from inside the compound where they were jumping on top of the head of the statue of qaddafi the other day. what mistakes were made, perhaps, in iraq that we should not repeat in libya? the mistake that was made in iraq was there were a couple of them. one, it was the focus on a lot of the new people coming in, the so called rebels against saddam hussein, to settle scores, whether it was the shiites coming in and wanted to settle scores with the sunnis. they were far more focused on revenge than they were on organizing their country and getting things back to some kind of stability. the second mistake, and major mistake that was made, is that when the new team came in, the provisional government, they fired all of the baathist military and all of the people who were in the bureaucracy, and not just the top guys, but everybody who had a gun. they said go home, you re fired. rick: and they became the insurgents. they became the insurgents. everybody had a gun and nobody had a salar
in the future. i hope the looting and that kind of behavior stops. this is a time for the libyan forces to show some maturity. on the presence of terror groups and extreme forces, i would assume they are there. let s remember that in the early days of our identification of high-value targets for al-qaeda, one of the high-value targets was named barrage from libya. libya was a source of foreign fighters to the al-qaeda movement in iraq and pakistan, and i assume they re still there. i also assume there are mercenaries who have been paid by gadhafi from mauritania and malley. there are sophisticated weapons, rpgs which are, apparently, being fired in the green zone which is pretty terrifying, and there was at least one scud missile, so i would assume many more, and i think there are poison gases somewhere. so this is, literally, no pun intended, a volatile situation there. jenna: to be certain. congresswoman, you wrote back in
goes after everybody, he s talking about some being disloyal and in over their heads. lick rick r bg rick he says that cond condi rice the naive in negotiating, he said that colin powell was good for the country because he had gone behind the administration and criticized the war in iraq. having been in favor of the war in iraq when it started, then turned and said well, you break it, you own it, about the iraq war. i think what you ll see from cheney is he ll go after a lot of people, he has no regrets, he doesn t feel bad about the water boarding, he said we got important valuable information from him. saved lives, he said. saved lives. so no regrets, i would title that memoir. rick: that sounds like the former vice president. let me ask you quickby will the quickly about the reports out of libya, because the vice president also talked about what happened in iraq after the invasion there. wondering if there are any parallels or lessons learned from the aftermath of that s
thing. folks across the gulf coast states are probably laughing at us. i think there s a certain amount of complacency near the nice. near the northeast. i ll tell you, we have bottled water, formula for the baby. i m thinking roads are going to be flooded, and we re not going to have power for days. reporter: and you know what? a couple of things that are trending right now have to do with the water temperature of the ocean, so we ll talk more about that. let s go over to jenna now. jenna: obviously, a big, developing story for us. in the meantime, we have this big story as well. libyan rebels are claiming they ve surrounded moammar gadhafi in a residential compound in tripoli. the reports, though, cannot be confirmed. this is typical of news from that area, and there s still intense fighting in the streets there. we have to mention that. our next guest says how gadhafi is captured, how he is treated really matters not just for libya, but for the rest of the region as well.
libyans, he says, must fight and and destroy the rebels. in fact, the supporters and the sweeping majority in the country, and there ll be no safe place for the rebels. some people interpreting that as a desperate message by calling on women and children or, indeed, just more of the madman s ramblings as someone said to me just a few minutes ago. clearly, at the moment the fight still goes on, and the rebels have been wrong with regards to previous arrests of the gadhafi family in the past few days, rick. rick: dominic di-natale who has just crossed into libya, he s on his way to tripoli, dominic, thank you very much. we ll have plenty more rightwe after this, don t go away. [ sighs ] forget it. [ male announcer ] there s more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill. whose non-stop day starts with back pain. and a choice. take advil no and maybe up to four in a day.