anything to do with 9/11. number two, no indications that there was an imminent threat. north korea has welcomapons of destruction and is led by a crazy person. >> richard, who opposed the war internally, but, rifed, answchar that question. >> i was against it and like everybody else involved i thought iraq had weapons of mass destruction and zero appetite to take any risk. two other reasons america went to war in addition to the one we are talking about. one is the desire after 9/11 to send a message to the world to use richard nixon's phrase, the u.s. was not a pitiful helpless giant. the president wanted to send a message we could still be effective. secondly a lot of his advisers made the argument which he agreed with it would be something we could do in iraq and as a result transform the middle east. he saw this as potentially a