government and the military in iraq? pertaining to the government, i ve said the way we implemented the de-baathification was wrong. they have used it in a way to try to broaden the de-baathification far beyond what it was and that was certainly a mistake. mr. ambassador, i ve read your piece in wall street journal and aappreciate your commitment to come up with solutions here. basically, it seems what you re proposing is double down on the policies that the bush administration and you thought would lead to, not just a democratic and independent iraq, but a force for good in the region. why should we continue to go back to or even consider going back to the same set of ideas to try to prop up a government with u.s. intervention which seems to have failed and left us in this position? first of all, i m not proposing to prop up any government. in fact, i explicitly said we need a new government. as the president also implied on
an appeal which is very unusual. rulings in britain are usually final. justice a landmark sentence for convicted war criminal and former president of liberia, charles taylor. he s been sentenced to 50 years in prison by a special international court. he s convicted of supporting rebels in sierra leon who slaughtered thousands of people during the country s 11-year civil war. taylor armed rebels in exchange for so-called blood diamonds. mitt romney unofficialing clinching the rop nomination for president. he won last night s texas primary putting him over the number of 1,144 delegates. beryl is once again a tropical storm, forecast to head up the coast of north and south carolina today. the storm has already dumped up to a foot of rain, packing winds of 35 miles per hour and could lead to dangerous rip currents and rough surf. chinese human rights activist chen guangcheng says his country fails to enforce its own laws and insists its abusive treatment of dissidents thr
i m joe johns in for candy crowley, and this is state of the union. the white house has led a very public campaign for the payroll tax cut extension which would save average and working americans $1,000 in higher taxes next year. after weeks of negotiations, a break-through. the senate yesterday voted to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits for just two months. the house still has to act. president obama seems satisfied but he let congress know he is not backing off a full-year extension. it would be inexcusable for congress not to further extend this middle-class tax cut for the rest of the year. it should be a formality, and hopefully it is done with as little drama as possible when they get back in january. but he made no mention of the keystone xl pipeline compromise. to get republicans onboard, democrats agreed to a provision which says the president must make a decision within 60 days on extending an oil pipeline from canada to texas. the president had i
no choice but to say what he said, that al maliki isn t going to be doing everything we wish he were doing on the security front. i mean, there are two concerns. one is he s many things. he s not a democrat. when you are in a small d democrat. he s arresting his political rivals in some cases killing them. he s arresting and you feel like he s a strong man? yes. obviously, he s not hussein but something in the area of hosni mubarak. president obama said he was inclusive. no sunni politician would tell you he s inclusive. they are reviving de-baathification. they are arresting se ining sun huge numbers. you seem to have concerns. what kind of how quickly could this boil? you might see it border outside of the borders as well as inside. they alluded to this yesterday. we desperately as a country a and as an administration want
that committee was behind this renewed de-baathification and attempt to disbar a whole set of people from running. indeed. they announced the list. they determined who was on it. they had a key role in the adjudication of it, later as appeals were issue and so forth. that did, indeed, especially coming so close to the actual elections caused quite a bit of political turmoil. they ve worked through it. the fact is there are tens of thousands of candidates of which several hundred now in the end will have been disqualified. as with everything in iraq, there s again with iraqracy as we ve termed it, there s a considerable degree of emotion, there is again drama. but at the end of the day or perhaps sometimes after the end of the day they manage to work