we were faced with a different situation. all of a sudden what was going on in that part of the world would impact home. bret: iraq, vice president cheney said he felt that you werezfz worrying too much about united nations approval. yes. bret: the vice president asked at one of your private lunches, are you going to take care of this guy or not? yeah. there was an impatience. i was doing everything i could to avoid the use of the military. bret: march 20th, 2003, the u.s. invaded iraq. three weeks into the war, saddam hussein fled baghdad. dramatic success on the battlefield kept the public behind bush s global war on terror. that included a host of nonmilitary measures to protect america from further terrorist attacks. eavesdropping on terrorist phone calls. tracking their money.
we were faced with a different situation. all of a sudden what was going on in that part of the world would impact home. bret: iraq, vice president cheney said he felt that you werezfz worrying too much about united nations approval. yes. bret: the vice president asked at one of your private lunches, are you going to take care of this guy or not? yeah. there was an impatience. i was doing everything i could to avoid the use of the military. bret: march 20th, 2003, the u.s. invaded iraq. three weeks into the war, saddam hussein fled baghdad. dramatic success on the battlefield kept the public behind bush s global war on terror. that included a host of nonmilitary measures to protect america from further terrorist attacks. eavesdropping on terrorist phone calls. tracking their money.