Very well in politics. He reached the highest peak. He was the president of the United States. But we must remember as has been pointed out in this statement that was released he was a texing otexas oil pioneer. He was a very successful businessman. He really gave that up to serve his country in another way outside of the military. Absolutely. There is an expression, you see this at his president ial library, i mean his office, his personal motto, he has two of them. One was faith, family and friends. And the second was to your point, any definition of a successful life must include service to others. So while a lot of people think of him as being raised in
grinwhich, and a new england born and bred welltodo family, he did go out and make his fortune, and he was pretty humble once he started out. Once he made money, he turned back to what he thought was most important, which was Public Service. Lets go onto talk about as well, so he became the 41st president of the United States, survi
to iraq. he said no, the coalition was put together for this. neil: at the time you wanted to keep going further. i thought he did exactly the right thing. exactly the right thing. because it was obvious to anyone that looked at it, if you took saddam hussein out, who is one of the biggest tyrants of all time, of our time, there would be a vacuum. in that vacuum you could not expect something good to flow. shepard: without talking politics, general, you mentioned with the obama administration working with joe biden, the vice president. he would joke with you about the centcom command or you were the only guy that took the job. so you had a good personal relationship of his, not a fan in general. if he were to become president, would you be safe? would this country be in good hands? i m not going to make a political assessment neil: i asked that you would. it s cunning.
to go in and kick saddam hussein out, he formed the international coalition of the willing. then secretary of state traveled across much of the world to bring nations to support that effort and also help pay for it. and at the end of the day the united states actually made money. i mean, by the time everybody paid their bills we weren t actually in the black, which never happens. but the important thing was to have the coalition because it gave moral force why saddam why he was able to kick saddam out of there. but the other thing that was extremely important and that was when we knocked saddam out of kuwait and he started retreating, his forces were retreating back in towards baghdad, there was a lot of pressure from some of the junior people around george h.w. bush to go into iraq and go after
important, especially on aircraft carrier. when you take off, if it s not done right every single time you come back, every life on that ship is at risk. certainly your life and aircraft is at risk and entire mission is at risk of being compromised. when you are the commander-in-chief leading our nation into war dessert storm in 1991. and commissioning ships and sending men off into the battle. you are thinking about not just those at the top but those executing the mission as well. and if you think about it buffalo war propelled america out of vietnam. entire generation of folks gone to war and felt like their country turned their back on them. questions in the foreign policy and military establishment as to whether america had the hutzpah to mobilize again because he had wee had lost the last one. muddy outcomes in korea a. he martialled the nation to war. brought countries collectively together. pushed saddam hussein out and restrained from going all the way to baghdad which
done it. i think is compensating factors that bear on what the president can do. jeff sessions has executed a lot of his agenda despite the controversy surrounding the mueller investigation. the other thing is, what happens if he does it? it s like the iraq invasion. you take saddam hussein out, what have you got left? you take sessions out you got rosenstein and you may not be able to get anyone else confirmed. i know republican senators have talked to him about the perjury said needed to happen at the fbi. you still feel that way, do you still feel as though more heads need to roll? i don t know. i read the classified documents that were made available to all congressmen so i can t comment anywhere near that. we know mccabe is gone, we know that peter strzok is gone but i wonder about this page lady. sounds like bruce ohr through everybody under the bus in his