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We're hear to enforce the date and peace accords, nothing more and so these persons who were indicted for war crimes were betting that the international community would never have the skill to capture them and for the first year and a half, they were lulled into that because in fact, the international community didn't have the skill. but when prime minister tony blair was elected, he went to president clinton and said i don't think we can live with this peace agreement without justice. >> at that point, the president basically made the decision we're going to do everything possible to go after...

Arthel: perhaps that power struggle could prevent iran from going to the diplomatic table. >> that's another factor, although i think that's often exacerbated. the president himself implied, well, maybe this wasn't done because it's such a stupid act to attack a u.s. military aircraft, maybe it wasn't done with the full authority of their command authority. flipping that around, i don't think that someone in the iranian military or the irgc would have attacked without a clear authority going to the very top of the regime. for the longest time, experts in washington have said there are mod rest...

From the jets that jennifer mentioned were in the air. we got reported back to the national command authority and the president made a decision not to go forward. i think -- you know the president is not an interventionist. he doesn't want to get in a war in iran but he does want to protect u.s. vital interest that we have in the persian gulf. you can list them. the free flow of oil. the free flow of commerce. u.s. troops and property in the area. relationships with our allies. it's a key part of the world that fuels the world economy particularly with the free flow of oil. that is the tension...

Exercise a disciplined process to make sound, reasonable judgments to introduce armed forces? or does he do it willy-nilly like he demonstrated last night? again, glad that they didn't strike and glad we didn't take out 150 iranians, civilian or military, that gives one a little bit of comfort. the larger picture is that the larger command authority, the decision making process is broken. >> congressman anthony brown, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. stay with us. much more to come here on cnn, including a decision out of missouri involving that state's sole abortion clinic. st...

>> look, at the end i think he did make the right decision. what this demonstrates is dysfunction in the national command authority, that ten minutes before a potential strike against iran, and we don't know where that strike would have been and what the target would have been, we now believe that it could have included 150 casualties. but that decision being made ten minutes before the strike, that demonstrates a broken system, a lack of understanding and knowledge by our commander in chief, the president, and really a strong call that the administration has to come to congress, not necessari...