i sat down with michael holmes earlier today at cnn international anchor, correspondent, i asked him what he thought of bremer's controversial stance. michael holmes is joining me. you are our go-to guy on everything iraq. you have been there 14 times. you were there every single year of the war. you have literally seen baghdad burning. when you see paul bremer coming on national television, what was your reaction to the interview? >> you know, you can't lay the whole blame at paul bremer's feet. a lot of people are responsible for what's going on in iraq right now. but i can tell you what, what was obvious when we got off the air was the americans did a great battle plan to win the war. they didn't know what to do when they got there. within two or three days of me getting to baghdad, buildings were on fire, the whole city had a smoke haze from the looters. the big mistake that he made was firing the army, sent home a couple hundred thousand guys. >> he, bremer. >> yeah, with no pay and guns. sent them home. they were a bit annoyed by that.