troops have massed along that country's border with kuwait. >> saddam hussein sends a substantial fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaiti border. it's shocking in washington and other western capitals. saddam had a million-man army and if it invades kuwait, he could very quickly lurch into saudi arabia and the saudis would not have been able to resist. all the oil is on the eastern side of the country right there on the border with iraq. [ speaking foreign language ] >> iraq invaded and took over its tiny neighbor kuwait today. the government of dictator saddam hussein claimed it went in at the invitation of revolutionaries who had overthrown the kuwaiti government. no western authority accepted that story. >> many americans are concerned that there may be a war. >> what is required of mr. bush to say to the americans that he doesn't want war. >> if you had been in the room with saddam hussein and interviewed him for an hour and 15 minutes and spent another hour and a half with him after the interview, i think you would have reached the same conclusion. no questi

a fully functioning prime minister and. if saddam how do you the prime minister came back to lebanon and. his resignation even if he is forced to do it but this is an end the case and that he has made this decision of his own free will but as of now openly and clearly we accept pressley declared that we have the prime minister has not resigned. for. the. prudent presidency represented by president michel and the speaker of the parliament and to be very. must be the center. of support and consensus among all the lebanese whereby all the lebanese must stand behind this prudent leadership as of now this prudent leadership. has been able to maintain our security stability and missed the opportunity to do is our prime minister. and this must be cemented and our. fifth. cold for more awareness and consciousness among the political elite. and this is what we appreciate. that we know that many. communications are being initiated with so and so. where are you why haven't you released statements why haven't you convened. however. those conspiring against lebanon must. evaluate and reca

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? >> some people say it is a good job. >> prove it. ♪ ♪ early in the bush administration, saddam hussein invaded kuwait, and was it clear to you that we should go in and try to kick him out? this was alear to me horrible invasion the could not be allowed to stand, and the first challenge was to make sure he did not go south to saudi arabia. >> you invented something known as the powell doctrine. >> it was invented by a washington post reporter who said i'm writing an article about the powell doctrine. i said, what is it? he said what we did when we invaded panama and took out man will noriega, one, make sure you go to war after all diplomatic possibilities have been dealt with, and there has to be a clear political objective, not just military objective. the second part of the doctrine is i used overwhelming force once, but i always said decisive have so you don't have to too many people, just enough to have a divisive outcome. when that decision came down that they could not find a diplomatic solution, i received the order and gave the order to go on. >> there was a famous military mane

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resignation of saddam had a government saudi arabia considered too close to iran so the question is what are they going to do next are they going to put economic pressure on this country financial pressure there are tens of thousands of lebanese who work in the gulf are they going to force these people to go back home are they going to prevent these people from sending money back home are they going to stop investing in lebanon so many questions people are asking and that is why they're worried now some say there could be military action but most people rule that out what they fear the most this economic pressure on lebanon and meanwhile how is the. leadership reacting to this pressure that's coming primarily from riyadh and. well we have to remember levanon has a sectarian a power sharing agreement the prime minister is a son nate you go to a sunni neighborhood now and you talk to people there and they say that he's our leader saddam is our leader he should return home whether or not they support hezbollah whether or not they believe that more action should be taken against hezbollah th

neighbors for example saddam the work was sometimes perhaps unfairly accused of supporting various insurgent groups but i think you're diplomacy has long refrained from very sharp rhetoric and really tried to avoid making saddam into an obvious and explicit enemy why is it different with qatar why did those differences have to be brought out into the open rather than being resolved quietly diplomatically behind closed doors well this was a have been outstanding for maybe two decades now and i think that the grio of the security that has been generated the degree of direct impact the loss of life in the region and. direct threat to the stability of the country whether individually or collectively the general out of national security as water into the more direct and more impactful managed to deal with this issue this issues cannot be this is so seated from the harboring of terrorism to the. providing resources to terrorist organizations and this is a phenomena that has impacted a lot of countries among them russia. if we are serious we must. difficult questions how are these terrori

accuse riyadh of holding him against his will then the harder has the latest now from beirut. saddam how do you use the faith is still open to question lebanon has been holding contacts with western as well as arab diplomats to find out and seek information about you know the whereabouts of the well being of their prime minister yes they believe he is in the saudi capital but lebanese leaders from across the political spectrum including saddam had even his own political party believe that he is being held against his will that he is somehow under house arrest and his freedom of movement is current tailed and all of the different lebanese factions of course there's a deeply divided country with a deep political divide right now they're there they're putting this aside and they are uniting all of them calling on the need for heidi to return to the country at the for more than one reason stability and to maintain what they're calling the internal balance levanon system of government said they balance there's a sectarian system of government the prime minister should be a son the muslim

, united states military forces captured saddam hussein alive. now the former dictator of iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. jesse: an incredible moment finding saddam in that little hole like a dog, and delivering justice he so deserved. what do you think when you see those images? >> i remember going in iraq and former saddam palaces and compounds. and the rooms that were clearly torture chambers that he had. hooked on the wall. just disturbing images that we walked through as we secured and cleared parts of that city. that's what i remember. it was awful to see and it was something as we arrived on the ground we knew we were together right thing. jesse: say what you want about wmds. that's ancient history. now the people in iraq their lives are much, much better. let's take a look at afghanistan, a place where america still is. >> the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> as commander-in-chief i have determined it's in our vital national interest to send an a

, united states military forces captured saddam hussein alive. now the former dictator of iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. jesse: an incredible moment finding saddam in that little hole like a dog, and delivering justice he so deserved. what do you think when you see those images? >> i remember going in iraq and former saddam palaces and compounds. and the rooms that were clearly torture chambers that he had. hooked on the wall. just disturbing images that we walked through as we secured and cleared parts of that city. that's what i remember. it was awful to see and it was something as we arrived on the ground we knew we were together right thing. jesse: say what you want about wmds. that's ancient history. now the people in iraq their lives are much, much better. let's take a look at afghanistan, a place where america still is. >> the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> as commander-in-chief i have determined it's in our vital national interest to send

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vladimir putin, saddam hussein, and others, but surely the message of the last two years is that the best hope a nation, arab nation, like saudi arabia has. someone who wa nts to like saudi arabia has. someone who wants to use his power for like saudi arabia has. someone who wants to use his powerfor genuine reform and change. not by choice, why fact, de facto. he is the best choice for saudi arabia. that is what they are saying, they wish him luck. he has to succeed. that is what will decide the future of saudi arabia and also his future. it is for him to succeed. the people of saudi arabia are very much believing in mahmoud bin salman today. he hardly has any opposition. he hardly has any serious opposition, we will say. so, he has all of the floor for himself for the next few years to deliver his plan. 0k, and now to the detail of a plan. you refer to the vision of 2030. it has various elements to it. starting with the economy, he says he wants to develop a purely poached whale saudi arabian economy, investing in technology and building a new city in the north—west, some calling it a

speculation about the whereabouts of lebanon's prime minister saddam how do you in the last hour his office responded to the concerns saying he's met the french ambassador to saudi arabia in the riyadh on saturday how do you be surprised many by announcing his sudden resignation through a broadcast from the saudi capital five days later he's not yet returned to lebanon and their offices he's being held against his will let's go straight now to zona holder who is following developments from the lebanese capital beirut and xana a lot of concern there about what's happened to the prime minister. well yes like you mentioned concern and what we also understand from sources close to the president of the country as well as the head of parliament is that they're worried about the fate of the resign prime minister they're worried about his well being and they want information where is saddam in fact sources close to the president have told us that the president believes that assad is under house arrest now we're hearing all these concerns and at the same time how do these office releasing a statemen

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the uk was misled over former iraqi dictator saddam hussein's access to weapons of mass destruction. mr brown says us intelligence, which challenged the extent of iraq's wmd stockpile, was not shared with the uk before it joined the iraq war. a seven—year inquiry into the uk's involvement in the war found saddam hussein posed "no imminent threat" when the us and uk invaded. the headlines on bbc news: the prime minister's deputy, damian green, strenuously denies claims that pornographic material was found ona that pornographic material was found on a computer in his commons office in 2008. the royal college of psychiatrists says it is a scandal that mental health patients are being denied ca re health patients are being denied care and treatment because of a shortage of consultants. donald trump says that no nation should underestimate american resolve as he arrives injapan at the start of a marathon asian tour. no marathons to talk about today at the bbc sports centre. catherine downes is there. starting with today's premier league football and tottenham against bottom side crysta

gotten us into trouble when we did we armed saddam hussein because we fear in iran i mean there's almost this single focus on making sure iran isn't dominant in the region and we have you i think saudis as a chat on iranian expansion given the strength of the procyon the lobby here in washington d.c. is there any chance that these congressional vote critical of the kingdom the lawsuits against the saudis by the nine eleven victims the much more critical u.s. media coverage of the kingdom in recent years to any of that will actually translate into a more tougher stance by the u.s. government on the issue of saudi arabia i do for the first time the military realizes that congress is really scrutinizing what's going on in yemen i think there is no longer this carte blanche and now the chairman. royce who is a hard liner on iran for him to go on the house floor and say this resolution is going to give us leverage to make sure that the saudis are at least providing humanitarian access leads me to believe that behind closed doors some people are going to say to the saudis look we have had your

president himself believes that saddam had it is under house arrest so a lot of concern about the fate of saddam had many and lebanon believe in one way or another he was forced to resign by the saudi authorities and as i said saudi arabia now calling on its citizens to leave lebanon whether they live there or visiting immediately this really feels like the situation is escalating rather than calming down. definitely escalating and you know statements like that is just going to cause even more tension and uncertainty in this country also there has been a statement from the saudi official in charge of gulf affairs what he is saying is that there will be further measures what he called escalate tory measures that we will take to achieve our aims now saudi arabia's not saying what measures those will be but it has issued threats telling lebanese politicians you need to curb hezbollah has influence in lebanon you need to move away from the party and one way or the other saying you have to choose between hezbollah or us so people are worried what can saudi arabia do put financial pressure e

picture on the whereabouts of the resigned prime minister saddam had the last time he was seen was on tuesday when he was in abu dhabi holding talks with rulers there his office said he flew back to riyadh now on saturday he announced the sudden his sudden resignation and since then we haven't heard from him yes we saw him holding talks in abu dhabi we even saw him the day before sitting with the saudi crown prince holding talks but he hasn't released any statements since his office his aides they've been saying over the past few days that the saddam had he will return to lebanon but they're not giving any time or date so there has been a lot of speculation in lebanon the questions are being asked is he being held. against his will and saudi arabia so at the end of the day the very fact that he has still not returned means that the constitutional process cannot continue he resigned that means the government no longer functions but the president of the country does not see it that way he believes that he will not accept how did this resignation until the returns to lebanon and explains

of saddam had to be in one way or another has been resolved even though many in lebanon still believe or. on why his children remained in saudi arabia and their questioning on whether or not saddam had he is a political hostage of saudi arabia now we heard say he's going to return to beirut he's going to clarify his position he's going to hold discussions with the president michel and now what are the scenarios is he going to insist on resigning and just ending his political career or is he going to insist on resigning and remain the prime minister of a caretaker government until parliamentary elections next year or is he going to try to find some sort of a compromise with the president then would run his resignation or withdraw his resignation on condition that hezbollah will not be a part of the new government which we know is a saudi arabian demand so really there are many scenarios a still uncertain times but confirming that he will be attending those independence day celebrations on wednesday we'll hear arrive before that to hold talks with we still do not know but people here ar

haven't heard from the prime minister himself so a lot of concern about the fate of saddam how did he at the same time saudi arabia calling on its citizens to immediately leave lebanon on statements like this undoubtedly is just going to cause even more tension saudi arabia making it very clear that it intends to step up action against lebanon or against those who who support hezbollah in lebanon the saudi state minister for gulf affairs actually tweeting and saying that expect escalatory measures but they're not saying what measures they're going to take against lebanon it has to be made clear that the saudi the resignation of saddam how did it was a saudi move against hezbollah and saudi officials have made it very clear to lebanese officials either you curb hezbollah's influence and you are on. on our side or you will be considered an enemy so very uncertain times in lebanon and president says he's been in contact with the re re and will discuss this case with the saudi crown prince during a visit to riyadh on thursday and our own is denying it has formally requested to go to franc

the near future and that he will be putting out its fighters from those areas i think saddam how do you he will resign if his demands are not met by the all political parties which is going to create a political crisis in the country and this explains why today during the military parade commemorating independence day the message that everyone was sending was a message of unity of that lebanon despite all the problems it faces the concerns about regional interference stands united against its leader we're talking about a fractious political reality a country divided along sectarian lines but however the message today that all together they need to tackle the challenges they face so the message there was a very positive one however the challenges are really huge. and hashim everybody i suppose is questioning whether he now speaks with his own voice or whether they're speaking with the saudi arabian voice. well once he's back home you can really tell from the statements he made today that he strike in a totally different note so in saudi arabia he was lashing out at iran and hezbollah

of saddam and melanie we've heard a list of the deprivations then wreaked upon the people the range of people of rakhine state in mia ma this citizenship was actually taken away from them tell us about the other people the other ten million people around the world who for whatever reason do not have citizenship or nationality well first of all the ten million figure is an estimate the truth is we don't really know exactly how many people around the world are stateless and that's something we'd like to improve through the course of our campaign to end statelessness we need better data but the answer to your question is that state was messes caused through a variety of circumstances the one that we're highlighting in the new report is discrimination and that is of course the case of iran we were just speaking about but it's the case for lots of those who are state less we tend to say that state with this is caused by gaps or problems in nationality laws the truth is it's often caused by explicit discrimination and nationality was there for example more than twenty five countries on th

nations support for yet more bombing of iraq forty five minutes saddam hussein's planes bombarded a lot with some of the most toxic agents known to science nerve gases an old fashioned mustard gas when i arrived there was still dead people everywhere as you'd expect the b.b.c. in twenty or three didn't find time to report on something even the u.s. new york times had to concede ten years later during the one nine hundred eighty saddam hussein developed robust chemical weapons. programs with extensive foreign support rockets suitable nerve agent were provided by egypt and italy tens of thousands of artillery shells shipped to iraq from europe to be filled with mustard agent and western built production lines were of american design. as mr hussein's chemical munitions stockpile grew his forces use these weapons repeatedly including against iranian troops and iraqi civilians yes when it comes to the use of chemical weapons in the middle east it was mrs thatcher's conservative government and ronald reagan's republicans that catalyzed w m d slaughter amidst the debut of sunday's earthquake i

against saddam hussein. but his father is there, big, strong, highly respected. he can draw on him for his counsel which he does, one and only time he talks to his father about iraq, asks him what she do. saddam hussein at that point is flaunting u.n. sanctions, and rattling sabers his father says, if he's not complying, you have to go to war. and you have to -- for sake of history you've got to understand this dynamic between father and son. ha president sees were just eight years apart. >> dickerson: we'll get back to that. robert, let's step back look at each of your books. you write about -- in your book you write, it seems well to remind americans that the system has been capable of generating candidates for high office whose commitment to the national interests exceeds their flaws and ambitions. is that it is goal of your book? >> yes. roosevelt had an extraordinary hold of the public's imaginati imagination. for 12 years his approval rating never went below 50%. even in 1937-38 when he was struggling over purging the party of conservative democrats from the staff, he still had a

i'm not sure this is gonna go according to script." the idea that we're just gonna topple saddam and his sons and his few henchmen, and then everybody else will stay in place and there will be a little bit of a political negotiation, and we'll hand it over to them obviously proved misguided. do you think it would've been different had we not decided to get rid of the entire saddam army and the de-ba'athification process? these were-- these were huge mistakes. we used to have a question on the operation center wall when i was a division commander in other positions, and it asked: "will this operation take more bad guys off the street than it creates by its conduct?" and the same is true of policies. and the fact is that firing the military without telling them what their future was. again, you're going to have to demobilize at some point, it was a jobs program for generals and cronies and so on. but nonetheless, you can't fire them and not tell them what their future is. they all went-- took weapons home, so we now had basically riots on the streets for five weeks until they finally a

very clear saying that saddam had he and his family are detained and we will not accept until they both return him along with his family we will not stop until the hostage is free that's the words he has been using now lebanon has launched a diplomatic campaign over recent days reaching out to western capitals to arab capitals to try to release a saddle had e.d. so you know this diplomatic campaign is continuing and we know that the lebanese for foreign minister was in paris late yesterday he met the french president and the french foreign minister will be in saudi arabia later today so diplomatic efforts are continuing lebanon making it very clear that their prime minister who you know suddenly resigned on november for they believe he is a hostage and lebanon i should imagine extremely concerned about the knock on effect as far as debility is concerned that lebanon is not seen as a proxy battleground between iran and saudi arabia. well yes jane in this sudden resignation really it shocked the nation destabilized the nation there was a lot of tensions people were worried that saudi arab

saddam how did he and his family he said only resigned in riyadh people saw that as a shock resignation and then many in lebanon including the president believe that saddam had he and his family were being held hostage in saudi arabia he was forced to resign a really strong language coming from the president saying this was an act of aggression by saudi arabia on lebanon sovereignty lebanon reaching out to france one time colonial ruler of lebanon france mediating in the crisis weighing in trying to solve this diplomatic turmoil and then we heard from the french president late yesterday saying he invited how did he and his family and how did he accepted that invitation and that he will be coming to france in the next few days and sources close to the resigned prime minister's office have told us that how do you will be returning to lebanon to submit his resignation in the next few days so it was a very confusing picture many here are seeing this as some sort of a deal but saudi arabia has the foreign minister insisting yet again that's how to how to do was not a prince. and

in iraq and saddam i really primaries are the same time has been lost in the trends of being attached or linked to these lie and all to that line it's a question it's a legitimate question or it might be another is that has nothing to do with the internal conflicts it has a relation with the same day that is not quite happy with the performance of saddam i really and saudi arabia my thing that sather harry might be replaced with someone that can't abide by the policies of saudi arabia it might be a question. or the reason. might be oh no there might be a plan in saudi arabia to add to lebanon because there are a lot of talking about about the iranians they can flip to has been. this is another matter that could be a conservative so we need to know what is the real reason behind the prime minister's resignation or behind saudi arabia imposing this on the prime minister in addition to that matter of fact. today when people say in lebanon about some information. some. who speak about the. about the man as he. can he live saudi arabia will he be allowed to return back to lebanon

political differences are there now the biggest question if saddam how do you do does appear live on television and he you know reiterate criticism of iran and saying that you know iran and its ally in lebanon is holding lebanon hostage will that change the sentiment in the country because it's very important to point out that for the time being in his stronghold you heard those people in his stronghold they were concerned they're concerned about saddam how do you do they believe he is detained that if he appears on television will that sentiment change will they really would they believe that their prime minister is heading this campaign against hezbollah so things could turn and change at any time but for the not time being there is this unity and it is holding it all right for now senator thank you then a honda live in beirut. now gals as residents have joined commemorations marking the thirteenth anniversary of the death of palestinian leader yasser arafat for the first time in ten years organizers prove it promoted the event as a national day of unity many hope a recent agreemen

iraq forty five minutes saddam hussein's planes bombarded a larger with some of the most toxic agents known to science nerve gases. an old fashioned mustard gas when i arrived there was still dead people everywhere as you'd expect the b.b.c. in twenty or three didn't find time to report on something even the u.s. new york times had to concede ten years later during the one nine hundred eighty saddam hussein developed robust chemical weapons programs with extensive foreign support rockets tootled nerve agent were provided by egypt and italy tens of thousands of artillery shells shipped to iraq from europe to be filled with mustard agent and western built production lines were of american design. as mr hussein's chemical munitions stockpile grew his forces use these weapons repeatedly including against iranian troops and iraqi civilians yes when it comes to the use of chemical weapons in the middle east it was mrs thatcher's conservative government and ronald reagan's republicans that catalyzed w m d slaughter amidst the debut of sunday's earthquake it may be of little consolatio

other neighbors for example saddam the worker was sometimes perhaps unfairly accused of supporting various insurgent groups but i think your diplomacy has long refrained from very sharp rhetoric and really tried to avoid making saddam into an obvious and explicit enemy why is it different with qatar why did those differences have to be brought out into the open rather than being resolved quietly diplomatically sousa's have been outstanding for i think that the left overly general directed more. from the if we are serious we must. difficult questions are they receiving their farms where they say this nature such as less to be perpetrated in another western europe egypt and this or you mentioned the word terrorism before. correct me if i'm wrong but i think there is hardly a state in the region or perhaps in other parts of the world that doesn't rely on armed or extremist groups to advance its foreign policy that's just the to any such organizations to promote its interests minister with all due respect i think your primary saudi arabia has a very concerning record in that regard egy

been very critical of saudi arabia saying that they detained saddam had to be i guess by his will of that he made without the red house and and and here right now this is what is going to happen in the coming hours. after the end of this all right behind it is going to meet with president bush and i was at the presidential palace that's where president out is going to cost saddam had me to renounce his resignation many political parties the leaders in the country are going to step up russia on how to get it to renounce his resignation if that happens on the hope that this is going to be good news for lebanon it will avert a crisis in the country but it had already insists on stepping down that is going to create a real political crisis in the country because it has a backdrop of the although it political divide. it remains to be seen whether all the parties can agree on a successor never really steps aside. putting together a government filling a high political post never an easy task in lebanon hashem how much political consensus is there right now between all the factions. there ar

picture for nearly two weeks the fate of saddam how d.d. was open to question many in lebanon including the president michel aoun accused saudi arabia of forcing the prime minister to resign as well as holding him and his family hostage accusations rejected by saudi officials the french government weighed in in what some are calling a face saving deal the french president. invited and his family to visit paris his foreign minister who held talks in riyadh confirmed that the invitation was accepted the crisis began when had he announced his sudden resignation earlier this month it was seen as a saudi move against iran's ally in lebanon hezbollah. collective efforts must be made to restore things as they were before the resignation of prime minister saad hariri last year there was a rare deal between saudi arabia and iran to keep lebanon stable and shielded from crises across the region they agreed to appoint hezbollah's ally michel aoun as president and riyadh's choice of saddam had eighty as prime minister. that is no longer the case saudi arabia has taken a more aggressive stance again

scale it's an international arrest warrant once again saddam's president also not enough food to for protection from the united states wide in russia. to germany's president meets the head of the country's oldest party but it's unclear if frank walter steinmeier can convince

iraq these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities the saddam hussein operated it was actually told to me by a former k.b.r. employee that they knew the ground was hot meaning it was contaminated. i'm speechless i'm flabbergasted in court i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was safer or as often suggested that and try to wrap themselves in military and say all this is about is second guessing military decisions about how to dispose of. waste where dispose of waste the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board k.b.r. was wrong making decisions often can see knowing what they were doing from the military. they know it i believe in all these illnesses could have been prevented and in

some of them of their will to sit on. behold looking a little bit weak at the saddam's lawyers are good but still not enough to give in to fix the world and assume an oil move no doubt been restored it to man would be a must come to him that out of the above losses leave. out you know the things up in the layby of did the good idea bad idea most of them all so all the bit that. is the opiate of the slow pace their. boys think of tommy and saw get me out so it would be. hard for me to get in that big hits give it me give. up i'm also good all of them will sell souls glass bowl or heaven this get here and up there they have to make up an exact thing so nothing else just off the band hopes it doesn't. start if it up or you know all that and yet that's because you know mother i get sad stuff and i'm just going off yeah i did think so say and go to be out there yes but in a database that the it's an option to help but i am it is also what they are told to it and who is then still up so. all scope of their lives so more than scope and open you. forward often open ones complete in on some of t

saddam hussein. and so there were effectively no institutions to think of or we thought underneath him, and so the distance between people's desire, now that they've overthrown the dictator -- we have overthrown the dictator -- and the institutions there to channel those passions, there's a great distance and don't have much time. i relate in the book that we made a lot of mistakes. we undervalued the potential for the tribes, the sunni tribes to play an important role. we didn't understand the tribes. when we got back if the surge in 2007, the tribes were a big part of defeating al qaeda in iraq itch of. we didn't fully understand the implications disbanding the army, which wasn't supposed to take place and i describe that in the book, and so in the fog of war a lot happens one thing i'd like people to understand about iraq is we need go to iraq to bring democracy to iraq. that's an urban legend. it isn't true i. went to iraq because we thought we had a security problem in saddam hussein i would never head said use american military force to bring democracy to iraq or afghanistan for