iraq after 2002—2003. has that turns you into an anti—war artist? oh, i don't think i was ever a pro—war artist, um... no, but now, would you say it's one of your driving forces to deliver messages through your art that are about, i don't want to put words in your mouth, the negative impacts of war? i think so. i mean, it's notjust that i do with the work. i think i do a lot of things, hopefully, with the work. if i think about my long—term engagements with iraqis and with iraq war veterans back in the united states, it's looking at the way in which both the soldier and the refugee experience the dehumanisation of that experience of combat and occupation. yeah, i mean, you have got these extraordinary... i don't know what to call them, actually, and it will be interesting to know what you call them. you couldn'tcall them pieces of art, they're more experiential. you've got this one project in chicago where you have iraqis who have fled from iraq, for all the reasons we have just discussed, they are c

their way into iraq. we need our neighbors to play their role as well. this is not something that we in kurdistan or iraq as a whole can fight against alone. it means we need the united states and the coalition to stay with us. that is why i made that appeal earlier, the american people may be tired of being in iraq for 15 years now, but you play an important role. you play an important role diplomatically, politically, and militarily. it is in your own interest to help all of us, not to allow these ideologies to gain a foothold. alberto: thank you. iraq, there is the ideology, but i think it is a much smaller scale than many people think. that the kind of danger the governmentd issues were the vehicle through where this ideology from space and became amplified. i think that is now contained. the threat is not fully eliminated. it is there. success of the electoral process, the success of governance, and the success of government issues need to remain a priority and engage the community and maintain a cha

in iraq, it's definitely a truly political moment is a pivotal moment to look at in iraq itself, but also in the region and on the world stage and i understand the panels look at to some of those. stating within the boundaries of iraq, and after having visited iraq four times in the past year and through our work, it is definitely evidence that there is an enhanced defense of national sentiment, mostly outside the kurdistan region about the iraqi nationalism in the military defeat of isis. now, that energy is going into the political space of the elections coming up in the process of the elections is mostly set. we can have a dedicated event about the process, but a couple of things will be critical in the process to the election, which is turn out from a widescale turnout is important for this election. in fact income in the platforms on which this election will be run. so far, the common theme is to want across sectarian blocs before the election, but that is important to deliver after the election. we need a government that is formed quickly, a government that is inclusive of not

strengthen iraq. we are looking towards a stronger implementation of the constitution. we still need to have some kind of a revenue-sharing agreement not just being in that ad, for all iraqis. what about the sunnis? what about the people of basra? we need a revenue-sharing mechanism that enables everyone to share in the wealth. we need to have, for example, in the disputed territories a joint security mechanism, which previously worked very successfully. we need to have a mechanism for dealing with the trauma that has been imposed on the people of iraq. all of the soldiers who were killed, whether they were kurdish arab, just the soldier families, every families have had to deal with the trauma of loss. and of course the people who face genocide, the trauma that they face, and these are issues we need to deal with. when we talk about the issue of justice and accountability for isis, this is another area where we all need to cooperate. the kurdistan region will need to cooperate with baghdad if we are

legacy in iraq. this is a very relevant and current topic for those of you entering military service this will directly impact you. sitting before you have some of the leading authorities on the subject and they don't say that lightly we are fortunate to have each member sitting on the panel and we hope you appreciate each of you although not familiar with their backgrounds because of your majors but we are fortunate to have them here at this university and we will hear from them shortly so before i introduce the moderator i would like to recognize and think several people who make this possible please stand when i call your name. president snyder and hold applause to the end. the interim president and ceo of the pritzker military museum and library, also like to note this imposing is made available through the generosity them partnership of the pritzker library years retired class of 1959 u.s. army retired major general class of 1950. i also like to thank the alumni supporters on and off campus plea

iraq war and then watching the second iraq war on fault with the us occupying iraq after 2003, has that turns you into an anti—war artist?|j don't turns you into an anti—war artist?” don't think i was ever a pro— war artist... would you now say it is one of your driving forces to deliver messages through your art which are about, i don't want to put word5 which are about, i don't want to put words in your mouth, about the negative impacts of war?” words in your mouth, about the negative impacts of war? i think so. it is not just negative impacts of war? i think so. it is notjust that i do with the work. i think they do a lot of things hopefully with the work. if i think about my long—term engagements with iraqi5 think about my long—term engagements with iraqis and iraq war veterans backin with iraqis and iraq war veterans back in the united states, it is looking at the way in which both the soldier and the refugee experience the dehumanisation of that experience of combat and occupation. yeah, you have these extraordinary, i don't know what to call them and will be interes

wanted to liberate iraq intervene in iraq we decided that we wanted to be part of this new iraq because this could be the iraq we had hoped for federal democratic pluralistic that didn't happen this is what led us to a referendum we have had to fight for our own survival in the survival of iraq by fighting dar sure isis we have taken care of one point eight million displaced people and syrian refugees we have had to deal with a crash an oil prices we have had to deal with baghdad many would say right dealing with russian oil prices and refugees well let me ask let me. point out that it would be easier many would argue to deal with the problems that you have had to deal with i saw oil price issues if you will part of iraq rather than all in a room but we were part of iraq in two thousand and fourteen because we were part of iraq we hadn't had a referendum our budget is cut off a war is imposed on us the genocide is committed against our people once again by the iraqi government to be so why did it happen because the sunni arab community in iraq was completely disillusioned to some isis l

iraq after 2002—2003. has that turned you into an anti—war artist? oh, i don't think i was ever a pro—war artist, um... no, but now, would you say it's one of your driving forces to deliver messages through your art which are about — i don't want to put words in your mouth, the negative impacts of war? i think so. i mean, it's notjust that i do with the work. i think i do a lot of things, hopefully, with the work. but if i think about my long—term engagements with iraqis and with iraq war veterans back in the united states, it's looking at the way in which both the soldier and the refugee experience, the dehumanisation of that experience of combat and occupation. yeah, i mean, you've got these extraordinary — i don't know what to call them, actually, and it will be interesting to know what you call them. you couldn't call them pieces of art, they're more experiential. exactly. you've got this one project in chicago where you have iraqis who've fled from iraq, for all the reasons we have just disc

look at the situation now, look at iraq. iraq is dismembered, divided. sectarian... you know, fights between the people, there. it is not a united country, as it used to be. there was sectarianism under saddam hussein? no. whether we like him or not, he was a secular leader. definitely, he had shortcomings and was brutal, no question, but iraq was, you know, a stone of stability in the middle east, whether we like it or not. secondly, what we witnessed, we witnessed islamic state and isis emerging, there. now the crisis in syria. now we are having the russians coming to the region. iran reaps the benefit of that war, iraq in particular, iran has the upper hand. we had a very serious summit taking place in ankara just a few days ago. russia, turkey and iran are working together and i believe there is a nucleus of a new alliance taking place in that part. the middle east is completely dangerous. there is no stability at all. that is the problem. the people who were behind, and supported this war in iraq, are they saying, "ok, let us look at this situation, are we going

intervene in iraq we decided that we wanted to be part of this new iraq because this could be the iraq we had hoped for federal democratic pluralistic that didn't happen this is what led us to a referendum we have had to fight for our own survival in the survival of iraq by fighting dar sure isis we have taken care of one point eight million displaced people and syrian refugees we have had to deal with a crash an oil prices we have had to deal with baghdad many would say right dealing with russian oil prices and refugees and i say let me. let me i would believe the point although it would be easier many would argue to deal with the problems that you have had to deal with i saw oil price issues if you will part of iraq rather than all in a room but we were part of iraq in two thousand and fourteen because we were part of iraq we hadn't had a referendum our budget is cut off a war is imposed on us the genocide is committed against our people once again by the iraqi government to be so why did it happen because the sunni arab community in iraq was completely disillusioned to some isis loo

intervene in iraq we decided that we wanted to be part of this new iraq because this could be the iraq we had hoped for federal democratic pluralistic that didn't happen this is what led us to a referendum we have had to fight for our own survival in the survival of iraq by fighting dar sure isis we have taken care of one point eight million displaced people in syrian refugees we have had to deal with a crash an oil prices we have had to deal with baghdad many would say right dealing with russian oil prices and refugees and. let me. point out that it would be easier many would argue to deal with the problems that you have had to deal with i saw oil price issues if you will part of iraq rather than all in a room but we were part of iraq in two thousand and fourteen because we were part of iraq we hadn't had a referendum our budget is cut off a war is imposed on us the genocide is committed against our people once again by the iraqi government to be so why did it happen because the sunni arab community in iraq was completely disillusioned to some isis looked like a better alternative i'm

wanted to liberate iraq intervene in iraq we decided that we wanted to be part of this new iraq because this could be the iraq we had hoped for federal democratic pluralistic that didn't happen this is what led us to a referendum we have had to fight for our own survival in the survival of iraq by fighting dar sure isis we have taken care of one point eight million displaced people in syrian refugees we have had to deal with a crash an oil prices we have had to deal with baghdad many would say right dealing with russian oil prices and refugees i'll let me. let me. point out that it would be easier many would argue to deal with the problems that you have had to deal with i saw oil prices issues if you will part of iraq rather than all in a room but we were part of iraq in two thousand and fourteen we were part of iraq we hadn't had a referendum our budget is cut off a war is imposed on us the genocide is committed against our people once again by the iraqi government to be so why did it happen because the sunni arab community in iraq was completely disillusioned to some isis looked like

it we know that information and intelligence was manipulated and distorted and was used to present iraq is a much greater threat than it actually was so we've been here before where statements bold statements have been made of certainty about banned weapons and just because of that absolutely reasonable and sensible but just doesn't mean that we can never believe a british government again when it is told by the security services of this country that that a country a state has murdered people on earth soil surely we know the lessons from iraq tell us that information can get distorted especially in around of high politics and when there are high stakes and there is no. a reason not to least entertain a possibility that that is something which is occurring here so in this situation what we need to do kerry is not simply to accept what we're being told and believe what we're being told as we did in the run up to the rock war and we all know how about ended up we need to actually start questioning scrutinizing and drilling down in order to test the claims which should being made the job of

yes. about saddam hussein's iraq, that's disrespect. sure, sure. sculpture i've ever made because... hard for me to get down with. you know, like, it's his hands blown up a0 times. that the iraqis... it's the personification of his tyranny, really. it's... and when the soldier... they really used these darth vader helmets? they used them. saddam... that has darth vader holding two light sabres over his head. because it's true, you know. toward most of their work. really fit in any of those categories. or the enemy kitchen in chicago. but they only exist in their own time and place. no. you know, you couldn't put them up to auction at sotheby‘s. frankly, you can't really make money or make a living out of them. no. so, are you a commercial artist or not? it's not the place that i come from. living inside those buildings. but at the way that markets emerge as a sight specific place. were the ticket out of the country. have an antiquity that they may or may not want to talk to about. about iraq, family and memory. heritage and what it's

look at the situation now, look at iraq. iraq is dismembered, divided. sectarian... you know, fights between the people, there. it is not a united country, as it used to be. there was sectarianism under saddam hussein? no. whether we like him or not, he was a secular leader. definitely, he had shortcomings and was brutal, no question, but iraq was, you know, a stone of stability in the middle east, whether we like it or not. secondly, what we witnessed, we witnessed islamic state and isis emerging, there. now the crisis in syria. now we are having the russians coming to the region. iran reaps the benefit of that war, iraq in particular, iran has the upper hand. we had a very serious summit taking place in ankara just a few days ago. russia, turkey and iran are working together and i believe there is a nucleus of a new alliance taking place in that part. the middle east is completely dangerous. there is no stability at all. that is the problem. the people who were behind, and supported, this war in iraq, are they saying, "ok, let us look at this situation, are we goin

iraq is dismembered, divided. sectarian. .. you know iraq. iraq is dismembered, divided. sectarian... you know fight between the people, there. it is not a united country as it used to be. there was sectarianism under saddam hussein? no. were the heat we like him or not he was a secular leader. —— whether we like him. definitely he had shortcomings and was brutal, fio he had shortcomings and was brutal, no question but iraq was, you know, a stone of stability in the middle east, whether we like it or not. secondly, what we witnessed, we witnessed islamic state and isis emerging there. now the crisis in syria. now we are having the russian 's coming to the region —— the russians coming. iran reaps the benefit of that war, iraq in particular, iran has the upper hand. we had a very serious summit taking place in ankara just a few days ago. russia, turkey and iran are working together and i believe there is a nucleus of a new walsall alliance taking place in that part. the middle east is completely dangerous. there is no stability at all. that is the problem. the peop

inspection teams in iraq. even as they were conducting the most intrusive system of arms control in history the inspectors missed a great deal and in my last attempt to enlarge the membership of the of the organization was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and that when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans already to take some action military action against iraq the bottom line is that the pentagon is hardly keeping its lack of evidence on whether the attack even happened a big secret never mind the perpetrator behind it all that matters is sticking to the tried and trusted path the problem is that the united states believes an act it would be. of any any at all they believe that they have their own rules and it is not the case the threat to use force in our union other action the goals against the united nations charter and also we are concerned about the possibility of this coalition that this could go out of control and we might end up with

invasion of iraq. i got a phone call from washington said that i just told me that i should resign and said your management style is not agreeable to washington. also this hour the u.s. brooks a u.n. security council move to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border offer at least nine palestinians were killed in.

took place then for the invasion of iraq. absolutely unlikely because as far as the war in iraq goes or other war crimes are international tribunals go they've always been very one sided and political only the people who europe oppose come to the hague but the ones that europe support never make it to the hague so it's unlikely that blair will be called for he has been called for and received in the investigation they have been citizen the rest are as far as international law goes he will get away and so will the others military analyst kamel alarm thank you so much for your time and your insights this evening. protesters have been burning barricades while police have fired tear gas near the french city of not that's a stand off by environmentalists continues for a second day officers have been trying to evict protesters from their camp and are tear charlotte urban ski was caught up in the actual you can see that we just had two new gas fired into this campus trying to move this out demonstrators away and that's because just

during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to be accused of still possessing chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal for the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support. now there was one man who was particularly against shows it was funny being the o.p.c. w. heads john bolton who at the time of course was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security advisor and will shortly take his seat because it was thought he says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w. stood in the way of us some missions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i do structures to to to tell me that i should resign from doing decision and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney vice president cetera said

it we know that information and intelligence was manipulated and distorted and was used to present iraq is a much greater threat than it actually was so we've been here before where statements bold statements have been made of certainty about banned weapons and just because of that absolutely reasonable and sensible but just or is allowed to have doesn't mean that we can never believe a british government again when it is told by the security services of this country that that a country a state has murdered people on earth soil surely we know to lessons from iraq tell us that information can get distorted especially in around of high politics when there are high stakes and there is no reason not to least entertain a possibility that that is something which is occurring here so in this situation what we need to do ok is not simply to accept what we're being told and believe what we're being told as we did in the run up to the iraq war and we all know how about ended up we need to actually start questioning scrutinizing and drilling down in order to test the claims which should being made

archaeologist the loss of the mosque is a loss for the whole of iraq. until now we don't have an exact statistic of what has been looted or destroyed artifacts the reader on artifacts the reader on display at the most museums and in other places were damaged or destroyed by eisel generally or information tells us that at least eighty archaeological sites were sabotaged by still before the military campaign to drive them out began in late two thousand and sixteen. eisel is alleged to have sold off the tax on the international black market in two thousand and fifteen the university college london institute of akio logy reported that antiquities from areas controlled by eisel while openly on sale in london iraq is say the government has done little to assess the loss because it has more pressing concerns then though has the local authorities and the government view iraq's artifacts as something of an accessory and not a crucial issue to worry about the issues of displaced people and security are at the top of their agenda nowadays but if we give it a secon

what were the americans doing in iraq training in our protecting our government ones that we're not going to write a constitution i mean i'm sorry and you know try that on someone else you are basically saying that america because of its flaws because of its flaws of its allies does not have any justification to ever act i think that syria is the refutation of that because that is we're watching the consequences of non intervention there because we feel bad that we made mistakes before and i just think we were through with that we have to move on the last word very briefly the united states hasn't had a policy of not intervention in syria it has arm the syrian rebels to it you know the billion dollars a year not enough to overthrow assad but just enough to keep the war going to the united states has played a big role in the events in syria thus far i don't think they're going to solve the problem under we'll have to leave it there glenn greenwald lake thank you so much for joining me in the arena. the united nations has called it deplorable the palestinians have called it a massacre

for i'm sorry the iraq war from two thousand and three was really about enforcing the cease fire that ended the nine hundred ninety one gulf war which required saddam hussein to account for and dispose of his weapons of mass destruction and part of the export part of the justification was that in the end of the iran iraq war in one thousand nine hundred nine saddam hussein had used chemical weapons against kurds yet again. but at the time the us policy was that saddam hussein was largely an ally and still sold grain credits to the saddam hussein so there really was a much more like to stand on this is responding in the moment to a chemical weapons attack it is not an isolated incident it's not a one off we've seen chemical agent used in script in the u.k. we have seen kim jong un use it to kill his half brother it is becoming unfortunately to use an important term of the moment normalized if you want to reverse that trend but shar all assad must pay a very heavy price ideally i would like him to stand trial for his crimes against the syrian people in a revolutionary tribe you know aft

lasting for a decade and included tens of thousands of troops and personnel to support the invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were alleged hash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting are settling over is small the word of five cities. and you had people living in barracks right next to this clune people working right next to it and now working with it with no protection whatsoever. for the receipt of your blasting of fire and we're going to have to make it into cable this way is a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan. the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on a battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over that is is where the military during the war collected a

during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to be accused of still possessing chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal for the new convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support. there was one man who was particularly against the jews it was danny b. o.p.c. w. head that was john bolton who at the time was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security advisor will shortly take his seat because it was tanny says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w.'s third in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i do structures to to to tell me that i should resign from doing decision and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to the vice president is set to receive no way i don't a

i think this is in many ways different to the iraq war the iraq war is actually a sort of distant memory i think for policymakers in washington right now and it's already very clear i think from both london and paris the french and the germans. already on board i think with participation in u.s. military action a very significant cabinet meeting in london today with overwhelming kava support for a british role in this military intervention so i don't expect that iraq is going to weigh heavily in terms of political decision making you know me i mean i think if you approach your option either but i think. it is quite an important point to make the british cabinet decision was that there should be a response there was no mention of a military response. you know i think that you know when we're talking about a response to syria's action were overwhelmingly talking about a military response i think that's very very clear there isn't any other response i think that can be effective against the likes of anything else would be seen as absolute weakness which is why i think the position taken by

we saw a recent examples in iraq in libya they show is that the u.s. needs the u.n. security council for pragmatic reasons they used in the case of iraq with the vaio they used it to cover up the initiative of the libyan no fly zone and that's what's being done now you're showing i was an imaginary value it's empty. now from there we heard from nikki haley representing the united states as the u.n. ambassador and in her remarks you accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism and glossed over and did not mention the fact that the united states had actually vetoed a resolution by russia which would have allowed the o.p.c. w. and mandated that they go to the site of the chemical attack that russia has provided and offered to provide military protection for the o.p.c. w. to make sure they can get to the bottom of what happened and from there we are nikki haley go into an interesting historical parallels she wanted to make history this is nikki haley speaking before the u.n. security council. chemical weapons didn't produce the most casualties and more a w

inspection teams in iraq. even as they were conducting the most intrusive system of arms control in history the inspectors missed a great deal and in my last attempt to enlarge the membership of all of the organization was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and that when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans already to take some action military action against iraq the bottom line is that the pentagon is hardly keeping its for lack of evidence on whether the attack even happened a big secret never mind the perpetrator behind it all that matters sticking to the tried and trusted path the problem is that the united states believes and i thought it would be. of any any at all they believe that they have their own rules and it is not the case the threat to use force you not through action the goals against the united nations charter and also we are concerned about the possibility of this coalition does this could go out of control and we might end up

miss lewinsky to strike military and security targets in iraq they are joint. british forces their mission is to attack iraq's nuclear chemical and biological weapons programs saddam hussein must not be allowed to threaten this neighbors are the world with nuclear arms poison gas or biological weapons now any aircraft fire everywhere i remember. he can forget the actual operation desert storm north by president george h.w. bush when the economy in recession the gulf war based as his approval ratings i have therefore directed to reject the iraqi army from kuwait. which. is president i can report to the nation aggression is defeated the war is over. you don't have to know that to fall back in history to see world leaders employing distraction tactics so i ask us how this question what would dominate an international media narrative the possibility of a global war or the domestic troubles of a western country you want me to produce your war not a war it's a pageant we need to think. some visuals we need to know it's a pageant well to ask how the media affects trum

allies to engage in military actions for humanitarian purposes was a major part of the case of the iraq war obviously there are other arguments but the idea that saddam and gassed his own people that he was suppressing his own people that were coming to liberate the iraqis that was an important part of the arguments lots of people were making back in two thousand to two thousand and three and i don't think that turned out very well for the people reportedly trying to help the same is true when it came time for the intervention in libya we claim that we were going to help the libyan people by freeing them from gadhafi we killed gadhafi and then paid very little attention to what happened in libya in the aftermath which was even worse suffering worse chaos militia rule the return of the slave trade so i think the record of people who claim that the united states is going to drop bombs in order to bring happiness or protect people in the world is an extremely poor one that's generally the excuse it's used for geo political motives that are really driving the war and not actually the real r

, in mobilized in 11, various stints in iraq. host: with us, talking to viewers for the next 20 minutes. first, humble, texas. good morning. aller: yes, i worked around hazmat material and i didn't see no one with gear on after the bombing. seemed like it would have spread or something like that. nd what is report on afghanistan and expenditures out $5 e, i think missing like billion? thank you. syrian eah, feelings of and russian personnel in douma, he area where the chemical attacks reportedly took part. my understanding is that a lot both chlorine and sarin are onpersistent agents, they evaporate very quickly. so, you know tis possible to -- where, youthat know, chemical weapons have been hours or a fewew days, although probably prudence so, youictate you not do never know whether there is of in that is kind puddles or whatever, but the lasts for a few minutes or on the agent or temperature. ost: rond align for independents, good morning. calk kauktd /* kaukd did the investigation go through? guest: i think what the caller s t

especially strategy, in syria, also in iraq? but what is to be done to prevent the consolidation of that land bridge. -- that land bridge, from which we see the transfer of these heavy weapons, these missiles, the fighters coming right up to nowisraeli border, lebanon is called into question in terms of their ability to be an independent state. i want to ask you about that strategy. ezbollah isha iran's favorite proxy, why have we not see more sanctions? amb. satterfield: iran today is a significant threat. the first priority for the administration was the o elimination the challenge posed to all the states in the region, posed by isis and its so-called caliphate. that goal in iraq has been a conflict of the campaign there is now focused on what we call counterterrorism efforts, rather than an outright military campaign. in syria, the challenge does remain. hase the isis caliphate been dramatically reduced, there is a remnant up against the iraqi border in the eastern euphrates valley that still has to be confronted and destroye

or to its last straw kill the jews in iraq's second largest city give us a look at what was damaged or destroyed during arsenal's right to stay with us. hello there we've got yet more wet weather that's pushing its way across europe we haven't even got rid of the first system yet you can see it swirling away over the eastern parts of europe it is still giving us some strong winds some heavy rain and a lot of snow as well and there's only a small break before the next system is pushing in this is already giving us rain over the britain and ireland down through france and into spain and portugal as we head through chews day that would be pushing up into scandinavia still more rain and snow there and that cloud also dangles for the south through parts of italy and into the mediterranean as well in this whole region again still staying on settled as we head through wednesday so so rather messy temperatures not too bad those thirteen degrees as a top temperature there in paris now across the other side of the mediterranean we're also seeing some of that unsettled weather you can see the thi

lasting for a decade and included tens of thousands of troops and personnel to support the invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were alleged rash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting are settling over a small word of five cities. and you had people living in barracks right next to this clune people working right next to it and now working with it with no protection whatsoever. or receiving more blast to the fire and we're going to have to make it instigate this way is a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on the battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over it is as were the military during the war collected all their wast

iraq is a much greater threat than there actually was so we've been here before where statements bold statements have been made of certainty about. banned weapons just because of that absolutely reasonable and sensible but just as i had time doesn't mean that we can never believe a british government again when it's told by the security services of this country that that a country a state has murdered people on our soil surely we know the lessons from iraq tell us that information can get distorted especially in around of high politics and when there are high stakes and there is no reason not to least entertain a possibility that that is something which is occurring here so in this situation what we need to do kerry is not simply to accept what we're being told and believe what we're being told as we did in the run up to the rock war and we all know how about ended up we need to actually start questioning scrutinizing and drilling down in order to test the claims which should being made that's the job of parliament last the job of citizens in a democracy is not something to believe wh

inspection teams in iraq. even as they were conducting. the most intrusive system of arms control in history the inspectors missed a great deal and in my last attempt to enlarge the membership of all of the organization was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and that when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans already to take some action military action against iraq the bottom line is that the pentagon is hardly keeping its for lack of evidence on whether the attack even happened a big secret never mind the perpetrator behind it all that matters sticking to the tried and trusted path the problem is that the united states believes that it would be. of any any lol they believe that they have their own rules and it is not the case the threat to use force you know through action the goals against the united nations charter also we are concerned about the possibility of this coalition. this could go out of control and we might end up with why there a conflict that done the one tha

i think it is very important we use -- we see places like iraq and not just assume syria, iraq, which is a very racist notion and assume all of these places that have arabs and are full of brown people are the same. let's take the right lessons learned, not just, oh, u.s. intervention is bad, and just they were that shallow analysis. in terms of what is happening in syria with the use of chemical weapons attacks, there been numerous investigations in the past few years about chemical weapons attacks. people who are claiming and crying that, oh, the reason that we are against this -- what the u.s. just it over the weekend, we need to wait and see the investigation. investigations have happen in the past and they have ignored them. last year when the attack happened in april 2017, in response trump bombed in into air field. six months later after the chemical weapons attack on the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons came out with a report an investigation, yes on the regime was responsible for that attack. no one went back and corrected themselves and said, oh, see? we

and british officials that iraq without a. particle of doubt had weapons of mass destruction including the alleged well nuclear weapons and they knew they were lying then but they did it to scare people to get them to support the war because if they lose the battle of public opinion they know. they can lose the war itself and richard we just had this is a quote from russia's envoy to lebanon who said that russia will respond if the u.s. strikes syria so if you take him at his word it seems like the serious danger of escalation if the u.s. launch a military strike would the u.s. debt to do this alone or what they need to form a coalition with the likes of france before they would launch any kind of military strike. well they may decide to form an alliance but the top person in foreign policy as of yesterday in the united states is john bolton who is the most extreme form of warmonger imaginable and the fact that he's been selected by trump to be as top foreign policy and national security advisor i think should be viewed as an

during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to be accused of still possessing. chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal or did the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support. well there was one man he was particularly against danny being the a.b.c. there you head john bolton here who was at the time the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security adviser and will shortly take his post as you study says that his intentions to make iraq a member of the a p c w stood in the way if u.s. ambitions i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time we had contact with him and said that i do structures to to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice president cetera said no way i don

wanted to liberate iraq intervene in iraq we decided that we wanted to be part of this new iraq because this could be the iraq we had hoped for federal democratic pluralistic that didn't happen this is what led us to a referendum we have had to fight for our own survival in the survival of iraq by fighting dar sure isis we have taken care of one point eight million displaced people and syrian refugees we have had to deal with a crash and oil prices we have had to deal with baghdad many would say right dealing with russian oil prices and refugees and let me. let me i would believe the us point although it would be easier many would argue to deal with the problems that you have had to deal with i saw oil price issues if you will part of iraq rather than all in a room but we were part of iraq in two thousand and fourteen because we were part of iraq we hadn't had a referendum our budget is cut off a war is imposed on us the genocide is committed against our people once again by the iraqi government to be so why did it happen because the sunni arab community in iraq was completely disillusi

invasion of iraq. i got a phone call from washington. to tell me that i should resign. washington. on the u.s. proxy un security council move to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border after at least ten palestinians were killed in a fresh round of violence including journalists. also to come washington will not be offered a military base in the country's president makes the announcement following mass protests it does come as the u.s. and other countries to seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. hello there you're watching r.t. this saturday afternoon worse just turned four o'clock here in moscow in our top story. recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the pretty. the city of seoul whispery is nice victoria a russian citizen has been refused a visa to visit her sick relatives in the u.k. she says though she was not surprised by the decision she's questioned whether the british authorities actually now have something to hide if they are preventing a relative from visiting with more. imagine your cousin and uncle are hospitalized and in

during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to to be accused of still possessing. chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal for the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support one man was particularly opposed to based on a being chief of the o.p.c. john bolton was then the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security adviser and will shortly take up his post the start he says his intention is to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w. stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i had instructions to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice president cetera said no way i don't accept that so he came t

i think this is in many ways different to the iraq war the iraq war is actually a sort of distant memory i think for policymakers in washington right now and it's already very clear i think from both london and paris the french and the germans. already on board i think with participation in u.s. military action a very significant cabinet meeting in london today with overwhelming cabinet support for a british role in this military intervention so i don't expect that iraq is going to weigh heavily in terms of political decision making no i mean i did i mean i think if you're interrupting you there but i think. it is quite an important point to make the british cabinet decision was that there should be a response there was no mention of a military response. you know i think that you know when we're talking about a response to syria's action were overwhelmingly talking about a military response i think that's very very clear there isn't any other response i think that can be effective against the likes of anything else would be seen as absolute weakness which is why i think the position take

officials or journalists these agonizing stories from mosul iraq or rocca in syria don't exist. no on some channels you'll never see their stories maybe because they're scars or how america's top military man puts it a fact of life civilian casualties are a fact of life civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price the responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis that is on them not on us we are the good guys and munitions people on the battlefield know the difference kids' lives in another arab country yemen have turned into a disaster that's a fact so say humanitarian groups and it is a fact of life in a sense that washington is pretty much at hand when saudi arabia is bombing civilians across the border the saudis have spent billions on what sam has to offer in terms of dollars three billion dollars five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars the spinach for you. besides in case someone forgot the am

military used in iraq and afghanistan to torture everything from batteries to body parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be poisoned. in september two thousand and four. i know in. the v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. of young women and men of lawlessness and these and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time. most of them had already had a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and pulmonary function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability at all that doctors are throwing up their han

they're all international agreements promising syria and iraq a minimum amount of water. but inevitably the volume of water flowing downstream will be decreased. most of this water goes into agriculture so we want to irrigate and produce food and in a dry area so the amount of water we have in the buildings is enough for for satisfying our drinking and sanitation needs it's not enough to produce food with it or make the region self-sufficient in food for the auction but this is something that the region has not understood well. now if you draw your soil if you use a lot of water and waste a lot of water then you should expect a punishment which is called a dust store and that's something we have been punished for in the middle east because of not using water properly because a losing soil moisture. diluted a little bit for the hook one example of the consequences of poor water management as neko tuna in around. the lake the largest in the middle east one supported wildlife and a tourist industry. with no outflow its water became many times saltier than the oceans since th

during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to be accused of still possessing chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeable to the americans the managed to put together a conference that was illegal for the convention and that conference was the one that ousted me for the lack of support well there was one man who was particularly against me being the. head john bolton who at the time was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's now been appointed as the u.s. national security adviser and will shortly take up his post there study says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. w stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him and said that i was structures to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney vice president cetera said no way i don't accept that so he came to the hag