but always the question kept coming back. okay, how come you voted for it? hillary had no good answer for that. she couldn t bring herself to say it was a mistake. the thing is, all these years later, she still hasn t really answered the question. in her new book she does use the word mistake to describe her 2002 vote for the iraq juarez loos war resolution. she thought she was giving george w. bush a diplomatic tool. i remember the vote well and no one thought it was anything other than a major step in the march to war in iraq. both clintons, though, have had a difficult relationship with the subject of iraq and war for a long time now. back in 1991, when the first president bush was about to launch the first gulf war, bill clinton was gearing up to run for president. bush went to congress for authorization. the debate was intense. the vote was close. most democrats were against it. back in arkansas, clinton tried to avoid taking the position until finally on the eve of the war, aft
question of do they try to knock out saddam. they thought he was in this farm place a few hours early. as it turned out, he wasn t there. they bombed the place. it was maybe the last in a whole string of intelligence failures. well, paul, one of the things remarkable about this film is you get the perspective of iraqis who were serving under saddam and what their view of what was going on was from iraq to america. what are some of the insights we gain from the film about what saddam was thinking about doing in the run up to war? well, the thing that knocked my socks off is we interviewed a general who was the commander of the fifth corps of the republican guard. as senior an iraqi general as you could get. very close to saddam s family. on the eve of the war, he goes to saddam s son and says, do we have this wmd or don t we? i have thousands of guys in the field. they re going to kill my troops. saddam s son laughed and said, we don t have anything. we don t even have chemical
with the nato allies or breaks with the united states. we remember on the eve of the war in 2003 when the u.s. led the invasion into iraq to defeat saddam hussein, turkey refused to allow the u.s. to move into northern iraq from turkey. that was a source of grave concern to the bush administration at the time. we ll see it if the turkish government is willing to cooperate or if it decided to go a separate wags. clearly they have to have turkey on board. we ll see what they decide to do. paula, we re going to stay in close touch with you. as soon as you see the secretary-general, let us know. we ll bring that statement live, and of course we re waiting to hear from the sect stair secretary of state hillary clinton as well. dan lothian and gloria borger are here. dan, what are they saying at the white house? reporter: no formal reaction from the white house. as you pointed out secretary
the army fled leaving behind its equipment and tanks. i m told one reason they have performed so badly is malaki has fired any in a top position has replaced him with his own people loyal to him politically. on the eve of the war against nazi germany and having an army that was almost leaderless. the question is where can the iraqi army now form a line of defense? and i m told they re beginning to form it just north of baghdad. which is important because in effect malaki has given up the territory north of this line north of the military base. finally the question i hear policy makers asking today is, is it possible for malaki to put