"The big respect that I profess to his leadership, mister Presidente... in this unincluded war and stranger... the first war of the XXIst century." "Good is not known, it did not understand itself well... it turns out to be difficult to understand it to the people... but I know with certain safety that, with the time... his contributions they will be registered in the history." "NO END IN SIGHT" "THANK YOU, the USA." "We condemn with hardness the criminal action of the forces of the USA." "We are sorry about this catastrophe to hands of the evil." "We demand the execution of the unfaithful Wahabi that receive support of the USA." "They have been arrested and admitted his guilt opposite to the presents." "We demand his execution." "On May 1, 2003, the president George W. Bush... he declared a high place in the operations of combat of Iraq and he said..." "" In the war of Iraq, the USA." "and our Allied Forces have prevailed "." "Four years later, after 3.000 dead persons... and 20.000 American injured men, Iraq has disintegrated in the chaos." "Baghdad suffers from ten to fifteen bombings a day..." "ADVISER OF IRAQ IN THE OCCUPATION ... perhaps 50 deceased in act of service... but I suspect that about that does not speak to himself very much." "Probably, only I came to us a third of what happens actually." "Million Iraqis they have no drinking water... treatment of residual waters not even electricity from the invasion." "Baghdad, with six million inhabitants... she has been submitted to a curfew from March, 2006." "More than three million Iraqis they have fled to the nearby countries." "It is estimated that the valuation of civil deaths it promotes 600.000." "Those who die are lucky..." "IRAQI JOURNALIST IN the USA." "but those who live, are dead in life." "The west and the north of Iraq it is controlled by the insurgents." "MANAGER IN BAGHDAD" "The rest of Iraq it is controlled by the militias." "Two Moslem principal groups, the majority chiíta and the minority suní... they are more and more conflicting." "They executed them for being suníes." "We were living together up to today." "It is an Iranian wave against us." "An Iranian wave." "We are Moslem." "How is it possible?" "They say that they are the Army of Mahdi." "Is this what this army does?" "Look what it has obtained." "Open the shroud, that see his face." "From January, 2003 until January, 2005..." "I was a president of the National Council of Intelligence." "We write the first estimation national of the state of rebellion in Iraq." "It was bad news." "It was presenting situations bad, worse and the awful." "The president corrected it of guesswork and his spokesman of press... he corrected it of insecurity and opposition to the government." "What I gave to understand the fact was that the president had not read it." "This is the history of the invasion of Iraq for the USA." "In that many persons they tried to save a nation." "On September 11, 2001 it was a beautiful clear and clear day." "It was returning of the hairdressing salon of the pentagon..." "THE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC POLITICS ... I happened for my office and I threw a glance to the TV set... and I saw one of the towers twins in flames." "SAFETY CHAMBER OF THE PENTAGON" "We do not hear to smash to the plane, at least, I did not hear it." "Suddenly, it was as if the Earth was opened." "I saw the fire-ball and, I must say... that, on having seen her, I thought that it would not go out hence lively." "The plane had smashed under our office area." "The office of budget... where 38 persons died, it was just below... and the new center of control of the marina it was two apartments further down." "There were no survivors in these two sections." "This had to design his Osama Bin Laden... because another terrorist did not occur to me... that could have organized something like that." "Did he think it immediately?" "Immediately." "One month after September 11, The USA . invaded Afghanistan... in search of Al Qaeda and of Osama Bin Laden." "But before the war of Afghanistan, some tall officials... they were already chasing another target... one that had not anything in common with the attacks of 11S." "When the attack of the pentagon, I was in the building." "EXPERT ANALYST OF IRAQ INTELLIGENCE OF DEFENSE" "I suppose that the following thing that happened... the fact was that they assigned to us to look immediately a relation... between Saddam and Al Qaeda." "I went to speak directly with the group of antiterrorism... with the analyst chief of Iraq." "The two met some days... and we analyze all the historical reports that we could find." "Was CuáI his conclusion?" "We conclude that there was no relation." "His diet helps and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda." "We watch the participation of Iraq in terrorist activities." "What I want to highlight today... it is the connection potentially much more sinister between Iraq... and the terrorist network of Al Qaeda." "We do not want that of smoke of gun pass to atomic cloud." "WRITER Iraq is full of vagrants... they will put them in ships... they will give them chemical biological weapon... and they will order them flying from the ships... to attack the east coast of the USA." "It is a fantastic world." "I do not know what these people were smoking... but it had to be of good quality." "The circle of exterior politics of George W. Bush..." "Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz... they directed the administration towards the war of Iraq." "Condolezza Rice accompanied them." "Colin Powell and Richard Armitage... the only tall officials with experience in combat... they expressed his worries, but they supported to the administration in public." "HISTORY" "The advisers of Bush they were treating with Saddam Hussein... since éI was invading Iran in 1980... in a brutal war that it was paid by almost a million dead persons." "Iraq used chemical weapon... against the military men and the civil innocent Iranians." "Saddam invested million dollars... in programs of biological weapon, chemical and nuclear... while it was murdering 300.000 of your own citizens." "But the administration of Reagan, being afraid to Iran... he attended to Saddam with military intelligence and economic helps." "Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam in 1983." "Colin Powell was the adviser of national safety of Reagan... from 1987 to 1989." "The 80s were summed up in the horrible one although developer documented..." "WRITER Y CATEDRÁTICA ... of the department of the state of 1987... that was saying that human rights and chemical separate weapon, eat... our interests those will be equipped with Iraq." "The war between Iran and Iraq it remained in deadlock in 1988." "THE FIRST WAR OF THE GULF In 1990, Saddam invades Kuwait." "A coalition guided by the USA." "he expels it in a war... planned by Dick Cheney, the secretary of that time of defense..." "Paul Wolfowitz, the undersecretary of that time of defense... and Colin Powell, the of that time one president of the joint staff." "Bush senior incites the Iraqis to a coup d'état against Saddam." "There is another way of stopping the blood effusion... that the Iraqi army and the people... they take the justice as his hand... and demolish the dictator Saddam Hussein." "But when the chiítas of the south of Iraq they subset sail... the administration stops that Saddam squashes them." "14 of 18 Iraqi provinces..." "AMBASSADOR DE IRAQ EN THE UNO ... the rebels were controlling them... when general Schwartzkopf it allowed Saddam Hussein... to use the helicopters of combat... to massacre the rebels, men, women and children." "The armistice of 1991 it is required that Iraq should disarm itself... but Saddam refuses." "It results in the fall of the economy of Iraq... for the sequestration of the UNO that comes into force in 1993... and that continues during Clinton's administration." "The favored elite for Saddam he does not suffer it... but the Iraqis of on foot they rush to the extreme poverty... and many{many people} come to the Islamic fundamentalism." "In 1993, when George Bush senior visits Kuwait..." "Saddam tries to murder it." "Seven years later, his son he is elected a president of the USA." "When you see the same architects of political those... on the one hand, speaking on... to straighten up what went out badly in 1991... to finish what they began... it was tantalizing to think that had learned something." "Saddam Hussein and his children they must leave Iraq in 48 hours." "A denial it would result in military conflict... whose beginning it is we who will decide." "PRESIDENTIAL BOARD OF NATIONAL SAFETY NUMBER 24" "If the beginning wants to be dated of the disaster of the postwar period of Iraq... it would have to be January 20, 2003... when Bush signed without, for what I know..." "JOURNALIST AND WRITER ... no real discussion in the White House or the administration... the presidential board of national safety number 24... that was granting the control of Iraq to the Pentagon after the war." "This document did of Donald Rumsfeld... the principal agent in the postwar period of Iraq." "This war was conceived for a limited number of persons..." "THE DIRECTOR OF THE GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS ... of the administration of Bush." "They had a vision very ingenuous of what it was Iraq... and of what the Iraqis they would do on having fallen down the diet." "On having formulated his opinion on Iraq after the fall of Saddam... the administration rested in a man called Ahmed Chalabi." "From 1992, Chalabi had been a president... of the National Iraqi Congress, or CNI." "He was not waking up confidence in general... since Chalabi had been a reprobate in Jordan for bank fraud." "The intelligence considered his slightly trustworthy information... or even fraudulent." "Ideally, they were lying... and at the worst, they were inciting." "If it was a source of the CNI... the analysts were receiving it skeptics." "But it was not like that for the creators of political." "Chalabi assured that the postwar period of Iraq... it would be pro American and easy to stabilize... especially, if the proper Chalabi was to the control." "So the plan was, in extract... to be approximately three or four months... to restore a government exiles' compound... with Ahmed Chalabi to the head... and, then, in August or September, 2003... to begin the drastic one reduction of the troops." "Larry Di Rita communicated to us in a circular letter... that at the end of August, 2003..." "ANCIENT SPOKESMAN DE DEFENSA ... only they would stay in Iraq from 25.000 to 30.000 troops." "I heard it saying it in the persons' fourth full house... and I turned to my companions... and I said to them: " It is not known what he says." "" It is physically impossible "." "TheFutureprojectofIraq  of the department of the state ...  a study of 13 volumes on the postwar period of Iraq... it was ignored by the Pentagon." "It was debated very much." "THE DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM OF NATIONAL SAFETY" "There were tons of volumes on how should we do it." "Almost not at all it integrated... in the idea of the Pentagon." "My frustration..." "CHIEF OF STAFF OF BREAD STICK POWELL ... and that of the secretary they grew... on having seen our elegant planning, our detailed planning... completely discarded... and to the people who had realized it... completely discarded... so that the most loyal people... in the line of the visions of the republican party... they could be renowned for key positions in Iraq." "THE WAR" "In this moment, the forces of the coalition and those of EE.UU... they begin the military operations... to disarm Iraq, to liberate his people... and to defend to the world of a serious danger." "I joined the marina because he believed... that was an important work and he was thinking..." "LIEUTENANT OF THE MARINA that would not be happy in the life  knowing that another people it had fought for my freedom." "I joined the army for..." "SPECIALIST, MILITARY POLICE OFFICER OF the USA." "... to support to my country... and I thought that it was slightly positive." "It was an honor..." "GUNNER OF the USA." "... to go out to help to my welded partners... to do what they say to us that it is necessary to do... perhaps to demolish a dictator... to restore a democracy." "He was wishing it to begin the war because it was... the only beam of hope that it had... and when it happened, it was very moved." "The things would happen slowly... but they would go towards one better future." "Thank you, mister Bush." "We like very much mister Bush!" "Not, not to Saddam!" "Yes, yes to Bush!" "Not, not to Saddam!" "Yes, yes to Bush!" "Look what it has done, look what it has done to him to Iraq!" "It was a hopeful place, frightened, noisy, confused... quite mixed." "He saw children with balaclava that " FBI " were saying..." "JOURNALIST IN BAGHDAD FROM APRIL 15, 2003 ... and the thumbs were raising me." "And other young boys... possibly, fedayines of civil... they were looking at me with hardness... and they were evaluating me... always looking at the registration{license plate} of the car." "The Iraqis were hoping to see..." "JOURNALIST AND WRITER IN BAGHDAD FROM JULY, 2003 ... what was going to bear them." "The presence of the USA still had not been pushed back by the Iraqis." "Not to Saddam, not to Saddam!" "I have seen the people receiving the troops of the coalition... because we think that everything it was planned, prepared." "There they have it." "During the Second World war, the EE.UU... they started gliding the occupation of Germany... two years earlier... but the administration of Bush it did not create the organization... that would take charge of the occupation of Iraq... up to 60 days before the invasion." "The ORHA, the office for the reconstruction... and the humanitarian aid... he was reporting directly to the secretary of defender Rumsfeld." "They called me from the office of the secretary of defense at the end of January." "They wanted that I was taking charge..." "MANAGER ORHA ... of humanitarian matters." "Jay Garner, general of the retired army, it was chosen to direct the ORHA." "In the first War of the Gulf, it had directed 22.000 soldiers... in humanitarian operations... in the Kurdish area of the north of Iraq." "This time, he would take charge of the whole country." "Was he considered prepared to direct Iraq?" "I do not believe that never we were prepared..." "To prepare would take us years a company of this magnitude." "Nobody had years." "They called me cellular me." "SUPERVISED BY BAGHDAD FOR the USA." "It was someone of the department of the state... saying to me that Rich Armitage was looking for me... and he wanted that it was returning to Washington immediately." "Ambassadress Barbara Bodine it put itself supervised by Baghdad... only three weeks before the war." "She was a diplomatic official with experience... that had served in Yemen, Iraq... and that had been a hostage in Kuwait five months... after the invasion of Saddam in 1990." "It belonged to few experts in the Middle East... that the Pentagon ordered Iraq." "One of the few ones." "I believed that they had been wrong..." "UNDERSECRETARY OF THE STATE They believed that it would be easy to handle..." "Pero Barbara is of the hardest of the service." "In 2003, colonel Paul Hughes... it was taking in the Pentagon 6 years... in works of planning and strategy... for expert officials of Defense." "I ended up by being destined... to the office of reconstruction and humanitarian aid... with Jay Garner." "I was his director of strategic politics." "The ORHA started working in the Pentagon 50 days before the invasion." "They gave us an office complex... that was taking an unoccupied pair of years... there were no computers, the people were coming every day... and he was asking: " Where do I feel? "." "There was no personnel." "It did not even have a secretary." "Only there was a meeting in the University of National Defense... and I believe that the unanimous opinion... of the people who was present at this meeting... with that I spoke then... it was: " This is a madness "." "It was our first meeting... and they were not offering us too much safety... because, basically... the only thing that we did was to meet us." "It was not structured at all." "There were no plans." "None by no means." "On March 16, the ORHA one displaced Kuwait." "167 persons accompanied us." "167 persons who would turn... in the government of a country of 25 millions." "BAGHDAD, ON APRIL 9, 2003" "After the fall of Baghdad... we did not know what was going to happen... and it was obvious that it had not glided at all." "What they were telling us... the fact was that we would embark... after one or two months of, basically, to conquer Iraq." "When the troops of the USA entered in the capital, they began the plundering." "In Kuwait... we were so given to the TV set as the others." "We realized of that he was reigning the disorder... and the chaos in Iraq." "The Americans were not doing anything." "They were stopping in intersections... but they were not going down the vehicles... or of the tanks to do nothing." "The time was happening and we did not see any progress." "The only progress it was the uncontrolled freedom." "The looters wanted to come to all the buildings of the government... and even to private companies." "The plundering stemmed partly at the level of the troops... and to the sensation that Rumsfeld it transmitted his commanders... and these to his subordinates... of that we were not there to govern Iraq... but to eliminate the diet and to go out." "We are not under the martial law." "COMMANDER DE THE ALLIED FORCES" "It was not ordained general McKiernan... that was establishing the martial law." "The martial law never declared itself." "We are in a process of transition, sincerely... there is a civil law in Iraq, but there is not..." "They already heard that the first two courts they were opened today... so, when it is begun from zero..." "With the martial law... that the fourth Convention of Geneva he would have authorized... perhaps there would have been more safety." "We are a marines' section... we might have detained the plundering... if they had arranged it to us." "The big mystery of the Iraqi postwar period... it is why in one month after the fall of Baghdad..." "NATIONAL PUBLISHER ... the USA did not do anything... to control the plundering, because... all the problems since then... they began the first month." "The Council of National Safety... the secretary of Powell, I and others... the director of the CIA, we express our worries for the plundering." "Did he speak with the president Bush?" "I was present at the meeting in that my chief commented on it to himself." "What did mister Powell say?" "This is not our way of acting." "Our advices to the president they are private." "From Washington it was said... that we would not interfere... that we would not detain the plundering... that we would not be police officers... this is not what we came to do." "I think..." "There were instructions explicit from Washington... not to interfere in the plundering?" "Yes." "The plundering of Baghdad soon they transformed in a destruction of the city on a large scale violent and organized." "Hospitals, governmental offices, universities, departments..." "The provisional authority estimated the losses in the plundering... in 12.000 million dollars." "The same as the government debts of Iraq in the year 2003-2004." "I bought a periodic today and I remained surprised." "I read eight holders who were speaking of..." "" Chaos!" "Violence!" "Discomfort! "." "It sounds as if it us was going away to fall down the world above." "Imagine the quarter where we were seated... and only you see cement walls, nothing stays." "We speak about the people who comes with industrial cranes... and it takes parts of a power plant." "Compare it with our cities... when there have been disturbances, problems and plundering." "These things happen!" "There were no thefts in the shops." "They were the people limiting walls to fine sand... to take a beam." "The images that they see in television... there are the repeated same... and it is the same image of someone... that goes out of a building with a vase." "I believe that this was the day in that we lost the Iraqis." "And you think: " Golly!" "Were there so many vases? "." "It is possible that there was so many vases in the whole country?" "It is when it became clear... that this liberation did not have nothing to see with the Iraqis." "One believed that the EE.UU... they incited the plundering, or that was his desire." "JOURNALIST IN BAGHDAD FROM APRIL, 2003" "The destruction of our country... how could they allow it?" "Be already suní or chiíta... the plundering was contracting you." "We did a list of 20 places... that we believed had to be protected... for history, culture, art or religion." "We send it... but not surtió no effect." "The Department of the Oil was the only one installation protected by the USA." "None was protected of the places of the list of the ORHA." "The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad... the number one of the list of the ORHA... it was containing some of the most important objects... of the ancient civilizations." "The museum was never protected." "It is a property of our nation, and the treasure of 7.000 years of civilization." "Why do they allow it?" "The National Library and the National File of Iraq... that were containing thousands of manuscripts ancient they were set fire." "Quite what he writes himself or he wrote himself... he was keeping in this library." "We already have no national heritage." "Three days ago, the doctor Jabar Khalil... president of the Council of Antiquities, and I... we went to the headquarters of the marines in the Hotel Palestine." "We wait more than four hours... until a colonel received us." "Then, he promised us that would order armored cars... to protect the remains of the museum." "This was three days ago, nobody came." "To try to make responsible it is unfortunate... activity... in the defects of a plan of war... it looks like to me an exaggeration." "They did not receive notices of academicians between others... on the danger of the museum?" "There for were not asked they... to provide more safety and protection... in the initial phases of the operation?" "That I know, not." "They cannot say that the plundering... they took them as a surprise." "I believe that they did not want to know it." "They did not want to hear it." "In the months before the invasion... the debate on how many troops Iraq would be sent... it was supported privately... between the military leaders and Donald Rumsfeld." "Rumsfeld and his undersecretary, Paul Wolfowitz... they believed that a force of less than 100.000 troops... it would be sufficient... for the invasion and occupation of Iraq." "One month before the invasion... the dispute on the troops went out to the light... when the Chief of Staff of the army, Eric Shinseki... he testified before the Committee of Services Armed with the Senate... ignoring the pressure of Rumsfeld and of Wolfowitz." "General Shinseki... it can indicate us the magnitude... of forces of the army necessary for the occupation of Iraq?" "About several hundreds of thousands of soldiers... they might be necessary." "The reaction was immediate." "What is clear here... the fact is that to think that they are needed hundreds of thousands of soldiers..." "I believe that it leaves of the logic." "It is inconceivable that need more forces... to stabilize Iraq after the fall of Saddam... that to carry out the proper war... and to assure the capitulation of the forces of Saddam... and his army." "Difficult to imagine." "Difficult to imagine." "Anyone that has experience... in the interventions in the 90s it was known that it is precisely the opposite." "So many soldiers are needed for every thousand inhabitants... simply to provide a safety minimum." "Pero Paul Wolfowitz was not imagining it." "Paul Wolfowitz refused to be interviewed for this documentary." "We speak of hostilidades later... control on a big part of the geography... with a class of ethnic tension... that might cause problems... and that's why it is needed great presence of forces of ground." "Was general Shinseki right?" "TRAINER OF THE NEW ARMY OF IRAQ His best military opinion was asked him... and it has more experience than I." "He was a commander of our forces in Bosnia... it did it during more than one year..." "He knows about what he speaks." "Secretary Powell and I... we were fighting to order more troops... and we obtain something, but in the end... it was not sufficient." "Rumsfeld ended up by sending 160.000 troops to Iraq." "I believe that the war would be different... if there was... a leadership that it understood... first, which is to be in the area of the combat... that has served in the armed forces... and, second, which had talent of control... to do that this works." "The tall officials... that deprived of authority the army and to the department of the state... they had no experience in reconstruction of postwar period... and almost no military experience." "Cheney avoided the military service in Vietnam... with five postponements of incorporation." "Rumsfeld was a pilot of the marines in 1950, but it never fought." "Wolfowitz and Never curl they had served in the army." "Bush avoided to go to Vietnam... joining to the Air Guardsman{National Guard} of Texas." "Neither it had experience in politics exterior before being a president." "We were looking at it and... that we have military experience... and we were commenting on it often... we knew that it was not well." "In April, 2003, with the plundering still without controlling..." "Rumsfeld cancelled the deployment of the first division of knighthood... a force of 16.000 soldiers." "We surprised it." "How can you cancel this division?" "If this division it had followed us to Iraq... we could have stabilized Iraq... with our presence only." "On April 19, the ORHA entered finally Iraq... to begin the operations of postwar period." "Of 20 departments that we wanted to re-use... 16 had been destroyed... because of the plundering." "We were beginning from zero." "If there do not stay tables, chairs... typewriters... where will we receive the Iraqis to start working?" "Structures were not staying... physical or bureaucratic structures." "I had to discover the people... asking round there: " Do you know to ...?" "" Do you know to anybody of Health?" "" Do you know to anybody of the Interior?" "" Do you know to anybody of Education? "." "Inside the proper group, there was..." "I believe that five who should know something about Arab." "We did not have lists of phones... we had no phone a time... so I suppose that these lists they were not so important." "We had no information not to where to go... we did not know with whom contacting." "It is not the best form..." "It is not the best form of beginning an occupation." "It was following a feeling of disorder... of that Iraq never recovered." "The armed people took the control... they were Iraqi with weapon." "THE GAP" "The shootings that I the vi.th.." "they were not American being irresolute... but Iraqis shooting Iraqis." "You were going in car for the street and suddenly... it begins a wave of shots on your head... and you are in the middle of these types... going off some others." "The streets were a chaos... the people were killing and doing not spending anything... there was no police officer of service." "Just before the invasion..." "Saddam had released to 100.000 prisoners... common criminals, of the jails." "In February, 2003... they invited me to report to the advisers' panel... that was advising Rumsfeld... on matters of political of defense." "I said to them that..." "THE DIRECTOR, CRIMINAL INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE ... basing on our experience... and in the history of Iraq... it was very probable that if the USA was intervening... and it was capturing Baghdad... we would face to civil massive disturbances." "I suggested that we needed approximately 2500 forces of police officer... approximately 4.000 civil police officers in the street... and teams of judicial advisers and officials of prisons." "In the end, they coincided in that it was a good idea... but that there was no time, perhaps for the next war." "Before the war, the mortuary of Baghdad... it was receiving a murder a month." "In one month, approximately 25 were coming to them a day." "Violations, sometimes for the first time... violations and murders." "They were kidnapping Iraqi girls." "The women were disappearing... they stopped going to the school, driving." "The Americans they were not doing of police officers." "They did not know the streets, they were not speaking the language... they did not have sufficient interpreters... they had no information on what it was happening... so it was a pitched battle... you were feeling that there was a gap." "Very soon, the mosque filled this gap... that EE.UU created... on having eliminated Saddam and not to put anything in his place." "In the quarters chiítas, soon they established the control... especially, the clergymen associated with Muqtada to the-Sadr." "Muqtada to the-Sadr was the son of a famous clergyman chiíta... and it began his ascent to the power being based on the network of his father... of mosques and charity organizations." "As I said, the small Satan has gone away, and the big Satan has come." "The exit of the occupation and his retreat it is the victory of Iraq and of the Iraqis." "Only a few days later of that the USA will enter Baghdad... it murdered a leader chiíta pro American." "It started creating an armed militia, the Army of Mahdi... that took the control of the ghetto chiíta of Baghdad... and almost all the south of Iraq." "If we deal of the matters of alertness... if there had not been plundering... there would not have been sectarian militias... as safety source in the quarters." "The ORHA strained in remembering the Iraqi army... that will deal with the safety." "The central control of the army, CENTCOM, supported this measurement." "The CENTCOM included in his plan... to re-restore the Iraqi army." "They used it to seal the borders... to contribute static safety... and to help to reconstruct your own nation." "But on April 23, 2003, Jay Garner received a call." "Rumsfeld called me and said..." "" I like everything what it is spending." "" They are doing a big work." "" I am glad that they are in Baghdad, certainly..." "" the president it has named Jerry Bremer..." "" presidential envoy "." "MANAGER, PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY" "Bremer was an ancient diplomatic official." "As other officials..." "Bremer was not speaking Arabic... it had no experience in the Middle East... or in reconstruction of postwar period... and it had never served in the army." "After the arrival of Bremer, the ORHA would move back progressively... and the Authority Provisional of the Coalition, the CPA... it would take his place." "We want to do a delivery very effective and efficient..." "BREMER COMES TO BAGHDAD ... and organized well." "General Garner and I we are promised to be employed at team." "It has done a big work." "We inform it about everything... one day passed seeing what was each one doing... and, then, it took the control." "I returned to house 3, 4 or on June 5." "THE REBELLION OF BREMER" "Between May 1 and May 10, when it went out towards Iraq..." "Bremer was employed at the Pentagon... and he met often with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz... and the undersecretary Doug Feith." "Bremer also worked with Walter Slocombe... ancient undersecretary of Defense... whom Rumsfeld entrusted the politics of postwar period... for the Iraqi army." "They called me in the middle of May, 2003." "He thought in some moment... what was a little late to think about that?" "ADVISER FOR DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SAFETY" "Yes." "Was it said to them?" "Not." "As Bremer..." "Slocombe had not served in the army... it had not gone to Iraq... it had no experience in reconstruction of postwar period... and he was not speaking Arabic." "In the first 10 days of work of Bremer... still in Washington... it took three fatidical decisions." "The first one was to stop the formation... of a provisional Iraqi government... although Jay Garner it had worked to establish it." "Jay Garner was in favor... of forming an Iraqi government... but Baghdad was suppressed of way... and I do not believe that general Garner knew it... not I neither." "We were waiting, and he might say that promised us... that there would be a sovereign government... almost immediately." "" I am in charge and all they will obey me." "That is quite." "" Understood? "." "This way it was like..." "L. Paul Bremer It appeared." "Too loyal and too much dependent on his mission... to notice that his prompt exclusion of the Iraqis... of the process of capture of decisions... it was a catastrophic error." "L. Paul Bremer He refused to be interviewed for this documentary." "In May, 2003 we had the legal occupation of Iraq." "In that moment I said it, and now I believe... that was an error." "We want that EE.UU... leave Iraq completely... and that allow to the Iraqi people to govern Iraq." "The reaction against his following decisions... it would be worse enough." "Desbaazificación." "I restore today an Iraqi commission for the desbaazificación... so that the structure and the influence... of the party Baaz they are eliminated forever." "His second decision... his first formal order at the head of the CPA... it eliminated approximately 50.000 members of the party Baaz... that Saddam had used to govern Iraq." "For the majority, the order of Bremer he supposed the permanent unemployment." "Also it paralyzed the Iraqi government... the educational system and the economy... on having eliminated expert officials... that joined the party... only to survive to the diet of Saddam." "Ambassadress Robin Raphel... he said to me: " Have you seen this? "." "I said: " What happens? "." "" Desbaazificación "." "I read it superficially and said..." "" I believe that we will not be able to do it "." "He said: " I believe that it is necessary to speak with Jerry "." "We went to see it and I said..." "" Allow us to deal..." "" to call Rumsfeld..." "" to smooth it "." "He said: " I do not have this flexibility." "" I have orders that to fulfill "." "The discussion was finished." "Perhaps he was coming to speak with me in some moment..." "I do not remember it, really that not." "He does not remember that these people were saying..." " " are they from 30 to 50.000 persons "?" " It can that yes." "" What do you do? "" "I alone..." "It was working 20 hours a day at that time." "It was not the only thing that it had to do... in my first five days to the charge." "Bremer named Ahmed Chalabi... chief of the commission of desbaazificación." "Chalabi centred in political rivals eliminate." "The desbaazificación was so deep... that we could not to start the government... in an effective way... not with rapidity... and there were many baazistas without right to vote." "For what do we ask?" "I work!" "I work!" "He was beginning{throwing himself} to the people of his employments... although they were only professionals..." "PROFESSOR OF HISTORY ANCIENT ADVISER OF BUSH ... engineers, the directors." "The technocrats, the intelligence... the librarians of school." "That conquer you and to lose your employment... to have no means to support your family... it was a very humiliating experience." "But it was the third decision... the one that it exploited in the hands." "To dissolve the Iraqi army and the services of intelligence... the most important institutions of Iraq." "The second order the CPA... the Iraqi army dissolved, the Republican Guard... the Republican Special Guard and the secret police." "From the day until the morning, Bremer desempleó... and it angered to half a million of armed men... what he would be equivalent to dismiss{see off} to more than five millions... in the United States." "Instead of helping to prepare the rebellion, these men... they created one." "DECLARATIONS OF ANCIENT IRAQI SOLDIERS." "I do not believe that they should do that." "Hundreds of thousands of families they were depending on the army." "They had no income, had no providers." "We are hungry, there is no bread, meal, money, we want to work." "Children, women, wives, sisters, parents... they stopped eating because there was no sufficient money." "The official number of unemployment is 27 %." "I am sure that it is much more." "He would say that between 40 % and 50 %." "It is not of missing that these people... of that almost they had all military training... since the military service it is obligatory in Iraq... or they were active military men... they were joining the rebellion... with ends of feeding his families... and of gaining something of pride." "After the Iraqi army dissolves..." "Bremer was undoing a measurement... supported so much by the army of the USA like for the ORHA." "Paul Hughes had a team... that was looking for the Iraqi army... and he was finding many soldiers... and he had already found many people... because we wanted reinstaurarlo." "On having enlisted, the soldiers had to sign... or to refill a questionnaire... on whom were they, in what unit were they, what they were doing... what skills did they have... what did military man equip did they have in house... a lot of information... that us would have been useful to us." "I was assembling all that." "But the team of advisers of Defense... that it had to treat with the Iraqi soldiers... in charge of Walter Slocombe... it had remained in Washington and he had not visited Iraq." "I said: " I do not see why we have to go." "" I can prepare oneself better in Washington "." "I asked them repeatedly... when he was speaking with them from Baghdad... that had to come... because there were the people waiting for them... and, in particular, to a man... so that it was taking decisions and it was starting it." "In his absence, they left to me the task... of treating with the Iraqi army... only to support the contact." "The Iraqi army was planted there... waiting for an approach... they were waiting what they believed that it would happen... that someone was coming... and he was saying to them: " East is the plan, and you are essential." "" We need them "." "Nobody did it ever." "On having finished the war... on having finished the principal attacks... units were already not staying that will work... they all had gone away to house." "The generals were returning... with finished divisions saying:" "" These are mine "." "One of the Iraqi officials... at the end of the second one or the third meeting... when the chaos was reigning in Baghdad, he said..." "" Colonel Paul, I have 10.000 military police officers..." "" at your disposal in one week if you need them "." "I transmitted it to the people of Bernie Kerik... but they did not do anything." "In his place, Bremer ordered the dissolution of the army." "Five days after this order... we were dismissing{seeing off} Jay Garner... because it was going to leave Iraq forever on the following day." "We were going in two vehicles in the highway... going out of the Green space... when the emboscaron and they killed two soldiers." "In my opinion, that one was the beginning of the rebellion." "We go, go, go!" "We go, go, go!" "My companions and I we were sitting down in the balcony... or in the roof of the Palace of the Republic at night... and we saw the trackers for the whole Baghdad." "We saw the flares of different colors to rise... indicating adónde they were going... the convoys of the USA." "of certain compositions... and how were the insurgents following them." "Iraq was possessing 10 big deposits of weapon and many more stores of ammunition without watching." "There were no sufficient soldiers of the USA to watch them." "They knew where the ammunition was... they knew how to come to the weapon and how to use them... and: you try to say to them what do they go away because they do not exist?" "He would not recommend the common sense to you." "There were enormous stores of ammunition... without watching for weeks... or even some months later of finishing the principal combats." "You see how the insurgents... they extract missiles, mortars and bombs... of these stored consignments for the Iraqis... and hidden in some place." "Then you him{her; you} say to the Britons or to those of the USA, who is... with your small receiver GPS..." "" Boys..." "" we have found 18.000 millions of tons of bombs..." "" and there is a group of Iraqis with AK-47 s..." "" taking them." "" I do not believe that it is the best idea." "They are here "." "And they were saying to you..." "" There are no sufficient people to cover it "." "One could not believe it, it was not the correct response." "See and deal for your own safety... for that of the citizens, for all... it is a bad idea." "Someone him{her; you} warned that to dissolve the army like that... it would impel, and in fact it impelled, the massive growth of the rebellion?" "Certainly not in these terms." "Did nobody say it to himself?" "Not." "I do not believe that it is true... but nobody said it, nobody said..." "Does not he believe that it is true?" "Not, I do not believe that it is true." "Generals' quantity of high status... they came to the headquarters of the UNO in the Hotel Channel... and they were very clear on the consequences... of expressing this order... and of alienating... to this powerful segment of the society... that would finish in rebellion." "A Lebanese diplomat called Hassan Salami... he said to his companion when the generals went away... after one of the meetings..." "" I see bullets in his eyes." "" I see bullets in his eyes "." "Even more surprising that the decision to dissolve the army... it was the form in which this decision was taken..." "Secretly, in one week... for a group of men in Washington that had never gone to Iraq." "They did not consult it with the commanders in Iraq... not with the chiefs of staff sets... not with the ORHA, the department of the state... not with the CIA not even the Council of National Safety... not even, as it seems, with the president of the USA." "We interviewed again to Walter Slocombe and to Paul Hughes... to reconstruct the events... that led to the dissolution of the army." "They were called to yes same Military Independent meeting." "This meeting was already counting with 100.000 persons on May 9..." "Did they already have 100.000?" "Yes, it was a national effort." "He wanted all the copies... all the discs, and they gave them to me... and I took them to him to the ORHA." "I said to them: " Here they have ", and I said to Walt and to his team..." "" I have all this waiting for you "." "Hughes was thinking about being in contact with Iraqi officials... that would have been ready to re-constitute the units." "It had already obtained 137.000 declarations of conscription." "Not." "It had not done it." "It is possible that it had..." "Nobody might have obtained declarations of 130.000 not at all... for nothing, in the chaos that was reigning in this moment." "They had a system of courier service... that was covering the area metropolitan of Baghdad... of Mosul, of Basora and of Kirkuk." "I do not understand..." "Considering the difficulty to do any thing... in the ambience of the operations and the organization... nobody had 137.000." "Walt was not there." "He never met with them, it did not have it nor designs." "Did he say to Slocombe what happened?" "Yes, it was known it." "He and his team." "You had already done him... a recommendation to ambassador Bremer... and éI had done a try of recommendation... to secretary Rumsfeld... on the dissolution of the army..." "On the emission of the order in the end it expressed, yes." "Yes, on May 9." " Yes." " Very well." "May 9 was the last time that I had a conversation... with Walt Slocombe." "We speak by phone before I was going away." "One day he said to him..." "" We are thinking in the army dissolves..." "" and to stop your efforts to reform it "?" "One of the things that I did..." "Did he say it to himself ever?" "With these words, not." "The conversation was: " I go for there." "" It worries me where I am going to live." "" Will I have vehicles at my disposal?" "" My own cooks? "." "Bla, bla, bla." "It was not a question of the Iraqi army." "I was informing him on the matter..." "He did not say that there was already... come to the conclusion... and it had recommended to Bremer the dissolution of the army?" "Insurance that not, because in this case... he would have been going to see Jay immediately." "This idea occurred to them... and it was recommended to Rumsfeld... without speaking with anybody in Iraq that was responsible... of these matters?" "It was hanging, and, precisely, due to... that only had been thought for some days... because Bremer was going away to Iraq and he said to Rumsfeld..." "" Before doing a recommendation, I will speak with the people there "." "Bremer came to Baghdad on May 12." "His consultations with the people in ground they were brief or nonexistent." "Did he surprise it?" "Had they commented on it to themselves?" "Not, nobody said anything to me... it was a big surprise." " Seriously?" " Aha." "It never called Garner and said:" "" We want to do this..." "" does it look like to you a good idea? "." "I believe that not." "Does not he believe that this was an error?" "Not." "Was CuáI his reaction?" "What did he think?" "It looked like to me awful idea." "I believed that it was necessary to do the opposite." "The commanders of the army also they were opposed to the decision of Bremer." "John Abizaid and Dave McKiernan they were saying to me constantly..." "" Do we worry?" "" Let's reform the army "." "Now there are many{many people}... ancient Iraqi soldiers without employment." "Not only it is worrying for the safety... but for the economy." "They already do not have a salary." "Then he promises to be... that the Iraqi army has been dissolved, I remained without words." "In this epoch, Walt Slocombe and his team... they still had not come to Iraq." "Colonel Hughes was the manager... of treating with the Iraqi army... because nobody of his group of advice... it had gone still to Iraq, included you." "He did not think that it should to have spoken with éI on this matter?" " I spoke with éI very much." " It is curious." "He says that the order to dissolve the army... it was an entire surprise for éI... and that found out for television in the airport." "That is..." "If that is like that..." "I surprise it, but it is impossible." "I spoke with him..." "Or, I spoke..." "I..." "We work together every day while I was there." " May 16 came." " On May 16?" "For a brief visit of four days for the country." "Ah." "Then one went and did not return until middle of June." " Seriously?" " This way it is." "Did not he comment on it to himself?" "Jay Garner and Paul Hughes were not the only ones surprised by the order." "The idea of dissolving the whole army... it took me as a surprise." "I see already." "Was CuáI his reaction?" "I thought that we had created a problem." "There were many unemployed soldiers." "The president had another idea... that was to support assets the battalions and low status." " Earlier, yes." " Yes." "Concerning a few days." "To the majority we surprised it a little... or completely the dissolution of the army." "Secretary Powell knew it just as I." "How?" "We find out the day... that Jerry announced the dissolution." " And Condoleezza Rice?" " That she speaks for yes same." "Condoleezza Rice refused to be interviewed for this documentary." "How much did the president know... on these decisions in advance?" "I said already before sé if Rumsfeld he had informed him or not." "It does not even design." "I was only two hours in the office... a young military police officer came and said..." "" Colonel Hughes, there are some Iraqi officials..." "" that want to speak with you "." "I was saying to myself: " Go for God." "" What am I going to say to them? "." "In the end I decided to go down... and to meet with them in the Palace of the Republic." "Colonel Mirjan said: " What has happened? "." "I answered him: " I do not know what has happened." "" I do not have it nor designs from how has this arisen "." "He said to me: " All these soldiers they already have no resources." "" Money does not come already to them." "" What are they going to do now? "." "Moan, carajo." "In July, 2003, the insurgents begin to put explosives for the whole Iraq." "There is a big increase in the falls of the soldiers of the USA." "How many times have I said it to you?" " Shit!" " Carajo!" "Moan, my ear!" "It is necessary to leave from here." "Some of them believe... that the possibility exists of that they attack us." "My response is that they dare." "I was going in the bucket." "The bucket is a vehicle that is not armored." "If something happens, it is going to reach you." "Nobody wants to go there." "In 2003, only 1 of every 8 vehicles in Iraq it had the appropriate shielding." "The explosion gave to me almost directly." "Then, I went out..." "I started hearing shootings... that were approaching ... bang, bang." "We start shooting." "We have a small problem with some resistance... traces of the ancient diet... that use military professional tactics... to attack and to kill our soldiers, as on the same morning." " Not..." " He does not believe... what is a coordinated campaign?" " Not, not..." " That is guerrillas... that we have brought in in the phase of guerrilla war?" "Because of this explosion..." "I suffered an injury cerebral traumatic sharp... and I lost the perception of the light in the right eye." "I suffered damages in the left eye... that they caused a hole to blacken in the retina... but we fight, fight up to the high place to the fire." "I was a gunner." "My driver it lost two legs... and I went out flying of the car... and I suffered a break of femur, almost I lose the right arm... me colapsó a lung and I had internal wounds in the head." "Since then, I have looked in the dictionary... some things, of which I do not remember very much... but one was a " guerrilla war "... the different one was a " rebellion ", another age... slightly conventional " war "." "Pardon?" "Impasse?" "Not, of that another person takes charge..." "I do not do these things." "I meet an expert in counter-insurgency." "It was in the palace where the CPA has his headquarters... and he was speaking with a colonel of the army... that was sitting down nearby of the office of Bremer." "The word " rebellion " and the colonel used... it raised the hand and said:" "" In Iraq there is no rebellion." "" There is a high level of popular violence "." "The safety problem... progressively it prevented us to realize our work." "He would have wanted to establish commissions of advice in the quarters." "Three general managers... they gave perhaps the presentation more coherent on the structure... and the organization of a city of 1500 years... that could happen." "One of them got overturned in a plan... for the groups of advice." "It had designed a local democratization beginning from the people." "It was a beautiful plan." "And: what happened?" "It was murdered." "The country descontrolaba more and more... all the time, and I believe that, somehow..." "Bremer and his assistants did not know... the bad thing on that the things were putting themselves beyond the walls of containment." "THE PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE COALITION" "With his head office in the ancient one Palace of the Republic of Saddam... the enclosure of the CPA, called the Green space... it was protected by 12 km from walls." "There were enormous lines of Iraqis, engineers, officials..." "JOURNALIST IN BAGHDAD FROM APRIL, 2003" "They wanted to help, to translate..." "In line on the verge of the palace... they were making them wait and nobody was receiving them." "They were saying to them that they should and were doing not returning." "The people were trying his one, two... three times and it is already." "He hated the Green space." "It was going out whenever it could to meet with the Iraqis... to go to his hearths and to listen to his complaints... and his opinions." "Then he was saying to Dan Senor..." "" They have a problem, they do not speak with the Iraqis "." "Dan Senor, the spokesman of press of Bremer, he does not speak Arabic." "Almost no high control about the CPA he was speaking Arabic." "Five or six were counted... between the 40, 50 ó 70 more important officials." "We had regional experts that had served in Iraq." "But since it has researched, many{many people}... they did not take part in the initial phase... after the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation... so this skill got lost." "How did it finish his stage there." " Mm..." " I understand... that is a difficult topic." "Say to us what he should want." "Mm..." "He would say that it ended long before what he was thinking... and very much earlier of what I had wanted." "I had liked being... and to try to give everything..." "Considering the frustrations and the limitations... much was deserving the sorrow to be in this place... and to try to do what we wanted to do." "Why did they dismiss{see off} her?" "I know why." "They said it to me." "Why?" "It was difficult to treat... and it was giving opinions... that were going against the current of the epoch in Baghdad." "Since Bremer appeared, the new people were coming to us." "Newly adjusted as the school: do you know?" "They had the secondary one... from the autumn ... the previous spring." "Papi did a contribution to the campaign... and the child has the opportunity to come... and to live through a full trip of diversion and adventure." "Dad's children, this way I was calling them... and they were sitting down opposite to the door of Bremer and they were not doing anything." "In my stay..." "MANAGER OF ONG AND PROFESSOR ... in the Green space..." "I met one of my students... newly graduated." "I asked him what it was doing there and he said to me... radiant of happiness..." "" They have asked me to do..." "" the plan of traffic for the city "." "I asked him if it was known something of municipal planning... and he said to me that not." "Newly gone out of the school... and supervised by something quite complicated... to say the least, and seeing the traffic of Baghdad... the need is obvious." "Almost all the officials they had contracts of three months." "As soon as they were creating... the suitable relations with the Iraqis... in 90 days, 100 days, 120 days, they were going away to house... and there is nothing worse than that to direct an organization." "There was a preference..." "SPECIALIST IN BUDGET CATEDRÁTICA ... much egg white of the Pentagon... for that the companies of the USA they were doing the work." "There were numerous cases in that Iraqi contractors... they proposed to do the same work... for much less money... that the contractors of the USA." "Ann and I had a different approach... to that of many units of the coalition... because we work in team with the Iraqis." "If we were going to meetings, it was with Americans..." "THE FIRST LIEUTENANT, MARINATES ... and Iraqis, and the Iraqis they had the same voice as we." "We were constructing our fortresses... along with{near to} those of the army... that was using a big contractor of the USA, Parsons." "We were designing and constructing our fortresses... in approximately five months." "On having gone away, the fortresses of Parsons... begun one year before we come... they were still not finished." "The fortresses of Seth Moulton and Ann Gildroy they cost 200.000 dollars." "Those of Parsons cost 1200 million dollars." "The officials of the army often they were going out to the street... to spend the small quantity of funds that they had... for immediate action in, let's say, to clean the streets... to realize temporary progress in the drainage system..." "On having been finished... this small quantity of money in that... everything was relapsing into the CPA." "" We need this and this..." "" for these projects, and it will cost so much "." "It was disappearing, simply it was disappearing." "" And my request? "" "" What request? "" "That was not stopping recuring." "18.000 million dollars happened for the reconstruction in October, 2003." "18.000 million dollars that the Congress promised... they were misinterpreted and were wasted... if it went so far as to spend." "We will produce sufficient electricity... so that in the whole Iraq there is... electrical service 24 hours of the day... essential for his hopes of future." "There was fraud, corruption and squandering." "One year later, only 1.000 million of dollars they had been invested in Iraq." "The normal people obtain electricity... only two or three hours a day." "The water comes occasionally, every two or three days." "We spend the winter trembling, wrapped in blankets... because we have no fuel for the heaters." "This way it is our life." "In May, 2003... the United Nations he sent his best expert... in reconstruction of postwar period to help in the occupation of the USA." "He was a Brazilian diplomat so-called Sergio Vieira de Mello." "SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNO" "Although they were not leaving that the UNO it was making nothing important..." "Kofi Annan said: " I will send the best." "" If someone can leave well the UNO..." "" this is Sergio Vieira de Mello "." "I belonged to his team, I was his..." "SPECIAL ADVISER OF THE UNO ... political principal adviser... and we were together to Baghdad." "All our political team he was speaking Arabic... and it had experience working in the region and others." "One of the best things that Sergio did... with hindsight the fact was that... on having seen that the USA had shut itself up... in the Green space and it was not going out to the streets of Iraq..." "Sergio created a structure in Iraq... that was the opposite to the Green space." "Call it the Green Antiarea." "I hear the political leaders... to say that we will meet every day." "We discuss often with the soldiers... that were coming to the UNO to speak with Sergio Vieira de Mello... and they were asking him to come up... in the dispute that the CPA was supporting with." "You saw long lines on the outside of the Green space... but nobody heard his complaints." "On the contrary, the enclosure of the UNO it was completely an open sea." "If you wanted to complain, the UNO it was more than arranged... to listen to you, and Sergio saw as his mission... to spend these complaints to Bremer, to the highest thing... with the hope that they were doing something... before the rebellion was becoming strong." "I meet with éI often... and I share my advices and my experience." "As soon as Bremer obtained what he wanted of Sergio... of the UNO... it already did not have any more time for the United Nations." "Through what Sergio lived... there were two months of being used, literally... to come to certain segments of the Iraqi society... and, in his last month... he had to support they neither that nor him were answering the phone." "Matters as political of detention... to hood the prisoners, there were topics that Sergio... it was treating repeatedly with Bremer and with general Sánchez... but Bremer was not interested in." "Three or four crucial months after the fall of Baghdad... two principal things that the soldiers of the USA were doing, were... to look for weapon of massive destruction and to Saddam Hussein." "The process of these searches... throwing doors below in the night... intimidating the people, taking them to Abu Ghraib... doing detentions in mass, it had a bitter effect." "We go!" "Forward!" "We go!" "We go!" "If you were Iraqi in military age... in an area of operations of the army of EE.UU... it was very probable that they were arresting you... or they will intern{hospitalize; send inland} you as possible insurgent." "Only for being a man in military age in the area of operations." "In many occasions, on having removed... to the Iraqi in military age of his family... you take to the head of the family." "I have not anybody left, I swear it for the life of Mahoma it has not made bad at all." "Moan, my son, Amer!" "Not only you anger to éI, but to all his family... because it is possible that not only it supports to his most nearby family." "When they heard the helicopters of EE.UU... or the tanks of the USA for the streets... they were getting up immediately... although it was going to two o'clock in the morning... and they were prepared for the detention." "Because for them, even now, it is the normal thing." "There were attacks on the proper American soldiers... and they were answering to these attacks... going out to look for the insurgents... and on having tried to do that... sometimes, they were arresting to the wrong persons." "Even, sometimes, they were killing to the wrong person." "After arresting someone, they were tending to disappear... in the prison military system of EE.UU... during a lot of time without track." "His families did not know anything." "The army of the USA does not reveal... the number of brave Iraqis or arrested in Iraq from 2003." "It is difficult to understand what feels to the busy being." "They aim at you from the vehicles." "They make you stop the car." "The Iraqis were not understanding the instructions... that were giving to them in the positions of control." "If they were approaching very rapidly, they were killing them." "Almost all the units of the USA with that I was... they were straining very much in doing the correct thing... and not to kill or to hurt nobody... that did not want or they will need to kill or to hurt." "But there is no doubt of that the wars are chaotic... and, this one in Iraq... at this level of rebellion... it is even worse." "One after other one, they were taking decisions in the short term... that, at the end of 2003... they proved in a country with an increasing rebellion." "HEAD OFFICE OF THE UNO IN BAGHDAD ON AUGUST 19, 2003" "On August 19, 2003, an enormous bomb destroyed the head office of the UNO in Baghdad murdering 22 persons." "Between the dead persons, the special envoy of the UNO in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello." "A truck done in Russia... he parked opposite to the window of Sergio Vieira de Mello... and the enormous one detonated quantity of explosives." "The whole corner south-west of the building of the UNO it collapsed." "Sergio was still alive under the debris... more than three hours hoping that they should rescue it." "We lost many companions this day... and I believe that it was the sign of that slightly drastic... it had happened in the country and of that the rebellion had turned... in very lethal and organized... ready for a long struggle... against the forces of the coalition." "In 2004, the relation between the army... and the Iraqi people it had become untenable." "Here it are where to these mierditas... they like throwing stones to us." "Curse!" "There you have it!" "But we cannot use mortal force." "We cannot use mortal force." "Lump it!" "Lump it you, mierdita!" "There are seen civil many{many people} that are going to work... for the private contractors... that take charge of big part of the reconstruction... because we do not have sufficient troops." "There are more than 45.000 contractors deprived of the army in Iraq, more than in no other war of the USA." "PARLIAMENTARIAN IRAQUÍ They have special custodies." "I do not know who are... they have permission to shoot to the people, as well as this way." "I have seen multitude of civil contractors... especially violent... and with few vision on what they do." "What it continues is a home-loving video of a private military contractor in Iraq." "The music belongs to the original." "Saddam hurt us very much, it is true." "It is something that does not forget." "But what has come it is worse than Saddam." "When a problem like that is created, it is necessary to arrange it or to go away." "They should not leave it this way." "Arrange it or out." "In any moment, when it has an opportunity..." "I will face to the United States." "With weapon?" "Of any form, with or without weapon." "Did it already face them?" "Perhaps." "At the beginning of 2004, Faluya... a city of 350.000 inhabitants to the west of Baghdad... it had turned into the center of the rebellion suní." "On March 31, 2004... four military contractors of the USA they were murdered... and his bodies were dragged by the streets... for victorious multitudes." "At the beginning of 2004... the Council of National Intelligence... a powerful committee of 12 persons... placed at the head of the community of intelligence of EE.UU... it realized several evaluations of the increasing rebellion... to that they presented themselves to the White House... and to tall officials of the government." "We register the growth of the rebellion." "It was growing and was not limiting itself to foreign combatants... or to baazistas coldness." "What we call a rebellion... it is a deep-rooted fact of multiple facets." "OFFICIAL OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST" "Not only some rebels baazistas... not only a few foreign extremists... but rather it was reflecting multiple motivations... and frustrations... between the proper Iraqis." "After the economic situation deteriorates... on having weakened the personal safety of the people... and after the resentment grows against the occupation of the USA." "The CIA... it raised... several cases... in that the life it could be the awful, normal... and better." "The president had not read it... not even the summary of a page that so much cost us... because we limited everything to only one page." "Did the president read not even the summary?" "This way it is." "They only... they were imagining the conditions." "How many people in Iraq estimate you..." "ADVISER OF THE CPA FOR IRAQ ... what have they taken part in the rebellion?" "At any level, if it is alone supporting... providing secret storages... possibly more than 100.000 persons." "Mosul, Iraq." "On December 9, 2004" "Two cars entered in the district of Yarmouk." "There were Americans inside." "They all died, all." "In spite of the intensification of the rebellion... there were still no sufficient ones armored cars... for the soldiers of the USA in Iraq." "We had not even an armored car... while we were in Iraq in 2003." "We went to Iraq in 2004... with vehicles without shielding... and they were giving us teams of shielding in Kuwait... that were like pieces in the shape of doors without windows... and a moon to test of bullets, that was quite." "If his vehicle it had not been armored... cuáI believes that it would have been the damage of the explosive?" "I believe that it would have been mortal." "For what us do we have that to poke in dumps... looking for metal pieces... and armored glazing to reinforce our cars?" "For what these resources... are not they available for us?" "It is a question of physics... not of money." "It is not a question, on the part of the army, desire... it is a question of production and aptitude to achieve it." "There are factories of cars that close in the USA." "I am not an expert in factories... but reutilizarlas to produce armored cars... it should not be difficult." "You go to the war with the army that you have... and the one that you would like to have, or you would wish later." "THE THINGS CRUMBLE" "In November, 2004, the Pentagon decided to attack Faluya... to recover the city of the rebellion suní." "350.000 citizens were warned of Faluya that were leaving the city." "The battle destroyed 70 % of the city... leaving 150.000 homeless." "In spite of the intense combats, many insurgents escape." "40 marines turn out to be dead." "While the army of the USA." "it was worrying about Faluya... the militias chiítas they were taking possession of the south of Iraq." "There is neither an army nor a multitude... of hundreds of persons... trying to demolish or to change the situation." "In August, 2004... the holy city of Nayaf it is controlled by the Army of Mahdi... the militia chiíta led for Muqtada to the-Sadr." "Seth's section faced to the militia of Muqtada to the-Sadr." "In extract, which informed us the unit... that we substitute it was... that almost quite in Nayaf was very pacific." "Except 3.000 men of the militia... that occupy the center of the city." "The bullets were flying, the mortars were falling down." "My section was the first one in coming to the police station of police officer." "We take positions with the police of Iraq... and we defended her from the militia." "But until ends of August... we did not do a large-scale assault... to the ancient city of Nayaf and we recover her." "To Muqtada to the-Sadr he was allowed to escape unharmed." "If the democracy it does not help the Iraqi people... the people will say:" "" To the devil with the democracy." "" We need a strong man "." "And I see that this man is on having fallen down... and the name of to the-Sadr is Muqtada." "I believe that it is not the best election as future leader of Iraq." "It took part in the deliberations... on if capturing or to kill Muqtada to the-Sadr?" "Yes, this way it is." "We were considering it a troublemaker... and a source of problems?" "Certainly, we wanted to arrest it." "Everything turns concerning the matter of the force of the troops." "The army did not have to relax... of his principal mission... to begin what would have been a battle cuts... although difficult, and surely bloody... and this is what was decided in the end." "After the elections in Iraq, on December 15, 2005... the Iraqi Close Alliance... with the party of Muqtada to the-Sadr as principal participant... it occupied almost the half of the benches in the central government of Iraq." "It is not easy for a marine that someone..." "He and his militia murdered to some of my friends... and to see it rising in the politics of Iraq... it is frustrating." "Another group chiíta of the alliance of Sadr it is SCIRI... the Supreme Advice for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq." "The leaders of the SCIRI they lived through 20 years in Iran... and they are, often, pro Iranian." "These groups chiítas... that sometimes fight against them themselves... they are allied politically against the groups suníes." "The Army of Mahdi de Muqtada to the-Sadr... it continues the clashes with the forces of the USA." "The level of activity that is seen today... from a point of military sight it will diminish." "I believe that it is the last breath of the rebellion, if they allow it to me." "When secretary Rumsfeld and the vice-president Cheney... they commented that the rebellion it was drooping... that were alone a few rebels... you knew that the estimation of the intelligence... was it already indicating that they were wrong?" "It had gone to Iraq eight times... he knew the facts on the area." "They will have to speak and judged... for his words and actions... but I knew what the facts were." "Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld they refused to be interviewed." "At the beginning of 2005, the administration began little by little... to correct some of his errors." "It accelerated the training of the Iraqi army... and it named a Moslem diplomat..." "Zalmay Khalilzad, like ambassador." "In June, 2006... ambassador Khalilzad sent a cable with bad predictions... to Condoleezza Rice." "The Iraqis of the embassy... they were not saying to his families where were they working... for fear of being murdered." "They were wondering what would happen if the Americans were going away." "Many{Many people} were preparing themselves for your own sequestrations." "Six months later... the day after the republicans they were losing the control of the Congress... the president Bush announces the resignation of Rumsfeld." "The new secretary of Defense, Robert Gates... he is a pragmatist that he has criticized the war privately." "I do changes in the secretariat of Defense... to give a new perspective on how obtaining anything... that almost we all wish, victory." "THE CHAOS" "When Rumsfeld is replaced..." "Iraq is out of control." "The country is every time more dominated by militias... insurgents, criminals and commanders." "The mixed areas are purged in ethnic purges." "The militias chiítas they have infiltrated into the police... using them for sectarian slaughters." "The sequestrations and the violent deaths... they come to several hundreds per day." "They kidnapped them on the market... and they executed them." "They executed them for being suníes." "There are many types of militia." "The militia of Mahdi..." "MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ ... the militia of Badr... there are many militias in this country." "They all are very democratic... to arrest and to kill the people." "The safety is the awful in many quarters... with the permanent threat of cars bomb and home-loving explosives." "A car bomb exploited just there." "I was here, my father here and my brother there." "The explosion killed my brother." "And to all around him." "Cars bomb, home-loving explosives, sequestrations..." "There are a lot of ways of dying." "The sequestrations, measured certifications of gangsters to obtain money." "They kidnapped a child opposite to the hotel... a car stopped, seized the child and went away." "They ask the parents for a rescue... that they will have to obtain in one week." "A few sequestrations are not alone, they are hundred of them..." "ADVISER OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR DE IRAQ ... and it is overwhelming." "Where did they kidnap them?" "They took them of his shops, to the four." "We went to the office of Sadr to ask him and to request him... but they said that they were not they." "There is a persons' avalanche... asking for help or... or that soon stop asking for help." "Why to denounce the police?" "One, we do not trust in them." "Two, perhaps they commit the crimes." "His uniforms were proliferating for all places." "There are many elements of looting... and the people who makes to happen for safety services." "They arrest the people due to many sources." "Do not know who are." "False positions of control where they stop the people... to verify his identity and to see if they are chiítas... suníes, Kurds, Arabs, and then... they kidnap them or kill them there same." "When I say goodbye of my husband..." "I always believe that I will not return." "At the end of 2006, Baghdad was a lawlessness." "The army of the USA." "it was controlling the Green space... and the area of the airport of Baghdad." "The safety forces of Iraq they were controlling the East and the south." "The militias suníes were controlling... several quarters suníes important." "The Army of Mahdi de Muqtada to the-Sadr it was dominating extensive areas... including the enormous district chiíta of the city of Sadr." "The militia chiíta rival of the SCIRI, the Brigade Badr... it was controlling the areas chiítas rich." "The organizations of quarter they were controlling many small areas." "Extensive areas were remaining without controlling." "CONSEQUENCES" "Of a realized study... for the catedrática of Harvard Linda Bilmas... and the winner of a nobel Joseph Stiglitz... at the beginning of 2007, the USA there was spent 379.000 million dollars... directly in the war of Iraq." "The future operations are estimated in approximately 389.000 million dollars." "The cost of the care to the veterans... and the loss of productiveness as that they serve in Iraq... it costs 482.000 million dollars." "The cost of the demobilization and substitution of the team of the army... that is finished six times more rapidly of the normal thing... it is 160.000 million dollars." "The increase of the price of the oil due to the war... it has cost to the USA." "450.000 million dollars." "In whole, the economic cost of the war... it is believed that it will reach 1,8 trillions of dollars." "I suffer... migraines postraumáticas... and epilepsy postraumática." "Sometimes, I have bad memories of what it happened... but I do not scare them." "Is he emotionally well?" "Sometimes, it is a little..." "Sometimes, yes." "Sometimes, not." "Still difficult meeting to treat with... you know already... what us happened to me and to my partner." "Sometimes." "The big cost concerned to the disability of the veterans... it is for these hundreds of thousands of persons... that they return and see that cannot work... or to expire with a work like earlier... because there are no same that earlier." "What temperatures are reached here?" "Yesterday we come to 48 grades." " 48 grades?" " Yes." "The last contract that signed with the government." "Many of the units go... three periods of service... and some of them do not see that the end approaches." "They believe that they will return for his fifth one... the sixth, seventh period of service before it finishes." "We do not have enough troops." "How us protegeremos before a possible conflict in Pyongyang..." "NORTH KOREA ANNOUNCES NUCLEAR TESTS ... a possible conflict with Iran... other possible conflicts in the world... if we have it quite overturned... towards Iraq and Afghanistan?" "It is curious, but Iran..." "ASSISTANT OF THE SECRETARY OF CLINTON'S DEFENSE ... in spite of our hate towards the Iranian diet... he is the biggest beneficiary of the war of Iraq." "We eliminate his enemy historical for them... and we put them to the head of the War of the Gulf." "When you attend a civil war like that... violent and disagreeable... on 20 % of the world supply of oil... that it will affect with safety to nearby countries..." "Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, perhaps up to Egypt." "If Iraq disintegrates and turns in a field of civil war... it will look alike increasingly to a small Afghanistan." "It are where they will shelter the terrorists of the whole world." "If Iraq returns to a diet islamofascista... as that of the talibanes in Afghanistan... we will have returned on September 10, 2001... only that to major scale... and with thousands of million dollars of oil at his disposal." "On having begun the reconstruction... we were joking... with that there were 500 ways of harming it... and two or three of it to do well... and what we did not understand... the fact is that we were going to try these 500 forms first." "Why were these errors committed?" "I do not know it." "I do not have it nor designs." "It is disconcerting." "The president Bush it disappeared in combat... in the planning of the postwar period." "It delegated in his vice-president and in his secretary of Defense... the control of these decisions." "Why, if he was the president of EE.UU... it would use the military force then to feign ignorance... of, essentially, the most important aspect... that is to say, the later period?" "Who was in charge in this war?" "I do not want to repeat the whole list." "The president, the vice-president... the secretary of Defense... those who were surrounding them." "The Assessor of National Safety?" "Skylight." "The vice-president?" "Yes." "This was the internal team... that was planning everything that thing about the war." "My error was not to try to take part any more... in the process of planning." "I see already." "So that the dissolution of the army... had not it been a surprise?" "It might have fought a heap... and even to go to judgment." "It would have lost, but it would have gone." "The system should be participativo... and to include the people that is ready to say..." "" This has no sense, mister president." "" It is a bad idea "." "I do not believe that these processes of capture of decisions... they existed in the administration of Bush." "I was not sorry that I was taking part... in no process of capture of decisions." "The administration never asked... no opinion poll of the population on Iraq before the war." "Nobody was interested in what the community will think?" "I believe that it was already quite determined... from the beginning." "Any analysis that was doing... on these matters... it was ignored by the managers of the capture of decisions." "The vice-president Cheney has done... and it takes the same positions... on the war that secretary Rumsfeld." "Still does it have his entire confidence?" " This way it is." " Waiting that he ...?" "The campaign was finished." "This way it is." " Will it continue here until you should go away?" " This way it is." "Some nights I do not sleep very well... when I blame myself for not pressing any more... that should have gone, to stamp on the door and to say..." "" Curse, listening." "" It was an error." "It is necessary to rectify it "." "But I never had the opportunity... and to stamp on a door... with an ambassador that, essentially, it is... the czar of Iraq." "It is impossible that a colonel does that." "It was not possible to happen beyond the entry." "If the one that I spoke joins, although it is in the most minimal thing... to the criticism of this administration..." "I will feel good." "I do not want to say that it should have been a cash... but the fact is that I cannot keep on living like that." "We will take to the Iraqis meal... and medicines... and provisions... and liberate." "Look at what contentments!" "It sounds as if it us was going away to fall down the world above." "General Garner and I we are promised to be employed at team." "WE WANT OUR EMPLOYMENTS AND WAGES" "Now there is many ancient Iraqi soldiers... without employment." "One was a " guerrilla war "... the different one was a " rebellion ", the different one was a slightly conventional " war "." " Pardon?" " Impasse." "Not, of that another person takes charge..." "I do not do these things." "I penetrate, penetrate." "I hear the political leaders." "Ah!" "Below, below, below." "Some day in the future, I will turn the sight to Iraq... and I will want to see that we have obtained something... to be able to say... that I was a part of that... and that my suffering and losses have sense." "If the situation improves, I will go away of Iraq." "I will go away, but now..." "I am a combatant, all my life." "I still will not go away of Iraq." "It is not possible to change anything from here... because it is out of control." "I do not have plans of future in Iraq." "I still do not see the light at the end of the tunnel." "This is what exists." "This way we live through it, this way we see it... this way we it smell and feel it." "In this situation it is not possible to say:" "" Let's try this..." "" it will serve." "Or this yes that will serve "." "It is not like that." "You are saying to me that this is it the best thing that can do the USA?" "Not." "Do not say that to me, him{her; you} do not say to the marines... that fought one month in Nayaf that..." "Do not say to me that the marines that... that still fight every day in Faluya... that this is the best thing that the USA can do." "It angers me."