His credentials more, in 2004 derek harvey was the only Intelligence Officer in the government that understood the origins of the insurgency in iraq, how they were executing it, and how our strategy was doomed to failure. That advice was provided to the senior counsels of our government. But because there was an intelligence groupthink going on at the time, his advice was summarily rejected. How sad is that . That was late 2004 when we had the actual truth of what was happening, why it was happening, and why our strategy was failing. Sad stuff. That is a different subject. Iran in my judgment is an ideologically driven state subscribing to a radical islamist ideology with significant geopolitical objectives, which they have not wavered or retreated from since the formation of the Islamic State of iran in 1980. Specifically, their objectives are to seek regional domination, to reduce u. S. Influence, and drive the United States out of the region, to destroy the state of israel. For 35 y
Fox news reporting unholy war a march of isis. Were coming to you from the president ial palace in cairo. A career ago much of the world hasnt heard from isis. It was dismissed by president obama as the jv team. The terrorist army come to dominate the news with the brutality. This hour were going to show you isis as very few have seen it. Up close. The damage it has brought to families, villages a whole region that simply was in the wrong place with the wrong believes. Well also talk exclusively with one world leader who dared to challenge islamic terror and standing up to it. Even daring it to call it by itself name. We go to Northern Iraq in a small village that was visited by evil. August 15th it was decision today for the people of koe cho village. Ten miles south of sinjar mountain a critical cross roads and ancient landmark in Northern Iraq. Translator isis rounded the whole village. Isis had given the villagers, like this an ultimatum convert to islam or lose all their belonging
Fox news reporting unholy war a march of isis. Were coming to you from the president ial palace in cairo. A career ago much of the world hasnt heard from isis. It was dismissed by president obama as the jv team. The terrorist army come to dominate the news with the brutality. This hour were going to show you isis as very few have seen it. Up close. The damage it has brought to families, villages a whole region that simply was in the wrong place with the wrong believes. Well also talk exclusively with one world leader who dared to challenge islamic terror and standing up to it. Even daring it to call it by itself name. We go to Northern Iraq in a small village that was visited by evil. August 15th it was decision today for the people of koe cho village. Ten miles south of sinjar mountain a critical cross roads and ancient landmark in Northern Iraq. Translator isis rounded the whole village. Isis had given the villagers, like this an ultimatum convert to islam or lose all their belonging
That they agreed upon in a bipartisan way. And it can be done without everything that we do that has a risk. It can be done with nothing more than manageable risks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Senator, thank you for your extraordinary patience. Youve been here early the whole morning and just in order of seniority we find you and we thank you. Thank you. Let me congratulate you on your new role. This is great you in the chair and i look forward to our Work Together in the years to come. I want to associate myself with some of the comments of the senator before she had to depart. Because they say all politics is local and when you think about it this is obviously a large country and i think its fair to a as with other Energy Issues at the policies that we are discussing today dont necessarily affect all of our states and even manner. Like the senator, wisconsin is one of the leading manufacturers in the United States and i think right now it can boast the role of number one manufact
Comfortable, those are things we are doing, but we could do more of, and the second one, i think is the point thats important. The european story is we eliminated debt clauses, were done. Its not the case. Theres much more work that needs to be done, and i talked to my colleagues at the state department, encouraged them to put that at the top of the agenda. Get that market unblocked, more connections between there, you dont strand gas. You get connections. You can move more gas around that continent faster than it takes to build a new terminal. You can use the ones that theyve got. This 1 the next one here, and we have to bring it to a close. I have one or two comments and questions, and ill turn it over for final remarks, but i want to thank you, all, for your patience, excellent testimony, and everything will be submitted to the record. I want to bring it back locally to the u. S. , particularly louisiana and the energy coast. Designing an energy policy, which this committee is focus