been for this kind of mission, and that the actual mission objective wasn't approved by the commander in charge of approving such missions, a lieutenant colonel stationed in chad. what did you think specifically of that? >> well, i think it is this mission confusion that was the main contributing factor to the tragic outcome, but the fact is that there were a whole series of things from a lack of intelligence support from overhead services, a lack of training in the exact way in which this team was comprised and we could go on and on and on because it's a long list. but again, at its heart was the mission confusion, which i thin factor. >> senator mccain said they were misled, that there was supposed to or there was this expectation that it was training and