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Accomplished? would we say that it was mission failed? what we say it was mission abandoned? i think we need to ask ourselves that question. why did we go? did we accomplish our purpose? i think everybody agrees the exit has been fundamentally flawed but the mission itself, did we do what we set out to do? that's what vexes me right now. >> greg: if you ask that question, so we killed bin laden. i say we. thank you. you're welcome. i think we are having rob o'neill tomorrow to talk about it. we are in this prison of two ideas. stay or go. when in fact why couldn't we just redefine the mission ...

And you get that that one minute out call and you know you're hitting the exit -- >> you cross that mission decision line and you know. >> yeah, it's go time. pete: and what's going through your head? >> i mean, you're thinking about the mission itself, that's all. i mean, i can't speak for every operator, but i know when i go out, the mission's all i'm thinking about and what i've got to do to protect my brothers to the right and left of me. before you even go on a mission, i put everything out of my head, my family, everything. you have to put that in the back of your mind because you can't ...

Out call and you know you're hitting the exit -- >> you cross that mission decision line and you know. >> yeah, it's go time. pete: and what's going through your head? >> i mean, you're thinking about the mission itself, that's all. i mean, i can't speak for every operator, but i know when i go out, the mission's all i'm thinking about and what i've got to do to protect my brothers to the right and left of me. before you even go on a mission, i put everything out of my head, my family, everything. you have to put that in the back of your mind because you can't have anything that's going to dis...

Out call and you know you're hitting the exit -- >> you cross that mission decision line and you know. >> yeah, it's go time. pete: and what's going through your head? >> i mean, you're thinking about the mission itself, that's all. i mean, i can't speak for every operator, but i know when i go out, the mission's all i'm thinking about and what i've got to do to protect my brothers to the right and left of me. before you even go on a mission, i put everything out of my head, my family, everything. you have to put that in the back of your mind because you can't have anything that's going to dis...

Line through those, you come to the view that you shouldn't put those in the speech and the way he said it to me is the president either knows, either believes that the american people know that he's a war hero or it isn't his right to tell them. and really it's an enormous degree of humility for a president of the united states. the other funny story that comes to my mind is when we lost the 1992 election, democracy being what it is, it's sort of funny because his staff secretary had to keep him from making phone calls for people, anybody that walked by the oval office he asked him, do you ha...