i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
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anything to do with 9/11. number two, no indications that there was an imminent threat. north korea has welcomapons of destruction and is led by a crazy person. richard, who opposed the war internally, but, rifed, answchar that question. i was against it and like everybody else involved i thought iraq had weapons of mass destruction and zero appetite to take any risk. two other reasons america went to war in addition to the one we are talking about. one is the desire after 9/11 to send a message to the world to use richard nixon s phrase, the u.s. was not a pitiful helpless giant. the president wanted to send a message we could still be effective. secondly a lot of his advisers made the argument which he agreed with it would be something we could do in iraq and as a result transform the middle east. he saw this as potentially a
hussein. totally wrong, totally plenty of evidence contradicting that. and when you took all that together, what took place, i think at the end of the day was really a very large deception of the american public. richard haass. i disagree, i read the intelligence, it wasn t a deception. you opposed the war from inside. go ahead, though. but the preponderance of the evidence was that they certainly had biological weapons, chemical for sure, we didn t know what they had in the nuclear space. i think what s important, though, not just the weapons of mass destruction. what drove the bush administration to go to war, something you said, after 9/11, coming back to the cheney story. zero propensity to run any doubt. and two other things, they wanted to send the world a message after 9/11, the united states was not a pitiful helpless giant. they wanted to do something. plus, the president had been sold a bill of goods by a lot of
there are parts of the world where we could argue there are interests at stake. you can take the gates approach, saying they re not vital but interests that impact us and affect us. the other parts of this region, he ll have to be able to explain bahrain. they have a u.s. naval base. syria, it s trickier. i think did he as good a job as he s done up to this point explaining that. when we are faced with a real imminent situation why are we really doing this? what is the main reason we re doing this? i take the president at his word, to prevent atrocities. i m just saying, why are we doing this? to prevent atrocities, because we could and we enjoy the support of the world in doing it. gadhafi s army will go in there and they may start massacring people in the streets and here i am sitting there while this thing is going on before the world. and i look like a pitiful helpless giant and i don t think i can take that. and i don t think america can take that. so i credit what he
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