Baghdad and also more recently he has been trying to prevent chaos from erupting in iraq he had nothing to do with killing protesters on the streets of iraq iraq is a is a mess and the mess is because of u. S. Policy the United States destroyed iraq the United States created Saddam Hussein gave them chemical weapons one day then became his enemy another day they impose sanctions on iraq he has killed a 1000000 people then they invaded the country and destroyed the country then the americans helped create extremism in syria with the saudis and others and thats that the those extremists came into iraq because the iraq no longer had infrastructure the iranians came and helped iraqis say that the dog was on the verge of falling and the United States refused to help the Iraqi Government this is something that obama himself admitted so the americans have now assassinated they have murdered an e a senior iraq iranian. Official they violated International Law they outrage the iranian people ou
Remarkable places and events like this are really remarkable opportunities we have. I always like to start with these events especially on nights when we are inviting remarkable writers into our midst to talk a little bit about the shop. First i want to talk about richard bell tonight who is a scholar and writer, beautiful writer. This particular book really jumps in with this incredibly human picture of a young boy and from that moment i knew i was in short creative hands as well as scholarly hands. He is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. One of the Major University system of maryland awards. I think if there is a round of applause as well its for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment
Lasting legacy, i want to take a moment and thank all of our Reagan Foundation trustees, in particular ted olson. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. Throughout todays discussion, we reviewed the Historical Context of Justice Oconnors life and career and capture it significance. We have commented on the jurisprudence and now we will turn to the legacy and the lasting contribution in the ways we will continue to see her hand in law and the civic life of this great country. About 15 years before he nominated oconnor, Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most consequential political speeches at a law day lunch in southern california. In 1966, Ronald Reagan advanced an initiative to take judges out of politics and articulated his vision of an ideal judge. He called for judges to be men with ability come up men of honor and men who are fairminded. When it came to his first nomination to the Supreme Court, he delivered a nominee who realized his vision. Listening earlier today, we have g
Sources in the Royal Household say Prince William is concerned for his brother. Prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex open up about struggling to deal with the pressures of being in the spotlight. The biggest thing that i know is that i never thought this would be easy but i thought it would be fair. And coming up, angry scenes at stormont as members walk out of the First Assembly meeting for three years, paving the way for abortion and same sex marriage to become legal in Northern Ireland. Its five oclock our top story the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has ruled that mps cannot vote on the governments brexit deal today. Hes been forced to defend his decision, after a number of mps challenged his ruling. Downing street says the government is disappointed with the speakers ruling and that they would now prefer to go ahead with the introduction of the Withdrawal Agreement bill. Were expecting to hear the governments legislative plans for the week shortly but ahe
But the way to deal with it was to get back to the table and see what you could do without before just getting out of the treaty the russian technically violated the antiballistic missile treaty by doing developing a 2nd site but we kept talking to them about it and never obligated until after the attacks of 911 president bush felt we needed a defense not against russian attacks but attacks by other other terrorist groups followed like the focus for a few moments on on china because there is growing concern about chinas arsenal many say that its not subject to any International Arms control treaties so 1st of all how worrisome is that and secondly how large is chinas arsenal nobody knows they refused to give vetoes they have a systematic refusal of transparency so that means. You cant even begin to discuss what numerical limitations would look like. Its i see estimates at this in the order of 3. 00 to 400. 00 its certainly growing but nobody knows and that says this that theres a pract