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Lack of understanding. >> a lot of people who purposefully used extreme rhetoric to gin up popular support for the war, there have been no consequences for them. >> we sit here some eight years later, 4,000 americans lost their lives. maybe 100,000 iraqis lost their lives. it cost about a trillion dollars. was it worth it? did you give the right advice? >> i think i did. if you look back at the proposition we faced after 9/11, with respect to saddam hussein, we were very concerned about the pros...

Assertions by the highest officials in the government. without looking for the hard evidence to support it. >> more concern about the politics of my decision rather than what is right and what is wrong. >> i have prayed to god many times that he would forgive me for sending his children to die in a war that never had to happen. >> was there ever any consideration of apologizing to the american people? >> i mean, apologizing would basically say the decision was a wrong decision. and i dont believ...

Factions involved? >> the opposition is stronger and better organized. but there is a concern that some represent extreme groups some atiliated with al-qaeda. that is unacceptable with us. we need to make sure that we work only with those who are prepared to help all of the people of syria regardless of their ethnic background. and that needs to be a precondition and i know that is what the united states has said. >> shannon: what is your take on the different assertions about what level of chem...

Careful. even the foreign governments that have come out j france, england, israel, others, none of them with the exception of one general in israel, not even the israeli government in full have made the fully robust comment about the chemical weapons. our media has already jumped on and decided this is a done deal but it is not even a done deal for the governments that have said probably there is something going on but they dont know how, choir who is in control. >> neither israel or england or...

Rogue elements inside syria and had rogue elements like senator mccain and others looking for triggers to trigger what they want, all-in involvement of the u.s. military. i think we need to be very, very careful. even the foreign governments that have come out france, england, israel, others, none of them with the exception of one general in israel, not even the israeli government in full have made the fully robust comment about the chemical weapons. our media has already jumped on and decided t...

Crimes were committed. the case broke on tuesday when mother jones published portion of the tape, the recording apparently made at the campaign offices. and despite assertions that neither riley nor the super pac he directs, progress kentucky enjoys any affiliate with the democratic party, hes pictured at the democratic convention as a delegate. he was on america live, and nation at large first heard from jacob conway, he told you that riley and reputed associate curtis morrison bragged about th...

"mother jones" magazine noticed something wrong about several of its assertions. for instance, the report would seem to claim that only guns and not lethal means -- nonlethal -- means save lives. on page 48 they mentioned a 2010 shooting in minnesota that killed six people all because the 16-year-old shooter was able to blast through interior windows. however, a quick google search finds the child who carried the gun didnt fire a single shot and no one died. now, you know what, karen, im not sur...

Had a story rin by dana billbank, and walter pincus, a straight news story that said president bush is about to lead this country to war on the basis of assertions that have been disproved by other governments and some inside the u.s. intelligence committee. here is one of the most important papers in the country saying the president is in essence lying to the nation. "washington post" put that on page a-13. why is that not front page? >> amazing. >> why is that not front page news? a year later...

>> with congress back from its summer recess, administration leaders prepare to make their case to invade iraq. to eliminate saddam. inside the white house, paul wolfowitzs deputy, under secretary of defense, douglas fife, an iraq hawk like his boss, presents a slide show to national security officials that is full of questionable assertions. >> of all the places where intelligence was being manipulated in the bush administration, the fife shop was the key place. >> there was a debate about how ...

Administration and their assertions about intelligence? in the same way we should then? thats a question to ask. >> theres a moment in the documentary where theres some footage from bush on the rubble at 9/11 speaking with the bullhorn, and i mean, we have gotten, you know, years almost more than a decade past september 11th, but we were all around. and there was such a sense of profond lost and anger and frustration, and i really think that has to inform all of this, right? the country was so d...