of the iraq insurgency 2003-2014." his new piece for the intercept is called, "isis forces that now control ramadi are ex-baathist saddam loyalists." and joining us from london is patrick cockburn, middle east correspondent for the independent. he's just back from reporting in iraq and syria. his latest book is titled, "the rise of islamic state: isis and the new sunni revolution." his most recent article on iraq is headlined, "war with isis: as the militant threat grows, so does the west's self-deception." let's go first to malcolm nance. welcome to democracy now! talk about this latest piece you have written. talk about the political context for the rise and the power of isis today. >> the biggest misperception now, we're on the first anniversary of isis taking the city of mosul, and the make is -- biggest misperception is that isis is this new group which has appeared out of nowhere lidster across the middle east, they have managed to take large swaths of iraq and syria. in fact, isis is the same group and a conglom

2003 invasion of iraq. you did not. was that at the heart of the current mess? >> definitely, that's a point that came up when i watched the different opinions coming from the panel. was that i did not support the invasion, to start with, and from many iraqis with a key on the point of view that the root causes for what is going on now, and the - many of the divisions that we are seeing now. were introduced in 2003. it's not really about i.s.i.s. or al qaeda per se. they are manifestations of deeper problems. they were installed in the new foundations when the political system was created in 2003. i'm half sunni, half shi'ite and from my knowledge i never thought of sunnis and shi'ites as distinct identities before 2003, i lived in the country and was born there. after 2003 it became - now they identities. >> 12 years on from 2003. >> correct. >> if saddam hussein was still in power, what would iraq look like right now. >> i don't like to link iraq's unity of sovereignty to a person of saddam. it's a questi

they didn't stand with iraq. in mosul, the population did not stand with the iraqi army, and they fundamentally reject the idea of iraq run by the people who were democratically elected to run iraq. >> i don't know how peter galbraith knows any of that. if he talks about opinion polls, elections. there has been democratic elections in which the sunni population of iraq participated. the in - from the sunni areas, participating in the government of iraq, an until sunni leader, not one sunni elected leader in iraq. not one elected shia leader in iraq called for that in the country, why is peter galbraith sitting here, a state senator sitting here. he knows what the sunnis want. how does he know what the sunni population, how they view d.a.e.s.h. or i.s.i.l. the fact of the matter is you have a terrorist organization which does have an impressive military ability that has occupied the territory, the degradation of the iraqi army under maliki, the american administration looked the other way, is an act bordering on t

what would iraq look like today if we had not invaded iraq? let me give you a possibility. who knows but let me give you a possibility. so sanctions would eventually got away without a doubt that there's no way that the united states didn't hold sanctions get over the long term. it would've gone away. he would restart his weapons program and he would've had chemical weapons again. he would've had a biological weapons capability and probably would've developed a nuclear weapon. so either you would've had to do with it if you saw it happening or he would have won. then you fast-forward and you say okay what happened in tunisia, what happened in egypt what happened in bolivia, what happened in syria in terms of the arab spring could have easily happened in iraq. in other words saddam's people rise up and say we want you to go away. so you might have a country that has these weapons of mass destruction that have the same instability today. so there's no, can look back and say that if we had not done this that iraq wouldn't like it is today that it could easily look like this to

on the ground in iraq and syria. as we discussed earlier, there are other parts of the counter-isis strategy. on the intelligence side, which is challenging, on the counter messaging side, foreign fighter flows. guys who potentially come in and out, including to this country. there are different dimensions to combating. but the strategy on the ground is as i described. mr. langevin: are we trying to artificially hold together iraq? sec. carter: i believe there are indications there can be a decentralized but multi-sectarian but unitarian iraq, the path the prime minister says he is on. the fact others say he is on. i think we should give them a chance. sectarianism is not a good outcome. mr. langevin: thank you. committee member: thank you for your service and what you are doing to protect our country. i have a question building on previous questions about why we are not targeting known isis assets. for instance, everyone knows where the headquarters of isis is, in syria, i believe. a large multi-story building. ther

and let's look beyond iraq and syria. as they've held ground there they have expanded influence throughout the region. you have presence from libya, in egypt and yemen and support in afghanistan and pakistan. they were able to carry out an attack in tunisia and does isis extend influence into aurp as you have returning foreign fighters and carrying out attacks in europe and crucial concern for america, can they cross the atlantic and you've had a number of arrest of supporters here and the possibility of attacks as well. from this time it goes from a local or regional threat to a international problem, wolf. >> jim sciutto, thanks and how does the united states and the partners deal with the rapid expansion of isis and it is rapid and continuing. they don't seem to be stopped at all, do they? >> the iraqi ground forces to date have not demonstrated an ability to stay and fight a pitch battle and win and that has to happen if we're going to be successful here. >> as long as isis continues to achieve success, they become an

iraq is unraveling. and iran controlling iraq is going to be very difficult to sustain. >> much more coming up. coming up, cutting off the head of the snake. the u.s. has a $10 million basis point on the head of isis -- bounty on the head of isis. in , bold isn't just a word. it's how we approach everything. hurry in for our new wood-fire grilled flat iron steak. or victoria's filet portabella. starting at just $13.99 for a limited time. we let the bold flavors of the outback. speak for themselves. outback steakhouse. done right. gummy multivitaminrst ever from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. meet thsuperpower.ewest energy surprised? in fact, america is now the world's number one natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs.

that is not iraq. the war in iraq never ended. we were fighting an active insurgency the entire time and making no progress. the insurgency was getting worse, not better over the long swath of time. it is important to remember that president obama was carrying out an agreement made by president bush that he actually wanted the troops to stay longer. it was the domestic government there that would not give us the protection that allowed us to do it. i think that, had we kept 100,000 troops there for another couple years, then yes we could have gained some stability during that time. but we were going to leave at some point. if the baghdad government was not committed, and they weren't, to political reform, and we were just postponing the inevitable, which was the era of instability following america's troop withdrawal. i think the situation in iraq and islamic insurgency is so fundamentally different than what came in the wake of protracted wars in europe and asia. a nuclear bomb and in the war i'm not sure it's a terribly useful p

forces in iraq and syria. our options being considered said have a substantial ground combat force to combat isis? if not at what number will the , line be drawn for american forces in iraq? i think we all want to know how does this end and where do we draw the line on american involvement in this conflict? secretary carter: the essence of the strategy is not to have u.s. forces substitute for capable and motivated local forces, but to have u.s. and coalition forces enable those forces. the reason for that is that that's the only way to get a lasting result. american forces, outside forces can combat, but then it comes time for them to sustain the victory, and that can only be done by local forces. that's the reason our strategy is not to put in 100,000 american troops. it is to put in smaller and carefully selected groups that can have unusual leverage. that is the point of the taqaddum. it's not the number of people there. it's the leverage they'll have right in the middle of sunni recruiting territory, and

he did not invade iraq. but he destroyed iraq. >> that might be one of the reasons why iraq was destroyed. recognising the point that i was making and i don't shy away from making factual statements, even if they are taken as pro sad an statement by someone, it's the fact of the matter that before 2003 iraq's identity was not as sectarian as now. i think many of your points i agree with them. before 19 # -- 1979 iraqis existed. it's not as destructive. >> let's be a little clear. iraq was founded - putting together three ottomans that didn't have a lot in common. >> that's not true. >> and ruled from the start by the sunnis whose strategy was to keep the kurds in, shi'ites down. and if you want to talk about when the ideas began to develop as they have really i think you go to the 1991 uprising where the shi'ite areas rose up the united states did nothing to help, which was a scandal. the shi'ites were targeted as that uprising - as that uprising was put down. let's not forget the kurds. the kurd basically n

and earlier today america ordered 450 more american force intees iraq. forces into iraq. four years after american forces officially withdrew from iraq they're back there. iraqi forces have managed to retake tikrit and advance on baiji. as troops get diverted to the west of the iraqi capital, seize the city of emramadi, by i.s.i.l. imran khan has the story. >> the battle in anbar province for ramadi and fallujah as well is where the battle with i.s.i.l. is really being fought here in iraq. now reasons for that are many fold, you have a number of shia militias who are taking towns and villages and roads for this assault on ramadi. also you have i.s.i.l. who control two of the largest border crossings with syria coming into anbar province. strategically, the iraqis don't have control of the supply line, and you need the supply line if you take control of mosul. particular in beiji. they are great for cutting off supply lines and open territory. large amounts of civilians they are not that useful. what iraqis are saying, they would like, something that iraqis are beginning t

left iraq at that time without a single fighter plane remaining in iraq. what do you make of his point that the u.s. is at least partially to blame with what has happened in iraq over the last full years and with isis? >> i don't agree with that at all. there was a status of forces they asked us to leave long before that three years before. we left a lot of equipment. the country is making a lot of none oil, they could have bought their own aircraft. we left a well-trained army. maliki, the previous prime minister hollowed that army out with militias a lot of that money was stolen, a lot of that commitment because they gave up to the islamic state in june. i don't hold us responsible for this at all. iraq is a failed state they're barely doing any better now. wolf i think the situation is so dire i keep hearing rumors that the kurds are furious with the abadi government they're not getting enough weapons, weapons meant for them they're not getting oil income and they're talking about breaking away from iraq which would be a huge step. but i don't know that

we need a strategy to succeed not just in iraq but iraq, syria, around the world. because the problem we face is a problem for the international community. we're a leader in that international community. where i disagree though is with the divees tur. look, leaving a war is not the same as ending a war. we've made this mistake now for a number of years. we left in iraq in 2011 saying the war is over we're gone. the war is not over. and the war in afghanistan is not over. and divesting ourselves from these things when they're really not over will get us what we've got now. the three years that i described of movement in syria and iraq as a result of us leaving. believing falsely that the war is over just because we have left. and i think that the president is now faced with a reality that he didn't want to face not alone in that many other presidents in the same boat but the reality is that the war is not over. we have a stake in it. and we've got to figure out what's the best way ahead now not looking at the rear view mirror but looking through the front windshield

falsely alleging iraq possessed weapons of mass distraction. the senate report says that he later recanted the claim claiming he had been tortured and only told them what he knew they wanted to hear. torture. it is so important to talk about this today. what has gone on and who should be held accountable. the senate intelligence report the executive summary was released in december. it covered between 2002 and 2006. even senator john mccain a man who himself was tortured in captivity as a pow in vietnam calls for its release. graphic new details of the post-9/11 u.s. torture program came to light in december when an intelligence committee released that 500 page summary of its investigation into the cia. with key parts redacted. the report concludes that the intelligence agency failed to disrupt a single lot despite torturing al qaeda and other captives in secret prisons worldwide between 2002 and six and details a list of tortured methods used on prisoners including waterboarding, sexual threats with broomsticks. medically unnecessary rectal fe

iraq needs more support to kill isil financing and also needs the g7 to support iraq family and to bridge the debt gap. >> reporter: the meeting between the prime minister and u.s. president obama in germany is posed to be a review of what's happening in iraq. here in the capital this sideline meeting means very little. what people are really concerned about here is rising food prices electricity blackouts and security. isil mounts regular car bomb attacks in markets like this. iraq's deficit in its budget influences every single decision it makes from fighting isil to paying government salaries, all of which have a big impact. the real question, however is how much can the g7 helpful imran kahn, al jazerra baghdad. >>> in syria, two separate offensives are taking place against isil positions in the province of aleppo. the army which includes the al qaeda affiliated nusra front says it's left scores of isil fighters injured after attacking a number of villagers in the north of the province, kurdish forces work with this u.s. led coalition are fight to go stop isil advancing in the north.

back into iraq. guest: that is exactly what is happening. all of our soldiers left three years ago. almost four years ago now. and now we're back. 3800 another 400 500. the president is going to send that number in. it will be over 4000. our air force and navy are consistently every day bombing in iraq and syria and by the way, as far as i know, it is a very, very difficult stretch to find the legal authority to be waging war in syria. you have to use the afghanistan authorization to use force. and somehow connected syria to afghanistan, which apparently the lawyers and the white house have figured out how to do. congress has not. we have to deal with this. we need a debate. in other words, we need a new strategy. host: here is a tweet from one of our viewers. " should we just formally declare war with isis?" guest: that is what an authorization to use force is it different words meaning the same thing. and yes, if we are going to conduct war in iraq and syria then congress, which has the constitutio

we're talking today mostly about iraq and syria. but as you know isil has tentacling out in other places. and it has to be sustainable over time. that's the point to carry away here. we have got about 50%, almost 50%, of the global resource in isr unmanned and committed into iraq and syria sector, and that's a heavy lift. to suggest -- by the way, the rest of it is reacting to european security and to issues related to iranian aggressiveness in the straight and over in yemen, to issues in the pacific and afghanistan, of course, where we still have 10,000 troops committed. we are trying to find a way to make it a sustainable effort. we, of course, are looking at points, discreet moments for limited objectives and offensive operations where we might provide an additional boost to the iraqi security forces. but i would be very reluctant, and that's probably not the right word, i get accused of being reluctant often, but my military judgment would be the introduction of those resources should not be done on a habitual basis because we w

re-invasion of iraq and syria? >> i don't think we should ever send a message to our foes of how far we're willing to go. >> you wouldn't rule that? >> i wouldn't rule out boots on the ground. if the national interest of this country are at stake here at risk in this country or abroad, that to me is the standard that we do for military engagement. >> reporter: governor walker has been courting social conservatives here in iowa, many of them concerned about that big decision expected from the supreme court. if the supreme court establishes that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right -- does that effectively end this as a political issue in this campaign? >> i personally believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. if the court decides that, it's ultimately pursuing a constitutional amendment. >> you would favor a constitutional amendment saying that would say states are allowed the ban same-sex marriage? >> left up to the states, yeah. >> we had another big cultural moment, president obama said that

forces in iraq and syria. our options being considered to be deployed a substantial ground combat force to the region to combat isis? if not, at what number with a line be drawn for american forces in iraq? i think we all want to know how does this end and where do we draw the line on american involvement in this conflict? >> the essence of the strategy is not to have u.s. forces substitute for capable and motivated local forces, but to have u.s. and coalition forces enable those forces. and the reason for that is that that's the only way to get a lasting results. american forces, outside forces can combat but then it comes time for them to sustain the victory, and i that can only be done by local forces. that's the reason why our strategy is not to put in 100,000 american troops. it is to put in smaller and carefully selected groups that can have unusual leverage. that's the point about, it's not about the number of people there. it's the leverage they will have. the right in the middle of sunni recruiting te

plan, and iraq remains mired in divisions. zeina hodor sent us this report. >> she grieves for her husband and eldest son. it's been a year since they were killed by the islamic state of iraq and the levant in mosul. she is among the millions who have been displaced over the years. she says she is tired. like others here, she has been displaced from mosul and many feel the government is not serious about recapturing their city from isil. >> there is a conspiracy against mosul and against the sunnis. the baghdad government is not helping us get back our city. they won't give us arms to fight. >> ires say they are unfairly treated, looked upon by supporters of isil not just by the government, but by kurds in the north. >> this is the capitol of the kurdish region. sunni arabs require a local guarantor to enter. they face the same restrictions when entering baghdad. authorities here and in the iraqi capital argue that these measures are justified for security reasons but the people feel that they are being singled out as a commun

has no complete strategy for helping iraq deal with islamic state of iraq and levant. the u.s. president made the comments after meeting with haider al-abadi on the sidelines of the summit in germany. i.s.i.l. conditions to gain ground in iraq and syria despite months of u.s. led air strikes. >> when a finalised plan is presented to me from the pentagon i'll share it with the american people. we don't yet have a complete strategy. because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> louis jordon has more from br -- rosalind jordan has more. >> the president said the administration doesn't have a complete strategy for dealing with i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria, officials are telling reporters that the situation is this - the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq is led by the iraqi government, not the obama administration so it would be inappropriate for the administration to try to tick date how the i.s.i.l. fighters should be taken on particularly right now in anbar province one thing that is stressed by u.s. official is that the u.s. is basically trying to look at how

government of iraq. they're corrupt. the government of iraq is totally corrupt. who cares. >> let me ask you about a few social issues because they haven't been issues you've been talking about for several years. i know you're ee posed to abortion. >> right. i'm pro-choice. >> you're pro-choice or pro-life? >> i'm pro-life, i'm sorry. >> so how important is that issue to you now, when president trump picks supreme court justices, would that be a litmus test? >> it is. it is. look you have a lot of pro-choice people out there. but that is an issue, it's very interesting because in terms of polling, the pro-choice is actually going down a little bit. you know, it's very interesting. >> let's talk about same-sex marriage. you said a few years ago that you were evolving on that issue. where are you? >> i'm traditional marriage. it is changing rapidly. >> but what do you say to a lesbian who's married, or a gay man who is married, who says donald trump, what's traditional about being married three times? >> w

iraq, we've just been talking about, but it's not just in iraq. it's elsewhere around the region. so it is another very significant challenge for us and it really is the reason why we are postured in the way we are in the middle east. the chairman#oik just got back from israel, by the way, and he's been working with our israeli partners on exactly those kinds of checks. >> well i appreciate the fact we've got folks over there. i still haven't heard quite an approach because it seems to me like their influence is expanding, and i'm not sure we're dealing with it. i'll yield to mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the chairman and i met last week with the sunni leader of the iraqi parliament. one of the things he said during our meeting that surprised me a little bit as we were talking about, you know, the difficulty of getting broader support from the baghdad government and sort of shifting focus to where could the sunnis in that path between sort of anbar and up into syria where isil is, you know, most dominant, and he expressed disappointment, frankly that, the other gulf state

troops will be sent to iraq to train and advice iraq's military. an official now says the goal is also to have u.s. troops train sunni tribal fighters to rise up against isis. i'll speak with senator tom cotton of the intelligence and armed services committee, and our correspondents analysts and guests are standing by for full coverage. let 'best gin with barbara starr. what is the mission snow? >> wolf a bit of confusion about that. we've heard for weeks that they want to training more iraqi fighters to get into the fight. here at the pentagon today, however, the focus was on something caused advise and assist. what does that mean? try to help the iraqi fighters get more organized, teach them how to launch conditions but not necessarily train new fighters right away. so a biof confusion, but it does seem that they are going to focus more on looking at the sunni tribes. they have to get the sunni tribes involved in the fight. it's a you will good going west into anbar province getting the sunniss to join the fight, key to pushing eye says owl, but

by the time the united states left iraq at the end of 2011, al qaeda in iraq was at its week it weakest point. almost immediately after the military left they started to rebound. it started to rebound for two reasons. number one the military pressure was taken off because the u.s. military and u.s. intelligence were very effective in helping the iraqis take on al qaeda in iraq so that escher was removed and the immediately started to rebound. the other thing that happened was that when the u.s. left the prime minister took a series of steps that basically disenfranchised sunnis. so you have these moderate sunnis who were so frustrated that moderate sunnis started supporting and even joining al qaeda in iraq. they even rebounded because of that. then the syrian civil war breaks out. the sill of syrian civil war wants to be part of the action. they go across the border and that's when they change their name because you can't be fighting in syria and be called al qaeda in iraq. they simply read branded themselves as isis. three things happened in syria that made them really, really strong.

it's been a year since isil first declared it's intent in iraq when it took control of mosul, iraq's second largest city. we have more from northern iraq. >> beyond the bridge is isil territory. some 2 million people are breeze to still live there cut off from the rest of the country. >> the people who want to leave but they have to pay isil huge amounts of money that they don't have. they have 20 provide guarantee to prove they plan to come back. they live in a prison. >> these people are born and raised in mosul. they fled to the north when isil took over. journalists have contacts inside who secretly film. they explain how isil uses every opportunity to brain watch the people of mosul. they even breach in malls. according to these journalists isil hides its weapons in civilian neighborhoods so people will turn against the u.s.-led coalition when they target the area. but else has some sport. support. some in the community have long felt argentina targeted by the government and by militias. many prefer isil over the kurds who they believe want their land. >> they have managed to ho

the war in iraq. i was at the u.n. when both of these wars were launched. the war in afghanistan -- in fact, i was notified by a flash telegram on a sunday. i figure was sunday, october 6 2001. "seek out the president of the security council and ask for a meeting this evening to inform the council that we are going to be launching attacks into afghanistan in the exercise of our self-defense under article 51 of the united nations charter." we dutifully did that that evening in the council. i do not think that we had any argument from anybody as to the fact that we were retaliating against afghanistan because of the 9/11 attacks. i think that was well understood, both internationally, and in our own country. there was an interesting footnote to that day for me, which i think was a harbinger of issues to come. that is that the second part of my instruction said -- by the way, you should seek out the ambassador to the united nations of iraq. this was sunday, october 6 2001, mind you. and, you should seek

in iraq and afghanistan. i thought i would start to do this critique by saying that's it is going great for us in september 11 there is no more september 11. we have had 14 so with the scoreboard. >> not so much there is the great deal that we agree on and things we will clash on when he gets here but the effects of september 11 should have been prevented by the national security apparatus of the united states and there were a number of indications something was coming and actually what actually happened they were missed in what i believe to be the greatest intelligence failure in american history worse than pearl harbor. in the united states was unprepared for the wars and had to fight in afghanistan but those that chose to fight in iraq partly as a basalt of another intelligence failing leaving saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction which he had a program that was destroyed after a the first war in iraq and as the storm broke the invasion of iraq my former colleague with the invasion was the worst f

trainers from iraq it. would unwisely deny -- iraq. it would unwisely deny the support to fight against the brutal and barbaric terrorist group leaving -- group, leaving them alone to stop this threat. this resolution would leave isil unchecked by u.s. air power allow the vicious terrorist group to gain strength further destabilizing the region by threatening allies such as jordan, and create a largely uncontested safe haven for which isil could plot attacks against the united states. it would allow the continued brutality of a group who beheads innocents, including americans, forces women and children into sexual slavery destroys religious heritage sites and targets christians and others. this resolution has nothing to do with authorizing the use of military force against isil. instead this resolution simply unilaterally withdraws our u.s. forces from fighting back against this evil. i urge opposition to this resolution. thank you mr. chairman, i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the ba

iraq is in debt. iraq needs more support to kill i.s.i.l. financing and the g7 to support iraq financially, and bridge the debt gap >>> the meeting between the prime minister and u.s. president obama in germany is supposed to be a review of what is happening in iraq. >> here in the capital, this sideline meeting means little. what people are concerned about is rising food prices, electricity blackouts and security i.s.i.l. mount car bomb attacks in markets like this. iraq's deficit and the budget influences every decision, from fighting i.s.i.l. to cost salaries, a real impact. the real question is how much can the g7 help >>> politicians from countries bordering libya are in cairo to come up with a plan to bring peace to the war-torn country. the algerian and italian foreign ministers are at the talks. saying stability in libya would reduce migration. migrants continue to make the crossing from libya. hmas "bulwark" launched a mission to help 500 from boats. 5,000 have been discovered on boats in the last 48 hours. we have this update from

the islamic state of iraq and the levant. he has been meeting the french president along with foreign ministers from several countries in a meeting in paris. >> translator: we need to disrupt the flow of international combatants we also need to drive the financing sources oil trafficking, heritage antiques trafficking and great number of sites destroyed by daesh. daesh having already sold antiques to get more money. we need to fight all of this. >> mohammed joins us from paris. strategy wise what came out of that summit. >> reporter: shiulie what was interesting is in the lead up to this conference, there has been a lot of tension amongst members of the coalition, frustration that had been building especially after the takeover of ramadi these last couple of weeks. hadi blamed the international community for not doing enough. and said they needed weapons and ground troops. when it ended what was announced was there is now an anbar action plan in which this coalition members especially iraq will try to gather all of the combat

constant hostility towards iraq. in 2003 under the guise of searching for weapons of mass destruction, the u.s. invaded. he was the ace of spades in the u.s.'s famous deck of cards in iraq's most wanted leaders. in 2003 he turned himself in and in 2009 was convicted on two different counts sentenced to 22 years in prison. the next year he was sentenced to death by the iraqi supreme court for the persecution of religious parties. he remained on death row and loyal to saadam until his death. >>> we're joined by a professor of political science. thank you for being with us. first of all your reaction to news of his death. >> well it was certainly sad news for a gentlemen like that. where you differ or agree with him, it was a loss. he was a veteran diplomat and he did his utmost and endeavored to lift the sanctions on iraq since 1991 and he stood in the face of the united states and the west and showed the double standardness of these two blocks against iraq and i think he has done nothing to justify his death sentence.

instead declaring iraq could conceivably be a model democracy. >> iraq could conceiveably become a model proof that a muslim state can exceed in a battle against extremism taking place in the muslim world today. the transition to democracy will take time. it will not be a smooth road. the eventual political outcome will be decided by the iraqi people within the broad principles of rule of law, minority rights individual liberty, and something proximate mating representative democracy. >> so those are all quotes. i think they speak for themselves. if nothing else rumsfeld, if he has a new line it may reflect the simple politics of iraq today. the story doesn't stop there. he called on fox news to push back on that article last night. >> caller: it's nonsense. the article was not accurate. what i said was that -- when our goal when we went in was to have saddam hussein gone. to have a leadership in the country that would not invade its neighbors, would not have weapons of mass destruction, and reasonably respectful of the various diverse ethnic groups the kurds, the shias, and the sunnis.

. >> translator: we need to fight isil in iraq the whole region and around the world. >> iraq's leader tells his allies he needs more weapons. >>> a chinese river boat with over 400 people on board capsizes rescue workers hear cries for help from inside the hull. >>> and the new cancer treatment scientists are saying is a once in a generation discovery. ♪ >>> a bomb has exploded at a market in northeastern nigeria. at least 17 people reported killed. the attack follows another major blast on saturday when at least 30 people were killed. let's get more from al jazeera's correspondent in abuja. tell us the latest about this blast. >> reporter: shiulie these reports of this fresh blast are coming from eyewitnesss who were at the market a livestock market in the area. and as you said reports are that at least 17 people have been killed. but some eyewitnesses are telling other news organizations that the figure could be a lot higher. we have spoken to somebody on the ground who confirms that a major explosion did take place at a busy livestock market that people have been killed and many

vote, iraq vote, iraq vote is not going to change the dynamics of this. i like to see good policy-driven debates on the democratic side. i think you'll get that too from bernie sanders and martin o'malley who will be trying to find policy differences with hillary in order to push that populist theme that gene says they want to pursue. >> enthusiasm, alex, is a huge part of democratic voter turnout. and we saw that with barack obama, the candidate in 2008. and the enthusiasm was driven, had a variety, a few engines. it's like he had four big engines on the back of that campaign, and one of them was he was right about iraq. that was a very, very important part of the enthusiasm, and when you listen to what lincoln chafee is saying, if democratic voters think about, well okay, she got iraq wrong, and if they hear that stuff about ethics comes from a democrat and the way he analyzes that, those things, that has a way of mute ing -- >> dampening effect. the clinton campaign is sort of baking that dampening into the cake if that makes any sort of culinary sense

mosul is iraq's second largest city. in syria an american citizen was killed fighting against i.s.i.l. keith bloomfeld is likely the first u.s. citizen to die fighting alongside the kurds. >>> jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with more on the fighting. jamie how confidence are u.s. officials that more u.s. advisors will be able to turn things around? >> well, imran these advisors have one mission and that is to whip some war weary iraqi troops who are routed from ramadi back into shape so they can retake the city. the white house describes the dispatch of 450 american troops as a training mission. part of the president's pledge to ramp up training of iraqi forces to capitalize on what it says is the successful training of almost 9,000 iraqi troops so far. >> there actually are some locations in anbar near the other training base in anbar at al asad air base where we have seen iraqi security forces that have been trained by coalition forces that have received about the benefit of advice and assistance of u.s. military pe

iraq is in debt. it needs the g7 to support iraq financially and to bridge the debt gap. >> reporter: the meeting between the prime minister and u.s. president barack obama in germany is supposed to be a review of what's happening in iraq. here in the capital this sideline meeting means very little. what people are really concerned about here is rising food prices electricity blackouts and security. i.s.i.l. had regular car bomb attacks in regions like this. every single decision it makes from fighting i.s.i.l. to paying government salaries all of which have a big impact. the real question however is how much can the g7 help? imrawnimran khan, al jazeera baghdad. >>> more on the week ahead at 11:30 earn time. >>> individual video taken friday on youtube in mckinney 40 miles north of dallas one officer is found grabbing a young girl and wrestling her to the ground. >> the disturbance involved a group of jufnls and a juveniles and a number of local residents. a 14-year-old female was temporarily detaine

iraq is fractured. you can make a pretty powerful argument, in fact, that iraq is no more. so when do we shift that strategy and start building the capabilities of other partners who will fight? >> well, sectarianism in iraq is the principle factor that brought us to where iraq is in isil. it was prime minister maliki and his relentlessly partisan or sectarian manner of governance. now, we have with prime minister abadi who i've met and the chairman may have met also, someone who i believe is genuinely committed to behaving in a decentralized federal liesed, but multisectarian single state. personally, he's dedicated to that. i think the chairman asked the question, does his writ run throughout iraq? that's what we are waiting to see. in the meantime, we are arming the kurds. we are arming the sunnis. we do it in coordination with the iraqi government, but in a way that doesn't delay as it was a few months ago that assistance to them. but we're still doing it through the government of iraq because we're still trying to support the prime minister in maintaining a decentraliz

has no complete strategy for helping iraq deal with the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the u.s. president made the comments after meeting with the iraq prime minister haider al-abadi. despite months after months of u.s. led air strikes. >> when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon then i will share it with the american people. it's not-we don't not -- we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> rosalyn jordan has more from washington d.c. >> it should not be surprising that president barack obama said the u.s. doesn't have a complete strategy for dealing with i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria but telling reporters on monday that the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq is led by the iraqi government not by the obama administration so it would be inappropriate for the administration to try to dictate exactly how the i.s.i.l. fighters should be taken on particularly right now in anbar province. one thing that is also being stressed by u.s. officials is that the u.s. is basically trying to look at how to tra

out of iraq and then take on i.s.i.s. in syria? this has to be part of that larger strategy and, if it is there, if we can define that larger strategy, then i think we cannot only work with our arab allies in that region, we can also develop the consensus that we need from the american people to continue this commitment. >> woodruff: well, i understood the president when he said there is not a complete strategy to be referring to the fact that the iraqis have not yet recruited and trained sufficient troops to carry out the fight. andrew bacevich, let me come back to you. if the u.s. working with iraq were to do what secretary panetta just described, were to have the support of the allies in the region, countries in the region why isn't that the way to move forward now? >> again, with all due respect we don't know how to do this. i mean, we were in -- the u.s. military was in iraq from 2003, and 2011 four years later we have this basket case on our hands. i think it's important for us to recognize that there are some problems that a

trainers from iraq it. would unwisely deny -- iraq. it would unwisely deny the support to fight against the brutal and barbaric terrorist group leaving -- group, leaving them alone to stop this threat. this resolution would leave isil unchecked by u.s. air power allow the vicious terrorist group to gain strength further destabilizing the region by threatening allies such as jordan, and create a largely uncontested safe haven for which isil could plot attacks against the united states. it would allow the continued brutality of a group who beheads innocents, including americans, forces women and children into sexual slavery destroys religious heritage sites and targets christians and others. this resolution has nothing to do with authorizing the use of military force against isil. instead this resolution simply unilaterally withdraws our u.s. forces from fighting back against this evil. i urge opposition to this resolution. thank you mr. chairman, i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the ba

the war in iraq. a war of choice. for the purpose of saving us from weapons of mass destruction which it turns out did not exist. this episode is now described as a fake, a failure of intelligence. we did not know that the weapons were not there, we did not know the invasion would cost so many lives, we did not know that we would spend more than $1 trillion to. people make mistakes, but in this instance, people did know these things. there were weapons inspectors in iraq saying, wait, there might not be anything here. there were military people saying, we cannot run an operation like this on a shoestring. there were middle east expert saying over and over again, if you try to occupy this country -- these warnings were ignored. can i get some water? thank you. what are the results of this realistic choice -- i would say, unrealistic choice? waste as many as 5 million iraqis were driven from their home. by any calculation, the decision to invade iraq can be counted among the most disastrous in modern hi

forces in iraq? >> no. i don't get to think as long as barack obama is president we was a large military deployment. it's possible that we could see the additional steps that steve has arched, i agree would be valuable -- urged. allowing our advisors to go forward with the iraqi forces advising, whether they are sunni tribal fighters, iraqi secret forces and bolster them in combat, raise targets are more effective, close in air support. i see those things happening. i think we have to be honest and looking at this. we have a president but we also have a country that in many ways is allergic to iraq. we lived through such a painful period after the 2003 invasion. i think it's widely shared whatever jeb bush me say when asked about it it's widely should give that it was a mistake to have done that at that beyond the sake of invasion there were so many mistakes made and how it was carried out during the period of occupation. the american people not unreasonably unfair elected to get into the kind of large-scal