hero takes the grand prize at the annual i wish i could tell you more per news but we're in a rating system here and the key factor is since socialism they thought you run in circles nine to five  so they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful but not so fearful that we stop what we're doing and really examine how iraq was that a lie you don't want to harness parts of magic is to connect iraq to the war on terror the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa and you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder exactly what president george w bush knew about the attack and when he knew it according to the official white house version it was at this moment in a florida classroom that bush learned the second plane had hit the world trade center and that the u s was under attack but here's what george bush himself said almost three months later when asked about september eleventh i was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in and i saw an airplane hit the tower of an of a t it on cd was obviously on and i used to fly myself and i said there's one terrible pilot and it said it must been a horrible accident but i i didn't have much time to think about now wait a minute george bush was told about the second plane while he was inside the classroom so you just heard him describe seeing the first plane crash on television that day but that's impossible no one saw the first plane crash on t v on september the eleventh because the videotape of it didn't surface until the next day so how could george bush should see what he said he stuck our enemies are innovative and resourceful  we they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and the people and neither do we and this is there are three main reasons for going to war in iraq weapons of mass destruction the claim that iraq was sponsoring terrorists would have attacked us on nine eleven and that iraq have purchased nuclear materials from niger all three of those were doubt turned out to be false a first step i might correct  misperception i don't think we ever said at least i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september the eleventh and saddam hussein we did say that he was a state sponsor of terror and was very careful never to say that saddam hussein attacks on america then that must have been a different george w bush who gave the state of the union address on january twenty eighth two thousand and three to say needs and protects terrorists including members of al secretly and without fingerprints he could provide one of these hidden weapons to terrorists or help them develop their own for september the eleventh many in the world believe the saddam hussein could be contained saddam hussein and al qaeda in the same sentence separated by seven words september the eleventh and saddam hussein two sentences later separated by six words i think the united states is that we have to be right one time i mean one hundred percent a time it's hard for me to explain why that was the case just take my word for just seems like i was here yesterday i was things i'd like to stay here all day but i got to i got to go to vegas thanks coming for welcome to the white house thanks for coming up he didn't like the way the cotton shirt said he wore ups or you know his body fluids last night jevon i and some crabs like members of the  seventy two miami dolphins dan marino and is a really dynamic wife cindy garcia i like the mountain bike i like but i th just i think our cause if there be a stable iraq iran that is capable of rejecting iranian influence i mean iran you would have said in the past that it was quote pretty well confirmed no i never with iraqi intelligence official we have never been able to confirm that nor have we been able to knock it down pretty well confirmed that he did go to prague and he did meet with a senior official the iraqi intelligence that saddam has continued to produce them that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons which could be activated within forty five minutes including against his own shia population leave the rule him i discussed this matter with characterise i gave him the benefit of my opinion i gave him the benefit of my opinion in strong language but i did not instruct him because i was not enti ultimate universities open and accessible to everyone and that's what our forms will mean that people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds will find it easier to go to university cheaper to go to university if they then go into low paid jobs they will pay back less and all graduates free bus travel would cut the free television license those statements by labor are quite simply lies i don't use the word library often but i'm using it today because they are lies a conservative government would keep the w television license would keep the extra money for pensioners would keep these things do not be frightened by a government that is trying to scare you into not opting for change it is totally irresponsible and if the prime minister has a moral compass could he pl you rebuild trust in politics but it will take time but i was the first to come out and say that m p s had to pay back some money never mind that they were acting within the rules never mind they were given permission at the time the fact is the system was wrong and that's why the conservative party even before home so you get some advantage of in terms of capital gains and anyone who does sell their home will have to pay capital gains tax on it i want us also to put up on the internet straight away the expenses as we claim them transparency fresh air some light is the best disinfectant of all and we will lead the way in doing that and also agreed with my shadow cabinet that those planes that even if they were within the rules even if they were allowed under the system look excessive all wrong in any way those are being repaid so our politics out of the trough we put ourselves all into but it needs to be done and i think this is a good start oh not only this is the man who will most likely be the next british foreign secretary and other recent speech in london he outlined his party's policy towards israel and palestinian conflicts we will also seek to buttress american efforts to give new impetus to the middle east peace process emphasizing the need for a freeze on all israeli settlement activity and israel bias there are around two hundred seventy thousand jews in the u k and there's a widespread perception that their influence politically and economically hugely outweighs their relatively small numbers and this perception in support for or silence over israel's controversial actions even david cameron's office itself has been infiltrated and is being partly financed by people whose actual agenda is to ensure that israel's interests rather than britain's interests are secure overall inclined eighty percent of conservative m p s belong to the conservative friends of israel lobby group which is an ace is around ten million pounds of the party in the last few years but the documentary provoked outrage among britain's jews they said it was misleading and would stoke anti semitism was a waste of an hour as far as i was concerned personally he was taking very trite things and trying to blow them up into something that wasn't there eighty percent of m p s conservative m p s would probably be friends of israel again because they are fellow democracies so how do you respond to the wide perception that jews are overrepresented considering their numbers in this country in fields such as finance politics and the media all have a right to address their concerns and maybe in certain parts of the jewish communities a little better well we don't believe he has we think that the the process that we made by walking out of the room has demonstrated just how strongly we feel when that sort of rhetoric is used at the united nations then that is the action we will take so we believe that we've taken strong files declassified in america have revealed culvert republican relations and lobbying activities of israel in the us the national archives made the cop documents public following a senate investigation and suggests israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important you can download these files from the website of the institute for research on middle eastern policy and we can now cross to washington and talk to grant apps man who is the director of this institute th joining us mr smith i'd like to begin by asking you what exactly do these files reveal these files are from a sealed senate investigation which was the result of the senate foreign relations committee and the u s department of justice looking into groups that brought thirty six million dollars into the u s to plant stories in the u s media and promote israeli foreign policy objectives in the united states they're extremely relevant because they revealed for example of vast effort to divert u s attention from the israeli to mono nuclear weapons facility by saying it was merely a research center they carefully tracked how that story was playing in the us media and they also were using outlets such as the atlantic magazine funneling fifty thousand dollars into that magazine in a major effort to disrupt the u s peace proposal which would have involved bringing some palestinian refugees and allowing them to return to their homes and properties in israel  interesting thing about these go ahead i'm just going to say what about that the media on their side how susceptible are they to israeli lobbying well this reveals sensually that major us publications that were on the receiving end of the thirty six million dollars really fell into line for a whole host of initiatives now the senate investigation was a failure and they essentially heavily censored the senate transcript and then put all of these extremely damning files into sealed records for years and years so that nobody could really see what was going on  unfortunately the groups that were involved in this they were ultimately forced to register as foreign agents and disclose their activities they simply transferred all of these activities into a group called the american israel public affairs committee  so it's extremely in lightning for americans to see how media influence functions by looking at internal documents from this investigation well it also makes you ask how much will americans really see if the u s media is tell affected by these lobbyists now well yeah that's exactly the case because once again you know we're replaying history now instead of trying to divert attention away from nuclear weapons in the middle east of their nuclear weapon inside so for the united states it's extremely important for people to see this media influence and the mechanics of it because over the passage of time this is only gotten suggest about u s policy in the middle east is it being shaped around the interest of israel a well we've done a lot of work over the years obtaining documents about israeli policy initiatives in the united states and the documentary record suggests a heavy influence on the parts of israeli politicians and various parastatal groups that work tightly with israel without disclosing those relationships and they have successfully built a campaign financing system in the united states that's extremely effective at pushing israeli objectives by withholding or dispersing campaign funding to u s politicians so there is a high degree of control that's in place but firm for your average american it's almost completely hidden interesting stuff grant of smith director of the institute for research on middle eastern policy thank you very much for your time yet americans are going to take action are you willing to accept that boycott which will hurt your economy drastically i don't think for a moment to take place because we are your biggest trading partner you know it will take place  they've lost billions of dollars in press according to paris business review as long as we're in the no spin zone let's take time out for a quick reality check the u s and canada are of course the two biggest trading partners in the world per u s economic boycott of france despite o'reilly's comments to the contrary since he jumped on that bandwagon two years ago french american trade actually went up and the paris business review will rally quote to the best of our knowledge illuminated journalism i mean that's the thing to understand fox news channel it's true any notion of journalism as we've traditionally understood it from its product there is no journalism at the fox news channel  that's the truth about his record i understand what your position is not corrupted by caroline watching her on sally radio because i can't get on regular radio hall evans winston salem north carolina bill if you are so concerned about public figures being shut up on that i said as respect why did you have to tell him you were an atheist if you didn't have any trouble reading you know that's what i did shut up with jimmy carter should do is privately give mr bush's opinion and shut up publically that would be best for the country and it is our duty as loyal americans to shut up once the fighting begins once the war against saddam begins we expect every american to support our military and if they can't do that to shut up well you know you say they're in hiding they're not really in hiding we've got to know where they was like this are few and far between fortunately in the crowd and now the plain truth as you've seen on our show the government at times tells you laws the deception is historic and continuous does the government want you to know that it has killed innocent civilians in afghanistan of course not does it want you to know that it has dispatched hit squads to kill civilians in afghanistan that hates and fears in violation of american law afghan law and international law of course not that's the government wanted to dirty laundry aired on national t v no it doesn't but in our society based on the rule of law the constitution guarantees the natural right to gather information about the government to think about it as we wish to speak about it as we think and to publish about the government whatever we want to say the government needs to be exposed because it cannot be trusted to expose itself the light of day and the light of truth on the best disinfectants for the government no matter what it does in the case of the wiki leaks documents wiki leaks says that the white house knew about the documents it was about to expose and did nothing when the wiki leaks documents revealed that the pakistan intelligence services have been helping al in afghanistan and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff acted as if he had never heard this does he not know what we pay him to know or was he like many in the government lying to us again the government must easily forget that it works for us we are the employers and everyone in the government from the president to a school janitor or the employees something is not right when people must break the law and risk their freedom to tell us the truth thank god for the truth no matter how it comes to us this when he proclaimed obviously in an era before television and wiki leaks if i had to choose between newspapers without government and government without newspapers i should not hesitate for a moment to choose the newspapers at least they go out of business when they don't tell the truth too bad that doesn't happen to the government from new york defending freedom so long i'm the downside here ordinarily would be the sinking feeling that i'm encouraging the republican vice presidential nominee to lie but then again i don't think the governor needs any encouragement from me the number one story ask not for whom the bill tolls it tolls for thee i am making my first payment on my promise let's go back to the beginning and yes i know i mistakenly called the governor senator by the way as of tomorrow every time senator palin repeats one of her standard lies about the bridge to nowhere with the plane she sold on e bay that she didn't sell on e bay or the fired chef she didn't fire i will donate one hundred dollars to charity and it will be three hundred dollars if she somehow says she sold in the chef on  also donate twenty five fictional cans of answer is canned moose chunks due to a lucky viewer we've widened that out now to any pain lie in public and once she started to position herself as the advocate for special needs kids even though she had slashed the budget for the alaska special olympics and after i knew we had the right charity since my staff is equally interested in keeping track of the governor's lies and in separating me from my money at the telly beg charlie gibson charlie charlie charlie charlie charlie correct his name is charlie charlie gibson asked you if you hesitate when senator mccain offered you the v p position so i didn't believe it then then fortunately it seems to conflict with what you told hannity teleprompter broke at the republican convention when neutral witnesses saw that it didn't that's eighteen just since the tenth of the month i'm going to toss in the other one thousand lies that she spewed spewed before the tense of the check to the alaska special olympics is any amount of thirty seven hundred bucks despite previously being adamant and wasn't a reason for going to war in iraq the federal government now says oil is one of the reason australian troops are staying there launching the government's latest defense update the prime minister says energy security including oil is something australians need to think about when considering the consequences of a premature withdrawal from iraq first it was about weapons of mass destruction then it was terrorism now oriel has become a reason for the war in iraq obviously the middle east itself not on iraq but the entire region is an important supply of energy oil in particular today the prime minister loads distro use license defense update and a curing oil richard nixon and in most cases both democrats and republicans got on the talk shows and said well as it turned out it turned to be true it was a great unifier for the country the time comes very wide and i think it's really quite the opposite that when you have a precedent set like that and you have somebody george tenent acknowledging in his book that he knew that the administration was deceiving the american people into a situation that is murder young men and women from this country and others that george tenet and dick cheney and congolese are rice and george bush at all should be in bucking ja time has changed president's one of the most adaptive we've had perhaps in our lifetime i'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning and as president i will and that is why as president i will make the fight against al qaeda and the  top priority that it should be sacked tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending that's why i've proposed an additional one billion dollars in non military assistance each year cut investments  missile defense systems i will not weaponize space i will see more development of future combat systems we need more troops more helicopters more satellites more predator drones in the afghan border region these countries are tiny compared to the soviet union they don't pose a serious threat to us i said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on i've said repeatedly that america doesn't torture and i'm going to make sure that we don't torture those are those are part and parcel of an effort to regain america's moral stature as commander in chief i determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional thirty thousand u s troops to afghanistan after eighteen months our troops will begin to come home these are the resources that we need to seize the initiative while building the afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of afghanistan i do not make this decision lightly oppose the war in iraq precisely because i believe that we must exercise restraint in the use of military force and always consider the long term consequences of our actions we have been at war now for eight years and  enormous cost in lives and resources years of debate over iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort and having just experienced the worst economic crisis since the great depression the american people are understandably focused on rebuilding our economy and putting people to work europe i want to be very clear that we are resolved to halt the rise  funds to cut off the ability for wiki leaks to get its information out and will anonymous see that they're all about their big aim is to create a chaotic good it's a buy in shooting freedom of expression on the internet and they feel very much that these organizations are banking to the government will whether or not strings being pulled in the background or not under a lot of these organizations are hiding behind the excuse of while wiki leaks are breaking pounds of service but they're not happy and these attacks it seems will continue wiki leaks still seem to be functioning or yes indeed because they're moving around the internet they're finding ways around it they're finding other places too that will that will give them say over space amazon for example cut them off because it said it was affecting other customers so they are moving around the world and it seems like they're almost being chased around the world this is also sparked a bigger discussion among bloggers among those who are concerned about the freedom of expression on the internet and they are worried about what this whole case is actually underlining and perhaps destroying something that by a free and open internet and there is one major voice in this who is called john perry ba publication of fifteen thousand reports thank you mr speaker leaks release of classified information has generated a lot of attention worldwide in the past few weeks with hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad mood despite what is claimed information so far released the classified has cause no known harm to any individual but it has caused plenty of embarrassment to our government bruised losing a grip on our empire is not welcome by the neoconservatives and bring that saudi arabia is a pretty principle supporter and financier of al qaeda and this should set off alarm bells since we guarantee it she reassure ria run government this emphasizes even more of the fact that no al qaeda existed in iraq before nine eleven and yet we went to war against iraq based on the law and that it did it has been charged by self proclaimed experts that julian of songe the internet publisher of this information has committed a heinous crime reserving prosecution for treason and execution or even assassination but should we not at least ask how the u s government can charge an australian citizen with treason for publishing u s secret information that he did not steal and if  prosecuted for publishing classified documents why shouldn't the washington post the new york times and others that have also published these documents be prosecuted actually some in congress are threatening this as well the new york times as a result of a supreme court ruling was not found guilty in one thousand nine hundred seventy one for the publication of the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg never served a day in prison for his role in obtaining the se cret documents the pentagon papers were also inserted into the congressional record by senator mike gravel with no charges being made of breaking any national security laws yet the release of this classified information was considered illegal by many and those who lied us into the b s know who war and argue for its problem approach were outraged but the truth gained from the pentagon papers repealed that l we're told about the gulf of tonkin attack which perpetuated a sad and tragic episode in our history just as with the vietnam war the iraq war was based on lies we were never threatened by weapons of mass destruction or al qaida in iraq will be attack on iraq was based on this false information any information that challenges the official propaganda for the war in the middle east is unwelcome by the administration and supporters of these unnecessary wars if you are interested in understand the relationship of our foreign policy and our presence in the middle east through the threat of terrorism revealing the real nature and goal of our presence in so many muslim countries is a threat to our empire and any revelation of this truth is highly resented by those in charge questions to consider do the american people deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing war in iraq afghanistan pakistan and yemen number two could a larger question be how can an army private gain access to so much secret information number three why is the hostility mostly directed at a songe the publisher and not our government's failure to protect classified information number four are we getting our money's worth from the eighty billion dollars per year we spend on intelligence gathering number five which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths lying us into war or wiki leaks revelations of the release of the pentagon papers if  can be convicted of a crime for publishing information that he did not steal what does this say about the future of the first amendment and the independence of the internet number seven could it be that the real reason for the near universal leaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire and it is about national security number eight is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in the time of declared war which is treason and the releasing of information to expose our government law is that promotes secret wars death and corruption number