but not long after saddam hussein had been toppled, iraq began to unravel. in his book rumsfeld lays the blame on too many hands on the steering wheel, no coordinated plan. first the president's right-hand adviser in the white house, condoleezza rice -- >> she'd never served in a senior administration position. she'd been an academic and, you know, a lot of academics like to have meetings. every time a big issue got before the president, he was personally willing to make a decision. >> reporter: and secretary powell? >> he did not in my view do a good job of managing the people under him, and there was a lot of leaking out of the state department, and the president knew it, and it was unhelpful, and most of it ended up making the state department look good. we didn't do that in the pentagon. i insisted we not do it. >> reporter: the casualties are mounting. rumsfeld's critics say he was so committed to a lean, pared down fighting force, it suppressed debate about sending in more troops. you write in the book "in retrospect there may have been times more troo

i think the world is a better place with saddam hussein gone and with the taliban gon

and the object it was a disarmament of saddam hussein and the iraqi regime. the first method was diplomacy. if that method failed, but with military action, consequence of military action was found to be regime change. that's how it works. the point we're trying to get across to saddam and his allies was that he had every opportunity to comply with united nations obligations, without his regime having to be changed. i may buy ideas, but he thought that was a very high incentive to come into early compliance. >> i mean, your objective as you told us last year, your final sentence to a slasher was the first of the action was not regime change. i hoped we would've resulted peacefully and we would just have to manage saddam after that, but he would have been disabled. mr. blair said there were two views. there were those that thought iraq would be managed and he disagreed with that and he was discreet to view that iraq was in a situation which could be managed. we had to confront it. so, he is saying change of heart or regime change. and he wasn't expecting this

and the object it was a disarmament of saddam hussein and the iraqi regime. the first method was diplomacy. if that method failed, but with military action, consequence of military action was found to be regime change. that's how it works. the point we're trying to get across to saddam and his allies was that he had every opportunity to comply with united nations obligations, without his regime having to be changed. i may buy ideas, but he thought that was a very high incentive to come into early compliance. >> i mean, your objective as you told us last year, your final sentence to a slasher was the first of the action was not regime change. i hoped we would've resulted peacefully and we would just have to manage saddam after that, but he would have been disabled. mr. blair said there were two views. there were those that thought iraq would be managed and he disagreed with that and he was discreet to view that iraq was in a situation which could be managed. we had to confront it. so, he is saying change of heart or regime change. and he wasn't expecting this

and the objective was the disarmament of saddam hussein and of course the iraqi regime. the first method was diplomacy. if that message failed then it was military action. the consequence of military action was bound to be regime change. that's how it works. the point we were trying to get across to saddam and his allies was that he had every opportunity to comply with the united nations obligations without his regime having to be changed. and i maybe my evil thought that was a very high incentive for him to come -- maybe very naively. >> your final senses to us last year was the purpose of the action is not regime change. i had hoped that we would resolve it peacefully and we would just have to manage saddam after that. but he would have been disabled. >> mr. blair said to us that there were two views. there were those who felt that iraq could be managed, and he disagreed with that. and he disagreed with the view that iraq was a situation which could be managed. we had to confront it. so he's saying, change of heart or regime change. and he wasn't expecting a change of

is kick started a democratic process there after toppling saddam hussein. well you know the case with iraq we went to iraq many on several different false presumptions one that iraq had something to do with nine eleven which it did not that saddam hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction which he was not that he did had those weapons he would use them which he would not of because that makes no sense he would have lost his regime and that we're there to bring democracy to the iraqi people what happened was we got there and we had no planning we had no preparation for what we're getting into and we sparked a civil war by demonizing the sunni's in that country and by elevating the shia into positions of power and excluding the sunni's and excluded and disenfranchising we sparked a civil war that i think has reparations still to this day throughout the middle east i know plenty of iraqis work with plenty iraqis daily both my deployments to iraq it's been about told twenty months there and while they do have a freer government while saddam hussein was a t

had just defeated saddam hussein, the u.s. had just defeated literally in eight days an army iran had not been able to defeat in eight years, the clergy regime in iran were worried the united states might attack. in washington they were singing the song that boys did to baghdad, men did to teheran. this song had reached teheran as well. iran at that time was very much willing to negotiate. it had suspended its enrichment, although it had suspended it temporarily, and it felt like it was in a very weakened position, that the united states now had almost -- this was before whatever you want to call it, the uprising, the civil war, the disservice, whatever you want to call what happened in iraq, that's before it began. the united states had almost 250,000 forces on iran's borders. they had easily defeated two of iran's biggest challenges, and the regime was worried. they were willing to make a deal, and the bush administration decided they are not going to negotiate with these guys, and i think that was very, very important oppor

he was not saddam hussein. he was much more likely to flee the scene of the crisis if the crisis arose. he almost left the country five times before 1953. and in 1978 when the british and the americans began to see the rise of the movement in iran, and began to see the shah incapable of making decisions, they began to look for what the british prime minister called a way to reensure. they wanted to look for somebody who they could form a pack with, they could allow the country. who emerges on the scene? the clergy. this network that they have created. and who plays this hand brilliantly in man by the name of hanny. who had risen to national prominent by opposing women to vote, by opposes land perform, by opposing the status of force agreement with the united states, by using lethally anti-semitic rhetoric against israel in 1962. he was exiled in 1964. he lived from '64 to '77 in exile. and he wrote some of the most remarkably anti-democratic, anti-modern treaties as ever penned in modern persian language. nobod

the work very hard with of the united nations to put pressure on saddam hussein that he wouldn't continue to resist, and the president did with the president has to do. he made the decision and i assume he assumed everyone in that group would have argued vehemently if they disagreed which no one did. >> how do you think they will look back on that position in iraq? >> it's hard to know. the road not traveled is always moved, and one looks at it and thinks what if. i think a little-known fact is that khaddafi, the head of libya, at that point had a very aggressive nuclear program under way. and when the united states went in and changed the regime in iraq, khaddafi who had been working hard on the nuclear program very high on the terrorist list designed he would forgo his nuclear program and he contacted some western leaders and indicated look, i do have this nuclear program. i am willing to stop it. i am willing to have it inspected that i stopped it because i do not want to suffer the same state as saddam hussein. so if you look at the region, there's some disadvantages that linder from

radicalism of all pipes and islamism of all types the corruption of all types a new one saddam hussein but one small son one percent on his place this the blue solution big block millions of refugees first of all religion minorities and intellectuals that is the result of such type revolutions you're remarkable men hugh you agreed to talk about the future so how the continuing asking questions about the future what do you think will be there could be revealing ideology of the for the decay to ship more to this land maybe like integrity liberalism relational as socialism or commission of the century will be so one of a type of socialism and there are worlds fringe the type of or nationalism of the secular time the next generation will have no success with will be. more than a liberal political reddick the revolutionary terrorists. while some barbarian because the army isn't a like intolerable. movement. margaret hall knows different corners will have different possibilities i'm not sure there will be some holy fuck like programmers . different countries different nations it will trouble

as odious as saddam hussein was, he kept allocate out, it was a check on al qaeda a --. he kept al qaeda out, it is a check on al qaeda. he was awful to his own people, but in our national security interests at that point, he was probably good for us. >> the only functioning democracy in the middle east today is iraq. you could argue that the price we pay it was too high. i would ask if the price we paid in korea was too high for half a peninsula. >> i thought israel was of functioning democracy in the middle east. >> yes, it is. it has been an interesting winter so far. >> i was inside out with my neighbor for almost seven hours. >> that gentleman spent a night trapped in his truck on the lakeshore drive, along with other motorists. if global warming is a problem, why are we having such a tough winter? al gore told gail collins of "the new york times" that there is 4% more water vapor now than there was in the summer. it returns to earth as heavy rain and snow. >> if godzilla appeared this afternoon, al gore would say it is global warming. [laughter] look, everything is

hussein had weapons of mass destruction has now admitted that he lied. claims were among those used to justify the u.s. led two thousand and three invasion of the country he said he saw an opportunity to topple the old regime and bring democracy to iraq research group say the war has resulted in over one hundred thousand civilian deaths. pressure system which developed into a category one cycle and has battled the northern australian city of darwin dozens of homes were deluged on main roads are being cut off high winds and heavy rains lashed the city overnight trees and knocking down power lines schools and the city's airport remain closed and carlos is expected to intensify to a category two as it nears the coast and it will be in seoul friday. of solve the southern sudan has been announced as the name of south sudan i should say new name for the world's newest country south sudan it will come into effect and into existence in july after a referendum last month went overwhelmingly in favor of a split from the north they had been much speculation over th

hussein regime or cheney's regime. and main. square. or iranian regime if we say about the ahmadinejad and the green revolution which also lost presidential but it was very religious what happened in iran. years ago we remember it yes but it's had a very very strong religious for the what's happening in the middle middle east well despite the muslim brotherhood it's not religious at all or maybe a mistake a. mistake in both cases because in iran we have now a situation when the first and second generation the ayatollah send their children who pushed the generals of the military service a little more initial and walk on in the support that there's like nineteen thirty seven the great career or in our own country in style and are also well or at all is an oddball surely as well. as in libya the situation is not so clear because up to my view step by step. two years later five years later ten years later maybe twenty five the brothers mostly will take power in their hands you sure and absolute in order for the restoration

good evidence that saddam hussein believed that america would not change the regime and would survive even though the united states might come and. so, there were a combination of things taking place that argue for it, and there were a behavior come a behavior pattern on the part of iraq, misguided as it turned out, and he refused to leave with his family which was offered and urged. barry, war is the failure of diplomacy. >> your "in the book. one thing people i think will be surprised to read about is that president bush never asked you for your advice and with the the country should just go to war. would that violate one of brussels' rules? >> i don't think so. i don't know that he asked : powell or even the vice president. he was elected by the american people. we had frequent meetings and discussed various aspects of the situation. they worked very hard with the united nations to try to put additional pressure on saddam bassein so that he would not continue to resist. the president did what the president has to do, made the decisions. i assume that he is and that everyone in that

but on small saddam hussein on his place this the blues ition big law and millions of refugees first of all religion minorities and intellectuals that is the result of such to approach your remarkable men you agreed to talk about the future so i'll be continuing asking you questions about the future what do you think will be there probably revealing ideology after the fall of dictatorship mordred this plan maybe late in turkey liberalism relational as socialism or communication the center will be. of the type of socialism there are worlds french the type of or nationalism of the secular tyron in the next generations will have no success it'll be islam more than a liberal political rhetoric or revolutionary terrorist type. well some barbarian type of slimy islam or like intolerable. movement bardwell crowd of margaret who knows different corners will have different possibilities i'm not sure that there will be some qualified. programmers. different countries different nations bots it will trouble time and trouble place but i do think i. will will be able to capitalize on these events

. >> reporter: you believed, absolutely, categorically, saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction? >> i don't do a lot of things categorically. anyone who has around intelligence-gathering knows it could be wrong. colin powell has been around more than anybody. >> reporter: he was devastated. >> of course, he was. everybody was. he had more experience than anybody else. he worked hard with george tenet. with condi rice. he prepared his speech. he went up to the u.n. he made his case. and he wasn't lying. the idea he was lying or duped is nonsense. hillary clinton, john kerry, the french intelligence, the british intelligence, the german intelligence. it was uniform, across the board, that it was reasonable to assume that he had chemical and biological weapons. >> reporter: in his book, rumsfeld lays the blame on too many hands on the steering wheel. no coordinated plan. first, the president's right-hand adviser in the white house, condoleezza rice. >> she had never served in a senior administration position. she had been an academic. and you know, a lot of academics like to have m

hussein in iraq we have to understand that what the united states now i believe is trying to achieve is a way to promote change in a way that will facilitate things for them the best instrument they have to control the country is the so-called democracy because holy war and democracy it is basically a vote counting system handled by the mass media the guy who wins whether it be a president or prime minister or a senator or a deputy is that the want to challenge it with all the support of the money power whether it be for his campaign or for media in t.v. time and so forth so for example in the joy of origin tina democracy is the best way they have to control the country against the people's interest and i think when they hear that they are promoting democracy in egypt i tremble for the egyptians because it is going to be a democracy how long the brand as it was promoted in argentina or knows what it looks throughout latin america it will only help to support long term objectives in this global power structure operated from europe and from the united states and not the actual interest

as the person compare this with say this bashir compare this with saddam hussein compare this with with the people we dislike it's when we don't like. trying to take steps against a country that's when we begin not to use the name of the leader so you think it's a matter of convenience when it comes to western rhetoric regarding these countries and troubled by the anti-government protesters have reportedly can control now a major part of the country i could not be however keeps tripoli more or less under control what do you think is the future for new polling places no it isn't i think if you will disappear from the scene in the next couple of days probably a little longer and i think it will end up going to kill more people and then he will follow the. leader he's hung or he will. go down fighting because he's. he doesn't have a crisis but. i think he will definitely but it is a people who are. who we have to deal with in the future and there are some say that the demonstrators are all calling for democracy there are others that say the demonstrators and even know what kind of democrac

hussein had weapons of mass destruction has admitted that he lied. claims were among those used to justify the u.s. led two thousand and three invasion of the country he said he saw an opportunity to topple the old regime and bring democracy to iraq or the war resulted in over one hundred thousand civilian deaths. a couple cool low pressure system which developed into a category one cycle own has battered the northern australian city of darwin dozens of homes were inundated and the main roads have been cut off by floodwaters high winds and heavy rains lashed the city overnight with trees and knocked down power lines schools in the city's airport are still closed and carlos is expected to intensify to a category two as. nears the coast and will affect the region until friday. korea is celebrating the birthday of its leader kim jong il who was turned sixty nine although some records show he's a year old of. people climb to the foot of a giant statue of the country's founding leader and kim's father what we call festivities including exhibitions ice ska

. >>> former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld, is revealing for the first time that saddam hussein had targeted his daughters. rumsfeld is doing interviews to promote his new book. of says in a national security -- he says in a national security meeting in we, he was told that saddam hussein had a $60 million bounty on his two daughters and the twin daughters of president bush. rumsfeld said he was especially concerned for his children because they did not have secret service protection, which was provided to the president and his entire family. >>> back here at home, a labor dispute involving nuss -- nurses at two stanford hospitals has reached the boiling point. union leaders say they want to impose a contract -- the fact that he want to impose a contract is not right. >>> in the east bay, city of hercules, organizers have of a recall drive against two city officials say they've got enough signatures to put the measure on the june ballot. at last night's city council meeting 6,000 signatures were presented from voters city nils say they were deceived by a former city manager. >>

we would have had all these other things trying to get saddam hussein. so are you confident there was no rationale at all for toppling saddam hussein? >> guest: the stated rationale is wrong as you know. debbie indie was the big thing. no weapons of mass destruction but i didn't get without to much in the book because it has been well that was elsewhere but i did get into in quite some detail about the notion that al qaeda and saddam hussein were linked. the reason that's important is you had to make several -- if saddam is going to be a threat to the stage with a system of things, not just one thing. you had to say thank you to set. you had to say they had wmd. but because he didn't have ballistic missile system that could deliver these debbie indie to the oshrc was linked to terrorists including al qaeda and that he might get this debbie indie to al qaeda. one of the most persuasive elements -- unfortunately it turned out to be the fruit of extraordinary rendition that he was taken to egypt in order to not be tortured. he gave up false information and

the implication that saddam hussein was in the box, that was a terribly vicious regime. there's no question that the world is better off today than if saddam hussein and his regime were still in power. >> but could it have been -- >> millions of people in that country have been liberated. that have a chance to live under a freer system. and thanks to the men and women in uniform and to the united states and the coalition countries. >> but you do go through many of the decisions that were made collectively that you believe. >> i do. i talk about them and reflect on them. some were good. and some were less good. >> where you don't go -- you find it difficult to go, maybe you simply refuse to go, is the judgment that there was a decision -- there were decisions that you made, that could have brought that cost down. i saw you talking to diane last night. president bush has said that the failure to reducing the troops too quickly was the most important failure in the war. you said you didn't have the confidence to make that judgment. if that wasn't it, what was? >> well, the

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

hussein was not responsible for nine eleven people know that he was not harboring harboring weapons of mass destruction of course that core group of supporters no longer exists there might be a couple people out there who still think that invading iraq was worth it but you know for the large part you know people are not in favor of that war it was not a popular war at all now one thing that i found very interesting which donald rumsfeld did is kind of a new tactic he set up an entire website and on this web site he actually released hundreds of pages of documents and he even put a clip up on his web site where he basically explained why and how it looks as play that really quick. some folks may wonder about my interpretation of the document just as they may about the trivial periods of history during which i have served in most cases these documents were written in real time never edited and as a result contain numerous misspellings and even errors. numerous misspellings and even errors i don't know what do you make of this strategy i mean it's almost like he's trying to release som

which was the record of saddam hussein. he was the man who had argued these very extensive chemical biological weapons and the nuclear program and had ensured the use of chemical weapons and, for example, as we know had concealed biological weapons for years. and he came out by happen chance with him. and the inspectors -- the -- in my positions as i try to bring out in the first written statement that i gave to the inquiry, was one. profound concern about having this man continued unchecked in that position. but also getting across to those who might have forgetten about it, what his record was. >> i'm not interested in the focus on the nuclear side of things. because if you look at the intelligence assessments, as you have indicated, there's a lot of confidence. about, at the time, about the biological weapons programs. these are being reconstituted. it's easy to see why ministers would have pushed that forward. there's a not more hesitation on the nuclear side. there's a difference of weapons of mass destruction between

we know saddam hussein had other weapons of mass destruction. when the kurdish people had their uprising, this long before the uprisings in iran coming into, and everywhere else. -- iran, egypt, and everythonthg else. he would just gas them. he was horrible. guest: the key point is that the u.s. president, bush at the time, didn't say that we were going to attack iraq because saddam hussein was a tyrant. they had done polling of the united states and they felt americans would not buy it. there are a number of tyrants and we do not invade the country's and kill the victims. the example that was used is that it had to be in imminent danger to us in the united states, that is how americans would can see that innovating, to protect americans. they use this false reason, weapons of mass destruction. as for the gassing of kurds, it is really distressing. it has been shot in the media, the picture of donald rumsfeld as an envoy for president reagan after the gassing of the kurds to normalize business relations with saddam hussein. it was all out in the

he thought that the problem was to march to baghdad and kick saddam hussein out, and then what? he did not know. he did a poor job of mustering the the attack on baghdad. remember, halfway up towards baghdad, and it took us longer to go through what one analyst called the most incompetent armed forces of the world, the iraqi armed forces, and then when we got there, there is a complete failure to understand what we had just done. a christian, western nation, we had just occupied a middle eastern, muslim nation. and we expected what? we expected them to thank us for it? we expected them to behave towards us like we were liberators? it takes an abysmal lack of appreciation for what you are actually doing to have that kind of approach to the problem. he said in an interview that we did just fine up to the mission accomplice statement by president bush on the aircraft carrier, and yes, we took baghdad, but you got yourself into a hole that we are just beginning to get out of eight years later. it was a disaster for american policy in the world. it tore us apart domestically. it help

hussein is listening to us right now", would you like saddam hussein to come on the next night and respond to that? - sure. and it was fascinating to hear reagan talk to hussein. what would he say to hussein? the best question i ever asked reagan was, "what was it like to be shot?" and he went through an almost brilliant, eerie description of what it's like to have a bullet hit you. now that's a simple question. it is the question you don't hear at press conferences. you know, when a man stands up before a press conference, they'll ask, what time? what time did you get to the hospital?" but i ask, "what's that like? what's that like?" why? because it's what we onhethink about. but i don't go hussein is watching, or reagan is watching, or whoever. i go on the air to establish, for me, information, and then through me to you. i don't picture an audience. some broadcasters do that. there's no rule for this. for me, i always figure that if i'm enjoying it, hopefully you'll enjoy it. if i'm learning, you'll learn. i'm a conduit, but i have to be the judge of it. i can't judge for you. - you're

again, they may not have been loyal to saddam hussein, but they had all lost their jobs. back in 2003, decisions were made, and they were all made for good reasons, but some of them didn't turn out as well as we would have expected, and two of those decisions, i believe, were number one, to disband the baath party. anyone who was a member could not work in the new iraqi government. everybody who worked in the former iraqi government was a baathist. we legislated anarchy in that country. third decision was to disband the iraqi army, and, again, what we did was we helped to quale the an or kick -- anarchy because without an army the iraqi people and the new government had no way of enforcing their laws, and on top of that, we put most of the country out of work. the fallujah brigade was at best questionable, and i believe most of the elements of the fallujah brigade were actually working with the enemy. in the summer of 2003, the em policemennation of the flew ya -- implementation of the fallujah brigade was a failure. they wanted to clear the city, but the generals were re

hussein providing him with a list of his enemies including seven hundred communists and democrats to be eliminated a bloodbath and soon. anyways house needed to plan the overthrow of d.m. less than a month before j.f.k. himself was murdered bobby kennedy way said vietnam might not be so easy and one is about the wisdom of putting someone they hardly know in charge of such an important country. they. really. want to. eat. in the course of the mire ambassadorship which had been agreed to be last just one year i dealt with fire government in other words the house was clean turned over five different times with the chaos that one can imagine while the national security council was busy replacing vietnamese governments right and extreme right l.b.j. acted like he was the victim in this thing that. worried johnson and constantly room were at him was the instability of the south vietnamese government i guess you might call the coat of arms or the vietnamese government turnstile for god's sake and i remember very vividly somebody would come in his office and say those of the like is a coup b

yes saddam hussein was a horrible dictator but was that the price to pay? pulverizing a country because he they dictator was in power and we have many of them around the world. and i asked the question, is regime change part of international law? where an international law do you find in the a letter or use of force to change a regime sanctioned by international law and if not, who was accountable for that? that is a question i think is not going to go away very easily. somebody has to be accountable for the loss of life that we have seen on iraq and someone has to be accountable in my view it is a breach of international law. >> let me take you to iran for a second because we were talking about this earlier today. your proposition is that watching the last 10 years in iran. at the u.s. had played its hand with more agility and more imagination, that we would have in iran today that actually did not stand anywhere close to having a nuclear weapons capability, that a deal could have been reached earlier at simple junctures as you are saying in which i rant w

the compromise of its security that began the destruction of saddam hussein is multiplied because any government that follows those three is going to be less effective or influenced by domestic islamists. i would offer a civil egypt would renounce the treaty but they would be less willing to expand or further that cooperation, and they certainly would not be a plan to kill egyptians who are trying to help the palestinians. the other thing i can say quite sincerely what i take away from the egypt situation is the utter failure of the american educational system to prepare americans for how the world is and not how we want it to be. the idea that any responsible politician in either party or the media would expect a democracy to emerge in egypt is either a signal that they don't know american history and have no respect since runnymede, and the media of course is a cheerleader for these people, who today interview, the interview egyptians who are middle class educated english speakers. so what impression do we get the the one the secular democracy? does it make sense really in a time of

-led invasion that toppled saddam hussein, city officials charge, quote, u.s. forces changed this beautiful city to a camp in an ugly and destructive way. >>> more protests expected at wisconsin's state capitol against a bill targeting workers and their unions. the legislation would essentially strip collective bargaining rights to their employees and increase the costs of their pension and health benefits. the state's republican goner is pushing the measure to help combat a $137 million budget shortfall. >>> in a new tell-all memoir, to be released next week massachusetts senator scott brown reveals as a young boy he was sexually assaulted by a camp counselor and physically abused by his stepfather. but he says, quote, like a fractured bone, i have knit back stronger in the broken places. >>> a european cargo rocket is headed towards the international space station after launching from french guiana. the unmanned vessel is carrying fuel, food, oxygen and clothing to the iss crew. and something else that may soon be joining a space station, a talking robot. jap

they were promised normality but the fall of saddam hussein. but they do not have it. they have also been waiting for electricity. for most people, the only get a few hours every dead. they've been winning for food prices to come down to the affordable levels, but that has not happened either. it is hard to believe for a country that has the second- largest oil reserves -- you can understand the frustration there are people across the country in the field just the same. the government is also corrupt just a few years after taking over from the americans. the government has stopped people from coming here to the center of baghdad to show their feelings. the bridge behind me is one of the main routes into baghdad, like every other route into the city sealed up today. no one is getting in. very few people are joining the protest. the government insists this is for security reasons, but it raises questions over its commitment to democratic freedoms. >> you are watching "bbc world news." i am peter dobbie. these are the headlines. the libyan leader tells his supporters in t

. >>> in a stunning admission the iraqi defector whose claims that saddam hussein had biological weapons were partly used to justify the 2003 invasion of iraq now says he made it all up. the man, code named "curveball" by the cia tells england's paper "the guardian" that he lied about iraq's hidden bioweapons laboratories in hopes that it would help topple saddam's regime. he added that he and his sons are proud that we were the reason to give iraq the margin of democracy. >>> before obama's 2012 budget proposal can be debated, congress needs to come to terms on the nation's current budget set to expire on march 4th. however, the clock ticks down, and lawmakers are at an impasse over proposed reductions, the president says, could "endanger the recovery." nbc's brian moore joins us from washington with those details. brian, good morning to you. >> good morning, lynn. the republican controlled house is on a collision course over the course of spending. it wants to slash at least $60 billion, perhaps up to $115 billion from this year's budget. 400 amendments have been introduced, and it's e

hussein and usama bin laden, the terror alert level stays elevated with the two lowest levels blue and green never having been used at all. is all of this pushing up the demand for psy1ho pharmaceutic pharmaceuticals? we put that question to our guest, but first here are their born, new york city, 29 years of age, single, jewish, democrat, wes leann university, con net cat, ba, english. late night with david letterman, cbs reports researcher, and altogether, six months. new york magazine, intelligencer intern. editorial assistant. book columnist. features writer. co currently author, working on her first book, female chauvinist pig, simon and schuster, free press. hobbies, cooking, traveling, extreme cooking, gym addict ariel levy, born boston, 62 years of age, wife margaret, three children, democrat, harvard college ba, english. ma gill university, montreal, m.d.. massachusetts mental health center, resident in psychiatrist, three years. u.s. army, pentagon major, two years. faculty appointments, harvard medical sister, assistant professor, four years. george washington medical school

hussein's troops but also spilling a vast amounts of oil in fact tens of millions of barrels of oil into the patient gulf region and this had it terrible effect on the marine environment on bird life in the area by six migratory and night if birds. once was in that is it had his fun and if it and it does it is not just a collection of millions of patents of sand it is that is an ecosystem and a poor vast amounts of oil into a consistent that is terribly destructive for. all's fair in love and war as they say and that's why. aircraft will hit chemical industries will sink tankers they'll hit a nuclear power plants they'll hit anything that might bring a society or city already are fighting it to its knees as quickly as possible with tremendous amounts than likely of environmental damage such deliberate targeting of the environment during the vietnam war prompted the addition of article fifty five the protocol one to the geneva conventions article fifty five of protocol one additional to the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that care shall be taken in war to protect th