to be made there. but what about going in in the first place? and what about churning the hate? what about taking the sunnis out of leadership positions in 2003? what about the fact that there might have been some parts of this that are on the previous administration that could be relitigated as well? >> what about the fact that we had it won? what about the fact that people like me said we've got to fire rumsfeld, we've got to get the surge going. >> did we? >> yes, we did. finally. what about the fact that general petraeus had the conflict won and if we left those behind that we could have we would not face this today. those are fundamental facts. now, i expected you and others to blame it on all these different events. the fact is we had the conflict won. and we had a stable government. and a residual force such as we have left behind, we even have forces in bosnia, korea,