person to handle. to be able focus on -- budding insurgency in the political military interface in both baghdad and washington at the same time. you could have the best you could imagine and it wouldn't be able to complete the job. in term of ambassador crocker been ambassador's position in 2003 would thing have gone better? possibly. i think in my view. it's a better analogy. the problem he have to work for rumsfeld who suspect going to allow him a lot of leeway and steer things in a certain direction. germany in 1945 which was the vision enact rate. i'm not sure this better people would have resulted in a better outcome. and bring in all sex and ethnicity and faction and parties in to a political way forward then dreaming with the military aspect of counter terrorism. the provision of specific techniques procedure, amatch chee helicopters. that's all noise. until the root caw is addressed and the root cause is political. that would be my unfortunately that advise has to go to the top of the prime minister. then policy making. >> yeah, you know,. wish they intervened and gave them a peace of their mind. i haven't studied the lung up to the war with the primary sources. in reading all i've read. i think the military brought in to what was being ease spoused by secretary rumsfeld. there were plans on the shelf that said we needed 300,000 troop and so forth. it was under a different commander. the current was all in. he was okay with i think the advise. i think the the bigger issue. how can we train and educate our leaders when they pin on four star and give better advise. it goes to the professional military education system in this country and need to have rigorous extensive professional military education that counts in an officer's career. ..

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