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Libya. >> were we on the short end of that bargain though? has he really given up? >> i don't know that he every gave up his terrorist stripes. what he did was he gave up his nuclear program and said he would give up his terrorist activities. i don't know of activities he had been involved in since that time. it's much better in that part of the world to not have a nuclear arms race among those countries. >> let's talk about iraq. you said that the decision to go to war, that two weeks after 9/11, sat down with you and said we ought to be looking over plans to attack iraq. >> he didn't say pla...

Authority made an announcement and is it a wrong decision? i don't think so. i think he probably, it's there's arguments on both sides. >> was it his decision though? >> he talked to other people. >> to you? >> the nfc -- i've spent a good deal of time in the book and supplied documentation explaining how those editions were made, who made them and to what extent they were discussed. both have been criticized. i happen to think that the debathification decision was generally right, although its implementation was unperfect. >> you worked under a lot of presidents. one was a special friend, jer...

Successor a year before. that is a myth that's been built up and many people -- >> were you trying to send the signal to undercut general shinseki, know they could not decent about what some could argue -- >> absolute nonsense. >> what about the decision to disband the iraqi army? >> what about it? >> do you take responsibility for that? it could not have happened without your concurrence though. >> you have a lot of conclusions that come from people not involved. i tried to write about it in an accurate way. i've got documentation that supports it. the iraqi army disbanded itself because you ...

But i lost it. then was required to have this procedure. it's not comfortable necessarily to have to describe a very personal intimate set of circumstances, but under the circumstances, i felt compelled to do it because it's time that we stop demonizing women who have to endure this procedure. if i'm the face of it moving forward, i'm proud to stand with other women across this country who make this decision with great care and great sadness. >> congresswoman, there is another issue here, whether or not the budget debate, there are many people in america who don't think something needs to be d...