the same sorts of mistakes, that led to the vietnam debacle. we did not have a clear exit, we did not have sufficient force. we did not have a clearly defined mission. that was the lesson that general colin powell had drawn from vietnam. and we forgot about it. and the consequence was, the casualties you listed, and the lives of 800,000 americans who served alongside, being changed forever. some in the worst way possible. but all of them as lucas indicated, haunted by the experience. let s listen in more of what president bush said on october 7th 2001, about what the mission was. and it certainly does not sound like a 20-year mission. by destroying camps and disrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for