to prepare for his mission. the only significant organization he had run was being ambassador to the netherlands. it was astounding. thanks for taking this honor. proud of you. right away, within just a few days on the ground, bremer issued two orders widely considered to be among the most calamitous mistakes of the iraq war. they were disastrous. the first was a decree, barring all members of saddam s party from holding government jobs. the baathists who use their power to oppress the iraqi people will be removed from office. several hundred thousand iraqis who were the people who were the most advantaged to have the best education, all these people lost their jobs. and then, bremer fired saddam s army, a huge force of young iraqi men mostly sunnies turned out into the chaotic streets. of course, they still had their guns. this is a huge concern.
mind, lindsey graham who has gotten no traction. this is the strongest element of what it has been all along, needs to be front and center what we re concerned about in this country and he doesn t even make it on the stage anymore, chris. it is fascinating isn t it? it will be interesting to see, we ll have a new fox poll on fox news sunday taken post-paris. we ll see whether graham got anymore purchase or reaction. my guess is, i haven t seen the poll yet, no. people are looking at frontier, top couple tiers of candidates, carson, trump, cruz, rubio and maybe bush an looking more at their response but you re certainly right when it comes to experience and trips overseas, lindsey graham has 35 trips or so to that region. at this point it doesn t seem to be working for him. we ll talk to marco rubio on sunday. he clearly has been advantaged by the fact he made foreign policy a key issue for him. finally a rare interview,
the baathists who use their power to oppress the iraqi people will be removed from office. several hundred thousand iraqis who were the people who were the most advantaged to have the best education, all these people lost their jobs. and then, bremer fired saddam s army, a huge force of young iraqi men mostly sunnies turned out into the chaotic streets. of course, they still had their guns. this is a huge concern. general david petraeus was fighting the iraqi insurgency. i said your policy is killing the troops. you literally cast them out of the one institution actually respected in iraq and now they have no future. many critics have pointed to bremer s two orders as the reason for the iraqi insurgency. some say they even led to isis. many of the people who are today with the islamic state on the military side are people from that army. who approved the order?
jobs. use their power to oppress the iraqi people will be removed from office. several hundred thousand iraqis who were the people who were the most advantaged to have the best education, all these people lost their jobs. and then, bremer fired saddam s army, young iraqi men mostly sunnies turned out into the chaotic streets. of course, they still had their guns. this is a huge concern. general david petraeus was fighting the iraqi unsure again see. i said your policy is killing the troops. you cast them out of the one institution actually respected in iraq and now they have no future. many critics have pointed to bremer s two orders as the reason for the iraqi insurgency. some say they even led to isis. many of the people who are today with the islamic state on
you can see, he s clearly in some pain with his sciatica, which we saw as he really you see, he s walking up steps and walking down. we re joined by vatican correspondent, and bruce filer and christiane amanpour and myself, anderson cooper. and thank you for joining us. and for our viewers in the united states and around the world, even though the archbishop of philadelphia said this was a time when he could easily see changing the name of this city to francisville, it is not all happy clappy. the pope did talk about a lot of challenges. he talked about, you know, how to reinvigorate the church, how to make the church follow its original mission. that of ministering to the people, ministering to the poor, ministering to the least advantaged and least powerful amongst us. what was interesting about what the pope said in his hom y