>> it leapt out at david kay that bush hardly reacted at all. he showed not the least bit of concern. >> ambassador wilson says it really was a sales pitch, it wasn't the real reason for war. a fine film, whatever your view of the war. if you were against the war and were suspicious about the reasons given for fighting it, you will particularly enjoy it. this is the part will valerie plame learns she's been outed as a cia act. >> never worked for the cia -- >> as an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. he just went ahead and did it. >> did this run overseas? >> it's in the newspaper, valerie. novack's column is he syndicated overseas? >> everywhere. >> well, the number of people that had a hand in outing her, you could argue in terms of reporting to the press were, as you know, michael, fleischer said something to pincus, novak said something to miller. there were a lot of people out there talking. >> right. it was, it was -- look, dick armitage of the state department was the first one to disclose valerie plame's name to novak, but

the guy, david kay had been sent there to find the wmd and he's telling bush, i don't think we're going to find what you told the country we're going to find. he's trying to be gentle about it. but he's being complete. >> and it didn't really bother bush. >> leapt out at david kay that bush hardly reacted at all. >> ambassador wilson says it wasn't the real reason for war. a fine film, whatever your view of the war. if you were against the war and were suspicious about the reasons given for fighting it, you will especially enjoy it. this is the part will valerie plame learns she's been outed as a cia act. >> never worked for the cia -- >> an agency operative. he just went ahead and did it. >> did this run overseas? >> it's in the newspaper, valerie. >> is it syndicated overseas? >> everywhere. >> well, the number of people that had a hand in outing her, you could argue in terms of reporting to the press, michael, fleischer said thg to pink us, novak said something to miller. there were a lot of people out there talking. >> right. it was, it was -- the state department was the first one

so, and then, of course, george tenet had the inspectors go back in or david kay and dulfar and pretty well put -- it was a period at the end of the sentence there. and yeah. i felt terrible about it. on the other hand, those reports did point out that saddam hussein was very dangerous and that he had the capacity to make weapons. that -- and i'm convinced if he were in power today, the world would be a lot worse off. >> one of the things i think i thought about at the time and i wonder if you did and you talk a lot in the book about abu ghraib and outraged you were about that. not finding wmd with a cia director that said slam dunk. >> he said the case. the point just so you know the case was a solid case. in other words, presenting the case would be a solid case do the people. >> a solid case that there were wmd? >> right. that the evidence showed that he had wmd. i'm not -- we're splitting hairs here but -- sorry. >> right. but my question is, when you look at those things, the wmd, it seems as though no one ever paid for that. we went to war largely on that basis and i know you arg

kay for a great roundtable discussion. and now for a look at what's coming up on "meet the press," here is david gregory. david?wdown between president obama and republican opponents on nuclear weapons and the president in portugal presses allies for support. our guest from the summit secretary of state hillary clinton. then an emerging voice in the republan party has a new book unleashing the attack on the president in the oil spill. louisiana governor bobby jindal. plus our political roundtable this morning all coming up on "meet the press." >>> well, cougars are ready to pounce in california this weekend. >> but these weren't big cats out in the wild. some of themmay have been big. some of them may be wild. women were looking f their catch at the california cougar convtion in fresno esterday. they paid to be there. the event attracted ladies who probably do not want to reveal their ages along with quite younger men. one woman was vot queen cougar. >> i don't know what that means. >> that comes with a free trip to jamaicaor cougar week which starts in march. >> and that is how stella got her groove back. coug

kay is still with us this morning. joins us from washington from "the washington post" david ignatius joins the conversation with morningg. >> a lot to get to. we'll talk about the debt commission. first, mike barnicle, today is veterans' day. >> david ignatius is with us. he has a piece in the op ed page of "the washington post." i would urge everyone to go online and read this piece on broken spirit on the front page of "the washington post" about a young marine corporal todd nicely. read this story today and get a sense of the sacrifice so many make on behalf of so many of the rest of us who have no frame of reference for the fact that we're fighting two wars. >> no understanding. mika, of course, one of those wars which we have warned about on this show for the past year or so since they've been debating afghanistan, one of those wars drags on. it's an endless war, there's still no end game in sight. the president says we're going to get out, start getting out significantly next summer. they've backed off of that timeline. now they say maybe it's by the end of 2014. when this debate started, we were saying it's been