comprehensive assault on terrorism. joining me now from falls church, virginia is retired, colonel larry wilkinson, former u. s. secretary of state colin pal's chief of staff and the men involved in the decision to invade iraq retired. colonel, thanks so much for coming on. let's just start with taking you back to the day you saw in witness the attacks on new york. i understand that the 1st reaction of the team there at the state department and elsewhere in the administration may have been to, to resign for george w bush resigned. dick cheney design and realized that they hadn't protected the homeland. i don't think they were contemplating resigning. i think they were contemplating the fear that the american people would react adversely towards their administration. after all, they had no political mandate. their political mandate was a supreme court decision. there were still being question all across the land and indeed is still being question today. i'm fear and re was how they made the decisions they made in the aftermath. that's not a good environment in which to make national security decisi