right now in the beginning. and ensure it gets what it pays for. you had a number of very

well you know i started going to iraq in the one nine hundred ninety s. and really cut my teeth as a reporter working for democracy now and writing for common dreams and counterpunch and other independent websites and not getting paid for any of it but i was i was in iraq for a lot of the ninety's all the way into the early two thousand and just by chance one of the places that i had spent a lot of time during my time in iraq before the u.s. invasion was in the iraqi city of fallujah and i knew people there and i had interviewed people there because it was the site of one of the worst cases of civilian deaths caused by the u.s. bombing of iraq during the ninety one gulf war so i spent a lot of time in fluids i knew people there i had connections there on march thirty first two thousand and four almost seven years ago to this day. it was seven years ago yesterday for blackwater operatives were in and they were ambushed and killed and their bodies were burned it became a very. iconic moment of the iraq war and their bodies were strung up from this bridge an

i live in iraq. people in turkish side were talking about our prime minister and the whole construction, 70% of the construction is going on by the turkish firms. and right now, as far as i know there's disagreement that turkey had initiated between iran, iraq, syria and turkey, that's like totally an opposite way to the agreement. and the new forum wants to be graded with jordan, syria, turkey and iraq again. i think its impact in the middle east, it's impact that wants to have in the middle east should be something to be observed. thank you. >> i think actually you've given me another contender for my point that is missing out of my list. >> more questions? yes. >> i want to offer a counter narrative and asked for comment on that. sorry. okay. i just want to offer a counter decade and ask for your response on the. both on syria and egypt your many very fine of service of the syrian scene has said that while there are certain sizable protest, and you may be right, we may have reached a tipping point

in iraq, going into iraq i believed the intelligence as did everyone i know that when we crossed the line of departure out of kuwait into iraq that whole divisions, 14,000 to 16,000 troops of iraqi soldiers would surrender and become part of the liberation force. makes sense to somebody that's lived in freedom all his life. makes sense that we liberators would be there flag waving. and, of course, they would be loyal to their new government. turns out that they did not surrender in mass. nor did they fight. they disintegrated. they went home. which leads to another assumption that proved to be false. in military planning an assumption is something that if it is wrong your plan fails. there's been a lot of discussion about phase four in iraq and a discussion about there was no planning of phase four. phase four is what do you do after you win, how do you maintain security? it's not that we didn't plan phase four, but one of the basic assumptions for phase four is not only would there be the u.s. troops on the ground and our coalition partners but that fundamentally the 400,000-man ira

well peter i think comparisons to iraq are odious. start with what's true and what's not president obama was forthright. telling american the world why we must intervene in libya what might disagree with his decision but who can do that the evidence that he used to build the case to oppose the bloodbath it was everywhere before our eyes this was not true of bush and iraq eight years ago the comparison as i say is odious the reasons bush concocted for going to war didn't pass the sniff test bush and cheney told the world that iraqi leader saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was giving them to terrorists that we be greeted as liberators they had a broadly that saddam was and i'm not eleven and none of this was true now with my friends on the right what you believe bush and cheney are such things in good space . they're welcome to that but still these were some obvious lies manifestly time for bribery a man curveball code named curveball just last and the recent few weeks has acknowledged that he lied. there was a lot

we decapitated the armies in iraq. after we leave iraq, iran will take over iraq. they probably will not have the pirates shot. they are so close to the leaders of iraq who cannot stand us and we cannot stand them. as soon as we leave, and they do not want to mess with us. it has been 10 to 12 years. i am saying very simply, and ensure as you are sitting there, that iraq within minutes after we leave will be taken over by iran. and if that happens, all of those brave soldiers and military personnel is that had died for our country will have died in vain. not to mention the vast amounts of money that has been wasted in could have been used to rebuild the united states, ok? so, ready? sometimes they say, why is this controversy all? at the you agree with me that iran will take it over as soon as they leave? [applause] if iran is going to take over the oil, we take the oil. we get it. [cheers and applause] by the way, it's estimated that they have $15 trillion of oil in iraq. they do not realize how rich they are in terms of the oil fields. we give it to iraq, the we

we didn't want to iraq it was numbered on us by a vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to broke trying to work out to get out he would look an idiot at the end of all this but the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just what they barely caught so it crashed and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the right to use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and take according to today's papers. with i happened we saw a green blowing out of the sky don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions of pounds which we haven't got but not one single one of our people has as died when that happens the game and the p.r. game will change politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a military or parents or what was in it for him or for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately a professional bleeding heart and so he's one of those guys who rush around endlessly he's

we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by a vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to brook trying to work out or get out he will look an idiot at the end of all this but the the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just why if rally cuts are crashed and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the way to use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and calling to today's papers. without happened which i've been blown out of the skull i don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yet we've dropped tens of millions of miles which we haven't gotten but not one single one of our people has as died when that happens the game and the p.r. game we're trained politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a military of war came and saw what was in it for him or for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately a professional bleeding heart and so he is one of those guys who rush around endlessly he's

bush's father had gone into iraq after iraq invaded kuwait and cause them to be removed from kuwait but did not change the regime is good evidence that saddam hussein believe that america would not change the regime, that he would survive even though the united states might come in. so, there were a combination of things taking place that argued for it and there were a behavior -- there is a behavior pattern on the part of iraq misguided as it turned out and he refused to leave for this family which was offered and urged. war is the failure of diplomacy and. >> eshoo quote in the book. one thing people i think will be very surprised to read about is president bush never asked you for your advice on whether the country should go to war against iraq. would that violate one of rumsfeld's rules? >> no, don't think so. i don't know that he asked colin powell or condi rice or the vice president. he was the president. he was elected by the american people. we had frequent meetings and discussed various aspects of the situation. they worked very hard with united nations to try to put additional

in two thousand and three for sure tour and then into pakistan is the us ambassador and then into iraq as the u.s. ambassador and then retired from there the being placed in what seems to be kind of the republican think tank called texas a and m. university where our current department of defense head but gates had headed up the george bush school of public administration or something like that then ryan crocker has been in there in an interim time until he was brought back in by the obama administration as well as you're saying you're saying that the obama administration is just continuing the ultimately the water and legacies of the bush administration so so who's pulling the strings hit a couple home. well the administrator can certainly is just shuffling around it's the same people one could say that the congress certainly is. in the war spending mode still here it is ten years said at the great peril of the national. security of the united states the budgets that have now over fifty five percent of the american budget is related to military expenditures and yet we see schools that

we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by the vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to brooke trying to work out how they get out he will look an idiot at the end of all this but the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no deaths on our side just what if alec copter crashed and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the way they use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and tell you that calling to today's papers. if that happened we saw i've been blown out of the sky i don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions of pounds which we haven't gotten but not one single one of our people has as died when that happens the game and the p.r. game will change politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a militant able cameraman sore what was in it for him for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately a professional bleeding hearts and so he's one of those guys who rush around en

. >> reporter: just three of more than two million iraq and afghanistan vets. despite incentives to hire them, 11% were jobless last month; for those aged 18 to 34, 14%. paul rieckhoff founded and runs i.a.v.a., iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. >> they're coming back from serving our country, sometimes multiple tours, and their welcome home is an unemployment check. >> reporter: this week, rieckhoff led the now-annual charge on washington dubbed "storm the hill." this year, vets urged congress to help thin the jobless ranks with hiring inducements like employer tax breaks. >> so if folks want to support the troops, want to support veterans, hire them.

bush's father had gone into iraq after iraq invaded kuwait and cause them to be removed from kuwait but did not change the regime is good evidence that saddam hussein believe that america would regime, that he would survive even though the united states might come in. so, there were a combination of things taking place that argued for it and there were a behavior -- there is a behavior pattern on the part of iraq misguided as it turned out and he refused to leave for this family which was offered and urged. war is the failure of diplomacy and. >> eshoo quote in the book. one thing people i think will be very surprised to read about is president bush never asked you for your advice on whether the country should go to war against iraq. would that violate one of rumsfeld's rules? >> no, don't think so. i don't know that he asked colin powell or condi rice or the vice president. he was the president. he was elected by the american people. we had frequent meetings and discussed various aspects of the situation. they worked very hard with united nations to try to put additional pressure on sa

iraq. afghanistan and now. guess the u.s. involvement in libya let's get it done over these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by m.s.n. dc's most liberal talk show host rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military intervention and so you're exactly right. i think we have to do it it is a moral decision at this point so you might be thinking well that's just because the u.s. involvement in libya falls under a democratic president but as it turns out and s n b c has had a longstanding love affair with war remember astley banfield oh my god look behind us she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three she made a speech at kansas state university just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the co

iraq, within a short time after we leave -- iran will take over iraq. i have been told by very smart people that are already in the process of doing it. the problem will not even have to fire a shot. us and we stand cannot stand them. the are closer to the leaders of iraq than we are. as soon as we leave -- they do not want to mess with us. so i am saying very simply, and as sure as you are sitting there, that iraq within minutes after we leave will be taken over by iran. if that happens, all of those brave soldiers and military personnel that have died for our country not to mention the money that has been wasted. iran is going to take over the oil, which we all know. do you agree with me that iran will take it over as soon as we leave? if iran is going to take over the oil, we take it. [applause] by the way, it is estimated that they have 15 trillion dollars worth of oil in iraq. people do not realize how rich they are in terms of the oilfields. we give some to iraq. we pay back ourselves, plus some, of course. and also we payback great britain and th

iraq. afghanistan and now. yes the u.s. involvement in libya clips get it done let's arm these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by anything he sees most liberal talk show host rachel maddow abcess and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military intervention and so you're exactly right i think we have to do it it is a moral decision at this point so you might be thinking well that's just because the u.s. involvement in libya falls under a democratic president but as it turns out and as n.b.c. has had a longstanding love affair with war remember astley banfield oh my god. she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three. cans of state university just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the coverage what did

because from the strategic blunder that was the iraq war all right . this islamic conference is a good sign through our year long unfortunately we're out of time i think we might have to have you back on to discuss this thank you so much that was yunus of mohammad cheap analyst of islam policy dot com now as that reduction dominates the political debate here in washington d.c. lawmakers are pushing for massive cuts to the u.s. budget but one area that is likely to escape the cutting frenzy is a sacred cow of military spending which according to a new report grew by a stunning eighty one percent since two thousand and one so how are u.s. taxpayers reacting to a trend that shows no sign of letting up or to scale and ford reports. but. plenty is on the u.s. chopping block this week health care education infrastructure. was. everything that is except for the pentagon my greatest fear is that in economic tough times the people will see the defense budget as the place to solve the nation's deficit problems i would be very reluctant to cut defense spending un

a rock at the health approach of the iranian were there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing the movement into libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas if i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. libya i suspect just because i'm standing. and. say look everybody is dying here they will answer. with nations and so forth i don't think anyone in pleaded you rhenium has a hof life of four and a house billion years hence it's the scription by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . paul find out more on the story on our website us r t dot com. our blog there is have plenty to say about what's hap

these arguments were exactly the same as they are going to use for the invasion of afghanistan and iraq and nobody thinks that what we've got in either place is a model of democracy and the argument at the very language here is to say is it dissembling language to say that the world community there is no world community i'm a citizen in this country my country is at war a majority of people in the opinion poll don't want to be bombing libya our government and the arms fire fighters that it's in the middle east saudi weaponry to they want to go to the war go to war isn't true but there is some sort of this embodied world community that is backing this what is true is that the vast majority of people in the world had a very people sympathy with the arab revolutions in tunisia in egypt and in libya what they don't want to see is that the western intervention causing a transformation in the nature of the libyan revolution so it's now the most pro western people including actually and they are the same people the people who most recently came over from look at the regime itself who are actua

dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar and see how others touches of red that's the burning see how out instead of a cold street and you've got a flare at the bottom that's a do you explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to kind of trade the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.i. and human rights commission has called for a ban countries who have refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and this really the smallest particles of uranium nano particles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the blood and can spread into any organ including the heart brain liver also chronicles penetrate your cell tissue this is when you get all kinds of kinetic mutations and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of concluded uranium rounds after the two thousand and

if i could if i may segue just a little bit into iraq he promised during his campaign that he'd get us out of iraq and out of guantanamo are still there he said to get elected i firmly believe that he said to get elected but it has been is peace just what you fork over that we're still there. george h.w. bush read my lips no new taxes that was one of the things that got him defeated by bill clinton in ninety two when a president makes that makes claims like this and doesn't follow through. it's bad for the american people if you're going to say that and that gets you will look good then the american people have said you said you do it now do it and he's not and what's happening is he's getting sucked into that political that military industrial complex that machine that keeps these wars going on and on as as well as the u.n. you would the u.n. is based in new york but they don't really care what the american people think all stephanie become never ending like you said you know he said they probably didn't mean it you can look at george bush an example. unfortunately american people

so i have dedicated this poem to iraq. i think it will be helpful for you to know el kubenchi, along with el watanabi. el kubenchi is famous for music, a great history and tradition of music, and he has taught all the gray modern singers of the 20th century who came out of iraq. his music has touched me and you will hear it in this poem, 32 beads on a string. i woke from the nightmare of a gutted macom, not because i have not yet bled my life in yellow, but because minarettes looking sky ward. one burly buffalo looking for hooves and hot breath because the skin is not yet numb and the lights are not yet flickering, i will continue to sip at my hot tea and stare at the dust-colored noon. one white dasha screams with the brilliance of red. can you hear them, the melodious intent, the glimmering mood in their eyes. face stitched by seam, a garment i have sewn to my skin. whatever remains of el gubenchi's 1932 cairo studio recording lives between the old cobblestone quarter and my still-warm mahogony ear. i should have gotten

iraq. afghanistan and now. yes the u.s. involvement in libya let's get it done let's show you these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by m s n b c's most liberal talk show host rachel maddow out and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military intervention and so. exactly right i think we have to do it it is a moral decision at this point so you might be thinking well that's just because the u.s. involvement in libya falls under a democratic president but as it turns out and as n.b.c. has had a longstanding love affair with war remember owsley banfield oh my god hina she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three. cans of state university just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the coverage what didn't y

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we didn't want iraq it was lumbered on us by a vainglorious prime minister. cameron is now wandering around in the desert of to broke trying to work yeah the get out he will look an idiot at the end of all this but the but the underlying issue is with libya. there have been no guests on our side just what if alec up to a crash and god forbid we lose ten people all all by the way they use those heat seeking missiles which you can basically just walk in and according to today's papers. if that happened which i've been blown out of the sky i don't even think about it so the issue is we haven't dropped any blood yeah we've dropped tens of millions of pounds which we have and go up but not one single one of people is where that happens the game and the p.r. game which range politically what does someone like david cameron gain from waging a war in africa a military government so or what was in it for him or for a country he's a pro for he is unfortunately a professional bleeding heart and so he's one of those guys who rush around then mostly he's a total political

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calling this seemingly endless cycle into question both republicans we spent a trillion dollars in iraq that was a trillion dollars of waste and democrats we're going to have health care for all or we can have war. we can never education brah. well we could have war the budget bill before the house this week calls for the complete elimination of mortgage counselors people that help the five million americans facing foreclosures the price tag the same as funding eight hours of u.s. operations in afghanistan a four hundred million dollars cut in heating assistance for low income homeowners the cost of one and a half days of the war in afghanistan and a five hundred million dollar cut in nutritional assistance to women infants and children the cost of two days of that war a war with an increasingly devastating impact also on its troops the suicide rate is at a record level of. course the divorce rate among the list of rights is more than eighty percent there a crawl with rethink afghanistan says it's the result of deployments after deployments and of seeing horrible things year after year

in iraq, going into iraq, i believe the intelligence as did everyone i know that when we crossed a line of departure out of kuwait into iraq, told divisions, 14,000 troops or 16,000 troops of iraqi soldiers would surrender. they would become part of the liberation force. makes sense to a western mind. makes sense to someone who is live in freedom all of his life. makes sense that liberators would be welcomed with open arms. and of course the army would be loyal to their new governor. turns out, they did not surrender and mass. nor did they fight. the disintegrated. they went home. which leads to another assumption that proved to be false. in military planning, an assumption is something that if it is wrong, your plan fails. there has been a lot of discussion about face four in iraq and that there was no planning about phase four, what you do after you win, how you maintain security? one of the basic assumptions was not only would there be u.s. troops and the coalition partners on the ground, but that the fundamentally the iraqi army would be in tact, loyal to the new governor. they were

iraq that the health a picture of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and or again now we're seeing it moving into libya now after dark rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i was given a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now there some fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in remote villages. i suspect and. then find it has. to start saying hey look everybody is here they will answer. the masons and so forth i don't think anyone listens depleted uranium has a half life of four and a half billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. kind of shook on r.t.e. washington d.c. . nato is pledging to continue until colonel gadhafi goes but moscow says the coalition

in part because they didn't go on in iraq really. we didn't negotiate with iran about the future of sadr's status in iraqi politics for obvious reasons. and so there is a mindset that emphasizes local militias and reintegration as the best form of politics to carry out the counterinsurgencies premise that most of the successful effects of counterinsurgency are political. now, i have talked about how well that applies in an afghan setting. i won't dwell on them but i just mentioned the idea that an approach to security in afghanistan after 30 years of militia violence that is premised on the creation of more local militias just kind of begs a little bit of skepticism. the second model though that i think it's worth considering and which i do think informs the century foundation's work and which i do think is also still under consideration by central command and by certainly others in the obama administration is the model suggested by the soviet exit strategy which it essentially tries to blend reintegration, of local militias, defecti

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and the same thing in southern iraq and the iran iraq war fought against the ayatollah in forces and the of no sympathy for the iranian state the have admiration for the ayatollah khomeini as a revolutionary shia leader. and the people have essentially been silenced in this conflict in bahrain they seem to be speaking. sophie shia have basically been silenced and i want to know if anyone wants to comment on that. >> for what it's worth, i personally think, and i think i've seen people in the u.s. government sort of reflect the sentiment is a mistake on the part of these pro erev u.s. governments to come out so quickly as they have done and label their citizens who happen to be shia first as shia and then as arabs because what they are doing in my view is they are repeating the same mistake that they did in iraq. will the effectively push maliki and all of the sunni shia elite into the arms of the iranians, and you can bet if there is a vacuum the iranians will fill it particularly when it involves the shia. this is a mistake. call them as arabs first and then refer to their religious

no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of completed uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous as normality higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal got toward medical confirmation all round pollution a rock the health approach of the radium earlier and we see it throughout iraq are shorter arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're going to move it into a libya dr doug rockey who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection

i think iraq the bombing be the one to well. we never got the says the keeping safe get ready because their freedom. hi guys welcome to sharon's hell on the on a shelf we've heard our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience just go on to you tube the video response for the twitter for part of the questions that we've host on you tube every monday and on thursday with the show your responses we like your voice be heard. so they marks a very sobering anniversary it's been a one year since the video collateral murder was released to the public by then a little known website called wiki leaks now we have been around for years but this is the leak that really put them into the spotlight and show the world yet again the horrific realities of war or helicopter of u.s. soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians and journalists in iraq. i am i right i am. i am the attack which left civilians and reuters reporters that also showed how the casual rhetoric used by the soldiers was when they opened fire using terms

debate over the draft is back plus it appears that the proposed promise of bringing home the troops from iraq at the end of the year may be broken an in-depth look at america's war addiction in tonight's dealy take. the alliance between libyan rebels and nato is growing more and more uncertain as casualties continue to mount rebels claims that a nato airstrike today mistakenly killed took on their own positions killing two people and wounding at least a dozen others now remember this is the second accidental attack on rebel forces by nato in less than a week now in the aftermath of this accidents there are reports of chance of down down with nato from the rebel camps and all of this comes on top of complaints by opposition commanders that nato strikes were coming true slowly to give the rebels a clear edge now the ongoing stalemate and that is what it is in libya underscores the lacombe clear strategy for the allies prompting us to ask whether we're sliding into yet another endless war and here to offer his take on this issue is steven junior's he's the professor of politics and chair of midd

i live in iraq. people in turkish side were talking about our prime minister and the whole construction, 70% of the construction is going on by the turkish firms. and right now, as far as i know there's disagreement that turkey had initiated between iran, iraq, syria and turkey, that's like totally an opposite way to the agreement. and the new forum wants to be graded with jordan, syria, turkey and iraq again. i think its impact in the middle east, it's impact that wants to have in the middle east should be something to be observed. thank you. >> i think actually you've given me another contender for my point that is missing out of my list. >> more questions? yes. >> i want to offer a counter narrative and asked for comment on that. sorry. okay. i just want to offer a counter decade and ask for your response on the. both on syria and egypt your many very fine of service of the syrian scene has said that while there are certain sizable protest, and you may be right, we may have reached a tipping point

absolutely because well iraq as a matter of fact yes because iraq was invaded on the basis of a total and flagrant while weapons of mass destruction that could not exist at all and never did exist so it libya we cannot be too sure what is happening president assad from syria just warned his people because they are also heading up roses to be very weary of what is reported in the western satellite channels as he calls it because psychological warfare is bred definitely by the major european and european media outlets that they can. we probably war frenzy war mongering as they did with iraq and then when they realized that it was equal importance state it's too late it was a country has been invaded and destroyed as occurred in iraq and as is happening right now in afghanistan further down the line is there anything positive that can come from this is there a bright future lying ahead and told for libya's people considering the years they've been denied to share the profits from their countries rich natural resources of course. no doubt because a lot all these are prices whether in be e

say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. blocked thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three invasion a quarter of all babies are born with a range of horrendous abnormalities higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality of things found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred five for a legacy today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal we've got trodden medical confirmation all round pollution a rock with the help a picture of the radium earlier and we see it throughout iraq or shortly rater kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're going to move it into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i thought i was going to remember around a lot about the health and environmental protection re-em

the fact that if you do decide to intervene in syria you have knock on effects across the region in iraq in lebanon to israel palestine what if when you throw it israel might face from an even more hostile arab world emerging from the president stability some experts believe the security of the jewish state is not under any grave threat israel has never been among so please one of the greatest lies the mother and father of all lies as it relates to the israeli products so. it is israel's being in danger of annihilation i detail in the three volumes of my book is a complete israel's existence is never in danger in the convolution of a military force and that he's unlikely to change in any foreseeable future. but the functions on the ground aren't giving up hope and there are men this one thing is it is worse to come. a time of defeat and retreat is over now it's time for the israeli people and the israeli enemy. israel is keeping quiet amid the current chaos in the middle east and north africa but behind closed doors will be plenty of disquiet here about how much america's desire to make

dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of the pleaded you rhenium over kuwait and iraq pictures of bombings from libya seen all too familiar to see how those touches of red that's the. see how it. instead of a cold street and you've got the flare at the bottom that's a new explosion depleted uranium in military terms is highly efficient relatively cheap and powerful enough to penetrate the heaviest armor nato flatly denies its use in libya even though the u.n. human rights commission has called for a ban countries who refused to sign up include the u.s. the u.k. france and this will the smallest particles of you arrange them nanoparticles are the most dangerous ones inhaled they get into the lot and to spread into any organ including the heart brain liver also particles penetrate your cell place or this is when you get all kinds of kinetic we patients and people in iraq for example grieving that contaminated air every day and experts say there is no way to fight it in fallujah or in iraq where the u.s. dropped thousands of depleted uranium rounds after the two thousand and three in

in babies born in areas where it's been used and weapons by western forces such as the balkans and iraq are guided to account investigates please be advised that some you are may find the images and this report disturbing. these libyan men cheer on top of a tank hit by coalition forces unaware of the silent killer they could be breathing in as they celebrate though the western coalition denies using declared you really mean bombings in the country others say there is a good chance weapons with the highly poisonous radioactive element have been used that kind of damage. is a really good since it was a day when you were. in the ninety percent sure that was. used to anybody who was on the. it's going to roll over into exposure who will have all the wind blowing. the rules the particles are in the air. so all these people in those cars would expose melissa stary served in the u.s. military during the first gulf war in the early ninety nine clearing out battle fields in kuwait back then the u.s. dropped more than three hundred fifty tons of depleted uranium over kuwait and iraq pictures of b

iraq but the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing it move it into libya dr doug rockey who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i will give it a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection are a mission he in south was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think. i expected this because i missed and then find it has and the people there and the little just say look everybody is here they will answer. the masons and so forth i don't think anyone listens to him pleaded you rhenium has a half life of four and a house billion years hence its description by some as the silent killer that will never stop killing. our t. washington d.c. . nato is pledging to continue into a kind of it i think goes but not stress as