back at the time of the afghan war where he was the face of the ãg was quite a bit. the plan had been done, thrown out of the windows at the time. there is very little planning for the afghan war. in fact it was a cia plan the president first embraced to link up with the afghan militias and the northern alliance against the taliban. host: here is cleveland. good morning on the republic mine. caller: i was curious if you were able to determine whether his political philosophy was influenced by having been surrounded by so many people, people strongly influenced by certain philosophers and military strategists who would be considered by conservatives. was he influenced by that group? did you agreed they were corrected? guest: that is an interesting question. his relationship with the neocons is in the bottom part of his time a secretary because he ended up surrounded by a number of very prominent members of the neo-conservative community including his deputy, the chief of poli
them he needed 20,000 trips. he wanted to go in with 50,000. he fired a couple of them. either they agree with him or they were out the door. he was completely dominating. hughes instrumental in selling the lies about iraq. he was talking about weapons of mass destruction. boo, you all get scared. he participated in the writing of the document called project for a new american century suzy which basically said we should dominate the middle east anything less than that pearl harbor type of event would not be enough to motivate america to go off and meet that agenda. guest: donald rumsfeld did not fire a general shensecky. actually, he did not fire any general. he only fired tom white, the army secretary. a number of people feel ihe should have fired more people. his successor bob gates has dismissed six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under shensecky by allowing were to be publicized 18 months early of who he would be replaced with at the end of his term, but