And he was i believe he is in tikrit area right now. And the other one flew the last airplane out of tikrit and they , wherey disillusiononned we cant depend on the u. S. And they were the same kids who are rotc ike any of our graduates academy graduates, sharp, intelligent, motivated its veral of them said not our generation that is going o experience the peace and tranquility. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] good morning. Happy early 4th of july. I hope you all have big plans tomorrow. Im going to make a couple of opening comments and then ask chairman dempsey for some thoughts and well go to your questions. I know as chairman dempsey does, you have been receiving updates on the situation in iraq here on a regular basis. And i would like to focus a couple of comments on iraq as i start. Our efforts here at d. O. D. Have been focused on two specific missions. And i want to lay a bit of a framework down an
The form of burning beheadings and raping, sometimes of children. Is a betrayal of the islamic tradition. It is forbidden in custom. It is forbidden in International Humanitarian law geneva conventions and previously to that or prior to that the haig regulations. And Human Experience it is forbidden period. What virtue or courage is there in beheading someone defenseless, raping a young girl . Does a person who calls themselves a fighter believe this is, this is a definition of courage . These people are an smile eighted annihilated conscience are so far outside of Human Experience. Young adherents seeking to join them must know what they purport to join is not some adventure. Its a road to destroyed, utterly criminal existence. If youre looking for some meaning in your life, do good deeds. That will be your salvation. This is the First Official trip for a high commissioner for human rights to washington in eight years. It has been important for me, and my office to reengage with the a
Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] president gets briefed by german chancellor Angela Merkel about a scheduled summit wednesday to try to revive a peace plan for easter ukraine. Germany, france, russia and ukraine will take part. They will talk with reporters. Among the issues, Army Fighters opposing russian backed separatists. Live coverage starts at 11 40. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . We are taking your comments. Here are a couple of the more than 300 comments. Sue says putin is taking advantage of a weak adminis
Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation with iraq. And i want to go through the study in detail. What im going to do maybe is to try and pick out some of the i think the key issues and quandaries that come out of our Security Cooperation with iraqi state, with the kurdish peshmerga, and our coexistence at the moment alongside the Popular Mobilization units that play such a significant role in the war so far in iraq. Now, just to run through a couple of graphics quickly, which are in the study, which is available in pdf form online fo
Feces or urine on our guards, they do lose some movie time watching. When i was down there a couple of times, you know, somebody lost movie privileges because they found out a way to throw urine or feces on guards and there actually was a guard that yelled back at the person that threw feces on him and he ended up being punished, i was told by article 15, because youre not allowed to respond when a terrorist throws feces or urine on you. That they will take care of the adequate punishment and they think its enough to take away some of their movie watching time or Television Watching time. Or maybe take away some of the time they get to be outside playing soccer. They dont need to be in the United States if theyve committed an act of war against the United States and the evidence seems to indicate clearly that this defendant had. And im very pleased and i applaud the administration for finally picking up this guy that was so available to interNational Media. They could get interviews wi