signed and surrender an agreement officially ending world war 2 the signing ceremony was held in tokyo bay on the deck of what u.s. ship, a, uss massachusetts. b, uss missouri. c bill: cards up, please. and the answer is roll the tape. the battle ship missouri takes her place in tokyo bay for the official surrender of japan. the end of the greatest war. bill: all right, ms. martha didn t know it. doocy. didn t know it. bill: did know it but dropped another card in the middle of that tape. i don t need this one. bill: murphy was the most decorated american soldier during world war ii. after the war, murphy became a celebrity starring movie about himself. what was the name of that film? a, days of glory? b, to hell and back.
but i m going to submit they saw the segment, they being the white house communications people and subliminally it stuck. and, of course, the president has, you know, some here is what happens with jay leno as you know, miller, been on the show many times. jay will come in and he will rap with you. comes in with jeans and little shirt. he says look, this is what we want to do. jay likes having presidents on the show. quite frankly i m sure they feed him a few lines. i would, do too. you want to get the president on. i wish i could be as calm as barack obama on the television. that guy is smooth, man. i said that at the top of the program. very smooth and you are pretty calm though. when i go on leno and letterman i m calm. i sometimes get a little antsy. he is he so smooth that i m hoping jay makes him his ed mcmahon. [ laughter ] bill: okay, now, out in l.a., and you were not invited to this i understand. the president met with some hollywood moguls secret. very secret meeti
done in a different way. i would have the same result. which way would you have gone and talked to saddam hussein and said you ought to pack it in? bill: i would have gone bush the elder way. the president s father. i would have strangled them with a blockade. i would have no-fly zone as has been done. the reports that were done by the iraq survey group, for example. it was clear when we came into office in 2000 that saddam was a threat. that he had between the time of the first bush administration and this bush administration completely ignored 16 u.n. security council resolutions that the saddam regime was crumbling. not accurate to say he was in a box and we could have scrambled him. iran was going to share technology. bill: i don t expect you and your father to agree with me but the blood and treasure of the united states spent in iraq has now come back to our
dictator. bill: no doubt. the iraqi people were glad to see him go. saddam hussein had in place there were elements of his regime that stayed in place. elements from al qaeda. elements from iran who were there. who were ready who launched a very bloody insurgency. not anticipated by us. that insurgency. it was anticipated by everyone. when we removed saddam hussein we made sure that there wasn t going to be somebody in place who we knew had ties to terror and make weapons of mass destruction who we knew had used him before who qui knew were supporting terrorists. we also by the way as soon as saddam hussein was gone got a call from muammar qaddafi who didn t want to be next who gave up his nuclear weapons. i think that the notion that we now have in the heart of the middle east, a democracy that is not supporting terrorists. it s not perfect. but it is a huge accomplishment of the bush administration that we liberated all those people and the people in afghanistan. i think it
my believe is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. bill: obviously didn t happen. it actually did happen. we were greeted as liberators and then we saw a massive bloody dangerous insurgency begin. and it wasn t, frankly, until we were able in 2006 with the surge to adopt a counter insurgency strategy that we were able to frankly turn things around. bill: here is why you are wrong. we weren t greeted as liberators. we were greeted in a way that was tentative. that s not true. you saw the statue came down. do you know how many people were out there when the statue of saddam hussein came down? do you know how many. do you know how many, bill? bill: yes, i do. couple of hundreds. not thousands. it s a city of millions. right after the statue came down the armies were looted and the terrorists came in and took all of saddam hussein s arms because our government wasn t expecting it. i know how much you care about no spin. bill: right. i think it s really important he