>> so that sounds like he was prepared to go to war, weapons of mass destruction or not. >> i'm surprised you didn't put up the piece of tape of john kerry saying much the same thing in september of 2004. where he said knowing what he knew today he was asked if you know what you knew today would you have voted for the war and he said yes i would have. >> but we're talking about your administration and this vice president and what he said. >> i know. i know you don't want to talk about for once john kerry and dick cheney would have both supported the authorization of the use of force. i'm making the point that had there not been this widespread consensus, democrat and republican, throughout the intelligence community that we would not have been able to get the authorization for the use of force nor got at any u.n. resolution. >> there was also sharp criticism and justified from a lot of quarters of the management of the war once you did go to war, the insurgency was swiftly activated on the part of those islamics who wanted to fight back, we were