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never letting anyone spree you remember in two thousand and three it was for all that saddam hussein was where we were told we were told that anybody who opposed the american a tie. a rock was in the yes' or no you said earlier what to do she was really going to go with you a very radical islam are so so so now so now it's uncertain so now it's the same tune all over again so you know what i mean with all that off my dina job is hitler whenever we're being told it has merit or we're being told that everyone is you know me i see where the united states who owns the n.r.a. you need to receive the army major point jeff jump in and then i want to go to charles go ahead jeff again i want to address myself to the viewers of this program who like to read books. take a look at not only my work the work of robert we stretch of martin cooper's of but . of esther webmin of meyer link back of boston t.v. there is paul berman there was a burst of scholarship and intellectual engagement in recent years that is important you can agree with it or you can disagree with it but please do not dismiss it

then we were told that saddam hussein was hitler and now we're being told that our dinner jihad is. this hitler has. this is curious coincidence that whenever israel and the united states want to launch a war of destruction the war of death and destruction the war of aggression they claim that their adversary in the arab world is a hitler or a nazis and mr and mr small they keep pointing to the hamas charter and there are many things no hamas charter there or this vehicle just isn't on these statements that are made by israelis there are despicable so rabbi ovadia. the spiritual leader of the shah's you already which is in the north and then finishes point you to our coalition finishes. the head of the spiritual leader of us he calls for the extermination of the palestinians he's called for the enslavement of the enslavement of non jews we had prime minister dagon who called powers than the ns two legged b. we had pride in this case it's an enemy geroy he was going to do thank you cockroaches you made your point thank you charles go ahead and i want to go to jeff after that i think

under saddam hussein the demographics shifted in favor of the arabs. today, that is shifting back towards the kurds. that is causing problems. this -- when he was 10-years old his family was ordered to leave. they fled to the north but he has moved back. with financial assistance, he is building a new home for his family. >> this is my home town. it is my father's and grandfather's. i had to come back. >> it is still one of iraq's most unstable places. the violence comes mostly from al qaeda and insurgents. u.s. forces maintain a high profile, but in one year they will be gone. with billions of dollars worth at oil money at stake comeback -- oil at stake, it could be the u.s. presence that is keeping the two sides from solving their problems. >> at least 50 people were killed--- in an anti-taliban leading. two bombs went off near the afghan border during a gathering of tribal elders. >> this compound was full of people meeting to discuss how to tackle the taliban. it is where two suicide bombers dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up. local trib

you have national socialism, stalinism, mao, even fascism from saddam hussein. >> what i'm saying is that secularity is a power system. it may or may not be patriarchal. on the whole, i think it has been. this is a power system and it should not be given a privilege system of neutrality. >> what about the idea is that the fear is with the men around this table because you are the leaders in your community. you should be the ones who are actually stepping up to the plate and doing more. >> i totally agree. i think we all failed here. what is important is to come back to our common element, our community. but the human beings want to do? my father says, look at that, he wants to share. human beings want to share things. we should share our differences. >> do you think that mauled biculturalism is a problem? >> i think that secularism is a problem. -- to you think that mauled biculturalism is a problem -- multicultural wisdom is a problem? >> what we have seen increasingly are in areas of the netted kingdom, areas where communities do not interact and where this is entirely secular. >>

and the regime of saddam hussein. it was asserted by many intelligence agencies that he had weapons of mass destruction, and programs to build them as he had done in the past. some of that information turned out to be wrong. how did that happen? and do you think -- does it -- in retrospect, would that have change your point of view? your decision on the iraq military action? >> yeah, michael, that's one of those questions that i just didn't have the luxury of answering. in other words, i could try to answer it. but it just didn't happen that way. this book lays out how the history unfolded. i mean i laid out a doctrine that said, the bush doctrine, that in order to protect the country, we had to be on the offense, hold people to the account, and we had to deal with threats before they fully materialized. it's one the lessons of the attack of september 11th. plus we spread freedom to the ideological of those who murdered the innocent. and the world saw saddam hussein as a threat. i literally meant the world. i felt it

but this question about whether saddam hussein would have backed down and whether blix was right and the united nations and negotiators were right a question that's still with us. but these were very difficult times after september 11. tony blair and george bush had to take incredibly difficult decisions to deal with terrorism and i think history will be kinder to them than perhaps it is at the moment. >> rose: in the end you think that it will be not only kinder but the decision will be seen as a wise decision because the way iraq ends up? >> well, i hope from my experience... i've been involved in the reconstruction of basra, which is the area that britain is responsible for and i've seen huge progress in the sense that you've got an army that's working, priests that are working. the this was an area that was subject to a lot of iranian influence, as you probably know and you've got economic and social development taking place and basra has got a future as a strong industrial region with great reserves. so in my view the reconstruction is working in iraq but i do say that the judgm

i think in retrospect there is no doubt iraq is not -- is a better place without saddam hussein. however we had been contained. they couldn't hurt their neighbors, they were shooting at us every day they never hit anything and every time they fired the lost more so they didn't have much left to lose and it was obvious that going into iraq you could do it with a small force if you wanted to because the military had been decimated but you were going to need a very large force if you wanted to keep the shia, the shiite and the kurds from killing one another once you took away saddam hussein if the's regime because that is what killed them apart. >> host: is that the advice you give the president? >> guest: that is the advice i gave the president and also witold the joint chiefs about a couple of months before the decision was made to go into iraq that if you go and you were going to need a larger force in order to maintain the peace. you can win the war the you can't maintain the peace unless you have a large force. >> host: but he told the right chiefs but they were not consulted?

saddam hussein is no longer around. and that in itself makes it the right thing. now, do you worry about the lives lost? of course you do. but i think he made a courageous decision, a proper decision. and we forget that congress and many people in the press wanted to bring down saddam hussein and george stepped up to the plate and did something about it. now, the weapons of mass destruction was a great disappointment to him, as he said, that they weren't found in big numbers or found at all. but that doesn't mean that the mission itself isn't worthwhile. >> larry: do you think history will be kinder to him? >> yes, definitely. history will be kind to him because he's a man of principle, did what he said he's going to do, kept our country safe in the first time we were really attacked on that 9/11. and that in itself -- >> larry: he says he doesn't think about history much. he says history will decide. do you think about history much? >> for him? yeah. >> larry: no, for you. >> larry, i'm too darned old. i think just about how to get home and go to bed. no, i don't

you choose to police force members in saddam hussein. seeming cool and shouldest to have fools taken of this and have those photos published. to make up that some kind of publicity if it which projects to the rule that a christian american morning is inhabiting and islam a country and performing christian rituals in the palace of the former dictator of that country the former islamic dictator that islamic country i think says very concerning and disturbing things and then for the military to tout that to put into law that activity or into a war that chaplain. the designation have air force chapel in the year is is mind boggling to me quite frankly. in the military the kinds of extreme training that you go through are justified by saying after all these are matters of life did. not. have. the same justification is used in in christian fundamentalism in terms of saying there is this kind of alternate cause make warfare going on so i am willing to commit myself wholly to these christian principles just as i myself to this rigorous military

and i have made more money when saddam hussein when people forgot the emerald? the market will test-continue going. >> foreign experts and north korea would not do anything now but if it is a waiting game? >> so far, so good. the stock of apple? >> and denver nikand-$1000 per . and people who use mobile computers, this is a fad, going on. basically, apple, 10, 20 years ago did it the laptop, and try to sell it to an older crowd. now, they're selling it to a younger crowd, the ipod touch, ipad, and even a imac. because of the younger generation. and the sales could double from here. the younger generation will buy future products. me, you, that we do not really needed a notebook. and it was great and he said and toward, apple are for the hon. and microsoft, blackberry are for the old. >> and and troy, apple are for the young people, and microsoft and the blackberry. >> and android--and apple are grouped into one the territory with younger people. >> and he seems to be pretty accurate. >> and unless the ipod causes cancer lot >> and thank goodness it is not [laugh

they have captured the heart of saddam hussein's power. and unblinking, he looked at me and he said, mr. fisher, i'm here to tell you that you are too far from reality. i think my book would be about living beyond the bounds the common western experience. the soviet union at the deaths of the cold war, north korea, afghanistan, who are the extraordinary people that you meet, the extraordinary evil that you encounter, but also of the inspiriting goodness in the human soul, which is rather the largest thing for me. i'm not particularly religious. i hope i'm not particularly self righteous. but that would be a very major thing for me. -- that would be a major theme for me, that how in the midst of darkness there is always light. >> for some of those who have never heard us talk before, what year is it in china? >> from 1971 to 1975, that was the last five years of mao tse-tung's life. also the mid to late part of the cultural revolution which mao occasions by trying to turn chinese society upside down. i went back to china when they opened to

hussein. the restrictions have been removed. the government has killed four people includinin a shooting in. the spanish man drove to a bank where he killed two staff and surrendered. the u.s. government has announced it is suing bp over the gulf spill. a spokesman said there will get -- they will hold the former campbell. >> the explosion on the deep sea oil rig killed 11 men. it plugcaused havoc in the u.s. safety of regulations were violated, the u.s. said. bp failed to use the best available technology and failed to maintain equipment. the u.s. deliberately went for a cap -- will not put a cap on the amount of money they are claiming. >> we are attempting to prove they contributed to the massive oil spill and the defendants are responsible under the oil pollution act for removal costs, economic losses, and environmental damages. >> president obama's team have been criticized for their response and are keen to put bp in the dock. they're looking for fiennes as well. if they can improve gros

and i think this is where again saddam hussein may have been saying things that maybe push could have actually listened to a little differently if he were a bit more savvy. >> tevi you were nodding your head >> there were some people president bush stuck too long or promoted to positions they might not have been worthy of getting or shouldn't have gotten. and there is a sense that he was very loyal to his people and i personally felt he was very loyal to his people but on the other hand some people didn't serve him as well as they could have. >> we have this tweet here from joshua nielsen is the presidential deificatio in recent u.s. culture. >> i don't think it's great. i think it's hard to be president. i think the public culture actually leans towards destroying you. and that is the bipartisan thing. i mean, i think the romance and honeymoon with presidents is actually very short and i think because of the way the media works and because of a certain amount of cynicism we have toward government institutions, certainly since watergate, that that is eventually people are going to tur

seven years after the fall of saddam hussein? >> from many dark days, the signs are visible. >> i cannot say how many planes joined the raid, but i counted them all, and i counted them all back. >> our correspondent has died at age 61. hello. if you're watching this at an airport terminal or a rail station, freezing temperatures and heavy snow are affecting large parts of europe and causing transport chaos. railroads have been badly hit across germany, france, belgium, and others. some of the delays could extend beyond christmas day. >> there was no winter wonderland in belgium today, only cancellations and frustrations. brussels airport has the snowplows it needs and liquid needed to deice the planes. supplies were stopped. >> this country, like much of northern europe, has slowed and stopped. with problems on the main motorways and traffic problems growing. outside because -- the eurostar offices, the lines are getting longer. >> 8:00 or 9:00 or 10:00. it >> i am not sure. >> it is costing a lot of money. it will pay for them t

. >> you talk about iraq's secret bomb program under saddam hussein. how did the story of this bomb program grow and even if they didn't have bombs have we found bombs so far? >> we went into the first gulf war arguing they had a bomb program which we did not have at the time but afterwards when inspectors in the united nations and international atomic energy agency wind and they found a huge effort to enrich uranium to make material for a-bomb and they cleaned out and so did the iraqis. they were tired of having our people walking around the country so they blew up their stuff. they didn't keep record and when the second. came along with an interest in resolving that and settle in their country down and getting rid of saddam hussein there was no proof they happened reconstituted their program but it was fully cleaned up by 1998. >> you talk about the scramble for what was left over of the soviet nuclear arsenal. >> wasn't so much the arsenal. loss alamos director said to me they have serial numbers just as our bonds due. but it was the material used t

even after saddam hussein was toppled, the river served a dark purpose. >> 2006 to 2007 was very bad. nobody could go in the streets. we still came here, at training. we see a lot of bodies in the river. we are still trading, just 3 meters. there were bodies that were staying there two weeks, three weeks. >> we might be from different countries and different cultures, but we talked the same language. what happened here? >> the water has backed down, i crashed. >> it is obvious what effect they have had on young rowers in baghdad, but the olympic experience goes much deeper than that. >> it organizes the village. i think sport has united all the iraqi people. sports is a beautiful thing. >> the olympics is often cited as a chance for people to come together in peace to compete with pride for their countries. normally it is easy to be cynical about how much that means to the athletes. not here in iraq. >>> just a reminder, you could read about all the preparations for the 2012 olympics on our website. that includes more about all of the athletes hoping to make their olympic dreams come

the story begins in baghdad in 2006, two weeks before saddam hussein was hanged, with sectarian violence raging in the runup to the u.s. troop surge. life took an unexpected turn. here's his account of when dan met dan. >> reporter: it all starts with a chance meeting at a school in baghdad in the middle of a gun fight. >> shots. a lot of shots. >> reporter: you're how old? >> me? 18. >> reporter: what's your name? dan. shooting again. >> yeah. we're used to it. >> reporter: you're used to it? >> yeah. >> reporter: that's sad. >> yeah, i know. i know. what we can do? nothing. >> reporter: it's in this moment that i decide that i'm going to do a story about this kid who has got the same name as mine, about one teenager's life in a war zone. dan lets us into his family's apartment. >> here's where i live. this is my room. >> reporter: where he's learned english from consuming american mu movies and hip hop. he shows me his treasures cell phone where he keeps pictures of new york city. and he tells us about his best friend, who he saw shot by a sniper. >> i just hear gunshots. i see blood o

hussein. >> john burns on the future of iraq sunday night on c-span. >> president obama made a surprise visit to afghanistan where he addressed troops at bagram airfield. he met with the commanding general. rough weather forced him to cancel a scheduled meeting with afghan president hamid karzai. this was the president's second trip to afghanistan as commander in chief. >> how about a hoowa. >> hoowa. >> how about an air assault? >> air assault. >> anybody out here want to say air power? >> air power. >> and is everybody ready for the main event? >> whew! >> you sure about that? >> yeah! >> here is the deal. a couple of years ago my air assault buddy at the time command major of the 101st airborne division, told me what he looks for in a commander. he listed all the usual qualities you would expect, you know, all the ones. then he added, i also want a commander who is available to our troopers, who is accessible to our troopers and who is approachable. as i thought about it, i realized that in addition to all the qualities we expect in leaders i also look for those specific attributes.

hussein. when that is still sudan's president today. one he stands indicted by the international criminal court for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity for what happened in our four. in 2003 door for was just really a whisper. at that time think lee gramm was very much in the public eye because he had called islam a wicked and evil religion. the north of sudan is primarily muslim. so there was a lot of outcry against his arrival. what i found out, he was going to me with this one enemy. asked if i could go a long pit of his working for vanity fair. he said yes. the technique. we went and sat in the marble palace, it was like watching. it was fascinating. these men he's tried to convert the other. that wasn't terribly successful. then graeme made reference to a hospital that he ran until very recently that the south sudan's largest hospital. and president bush years government and army has twice bombed this hospital. that is how the 40 years of civil war has played out. especially ba

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in the 20th-century, national socialism, stalinism, the cultural revolution, even saddam hussein's fascism. what i'm saying is the secularity is also a power system. it may or may not be patriarchal. i think on the whole, it has been very patriarchal, but it is a power system and should not be given a privileged position. >> but what about the idea that the failure here is essentially with the men around this table? because you are the leaders in your community and should be the ones who are actually stepping up to the plate and doing more. >> i totally agree. i think we have all failed here. it is very important to come back to our common element, our humanity, and what do human beings want to do? my son, what does he do? he says, "dad, look at that." he wants to share. we share, but we share our differences. >> do you think multiculturalism is a problem? >> i think secularism is a problem. i think having many cultures under the same culture is great, fine. having difficulties together, with happily. that is a great thing to. >> but communities do not live happily, and what we see increas

hussein. the council adopted resolutions to lift restrictions on the country's civilian nuclear program. it also decided to return the control of profits from iraq's oil exports from the government, allowing the money to be used for humanitarian assistance. iraqi oil earnings have long been under international control. the united states now wants to accelerate reconstruction by helping the country stand on its own. >>> germany will suspend military conscription, or the draft, as part of a plan to reform its armed forces. the decision was made at a cabinet meeting on wednesday amid government efforts to ease fiscal shortages. under the plan the draft for men age 18 or older will be suspe suspended from next july. the number of soldiers will also be slashed from the current 250,000 to 185,000. the government says the military draft can be revived if necessary. a rising number of young jrmds are refusing to serve in the military. the percentage of recruits has dropped to 16% of the overall draft