Its cool stuff its the its about seeing me theres. Just too little. Still. We are at war. Im responsible for the deployment of thousands of Young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. You some will be killed. And so i come here with an cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. Filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other. Thomas he turned to. You know i need to make. The most attorneys time. I stand before you tonight in my red taj chiffon evening ga. The 1st. My face soft limit often my family had gently way. The. Day of the with. The much this extraordinary deal between the United Kingdom and saudi arabia in which. Ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment but these reading stopped it and congress wouldnt approve it because they feared the saudi would strengthen israel serato reagan handed the deal is there effectively to his political soul mate sacha un seen nothing yet. Very tough act to follow. When least stumbled on the saudi arms. Deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years highness prince has been at the heart of many of the great. Polish. I was always pleased to see him when i was Prime Minister because he brought me a short insight unbowed proposal was. Informed as you can see that saudi arabia is this strong friend and would be willing to support taking them with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from there on Everything Else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and their full things were done differently. They wanted 43000000000. 00 with a weapon that was 6000000000. 00. Dollars majority of most people understand this broad. Well continue to Work Together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. One day i started crying and it was a man. And he said i. Ive been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deal so. I did tell the sex workers stories that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut 3 that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get the girls. To be honest its quite small being here payments made some of them from rather on as nomic activities and chips to talks about cooldowns that sort of thing theres only 2 things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful the president s secretary. Because the more distracted looking at your secretaries the you want to have your talking about. And that is sometimes old as you need to be. To use and i scored agency or kids because of the specialties thought the chief of staff of the army lifelong. If. We had their secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i want to swim with this one i with this or that with this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for this but do me a favor if you get any people thought that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for the church interesting information i will get out of the 2000 euro bonus so it was 60 grand i signed the contract with 3000000 so it wasnt ideal. M m i phone rang again. It was another whistle and he said you have no idea what it is that youre getting into here. And he said this slush fund is much much bigger than you realize our job was to look after the really high level people those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially by b. People of the level of the head of the Saudi Air Force who was a royal prince. We would fly the 2 of us angelicas and they would buy cause dress and it wasnt shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shopping we would charge an entire jumbo jet to fly it all back to saudi arabia it was in the camp to try and trace through the Bank Accounts who the ultimate beneficially saw that the case became really very serious as the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of the saudi royal family. The most outrageous example was that maybe 80 i dont order to smooth the way with prince bandar at one point i made him a present of a huge commercial airline had all of his various which he promptly have painted in the silver colors of the Dallas Cowboys memories favorite American Team and i used to fly around in that quite cheerfully. Case centered on establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by the share space for consultancy said decisions feel. Theres evidence that mark fashion of this is that your son got 12000000 in cash for his work as a fixer. You. Think about politicians is very much like prostitutes but only more responsive. Politics is it by the whims of the arms industry politicians. Nothing more than sales reps by their friends that have as much power as a middle ranking executive in Walton Martin ident of the day did with the tolls. When an executive goes to broad a foreign official he says to himself look ive taken a lot of risk to take this 5000000. 00 that im paying to the Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Who makes an arrangement with Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Ill hand over the 5000000 but you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland will share in this for. The 1st time an executive does that and he collects 2500000. 00 he says wow this is a Good Business to be and within moments of that realisation he is no no longer in the business of selling airplanes hes in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to find to bribe. Me its. As if. You can. Choose to. Get. Them some what its from. These outs since. Each child comes. Each careful to. Get by with. This. I tease. Mine. When. Im in the phone rang again. This was somebody who said you have no idea what youre getting into. He said this whole be a thing is much much bigger it goes right to the very top what he had was something that you never see as a journalist swiss bank records of International Cover payments going all over the world he showed me how be it set up the whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into the British Virgin islands offshore companies called red diamond from red diamond the money went into this guys Swiss Bank Account and he then used it to distribute to the local politicians taking a big check himself of course you know i can surely surely we dont we have i believe most companies all to the business of. Policy as you suggest the laws of supply they do employees of government it is just the way the business is done. We were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story the prince bandar had been given not just the claim but over the years the total of 1000000000 pounds we did not invent. Corruption i mean i doubt many would have been and they have had to pack and they had to go down to edit so i mean this is this is what made sure i show you to prince of state run and a friend. How do you agree. Of course none of us are greedy its only the other fellows greed. This world runs on individuals pursuing their selfinterest. All those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal socalled primal instincts other religions things and Everything Else is a social construction theyve lost their mind and for the last 50 years a least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and its ruined the wound. Pattern arts believe there is new nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i dont accept that at all i think there are very many good Public Policy initiatives for creating societies. In the beirut theyre saying hello to you. Theres a comment isnt a good 47 kalashnikov. The society that decides that the bulk of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric this is made a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. This is not the world i want to live in i want to live in the real wood and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military the decision little shattered lives every song came to a complete. I was right ill be instructive you know to shut up about it kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many scream didnt even come in you can my arm even 8 meters berthing if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been so. Should assaulted in the u. S. Military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting really is more likely to get the victim punished to be a friend and almost 20 year career which shows very invested in and i gave the sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. My god if you want is freedom the freedom of human beings of individuals to pursue their own say is i think what they term freedom means is economic license and economic license control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality a threat to the freedom of peoples all over the world and not only in europe and the United States but nafta in asia and in latin america i want you to name me any society in which you have any large measure of that freedom where capitalism and Free Enterprise has not been the predominant mechanism of the Free Enterprise system has spread through the force of on send those on through wielded by governments that was Government Intervention under the name of the Free Enterprise system but of Government Intervention which destroyed the cretins of many people not least of which are the people of chile. From the 1950 s. All the way through the 1970 s. The cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right Wing Military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion 316. 00 and under us and and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. In countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time youre going to be killed you dont know how but its coming. We were fighting in oligarch and still we are fighting you know body guards mines that dont want to work going inclusiveness they just pick. Action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. Even to dreams take on the next. The last half of what is called the cold war i dont know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the wood. From the standpoint of want it badly and would cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. There was an attempt in the global south to create an alternative imagination for people. But in the early 1970 s. Is this attempt was destroyed and it was stopped through a real genuine attempt by the global lot to take over the institutions of the world including the world bank the i. M. F. Souls not simply that the people of the south were incapable of carrying forward their dreams. It was a very strong with these dreams were assassinated. Its not just the one off killings the cool year the cool there. Its the entire dream that had to be killed. To be sure to go to the syrian book. Uncanny how much you know. By a symbol or any man. Should be more elusive because on the end. Was he the one just got a testimony most given me by these. When i sat kind of this year. The whole lead on. N t you clearly are going to notice them and. You know be able to command. Decency yeah them and eat. Each other thing good to see. The joint hearings of the House Select Committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. And the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the nec iraq when opposition will come to Order Congress began to address what they perceive to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight we have been shipped by lethal weapons to terrorist nation involving the Us Government in military activity in direct contravention of the law and lying to the congress now i believe that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse. And people like dick cheney and Donald Rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had we need to step in and confront the National Security state and whats become a very out of control pill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eightys to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open. Cheney did not Like Congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. And you had to see understand that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the Reagan Administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it ive told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was what i told you. To. Our witness this morning is mr Robert Mcfarlane the former National Security adviser to the president. Mr mcfarlane we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. Mr mcfarlane. Did you have any discussion about the possibility. Of in effect farming out the whole contra support operations in nicaragua to another country which will call country run yes thats correct and did you in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. Which well call country to. Thats correct. Had they practice meeting periodic lee with the official from country true about the systems we could provide some cases arms sales. And they intended to provide a contribution of a 1000000. 00 per months to the counter is through the end of the year. You have no problems working with us we have no problem working with the United States government and unless the cia does not work for the government then i think we have a bigger problem there have been occasions when some americans are question that you know well thank heavens those occasion was not in connection with saudi arabia. I think that there was a substantial shadow government. Trying to run Foreign AffairsUnited States these events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements weve heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup in the white house not only does cheney sort of defend iran contra but he argues that iran contra is actually a model for how the u. S. Should be conducting its National Security policy he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what youre doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we dont have a democracy we have a dictatorship. As a matter of fact i was. Very definitely involved in the decisions about support to the Freedom Fighters my idea to begin with. In my opinion there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility a future president. Of the National Security today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their long nomination of richard b. Cheney to be secretary of the friends is a make a name for themselves in the private industry and then they come into the go. This revolving door keeps the National Security leak very small and very wealthy. Increasing its wealth as it goes up the journey to the extent that then when you get to the top as cheney did then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country this is an impressive crowd the haves. And the have more. Money commissioned a study by halliburton to find out how much more of the Defense Department could be privatized proud to serve our troops was he laid to get this 1000000. 00 contract and of course returned a verdict that oh mr secretary lots more of it can be privatized. Dick cheney leaves the Defense Department and goes and heads halliburton himself and he spends the entire 990 s. Building up the war empire well if were going to talk about star wars we might as well invite darth vader i. Am. Happy to accept. When he comes back into power as Vice President and then they start hiring halliburton to you know in advance even if u. S. Troops going into iraq. Snellen equipment was being deployed to the gulf its hard to look at this and not say these guys had a very Long Term Plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. What weve essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the firepower of small nation states that could you know overthrow some small governments around the world. In essence we in the United States have privatized the ultimate Public Function war. Would. Want to get on the market right now you know bombs of go to time with the like food. You know munitions as good as what you know so by that its. Cut. And you can operate. In iraq the f. 16 s and i say ts were firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back we army and going up again. Theres no hope of any harm because theres always a small cobble of people for war is really really Good Business. It doesnt matter that were losing the war in afghanistan albertan could care less its good for them good for profit. But im sure im not there and. I dont want to have the words or the. Bad luck i was held up out of the boys who did it lawfully realize. But if she warned you posted by you and i did the dishes at the bazemore those jeans nudist beach and you see me we need to true as he. Does and about that come up and when he dies he s. Will be home in years i mean guys are that infants involved. A lot of you will see sawing your present parts about 2 kids out the most hard most schools. But as you near them is to me as a fire truck. The. Last. Year in charity. Cabinet 5 days doing this is. An english lady a few people who simply knew she would include in it will. Iraq appears to be caught in a proxy war between the u. S. And around some of the u. S. Ambassador in baghdad over sundays deadly american airstrikes in the country the pentagon says targeted iranian backed militants also to come were going to make an on the skids early in the latest slew of headlines saying that germans are getting increasingly frustrated with slowed speeds in coverage and we ask locals just how bad its. Cold lawsuit for this is impossible to understand whats up with 7 years ago i was driving through estonia the baltic republics and poland even today i dont have that quality of connection in germany. And in new years miracle we find out what happened to a little boy who was pulled from the ruins of a tower block that collapsed in russia a year