fergus walsh, bbc news. now, his image was one of the defining moments of the war in iraq which began 20 years ago this weekend. ali abbas was just 12 when he lost his parents and his brother in a missile strike that caused him life changing injuries. photos of him lying in a baghdad hospital moved the world, and ali was brought to britain for medical treatment where he s stayed, and become a british citizen. our correspondent caroline hawley has been to meet him. few iraqis carry deeper scars from the invasion than ali abbas. his father had been desperate to see the end of saddam hussein s dictatorship. we were farmers. my father was saying that when he see the americans coming, he lljust make, like, a party for them. he ll make a barbecue. you know, we werejust
with u.s. adversaries and allies when she was working with donald trump within the administration, but you re also watching her make this argument she has to make which is she s someone who once worked for trump, supported trump and now she s challenging him. it s a tough needle for her to thread. trump went to south carolina, military town, state, and specifically in charleston, and went after george w. bush and the war in iraq. and she s an interesting competitor. she was much more of a conciliatory style governor when she started removing the confederate flags in charleston. going to be an interesting race and always good to have to be based in charleston to cover it. thank you very much. another possible 2024 contender could be trying to dodge a subpoena that could complicate his run.
that call. we were able to see really a rare view into it because something that folks who are consoled by the president because of this type of thing in his wheelhouse, they say that he links his own trauma, the fact that he has lost family members over the course of years to their they are trying to connect with him. take a listen to this video. your comment today, i don t know how you did it, i know tyre s dad, devastating. yes, sir. i know people say that to you. but i do know, i lost my son in a war, the war in iraq. i lost my daughter, a tragic accident, accident killed my wife and daughter. i don t know how i didn t have the courage to do what you did. reporter: we heard from the president what the white house leader called a deeply personal phone calm. now, later talking to reporters, president biden said that in this moment he believed that the image of a miracle was at stake
and that was our fault. mr. bush declared an end to the military phase of the war in iraq and called the battle a victory in the war against terrorism. the administration s very intent on actions that show to the public things are going well. so on may 1st, 2003, bush flies out to a ship near san diego and gives this speech where he talks about just how well the operation had gone. and the navy had hung a banner in the background that said mission accomplished. the transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. our coalition will stay until our work is done, and then we will leave, and we will leave behind a free iraq. since the start of the war the president s job performance has jumped ten points from 67% to 77% as of this evening.
the number of guns in this country, and i cannot see the monitor, but i imagine you put that on the screen. the number of guns in this country per person is completely and totally ridiculous. the idea that we are going to take guns off the streets if you talk to people overseas is absurd. the last thing i ll tell you is as i said, my relation to firearms goes all the way back to the beginning of my career as a journalist in early 2003, the war in iraq. i see what firms have done during the war in iraq, the war in lebanon, the wars in syria, thor and yemen. i see what farms do in war zones. they do the same things here. the high velocity round fired from a weapon here in the united states does the same damage as a high velocity round fired overseas. now, the gunmen today last night, i should say, use the pistol, but he killed six people in a very short period of time. the police arrived on scene here four minutes after the initial call went out, and it is not clear how many were peo