david: so the general public may be didn't know you as well as people in washington did, but they got to know you because saddam hussein invaded kuwait and you were given the task of figuring out how to get him out of kuwait. where you ever worried that it wasn't going to work out as successfully as we talked it out to be? colin: when we finally got the plan together, norman and i were satisfied with it, and we briefed the leadership, we went more than we ever, so i was not the least that worried about it. but i went and said to president bush, i said mr. president, there is no question about how this war is going to turn out, don't worry about it. we will beat them. they don't know what they are doing out there. they will just put themselves into a little circle. so they were just asking us to knock them out, and we did. we did it. and we got a lot more troops in the region then we might have needed, 500,000 americans, about 200,000 allies. it was a given, it was over. and the president said senator, sent jim baker over to talk to the iraqis. we didn't want to do this, we didn't want a war. we just want to giv