complex, there s a lot of people reflecting on that 20 s years later and saying what was our strategy? what were we attempting to do? the intelligence was flawed going into iraq and there wasn t a very good end state other than to depose sadam hussein as a dictator, the biggest lesson i think a lot of people if they haven t learned they should, is don t go to war unless you have a very good strategy for what you re attempting to do and you have a very good preliminary end state for what you want to accomplish. neither one of things were done in iraq, and just like the russians, also, i would harken back i was the war planner in the pentagon when that war was planned. and actually stood up and said, there are not enough forces for this kind of operation and our end state, objectives are not very clear. truthfully, i think we learned a lot from that. but our soldiers also fought valiantly and i think separate the war from the warriors
anybody get hurt. i know the president is neither, if this is what we re doing in this country you better secure the premises it s dangerous, people will get upset. i ve had people come to me in the past couple days and say how upsetting this is to them, no one wants anyone to ever get hurt. and at the end of the day, first amendment is important, the right to protest is very important, but people have to be safe, they have to be cautious, and we have to make sure that nobody is ever put in juror s. i truly do stand by that. so hopefully they do it in a peaceful way and this is done appropriately done. frankly nothing about it is appropriate. so if they choose to do this. up next, just one day after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest, russian president vladimir putin drove through the bombed out ukrainian city of mariupol defiant as the war drags on.
created and i don t believe that certainly president zelenskyy or the ukrainian people are going to abide by any kind of proposal that china gives in coordination with russia. and what s interesting though, too, as you said, president xi is going to moscow, he ll be shaking hands with the president, president putin, few days after putin was named by the hague as a war criminal and a warrant issued for his arrest. i don t think that s good optics at all for the chinese president. shifting gear as bit, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq, you for the only served but commanded army forces throughout that war. what lessons have we learned in the years since 2003 it s great it s sort of the same lesson that is ukrainian is learning truthfully. and not denaro grading the soldiers i fought with who did masterfully in iraq but the mission was convoluted and