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Republican party. but no one yet on the right is taking up that argument. >> as much fun as it is to watch the republican field twist in the wind over this question, it really is fun, i think there are more important questions like the men who manipulated the intelligence that led us into the iraq war whether or not bush made a mistake in trusting that intelligence, will those men be part of your foreign policy advising team if you are president. >> or how about this, how about the libya intervention which we know secretary of state clinton pushed for is on the record for, which is, i think, v...

In pakistan, and we've seen all kinds of collateral damage in pakistan and iraq and we had an 11-year war in which we killed thousands of people, and the long-term effect of that is that it makes a burned memory in the arab -- in the muslim mind about whether the united states is after muslims. and i think you have to take this thing very carefully and have everybody understanding what it is we want as a final result. what did we get out of going into iraq? there was no al qaeda in there when we started. we, it turned out, well, we got saddam hussein. was it worth all that mayhem and all the m...

Whether the united states is after muslims. and i think you have to take this thing very carefully and have everybody understanding what it is we want as a final result. what did we get out of going into iraq? there was no al qaeda in there when we started. we, it turned out, well, we got saddam hussein. was it worth all that mayhem and all the money we spent there for one person? >> that is the question, obviously, that's weighing over the congress, it's weighing over the citizenry as we head into this weekend with everyone on tenterhooks. congressman jim mcdermott. thank you so much. joining...

About boots 0 on the ground. they said 45% would favor the u.s. or it's allies taking military action against the syrian government. i don't know where you are specifically on that, but when you talk about setting up these safe zones, you can't do that unless you put people on the ground, can you? >> well, you don't have to put people on the ground to set up a safe zone, as senator mccain was talking about. this is to establish a political free zone and a place for displaced people to go, kind of like what benghazi was like during the libya intervention. and they don't have that right now. so ...

Intervened in libya if we are trying to convince people that weapons of mass destruction. if you are an iranian and see we go in and intervene once you give away your weapons of mass destruction, what do you have? >> i think that's an interesting point. let me set the concept. gadhafi had a nuclear weapons program. during the bush administration, they convinced him to give up his nuclear weapons. he gave them up. there's a case to be made that he gave up the nuclear program, the next thing he knew, not the next thing, but there were bombs and that's bad. >> the point in support of the libya in...