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Walking away from the treaty. to your point, julie, its really aimed at china. because china, the threat to china is in the south china sea. the ranges that a war would be initiated is somewhere between 500 miles off the coast to about 1200 miles off the coast. the only way to achieve those ranges is to use the very missiles and rockets that are optimized to fire at those ranges. so this is a conventional war decision. its aimed at china and its not intended to be aimed at russia, julie. >> juli...

Because they wanted to invade iraq. so its one thing to look at the fact that they dont have national security experience. its the other thing to admit the fact that they have a number of people who said to hell with that, were going to go after saddam hussein and finish the gulf war that we didnt finish before. >> you were on the way to the white house until voters got in the way. think about that, though. youre in the oval office. and you know, you know the history. theyve been wrong a lot. th...

Earlier that acknowledged that i should haste top add that presidents rarely read national intelligence reports. >> this was pretty important. >> this was right on the topic that was the main basis for selling the war decision. >> couldnt you argue, to play devils advocate, that the cia should still, even if the policy makers had preconceived notion, even if the cabinet members came in sayering with going to go aftered is sadd dam hussein and looking for a justification, argue that the cia shoul...

Former vice president dick cheney called last weeks drone strike against al qaeda operative anwar al awlaki a validation of bush administration policies and he said that president obama should apologize for his past criticism of bush/cheney era. paul pillar spent 2 years serving as national intelligence officer under president george w. bush and author of the new book "intelligence and u.s. foreign policy" about the years before and after 9/11 and he joins us now. thanks so much for being here. ...