we are not allowed to ask questions, and they learned from vietnam and the previous wars, don't put these images on the screen. don't let them see the coffins coming back home, and let's -- let's get our media. bedded with them. >> these are the results of the cnn/orc poll recently about iraq. they were asked would you say the initial decision to send u.s. troops to iraq was a smart or dumb thing to do? americans replied 59% dumb, 38 the smart. race walk more a mistake, yes, 56%. no, 43% and so on and so on in every one of these. did the bush administration deliberately mislead the american public with wmd? >> yes, 54%. >> that's why this is a great country. the majority of americans got it together. the majority of americans are never listened to. we'll talk about guns in a minute. no one is being listened to. >> this brings me neatly to guns because there's so much going on with that at the moment, not least of which harry reid