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legion says iraq those who were trained by the way. to. go back to terrorism. and coming out from the russians services are growing at the false pace since june find out more in about twenty minutes time. it's twelve noon here in moscow your tune to our table straight to our top story now combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the future of missile defense the key issues russia and nato are working on during a visit secretary-general to moscow on this for rasmussen will meet the russian president later on wednesday. today still sorry to shoot was all but gracious for the upcoming russian nato summit which is due to take place in lease on at the end of the bond while the president wants to move nato's position on missile defense systems in europe and it also wants the new blueprint nato's blueprint for a new strategy of the twenty first century to reflect russia's own security interests and concerns now as far as missile defenses shoot in europe is still somewhat washable stern though is not is it going to be integrated into the n
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but i think people do look at iraq. if they think if chaos comes with a democracy, they don't want it. but i also have to say for the arab world, if they think that licentiousness comes with democracy, they don't want it. there are negative things associate with democracy as well. interestingly enough i'm going to jordan tomorrow. there's an election in jordan next monday. more than a few jordanians have said to me, iraqis have more freedom to choose their leaders than we do. and they are there and they see the bad parts, but there's also a little bit of envy that iraqis have more freedom than the jordanians do. so i don't think iraq has emerged yet as a model as once was talked about, for the arab world. but most arabs are subtle enough to understand that the good comes with the bad. democracy across the arab world is long-term endeavor. i think it is based, the idea pursue democracy is based on the aspirations of people in the arab world themselves, it's not based on us in posting something, and i think everyone in th
but i think people do look at iraq. if they think if chaos comes with a democracy, they don't want it. but i also have to say for the arab world, if they think that licentiousness comes with democracy, they don't want it. there are negative things associate with democracy as well. interestingly enough i'm going to jordan tomorrow. there's an election in jordan next monday. more than a few jordanians have said to me, iraqis have more freedom to choose their leaders than we do. and they are there...
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is doing anything says iraq is a train about to stop insurgency now helping to create groups going back to terrorism . and costing around the world twenty four hours a day this is our team combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the future of missile defense or the other key issues russia and nato are working on during the visit of the lances secretary general to moscow underscore rasmussen has already met with the russian foreign minister and hold talks with president bush in just a few hours time and. bring us more on this slide later in the. now to the us where president obama's party has lost control of a congress in the midterm elections. democrats have managed to retain a majority in the senate the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans with congress divided between the two parties it would make it much harder for a bomber to come forward with his legislative agenda many voters have other concerns they're worried about the corporate bankrolling of candidates the vast amounts of campaign cash was poured into these elections a
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back where one in iraq with u.s. forces stepping down and we look at how local militias are valid falling back into insurgency. and russia so this is going up the process based more in business in twenty minutes. who are welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me and he said no way it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in brussels and nato chief says he wants a new start in relations with russia as soon as possible anders fogh rasmussen is in moscow seeking support from the russian leadership on afghanistan and the european missile defense shield. is following the talks. nato is an organization that now faces major trial and yes it is at a crossroads it has an identity crisis analysts are saying that nato simply has bitten off more than it can shoot and in afghanistan in particular and it now desperately needs russia's assistance and counsel and nato also wants to read itself the bromates so cold war identity onesided identity and to become a mordant point to the century
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plus iraq struggles to maintain peace in one of its bloodiest weeks months. next at least seventy six people have been killed and more than two hundred wounded in a series of attacks and attacks centered around baghdad shia neighborhoods this comes only two days after al-qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage resulting in a firefight that left fifty eight dead despite the escalate. in violence a complete u.s. pullout is still scheduled for next year with a growing feeling among iraqis that they're being abandoned it's forcing some to even join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help in providing six years now falling back into the hands of local warlords and al-qaeda artie's policy. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaeda one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch. we did a great service to iraq some where members we
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persecuted believer is in other countries and raise these with persecutors in some cases. >> iraq is not listed as a count of concern, should it have been? >> yes, our commission believes iraq, when it comes to religious minorities and on going secretary olence should be named. we believe the u.s. has leverage to make fundamtal changes, particularly in the political process. it should be named as a country of particular concern. >> at least 58 christians were murdered. >> this is an on going problem and political problem in iraq. it is somethg the religion out govement can do something about. we ask them to raise a rock to the standard of one of the worst violators and do something about it. >> what is being done by the u.s. government to altar their behavior? >> international freedom act of 1998 has a video ri varie of tools. they are used and in some cases aren't. in many countries of the world, they use the tools. saying nice things, and the secretary of state and president obama have made strong statemens but haven't married words with actions, like denying persecutors visas to t
persecuted believer is in other countries and raise these with persecutors in some cases. >> iraq is not listed as a count of concern, should it have been? >> yes, our commission believes iraq, when it comes to religious minorities and on going secretary olence should be named. we believe the u.s. has leverage to make fundamtal changes, particularly in the political process. it should be named as a country of particular concern. >> at least 58 christians were murdered....
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for good i don't care for the reason but we will not let anyone stay in iraq for a long time but the timing issue is very important having timetables is critical because they serve as a pressuring factor. us we have to meet each deadline we have to improve the levels of the iraqi security forces the difference between iraq and afghanistan is that we have put timetables for everything we are doing iraq either not doing that they are relying on the americans or nato to do things for them. do you think that the withdrawal of the american army from iraq will have effect and if so what kind of effect on the situation in afghanistan will because. to withdrawal from iraq will of course affect to a great deal the situation in afghanistan it has a direct impact because it's too hard now for anyone to have two wars at the same time and it's too hard for anyone to have a big war but the americans are now having two big wars in iraq and afghanistan so it made sense for the americans when they felt there was a desire from iraqis and an improvement in the security situation here to withdraw and co
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after next a lawyer representing iraq is demanding justice after alleged torture about british troops speak starting felt as china explains what his clients say they went through and why they're demanding a public inquiry. today i'm talking to fail shina who's a human rights lawyer and the head of public interest lawyers there representing a group of iraqis who allege that coalition forces abused them during the occupation of iraq they'll sign i thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're taking a case to the high court representing one hundred forty two iraq tell me what that's all about. of these iraqi clients complain that over a period of time the whole time that we were in iraq actually from march two thousand and three to december two thousand and eight. they complain of. perversion with blacked out gobbles or. all sorts of sexual matters of various techniques designed to intimidate and coerce including ha. threats and insults of the shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues in my all right. all sorts of very troubling aspects of the u.k.'s interrogati
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we did a great service to iraq. working with the terrorists before they joined and they give us information about the armed groups. but despite attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like this they continue to patrol the streets because they insist iraqi soldiers just can't keep the peace. and security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of human rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations to defend and protect people from. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law or some of their activities questionable as suggested in the four hundred thousand iraq documents released by wiki leaks in one account his sons of iraq leader is said to be responsible for the murder of innocent civilians conducting insurgent activities under the guise of his sons of iraq leader extortion and rape. everything has a positive and a negative some leaders use their position for settling troubles stockpiling weapons making money and killing i
we did a great service to iraq. working with the terrorists before they joined and they give us information about the armed groups. but despite attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like this they continue to patrol the streets because they insist iraqi soldiers just can't keep the peace. and security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of human rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations to defend and protect...
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there are fears groups in iraq by the u.s. to help build security back into the hands of al qaida. so you're watching r t we're broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program combating international terror beefing up a global security and deciding the future of national defense where the key issues russia and nato want to work on during the visit of the secretary general to moscow . russian president and foreign minister later on tuesday. cross to our correspondent. because i mean what exactly will be doing during this visit whether relations between moscow and they take the stand. he. asked to meet the russian president on foreign minister to discuss a new strategy for global security russia and nato and russia currently stepping up . gratian. defense systems in europe and also in conventional arms control and today still sorry i'm sure it's all good gracious work the upcoming russian nato summit which is due to take place in least one of. the coming months to may tells position on missile defense systems in europe and also the new blueprint neda's blueprint for a new strate
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i was a contractor in iraq but they're talking about security contractors in iraq and some of the stuff that was going on that has been revealed by these documents would it would blow you away and i knew about a lot of the stuff generally speaking not specifically but i knew about a lot of this stuff and i'll just say as an example the documents reveal for the american people to see in the world the use of contractors and all the negatives there are associated with the use of security contractors in places like iraq and afghanistan and and it shows how is the united states fighting its wars now frankly i call these people mercenaries and they're american they're not from a foreign country but it really gets to what what did the documents reveal that's the big issue. go to you how does this affect public policy and during the wars is that going to affect public opinion is any going to change their mind on this i mean i'm looking at the impact of it all i mean there will be there will be people who say and we just heard from michael you know people on the ground knew a lot of these things
i was a contractor in iraq but they're talking about security contractors in iraq and some of the stuff that was going on that has been revealed by these documents would it would blow you away and i knew about a lot of the stuff generally speaking not specifically but i knew about a lot of this stuff and i'll just say as an example the documents reveal for the american people to see in the world the use of contractors and all the negatives there are associated with the use of security...
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but iraq suffering the fallout from one of its bloodiest weeks for months after at least seventy six people were killed in an inept taxon shia neighborhoods and with u.s. forces stepping down local militias are falling back to local more boards and al-qaeda. to find out how the iraqi military will try to cope with these challenges ahead next hour team meets general mohamed al us kaare a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense that's coming up after a short break. question is that so much i can go if i didn't join the model is the taliban bad guys we came we being in journalism or no pay for commiseration with an unmistakable meeting with gen what is the difference between. but now i have general mohamed i'll ask arrange an adviser and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not forced by the american soldiers have left by large the majority do feel confident that the actual soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to accept the situation so that car and. it is a good question it's worth talking about the readiness or not o
but iraq suffering the fallout from one of its bloodiest weeks for months after at least seventy six people were killed in an inept taxon shia neighborhoods and with u.s. forces stepping down local militias are falling back to local more boards and al-qaeda. to find out how the iraqi military will try to cope with these challenges ahead next hour team meets general mohamed al us kaare a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense that's coming up after a short break. question is that so much i...
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invasion of iraq. now, when the u.s. invasion of iraq took place 18 months after 9/11 in march, 2003, we had another colossal failure of intelligence on the part of the united states. and a colossal failure of imagination on the part of the united states. so if you come back to the u.s. perspective you say there was an incredible intelligence and imagination failure in 1941. there was another in 2001. and instead of that, getting us to think about who is this adversary to know the enemy, we get into an even more disastrous war in the case of iraq where the intelligence failure is simply colossal and that involves an inability to imagine the other side. and it is not to sympathize with the other side. that's not the point. the point is to imagine the other side and one to imagine the nature of their grievances. and, of course, the argument after 9/11 and still pretty much, they hate us for our freedoms. they have no legitimate grievances. the argument was, you know, the iraqis are under a brutal dictator which they were.
invasion of iraq. now, when the u.s. invasion of iraq took place 18 months after 9/11 in march, 2003, we had another colossal failure of intelligence on the part of the united states. and a colossal failure of imagination on the part of the united states. so if you come back to the u.s. perspective you say there was an incredible intelligence and imagination failure in 1941. there was another in 2001. and instead of that, getting us to think about who is this adversary to know the enemy, we get...
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and iraq to say armed groups trained by the u.s. to help build security before and back into the hands of al qaeda who has claimed they've been abandoned saying america left without insurance protection this comes amid one of the bloodiest weeks in iraq for months at least seventy six people have been killed two hundred wounded in a series of attacks baghdad. but indeed this week has seen a surge in violence in iraq and it's raise questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the escalating security situation well next to general mohammad underscoring a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense to find out about the military's readiness for the challenges ahead. but now i have general mohamed i'll ask every an advisor and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not forthcoming the american soldiers have left behind knowledge from the terrorists and do feel confident that the actual soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to keep the situation so calm and how
and iraq to say armed groups trained by the u.s. to help build security before and back into the hands of al qaeda who has claimed they've been abandoned saying america left without insurance protection this comes amid one of the bloodiest weeks in iraq for months at least seventy six people have been killed two hundred wounded in a series of attacks baghdad. but indeed this week has seen a surge in violence in iraq and it's raise questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the...
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was iraq suffering the fallout from one of its bloodiest weeks for months after at least seventy six people were killed in attacks or shia neighborhoods and with the u.s. forces stepping down local militias are falling back to local warlords and al qaida about find out how the rocky military will cope with the challenges ahead next our team meets general mohamed al askari a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense. has general mohamed i'll ask every an adviser and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not the worst but the american soldiers has missed by knowledge the majority do feel confident that the actual soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to keep the situation here. it is a good question it's worth talking about the readiness or not of the iraqi security forces because the number of american troops left in this country is forty nine thousand seven hundred something it's important the americans are gone what's also important is the timing the timing of implementing this phase of the agreement was put forward by
was iraq suffering the fallout from one of its bloodiest weeks for months after at least seventy six people were killed in attacks or shia neighborhoods and with the u.s. forces stepping down local militias are falling back to local warlords and al qaida about find out how the rocky military will cope with the challenges ahead next our team meets general mohamed al askari a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense. has general mohamed i'll ask every an adviser and spokesperson with the iraqi...
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and shifting allegiance to iraq his fear that groups trained by the u.s. to stop insurgency are now helping to create it as army units go back to terrorism locals claim they've been abandoned saying america laughter. about ensuring protection of course iraq has seen a surge in violence and it's raised questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the escalating security situation on the way for you our teammates general mohammad all us kaare a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense to find out about the military's readiness for the challenge ahead that's coming up after a short break. which was that same of you are going to go for you if you are. taliban bad guys we teach journalism or no pay corgis station we can understand the feeling of just what is the difference between. but now i have general mohamed i'll ask every an advisor and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not forthcoming with american soldiers have left by and large the majority do feel confident that the actual so
and shifting allegiance to iraq his fear that groups trained by the u.s. to stop insurgency are now helping to create it as army units go back to terrorism locals claim they've been abandoned saying america laughter. about ensuring protection of course iraq has seen a surge in violence and it's raised questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the escalating security situation on the way for you our teammates general mohammad all us kaare a spokesman from iraq's ministry of...
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. >> action security at churches in iraq after the country's deadliest day since may. fighting off cholera but now and the path of a tropical storm, new trials for the earthquake's survivors of haiti. a very warm welcome to "bbc world news." seeing is believing, the new implant that in some cases could reverse of blindness. he fell from seven floors up, a young boy and his miraculous escape. as president obama looks ahead now to two years of political compromise, he has publicly taken direct public responsibility for his party's defeat in the midterm election. he is eager for an honest and simple debate with his republican opponents but he insisted that americans do not want politicians to spend the next two years fighting the political battles of the previous two years. more from washington on what the results mean and what happens next. >> the most obvious result of the stunning gains made by the republicans last night is that president obama and the democrats will now have a enormous trouble passing legislation that they want for the rest of the president's term in
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this week has been the bloodiest in iraq for months at least seventy six people have been killed and two hundred wounded in a series of attacks in mainly shia neighborhoods in baghdad the blasts came in just two days of the militants took a christian congregation. fifty eight dead. the total u.s. pullout should heal for the end of next year when iraqis say both feel abandoned and the escalating violence that some are losing more than protection so. holds by the u.s. for its help security is now for the back of the hands of local warlords al qaeda that is porous their reports. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaeda one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch. we did a great service to iraq members were working with the terrorists before they joined us and they give us information about the armed groups but despite attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like th
this week has been the bloodiest in iraq for months at least seventy six people have been killed and two hundred wounded in a series of attacks in mainly shia neighborhoods in baghdad the blasts came in just two days of the militants took a christian congregation. fifty eight dead. the total u.s. pullout should heal for the end of next year when iraqis say both feel abandoned and the escalating violence that some are losing more than protection so. holds by the u.s. for its help security is now...
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groups in iraq trained by the u.s. to help build security cordons back into the arms of al qaida claim they've been abandoned sending american death down to the shore in protection. this week has seen a surge in violence in iraq and it's raised questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the escalating security situation where next to our teammates general muhammad us going to be a spokesman from iraq's minister of defense to find out how the military will cope with the china just ahead. but now i have general mohamed i'll ask every an advisor and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not forthcoming the most consultants have left by and large from the terrorists and do you feel confident that the actual soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to keep the situation so calm and how do you feel. it is a good question it's worth talking about the readiness or not of the iraqi security forces because the number of american troops left in this c
groups in iraq trained by the u.s. to help build security cordons back into the arms of al qaida claim they've been abandoned sending american death down to the shore in protection. this week has seen a surge in violence in iraq and it's raised questions over the ability of the country's forces to handle the escalating security situation where next to our teammates general muhammad us going to be a spokesman from iraq's minister of defense to find out how the military will cope with the china...
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it's the same with iraq. if you think a successful iraq is expensive, think about the alternative of a failed state in the middle of the middle east. thank you. >> thank you, christine. john, we'll turn to you. >> thank you. thanks very much. i want you to new mac for the invitation. it's great to be her with christine and les and talk to everyone. i think i'll talk to everyone a little less in my 10 minutes than i would have because christine cover the range of deployment challenges pretty well. although maybe just glad to get through the remarks i prepared so as to not repeat a lot of what she vardy heard and sort of give you the u.s. government and go on some of these things. pardon me. i mean, christine laid out the charges very well and very clearly and you know, i was checking my own notes and sort it ticking them off as she went through them very thoroughly. i run approach, the u.s. government relation with iraq is governed by the strategic framework agreement, which is something we signed in 2009, whi
it's the same with iraq. if you think a successful iraq is expensive, think about the alternative of a failed state in the middle of the middle east. thank you. >> thank you, christine. john, we'll turn to you. >> thank you. thanks very much. i want you to new mac for the invitation. it's great to be her with christine and les and talk to everyone. i think i'll talk to everyone a little less in my 10 minutes than i would have because christine cover the range of deployment...
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and other news iraq has been rocked in the wake of its bloody as weak for months at least seventy six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad shia neighborhoods in several blast came just days after al qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage resulting firefight there fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year despite escalating violence in iraq you say they feel abandoned and it's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help in providing security is now falling back into the hands of local warlords and hopelessly reports. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaida one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch their. we did a great service to iraq members were working with the terrorists before they joined us and they give us information abo
and other news iraq has been rocked in the wake of its bloody as weak for months at least seventy six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad shia neighborhoods in several blast came just days after al qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage resulting firefight there fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year despite escalating violence in iraq you say they feel abandoned and it's...
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it's the same with iraq. if you think a successful iraq is expensive, think about the alternative of a failed state in the middle of the middle east. thank you. >> thank you, christine. john, we will turn to you. >> thanks very much. i want to thank you for the invitation. it's great to be here with christine and les and talk to everyone. i think i will have to talk to everyone a less enlightened minutes then everyone because christine covered a range of challenges i think pretty well. i will maybe just glide through the remarks life prepared and not so as to not repeat a lot of what you've already heard and sort of give you the u.s. government angle on some of these things. pardon me. i mean, christine lead of the challenge is very well and clearly and i was checking my notes and picking them off as she went through them thoroughly. our own approach to government relationship with iraq is governed by strategic framework agreement which is something we signed in 2009 which covers the gamut of the relationship
it's the same with iraq. if you think a successful iraq is expensive, think about the alternative of a failed state in the middle of the middle east. thank you. >> thank you, christine. john, we will turn to you. >> thanks very much. i want to thank you for the invitation. it's great to be here with christine and les and talk to everyone. i think i will have to talk to everyone a less enlightened minutes then everyone because christine covered a range of challenges i think pretty...
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what has that got to do with iraq? if saddam hussein is a brutal dictator but this, this and this reason you cannot go in and expect to have just a smooth takeover. and so when i look back thinking, you know, all the things i've read about japan and other places, the people in the bush administration are saying, well, here's our, here's our war plan. here's, here's plan a. we're going to go in, topple iraq and get out quickly. in quickly, out quickly, leave a small footprint and the existing government will take over. there is no plan b. i really have read extensively, and everything we can get, you know, there'll never be a u.s. investigation of iraq the way there was after pearl harbor. we'll never get all of those documents. but i've read a lot of it has come out including people like douglas fite and others who have really pushed out a lot of documents. there was no plan b. sounds just like that general who said we're going to get in and out of china in four years. you know, the joke was plan a is to get if and out
what has that got to do with iraq? if saddam hussein is a brutal dictator but this, this and this reason you cannot go in and expect to have just a smooth takeover. and so when i look back thinking, you know, all the things i've read about japan and other places, the people in the bush administration are saying, well, here's our, here's our war plan. here's, here's plan a. we're going to go in, topple iraq and get out quickly. in quickly, out quickly, leave a small footprint and the existing...
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leave iraq so you know there we there we know i went i heard people in afghanistan and iraq. we want to jump in there i agree i like to jump in for just a second i agree with justin i think obama failed to assert his authority in the situation he was trying to to make everybody happy he was trying to placate his progressive base by asserting this soft timeline and he was also trying to placate the military by making it a soft and not a hard time line so he's trying to have it both ways he's not pleasing anybody and like justin says it's meaningless what does a soft timeline mean anyway what it means to me and many other people is that this gives general petraeus and the military more time to lobby congress and lobby the white house to say we need more time and make it as soft as possible so when this review comes up they'll say we need more time to beat the insurgency we mean more time to create this security space for the nation building going to be here but we've run out of their own but i will run out of time we'll see what happens after reviewing december many thanks to m
leave iraq so you know there we there we know i went i heard people in afghanistan and iraq. we want to jump in there i agree i like to jump in for just a second i agree with justin i think obama failed to assert his authority in the situation he was trying to to make everybody happy he was trying to placate his progressive base by asserting this soft timeline and he was also trying to placate the military by making it a soft and not a hard time line so he's trying to have it both ways he's not...
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thank you very much for joining us tom it is both a pleasure george bush says the invasion of iraq was right because it was about changing the regime pursuing weapons of mass destruction what do you think about the strength of that case. well there is no strength i mean you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in united states and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle of the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq a violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american soldiers. over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and make it worse you had american soldiers seven hundred of whom lost their lives in iraq because in this war of choice ministration did not think it important enough to provide them with the protective armor but if they had it th
thank you very much for joining us tom it is both a pleasure george bush says the invasion of iraq was right because it was about changing the regime pursuing weapons of mass destruction what do you think about the strength of that case. well there is no strength i mean you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in united states and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west...
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plus shifting allegiances iraq you fear those who were trained by the u.s. to stop insurgency are now helping to create it as armed groups go back to terrorism. it's three pm in moscow thanks for being with us this is our team with me and use the now way first stop combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the future of missile defense here are the key issues nato is looking for russia's support on during a visit of the alliance the secretary general here in moscow anders fogh rasmussen has a ready. had a brief meeting with the russian foreign minister and the whole talks with president mr ijaz shortly are days accompanying the gretsch over how the latest now and joins us live it's not so long ago you can't bring about a meeting like this would have been unthinkable but they're becoming increasingly frequent what has changed here. the nato is an organization that now faces major challenges it is at a crossroads it has an identity crisis analysts are saying that nato simply has bitten off more than it can chew and in afghanistan i
plus shifting allegiances iraq you fear those who were trained by the u.s. to stop insurgency are now helping to create it as armed groups go back to terrorism. it's three pm in moscow thanks for being with us this is our team with me and use the now way first stop combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the future of missile defense here are the key issues nato is looking for russia's support on during a visit of the alliance the secretary general here in moscow...
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on the iran iraq border. live from moscow watching our team playing out for you this hour including. businessmen say one of the main advantages of having a big is the abundance of great minds universities live the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education r t business want to brush as fast as developing regions where innovative industries are. different types of propaganda are used by states to promote their interest but the history of one democratic country shows that so-called white propaganda is probably the cruelest without attempting to twist the truth as dictatorships do the us promoted activities to finance bloody wars using direct methods to influence public opinion and the main tool of men affiliation became media coverage kalen for reports. when most americans open a newspaper they expect all the news that's fit to print not to plant but declassified documents show that in the one nine hundred eighty s. the state department was doing exactly tha
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between the afghan diaries and the iraq diaries, there has been close to 500,000 records that have been disclosed, at least 97%, 90% of them classified. there is absolutely noticed -- there is absolutely no different show mission between -- the irony of it is we have a very simple process per the whole idea behind the classification system and a uniform set of markings is to clearly put on notice to both the holder of information and the recipient of information -- this is information that is sensitive, the unauthorized disclosure of which could cause damage to national security. 120 individuals for months, to review the 90,000 afghan-related documents, and i can assure you that in terms of doing a review, to determine what was sensitive and what in fact could cause serious damage, classification markings were entirely irrelevant to that review. they would have to literally go through them line by line. so, you know, one of the things that i find disappointing about this is that there have been rightful condemnation on the leak by some of our government house leaders. but i have yet to
between the afghan diaries and the iraq diaries, there has been close to 500,000 records that have been disclosed, at least 97%, 90% of them classified. there is absolutely noticed -- there is absolutely no different show mission between -- the irony of it is we have a very simple process per the whole idea behind the classification system and a uniform set of markings is to clearly put on notice to both the holder of information and the recipient of information -- this is information that is...
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i went to iraq later on on and off after the ev mission in 2003. just covering the events and watching everything more or less fall apart has been far from my experience in afghanistan and iraq. >> so this book has been about nine years in the making? >> yeah, that book is drawn from reporting that goes from 2001 to about 2006-2007. yeah, and it took a few years to write and get out into the market, so yeah, it's about a decade of my life. >> where did you come up with the title, quote kuhl every man in this village is a lawyer"? >> it comes from afghanistan. the was a phrase someone said to me before i went to afghanistan, every man in this village is a liar. it derived from an old greek paradox, where the person who says i think it is actually all of the cree tins are lawyers the the person who says a is a creetin so it is and logical possibility that if he is telling the truth he's lying. i use it because it seems the elusive nature of the truth in war and the difficulty of reporting in a war zone. village in some ways, it's a global village as
i went to iraq later on on and off after the ev mission in 2003. just covering the events and watching everything more or less fall apart has been far from my experience in afghanistan and iraq. >> so this book has been about nine years in the making? >> yeah, that book is drawn from reporting that goes from 2001 to about 2006-2007. yeah, and it took a few years to write and get out into the market, so yeah, it's about a decade of my life. >> where did you come up with the...
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and i so badly wanted to get out of iraq, especially since i had a son going to iraq. >> larry: more than you? >> i wanted to get out of iraq, but i didn't i did not initially want to be vice president. when asked initially he said he needed an answer right away and i said if you need an answer now, the answer's no. and he said well, go home and talk to your family about it and get back to me and that really surprised me. when i went home, jill said you've got to do this. this was not a woman pushing me to be president or wanting me to be vice president but it was her firm conviction about iraq. >> larry: only a short time left but i want to ask you about the reaction your boy had after iraq to before iraq and then i want to ask a little bit about community college. we'll be right back. ♪ [ female announcer ] picking tights isn't always easy. ♪ picking a free detergent is. switch to tide free & gentle in the white and blue bottle. no other free detergent is milder on skin and unlike the leading free detergent, it removes more residue from dirt, food, and stains. so nothing spoils
and i so badly wanted to get out of iraq, especially since i had a son going to iraq. >> larry: more than you? >> i wanted to get out of iraq, but i didn't i did not initially want to be vice president. when asked initially he said he needed an answer right away and i said if you need an answer now, the answer's no. and he said well, go home and talk to your family about it and get back to me and that really surprised me. when i went home, jill said you've got to do this. this was...
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one of your several on president bush and the iraq war. talking about the president relationships with the generals. let's listen in. >> the problem is george bush never really solved the dilemma of how -- what is the interaction between the civilian and in the military? he never had the generals so they were close to him so he knew what was going on. so this is all taking place at a distance, or over secure video links to baghdad. and there's not that moment of i kind of call it a come to jesus moment or meeting when he got everyone together and said, look, this is a mess. >> host: compare, contrast, president obama and the generals? >> guest: one the themes here is the relationship between the civilian leadership and the uniform military. and in the obama case, as is laid out in great spread sheet detail as one reviewer said, you see the military resisting and saying look we -- you have to send 40,000 troops. this was last year in the strategy review. you have to have kind of an open-ended commitment. president obama did not buy that. an
one of your several on president bush and the iraq war. talking about the president relationships with the generals. let's listen in. >> the problem is george bush never really solved the dilemma of how -- what is the interaction between the civilian and in the military? he never had the generals so they were close to him so he knew what was going on. so this is all taking place at a distance, or over secure video links to baghdad. and there's not that moment of i kind of call it a come...
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on the iran iraq border. and you are watching plenty for you this hour including. businessmen say one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great universities lined the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education r t visits one of russia's fastest developing regions for innovative industries are mushrooming. georgia's interior ministry has announced thirteen people including four russians were arrested last month accused of spying for moscow last week ago last week rather tbilisi had said twenty suspected agents have been detained. wraps up what's known so far. this is a story that has more questions than answers at than answers at this particular moment the only thing that we know so far is that there are very few facts and lots and lots of speculation we know that people have been arrested some time next over a by georgia's ministry of interior fares and they were accused of this to you know i should before russia now this is were pretty much the facts and to because the mini
on the iran iraq border. and you are watching plenty for you this hour including. businessmen say one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great universities lined the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education r t visits one of russia's fastest developing regions for innovative industries are mushrooming. georgia's interior ministry has announced thirteen people including four russians were arrested last...
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he was proud of what he had done in iraq. and he hoped his example might inspire others. >> thanks for your service. >> you're welcome, mr. president. >> god bless you. >> privilege. >> we're not you through running yet. get out of the way. >> i thought about christian a lot that summer and the years that followed. our country owed him our gratitude and support. i owed him something more. i have couldn't let iraq fail. >> sean: ladies and gentlemen, here in our studio audience tonight is the american hero you just saw in that video, staff sergeant christian bag is here. good to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> sean: it looks like you were beating him. do you remember that? >> he's very humble. first of all, meeting the president at brook army medical center, gave me hope. you know, i had something to work toward. losing both legs shatters your image. shatters your life. i hope this would inspire people around the nation with disabilities like me. >> sean: it inspired me. >> it really inspired m
he was proud of what he had done in iraq. and he hoped his example might inspire others. >> thanks for your service. >> you're welcome, mr. president. >> god bless you. >> privilege. >> we're not you through running yet. get out of the way. >> i thought about christian a lot that summer and the years that followed. our country owed him our gratitude and support. i owed him something more. i have couldn't let iraq fail. >> sean: ladies and gentlemen,...
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on the iran iraq border. our website r.t. dot com is always there to keep you posted on these and every story we cover including this sixty nine years ago russian troops paraded in the red square before marching off to war the nazis had nearly reached moscow take a look at this year's commemoration ceremonies on our website. and some people think it's heavy beautiful as has been proved by an unusual beauty pageant in russia and wash all the pet rodents from across the country strut their stuff. one and a half thousand russian veterans of elite forces and active service men have rallied in moscow to demand the resignation of the country's defense minister they were protesting against and to lease or do you call the radical reforms costing as many as two hundred thousand officers their jobs but authorities tell us or so he reports the minister says the changes are to streamline the armed forces to counter modern day threats. now here at miter margaret there is a currently a rally going out of protest against the current the rus
on the iran iraq border. our website r.t. dot com is always there to keep you posted on these and every story we cover including this sixty nine years ago russian troops paraded in the red square before marching off to war the nazis had nearly reached moscow take a look at this year's commemoration ceremonies on our website. and some people think it's heavy beautiful as has been proved by an unusual beauty pageant in russia and wash all the pet rodents from across the country strut their stuff....
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military documents really unlike any previous media story or report from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers or informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves. this week a top aide to saddam hussein was given the death sentence on charges of murder and crimes against humanity but the verdict has drawn international condemnation british m.p. jeremy corbin says referring to the old regime was a ruse to deflect attention from the
military documents really unlike any previous media story or report from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers or informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message...
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i focus mostly on iraq but there the failure of intelligence on our part was extraordinary. why? i was trying to think of this over time but it makes you think comparatively in ways that make people uncomfortable. buzz when you go backwards you go back to world war ii and at one point* and the book by end up at the philippines in the turn-of-the-century and the early 1900's and the rhetoric was there i have a line if you went to find day goes behind the ghostwriters come and go back to the rhetoric or the language. to think about war as a culture is very painful because the earlier and an age where we have technology that may change press somehow i doing at levels of the individual and the institution and. in the end i came apart talking about the concepts of the institutional bureaucrat dysfunction. very, very hard things to wrestle with and took a long time but that is where it ended. >> host: speaking of george bush, have you or will you be reading "decision points" or the chapters on afghanistan or i iraq? >> guy read very fair extensively his memoirs by everybody investigati
i focus mostly on iraq but there the failure of intelligence on our part was extraordinary. why? i was trying to think of this over time but it makes you think comparatively in ways that make people uncomfortable. buzz when you go backwards you go back to world war ii and at one point* and the book by end up at the philippines in the turn-of-the-century and the early 1900's and the rhetoric was there i have a line if you went to find day goes behind the ghostwriters come and go back to the...
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he says twice in the book but twice he gave blair the chance to drop his support of the iraq war but blair said even if it means losing my government i'm still going in how did blair blow its legacy by doing so and why did he come out how to bush. well of course over hey we was portrayed as a poodle to bush and if you read blair's own book as well when he says he was willing to lose the government he was says he what he means by that he was quite willing for members of the cabinet and the government to vote against him it was a very very close vote as you remember and of course it will spawn on our forty five minute claim in the dodgy dossier of ourself was in favor of the invasion of iraq i still agree with pushing blair to a certain extent that they got rid of an evil tyrant but one has to say there was no real evidence was there in the end of weapons of mass destruction and blair misled it all was laid lead to mislaid the british public his legacy is so badly damaged by this you are correct two million people marched on the streets of london blair ignored them and in his book toda
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war the iraq war is a textbook case of how a government. a couple within a government uses propaganda planting stories in the us media to convert public opinion favorably toward a war within a matter of days on september the new york times michael gordon judith miller published a front page long story you know which they talked about how u.s. intelligence officials had found out that saddam hussein had purchased lumen into which they believed could only be used for nuclear weapons what they did not see of course was that that was a minority view within the intelligence community the drums of war beat faster the u.s. invaded in march two thousand and three in two thousand and nine immediately after the president of honduras was overthrown in a military coup auto reich resurfaced in the mainstream media quoted by columnists interviewed by pundits. well what i want to know about stuff like this there's nobody else better to call than the guy you're about to meet right here he could better explain what is happening and just about everybody else
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and iraq and russia is democracy should not stagnate the russian president calling on the opposition in his video blog to act so that those in power stay awake at the wheel. it's four am in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week that was here on r t the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times the law and have published the first of a new batch of secret documents obtained by wiki leaks this latest data contains messages from u.s. diplomats across the globe including revelations that the u.n. leadership was to be monitored by the u.s. and that arab states were calling for an air strike on iran for the first time the information has been given to a russian publication artie's catarina is are of a has more on the leaks. it may be very cold here in moscow but it's certainly very hot in the world wide web with many of the world's leading newspapers publishing thousands of secret documents leaked to them by weak elites the world's largest whistleblower containing messages secret messages thousands of them sent from u.s.
and iraq and russia is democracy should not stagnate the russian president calling on the opposition in his video blog to act so that those in power stay awake at the wheel. it's four am in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week that was here on r t the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times the law and have published the first of a new batch of secret documents obtained by wiki leaks this latest data contains messages from...
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troops in iraq you know u.s. . troops apparently shielding their eyes from it do you think about some for terms that too much. i do not support the release of classified information especially considering that it could put u.s. sources and methods at risk and that to me is not conscionable and some of the examples that you just mentioned things like torture or us troops looking the other way that's been reported in the news before that isn't new that's not adding anything to debate and i think that the risk to national security outweighs the possible benefit of those. those news story that's not news stories thank you so much for coming on the show definitely is a pleasure thanks for having me i will have to have you come back on things still to come tonight as voters head to the polls for the two thousand and ten midterm election we'll take a look back at our favorite campaign ads of the year so stick around for those and it's happy tenth birthday to the international space station but as they reach this milestone
troops in iraq you know u.s. . troops apparently shielding their eyes from it do you think about some for terms that too much. i do not support the release of classified information especially considering that it could put u.s. sources and methods at risk and that to me is not conscionable and some of the examples that you just mentioned things like torture or us troops looking the other way that's been reported in the news before that isn't new that's not adding anything to debate and i think...
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was, saddam hussein was directly behind iraq. chris: you're right, it's in the polling. >> the other piece of it was everyone in that inner circle, in the foreign policy team and at the cia, they felt that it was completely justified. and they had the same mindset that he has now, that he revealed to matt lauer. that was the emphasis of the whole foreign policy team. -- the ethos of that whole foreign policy team. chris: but not the agency people? >> the head -- chris: not the agency people? >> but at the time they felt as long as there was no attack, no second 9/11 -- look -- chris: that's a good question. wasn't colin powell off -- he wasn't enthusiastic about the war. >> but he never really laid his stars on the table. he just raised and caved. look, if you break iraq, you're going to own it. and he didn't say, don't do it. chris: high human interest story. this is the book we've gotten a look at. the president said his father supported the war effort. is that true? >> boy, i spent eight minutes in one interview with bush goin
was, saddam hussein was directly behind iraq. chris: you're right, it's in the polling. >> the other piece of it was everyone in that inner circle, in the foreign policy team and at the cia, they felt that it was completely justified. and they had the same mindset that he has now, that he revealed to matt lauer. that was the emphasis of the whole foreign policy team. -- the ethos of that whole foreign policy team. chris: but not the agency people? >> the head -- chris: not the...