to keep the nation safe. >> bill: three days before the iraq war was launched, here's what vice president cheney said on "meet the press." >> i think that's the bad side of iraq from the standpoint the iraqi people will be greeted -- >> bill: it actual the didn't happen. >> it actually did happen. liberators and then the bloody, dangerous insurgency began. it wasn't until 2006 to adopt a counter inursurgency strategy. >> bill: here's where you're wrong. we were greeted in a way that was tentative. >> it's not right. >> bill: do you know how many people were there when the statue came down? couple hundred. baghdad is a city of millions. couple of hundred and right after the statue came down, the armories were looted and terrorists went in and they took all of saddam hussein's arms,