advocate of unlimited executive power for the presidency as the lunch monitor watching for this presidency ex-earthing too much executive power now that bush is gone and there is a new guy in town. but hey, it appears to be new project season in washington, where if you are a certain political persuasion, being wrong never lasts long. >> whatever else you can say about this war, let me just make my point, we don't need to refight the whole history of vietnam. >> that is the danger of saddam. >> it's not going to happen. it's not going to happen. this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. >> this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. he was talking about the war that did turn out to be an eight and a half yearlong war in iraq. now bill kristol, the living, breathing symbol of wrong about national security, mr. kristol has a fresh deal going. now his new project is that he wants to stop the nomination of former senator chuck hagel as secretary of defense. president obama today chose the republican for nebraska for that job. despite having been fine with mr. hagel even as a possible vice president for george w. bush in 2000, bill kristol is now leading the opposition to chuck hagel at defense. bill kristol, the same guy who said iraq would take two months,