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Piece for the bogus iraq weapons of mass destruction claim. the other part of his claim for why we should invade iraq was that invading iraq was going to be super easy and super cheap. listen to how this guy sold it. look. "in purely economic terms, it is unimaginable that the united states would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars." he said, "those who argue that the united states would inevitab...

Soldiers to fight. and this is a consequence of terrible mismanagement of the government and corruption by maliki and we obviously are paying a very heavy price for that. >> nor john mccain today. ken pollack, recently returned from baghdad, was there in spring and met with u.s. and iraqi officials including maliki and served as cia military analyst and national security council under president clinton. >> thank you. >> you have a good sense of where maliki is. is he going to change and do the t...

Of his current team, and then he called the security situation in iraq now, quote, the greatest threat since the cold war. john mccain has identified a lot of greatest threats since the cold war. this is the current one for him. "the new york times" today, apparently, with no self-consciousness about it whatsoever, went back to this guy for quotes about not just how terrible it is in iraq right now, but specifically how terrible it is that the obama administration is not sending the u.s. militar...

Would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars." he said, "those who argue that the united states would inevitably become the target of unhappy iraqis generally also assume that the iraqi population would be hostile to u.s. forces from the outset. however, the best evidence we have suggests that the iraqi people would be pleased to be liberated." he was basically the captain of team wrong in 2002, ken pollack. but incredibly, today, "the new york times" goes back to him as an iraq exp...

Old iraq war days to replace all of his current team, and he called the security situation in iraq now, quote, the greatest threat since the cold war. john mccain has identified a lot of greatest threats since the cold war. this is the current one for him. "the new york times" today, apparently, with no self-consciousness about it whatsoever, went back to this guy for quotes about not just how terrible it is in iraq right now, but specifically about how terrible it is that the obama administrati...

Iran should make significant concessions but that the west should make none at all, thats not negotiations. thats a requirement that the other side surrender which makes one wonder, do the critics of this negotiating process want a better deal or do they really want no deal at all so that it opens up another path to deal with the problem, which is war. in that case, the danger for those critics was not that geneva negotiations were failing but that they were succeeding. lets get started. you j...

Soon. >> ken, are you as optimistic? >> i certainly share joes hope this deal can be brought about and both of your expectation that this is a good deal. but i think the problems that have arisen make me more skeptical and more concerned maybe a better way to put it. the french objections dont seem to be terribly meaningful as you pointed out these are things that should be dealt with in a final status agreement between the two of them. its not really clear why the french decide to make an issue...

Into the atmosphere. why do you think thats not a problem? the french is saying we cant allow them to keep working on this reactor because once you reach a critical stage theres no going back. >> its a problem but not a problem for three or four years. the reactor is behind schedule. it wont come online until the end of next year. then you put the fuel in it and some plutonium is produced but that takes at least another year and then you have to take that fuel out and reprocess it and iran doesn...

Iran sanctions. and rowhani may be wondering, do i really have a partner over there in washington? >> when you look at this and take kens point, if you were to get a deal of some kind, that the international community can live with, that the obama administration could live with, what happens in congress? will congress undo the sanctions because only congress can do that? >> as you know, fareed, undoing sanctions takes a much longer time than putting them on. and youre always going to have politi...

Outflank the united states by being more soft. what do you think is going on here? >> the other members were furious. you have to understand everybody else was in agreement and even the french negotiators were in agreement until the foreign minister arrived and threw a spanner in the works. some suspect this has commercial motivations. france is trying to position itself for lucrative contracts with the saudis and other gulf states by showing opposition to iran. some think its a play for attenti...