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Exports and then turn around and finance their war. reform of the u.n. and changing the united nations and the security council and all that might be something to debate later on when the dust settles but you can't get it done now. and one last point about that, franklin roosevelt when he agreed to have us sign-up to the united nations he insisted, he was absolutely adamant and so was the congress that we have provision for the veto in the u.n. security council. so we, too, were insistent on that to protect what we thought were our essential interests. and i think roosevelt felt he would have ...

Intelligence means, through dip h m -- diplomatic means. we have to understand our essential interests. they are not to bring democracy to iraq. they are not to have iraq be a nice, functioning government. >> in a recent interview, you laid the blame for the current situation on the bush administration for intervening in 2003. you said quote, i don't want to say i told you so but this is foreseen. do you see what we're seeing now trace to that movement? i talked to tony blair who said it's about syrup ya and maliki, not back what happened in 2003 and subsequently. >> anderson, the 1991 at the ...

Trillion dollars. we had 4700 americans die and over 50,000 americans seriously wounded in order to try to effect change in iraq. and it didn't work. so we have to be very careful about thinking we can effect change. that having been said, we should try in limited ways through intelligence means, through diplomatic means, maybe through very limited use of our military. we really have to understand what our essential interests are. and they're not to bring democracy to iraq. they're not to have iraq be some nice functioning government. >> in a recent interview, you laid the blame for the curren...