analyst i was charged with looking at evaluating whether or not iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and al qaeda. and as an analyst, we had been riding products for policymakers and briefing them, and the bottom line was that iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and al qaeda. there was not a connection there. after that, after the invasion, when i became an officer, and doug kelly had risen to prominence because he had been attacking targets in iraq, and then eventually joined al qaeda, and created al qaeda in iraq, my job was to dismantle his network and his organization and his leadership. >> watch afterward sunday night at 9 eastern on book tv. on c-span 2.

fund a group it states can't stop the suffering or to the senior correspondent in iraq goes the delve deeper. sometimes i get the impression that trump knows what the iranian people want better than the uranian people he his government congress talk so much about how the iranian people want the said that this is good for them and math bad for them it's almost like they knew each other obviously the people of iran are great people you know i know many of them i live in new york have been there very much less to have for years but i know many arabians living in new york and they're fantastic people personally i have my doubts about the iranians trump knows being representative of the entire nation but whatever there is one group of the rains that the white house and friends knew very well could even say that pounds were jad dean hutton or the people of iran will make for sure they've been busy bees lately last friday they got together in washington protested powerlessly calling for regime change and the removal of iran's supreme leader. we've always been saying no war no appeaseme

the war drums are beating, when bush was trying to beat the drums of war to start a war in iraq, i stood with jim clyburn for common sense against war in iraq and now we have to insist on common sense, not chaos so trump does not stumble into an unnecessary war in iran. we have to make that clear. we have to make that clear as democrats. we're the party that can save this nation. i want to thank jim's efforts on criminal justice reform. we know we got a beautiful country, but it is marred by racial disparity in our criminal justice system. it is a stain on our beautiful nation. and all of us have to buckle down to figure out how to bring a little more justice to the justice system. i just want to do it in the -- share what we are doing in the state of washington. we not only pushed back against drug war by legalizing marijuana, but i'm the first governor offered to pardon thousands of people caught up in the drug war so we can reduce racial disparity. we need to do the same thing on national level. we know that the death penalty has not been racially neutral in this state and i'm g

remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehran's downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u.s. bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. this is the day. to. the president may not intend to go to war here but they're worried that even the administration may bumble bee toward the center in the search for anything to come with the bomb in a plane over it is deliberate and we know the high tension wires they're up there and with mike you everything we can do not to escalate the situation chilled out more is very worrying and stressful for us it will be an experience we have already live with it it's scary but once was declared every person has to defend his homeland security because of the. all the drug laws and iran's territorial waters we want to thank you down. also on the day residents of istanbul are changing or canceling their summer holidays so they can vote again for who will be the

back from the precipice would just moments remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehran's downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u.s. bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. this is the day. the president may not intend to go to war here but we're worried that even the administration may be bumbled into a war no i'm sure in the in which you know that the ultimate player ever did that with the rain and we melted to high consumers. and with muscular everything we can and not to escalate the situation chilled out war is very wearing and stressful for us it will be an experience we have already laid out and it gets scary but one skill is depleted every person has to defend his homeland security. protocol but that it all turned into iran's territorial waters we won't back down to balt. also on the day residents of istanbul are changing or canceling their summer holidays so they can vote

adding to the military deployment already there the president of iraq has spoken out against this he won one that he will not allow the u.s. to use his country to launch any kind of military action against neighboring countries the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again have been the tension of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post for any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran the u.s. secretary of state they are things it won't come down to anything that the united states has done if war breaks out. america's do everything it can to be ask away if there is conflict there is war if there is a connecticut cuba it will be because the arabians made that choice the pressure or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this coalition more than the region as a result of the united states withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by the maximum pressure against iran on the one side we are seeing the americans

reaction the president of iraq is the latest high level figure in the region to speak out he warned that the u.s. will not be given permission to use his country to launch any kind of military action against iraq the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post foot any hostile action against any of on neighbors including iran and just to point our tensions escalated between tehran and washington when the u.s. abandoned the 2015 uclear deal last year here's the view of an iranian journalist the relations between the 2. the fresh air or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this collection more than the region as a result of the united states withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by the maximum pressure against tehran on the one side we're seeing the americans talking about negotiation on the other hand they are using military threats as well as economic war again

about. making sure are trying to make sure that's iraq's power and in the middle east is at least as restrained if not diminished. in the case of. some people and. they would very much like to see a change or regime wish and hope that they would get some regime that was. less willing and able to stand up against people who attack and right side but the other the one thing i've been convinced of for many years is that nuclear in your business is just a pretext i mean the best evidence of that i've come across for that is when in i think it was november 2007. the u.s. intelligence services produced a national intelligence estimate on this issue. stated that as far as they were concerned. didn't a nuclear weapons program. george bush was angry about the he was angry but he said in his book that he was angry because this meant that he could no longer. make it more difficult for him to maintain the diplomatic pressure on iran and there's no way he could attack around militarily and circumstances in which. didn't and your weapons program so obviously the whole bloody business about the wea

we have dropped over a quarter of a 1000000 bombs on iraq. a country that never attacked us that never was a threat to us that never took any any negative action and. and john bolton by the way was one of the individuals who was a ball and concocting the false narrative to get us into iraq so. yes i think. i think the american people are very war weary and i don't think that it will bode well for the republicans if we end up in a shooting war with iran. meanwhile iran has revealed in a video that it has a large missile arsenal in a secret underground site the video shows the pre-launch maintenance and the launch of an iranian short range ballistic missile there on this missile program is one of the issues the u.s. has iran argues that it needs it for defensive purposes and that the program is not open for negotiations islamic nations president reiterated that iran does not seek nuclear weapons. a scientific capability in the field of nuclear power sufficient we don't seek nuclear weapons not because of u.s. sanctions because of ideology and religion. we have the means to counter

you present the president of iraq was among those to speak out against it he warned the u.s. won't be allowed to use his nation to launch any kind of military action against neighboring countries. the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post for any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran or us secretary of state from power made it clear he says it won't be down to anything the united states has done and if conflict does break out. america's done everything it can to deescalate if there is conflict if there is war as there is a kinetic activity it will be because the iranians made that choice of course europeans have their own grievances when it comes to donald trump and nato but the when it comes to iran they sure are some of these concerns or alleged concerns with regard to iran's nuclear industry missile in this regional power and so on and so forth it is widely believed the europeans are not going to take action and they

and you and i probably remember quite well in 2003 the illegal invasion of iraq but the anti-war movement was vast it was strong it was loud it was all across europe it was in the u.k. it was a very strong in the united states even though the media didn't like the coverage there was a real anti-war movement now speed up to 2019 under the trumpet ministration the we here we hear calls for war and violence and invasion of venezuela of the rand we have the united states supplying lethal weapons to ukraine we have the united states going to the south china sea as remarkably in the middle of trade negotiations here we have a hyper aggressive foreign policy but where is the anti-war movement other than places like this and people like yourselves go ahead medea in washington. unfortunately i think people are so consumed by domestic issues and there are so many important issues in the mainstream media in this country is super hyper focused on domestic issues and on partisan issues and there is very little coverage of what's going on in the world i think for the most part people are unawa

. stream on twitter. in a war torn city in iraq a medic documents the stories of the survivors recording their hopes and dreams for a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i so take control and his family are forced to flee no where to hide a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks local communities here in 40 are very frustrated because the lack of post storm services with detailed coverage of this part of the flag though people often see this struggling to make ransom notes and just want a better life from around the world as obviously has been offered to those who rebel against the government of except those involved in human rights abuses a war crimes. monitored truck quantify i'm value list is beta being the new car for weapon your data your identity is a commodity and we have to understand where i'm from or come from awfully moving it's time to reclaim our cyber so should i have to put in them with something that can all be sold we are creators we are archivists we are rebel g

invasion of iraq but they haven't learned their lesson at all as one fact it's even far worse now because as a result of 2003 a lot of people were essentially blacklisted banned from the airwaves and they're still banned because they talk about obvious things like breaking of international law i mean it's if the american people knew i think that they might think differently but they don't know walter. oh absolutely i agree with you i mean i think that it has to be and has for i mean how else could there be an absolute blackout on on all of the most important things going on. the world practically either either a blackout in the sense that it's not covered or in the sense that it's just distorted to such a great extent that people really have no idea what the what the reality of the situation is and most importantly for protest what the role of the united states government is and sowing discord and chaos and suffering all around the world whether that's in yemen the invasion of libya and ongoing chaos in libya in syria in venezuela the suffering imposed by as a consequence of sanctions on

towards iraq just quickly before i go back to a dollar you mentioned the gulf crisis and qatar how important was it that the prime minister of qatar did go i don't think it's significant in the crisis itself it's very clear that there was no initiative that resulted in the prime minister going i think that it was very clear they received the popular invitation of this down as opposed to what happened previous summit and also. is attempting with its partners in kuwait in amman and in other countries to rationalize politics in the region to rationalize what it could behavior in the region and also that has. always been has always given above. differences with came to issues in the arab and islamic. issues so i think it's very clear why the prime minister was there and the lack of any enthusiasm from the other side and from the gut that i thought was talking about the d.c. makes it very clear that there is no advancement in that crisis right adela let me come back to you i actually want to discuss a couple of other things that weren't discussed everything was iran iran iran the fact t

democracy invading iraq and so on and so for so. europe represents a net good value for the united states if they want to solve the crises i am not so sure that these prizes can be solved all where i would say. factually iran of a 1st trying this is not walking at all the european union the been progressive in one way they've launched a mechanism to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran the same in instax how successful has not been and do you think there's going to be repercussions because the e.u. has done not further down the line by washington. well i said when european union came up with this mechanism to abate pass it was a mistake why because if you choose a mechanism too bad past it means that you couldn't agree with the best option the best option is a political negotiation if you have to result on a 2nd best option which is how to bad past that means unfortunately europe phased on its role of political ally pressing the united states pursue a ding president trump because a europe unfortunately is going through some changes to a new election. and europe is divided i'm not so

of additional troops and then achievements or says to the middle east the president of iraq has spoken out against this he warned that he will not allow the u.s. to use his country to launch any kind of military action against iran. the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again have been the teachin of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post foot any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran . tensions started with washington abandoning a return to 15 euclidian last year every inch and mr abbas as lanny says the u.s. is actually stoking tension with every move. the fresh or or the approach that the americans or their allies have had toward iran has impact that this behavior iran now we are in this collection more than the region as a result of the united states withdrawal from the nuclear deal and then followed by the maximum pressure against iran on the one side we're seeing the americans talking about the goetia action on the other hand they're using military threats as well as econo

any country that has ties to al qaida this is already been used in iraq and afghanistan and if you look hard enough terrorists can be found everywhere in the past few months iran has been turning into a more and more of an al qaeda haven according to washington for 40 years the islamic republic's revolutionary guard corps has actively engaged in terrorism the world's leading state sponsor of terrorists of the really regimes use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft makes it fundamentally different from any other government they're a nation of terror and we will put up with it all aboard the militaristic bandwagon it is the best chance the hoops and capitol hill have had in years up until now would trump has been more or less true to his promise to curb his country's military adventurism being all bark and no bite as a candidate for president. i loudly pledged a new approach. great nations do not fight endless wars. and while there is literally more verifiable evidence that would allow saudi arabia to be bombed into oblivion and have the saudi other good guys in washington's playbook

all places notes that only 19 percent of voters want military strikes on iraq and then amidst all this unpopularity and dude bro diplomacy out of the fog of the democratic primary campaign trail steps made o'rorke and his new board tax plan yes after 1st calling for an end to the u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan bay no one field is a new war tax plan which proposes that every time the united states goes to war nonmilitary u.s. citizens would have to pay a war tax in order to help defray the costs of caring for future veterans u.s. households with veterans or anyone currently serving in the u.s. military would be exempt from the taxes based on self noted this new tax would serve as a reminder of the incredible sacrifice made by those who served and their families but will a new tax on war put on the backs of u.s. citizens truly help bring us an end to the military industrial complex or our endless wars that we're fighting or is this yet another new revenue stream to keep lockheed martin raytheon and other merchants of death from having to pay the freight on the wars they want us t

to iraq and take the oil without any pretenses and you know i mean what we've seen even from his rallies before he became president was that he preaches this kind of anti war rhetoric because that's what his base want to hear but in reality we see him supporting saudi arabia's war in yemen pushing for war with iran increasing tensions with north korea and various other flashpoints across the globe and in effect he's made the world a much less safe place but on north korea let's say he brags of what he described as the greatest 11 secure demilitarization in the korean peninsula. the american president one of the world's greatest peacefully well i don't think it would be down to him primarily to be honest i think it would be the willingness of the korean people to reach peace despite america's historic role in. hoping that but you know you have to contrast that with him pulling out of the iran nuclear agreement and sending warships and potentially 1500 more troops to iran to see that this isn't about peace this is about more geopolitics is about american imperialism well it's not a

have iraq officials been saying about this reuters reports of u.s. contractors being evacuated. there and we've spoken with a commander with the air force lieutenant general and what i mean and he calls reuters reporting on this baseless was a very strong denial of that report from reuters he went on to tell us this news is totally untrue i was there a half an hour ago speaking about that air base where these according to reuters evacuations are taking place or are about to take place at any time now it's all very interesting that this comes out at a time of such heightened tensions as you mentioned but air base has been the site of attacks mortar fire other bases where u.s. troops are housed and have been have come under attack these past few weeks no group has claimed responsibility but at a time of such heightened tension between the u.s. and iran which are the 2 biggest allies who are at aachen at a time when about this feeling increasingly squeezed between the u.s. and iran and while these tensions escalate there has been a real concern here in baghdad and other parts of i

to go to syria and to iraq and to fight with one of those armed groups and suddenly they say now we lost track of them germany seems to have been sleeping officially they didn't say a lot about this and certainly they have no real policy about us this is why nothing is happening now and that discussion is being put forward through the media or through the facts on the ground they will be forced to do one thing or the other eventually and our society is not really aware and cannot really imagine what these people are might be up to we need a public discussion about this without stigmatizing without being a racist or islam or for big but the german society and the politicians have to be more realistic about the threats. google is parent company alphabet under fire from lawmakers in the u.s. congressmen have criticized the use of what they say are persuasive techniques and the use of artificial intelligence to select content to use a google doesn't use persuasive technology that is cracked dark patterns in persuasive technology is not core to how we design our products that google whic

example the u.s. invasion of iraq dick cheney said that it would go well my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators but there's been nothing but chaos and civil war in iraq since the usa invaded there are 288000 deaths so far and counting and dick cheney wasn't completely clueless listen to what he said in 1904 when she got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put into place for take libya hillary clinton was delighted to hear that gadhafi had been put to the sword and we came we saw our died but now even barack obama admits that toppling the libyan government didn't come with a game plan for what happens next what he considers his worst mistake as president probably failing to. plan for. the day after. what i think was the right thing to do in. the intervening. libya but who needs planning right after all the people of venezuela would probably love to have their homeland go the way of iraq and libya nothing says freedom and liberation like having regime change followed by civil war and thousands of refugees fleeing for

assignments is to go into iraq in 2003. you were in combat. did you expect that you would survive? it was really dangerous? gen. kelly: it is dangerous. there's a lot of shooting and bombs and whatnot. we are marines. you take that on as a possibility. when we were designing the campaign plan, one of the things we did was to understand the iraqi army, it was nothing close to us. we designed a strategy that would minimize the amount of damage to the country and the amount of death to the iraqi army. we went there, and in our mindset, we were not there to conquer them but to liberate them. we didn't want to kill a lot of them. you always try not to kill the innocent. david: you thought it would have been over in one or two weeks and people would be cheering you? gen. kelly: they were cheering us, almost everywhere we went. they came out in huge numbers. the attack part of it was easy. we knew we were going to win. we would get to baghdad in lightning time. what we kept asking in the kuwait desert leading up to the invasion march, who is going to take this over from us? mr. rumsfeld had

into iraq in 2003. you were in combat. did you expect that you would survive? it was really dangerous? john: it is dangerous. there's a lot of shooting and bombs and whatnot. we are marines. you take that on as a possibility. when we were designing the campaign plan, one of the things we did was to understand the iraqi army, it was nothing close to us. we designed a strategy that would minimize the amount of damage to the country and the amount of death to the iraqi army. we went there, and in our mindset, we were not there to conquer them but to liberate them. we didn't want to kill a lot of them. you always try not to kill the innocent. david: you thought it would have been over in one or two weeks and people would be cheering you? john: they were cheering us, almost everywhere we went. they came out in huge numbers. the attack part of it was easy. we knew we were going to win. we would get to baghdad in lightning time. what we kept asking in the kuwait desert leading up to the invasion march, who is going to take this over from us? mr. rumsfeld had said, the u.s. military is not go

with the president trump wouldn't iraq today even if he wasn't elected no. young or washington don't want to go to to to a conflict that price that would be very high both sides are now continuing the negotiation in trying to find ways. so far trump didn't come lifting the sanctions will have to see if the agreed on something concrete that will allow them to say we reach some kind of a deal. even if they reach a deal both sides will have to send their delegations the vice president or the deputies or are there officials that will continue the negotiation in order to achieve a better deal or find ways how to implement what was free what field in the you know it's not going to be 40 or port opportunity that will solve like magic all the problems we will continue the process and we will continue the discussion between there from when we can juggle yeah i think what we'll do because obviously trying to paint himself as a bit of a peacemaker because of this meeting and because of he's managed to meet north korean president number of times before let's just have a quick listen to wha

nation to denuclearize libya iraq later the united states or its nato allies in the country north korea knows this very well north korea. denuclearization talks have been going on for decades now and whenever the whenever there's promises made by the north koreans it comes to comes to nothing so trust these. we don't expect. to of the truth that's where we're going to verify any denuclearization that takes place that's why we will ensure that we see actual on the ground on the ground outcomes we're not going to take anyone's word for it. nonetheless still a historic moment a sitting u.s. president visiting north korea more than that both sides are this heartened by the lack of progress so far i suppose they're getting becoming a little more mature with regard to denuclearization realizing that this is going to take time and a lot of effort they need to keep talking. bring us right up to date on that our senior cross from rutgers there for us thank you. what hong kong based political scientists have chuang things that sanctions are the most contentious part as well of the talks let

not going to share of the cost if we decide to go to war with iraq ok so in 2013 the federation of american scientists put together this estimate is a 3 month cost to the global economy that a potential war with iran could cause so as we look into probably going into war with the wrong somehow and bedo is a great idea to pay for it so the cost. 3 months cost to the global economy that means everybody that we're going to have to make up for isolation of blockade is going to cost $550000000000.00 comprehensive bombing campaign we're looking at a 1.7 trillion and a full scale invasion is $2.00 trillion that's just the cost of doing it that is and the cost of parts of the economy but it is not the cost to human lives it does not going to help the situation we're in and they'd still assuming that we're going to be in and out. really all over because all of the wars over the last oh i don't know 171819 years going oh yeah. well. he jean carroll is the longest running advice columnist ever and her new book what do we need men for a modest proposal she gives some advice to those who have f

of iraq back in 2003 when false evidence was used to justify military action moving in music we didn't forget that miles with white boller screaming that we remember and therefore have learned to show restraint in our assessment is that we call upon sober assessment and wait for some credible evidence to be presented it's ridiculous to cite secret data in this case was beaten into a queue and it seems washington could be once again trying to find a pretext to wage war as r.t.c. goshdarn off explains. donald trump is not a president known for policy consistency but one thing no critic can take away from him is his apparent a burning hatred for iran but everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around spread death destruction and chaos behind every problem is iran's a very dangerous player very bad player iran's leaders so yes. death. and destruction and with guys like might bump aoe and john bolton pushing trying to squeeze that trigger it seems a war could be looming but thank god it can be just the president's cool thing like this needs congress' approval on paper exc