he built when he was the ambassador to the u.n., when he had that career in congress to make sure that this was something the broader international community participated in. >> i go back to that amazing team of people he assembled. he dispatched dick cheney to -- he sent james baker to sit down with the foreign minister of russia to effectively negotiate no opposition at the security council of the u.n. to the coalition. he persuaded israel, and people will forget this, and bret may be able to speak to this very, very well, he persuaded israel not to respond when skuds were landing on it. there is controversy whether he called it off too soon. the marsh arabs in the south were decimated afterwards. but the kurds were preserved. on the domestic policy he picked david suitor over edith joins,