cnn's david mattingly saw this firsthand during a much, much smaller disaster that happened back in 2008en to this. >> listen to these reports coming in. i can't tell you how distressing it is to hear this, because we can't overstate how vulnerable port-au-prince is to a natural disaster like this. you have so many shanty towns around port-au-prince built up hillsides. very shoddy construction. the government does not have any kind of ability to police any sort of building codes. when i was there in 2008, we were looking at a single school that collapsed because the concrete was too brittle and there was not enough steel reinforcement in that. in that single building collapse 90 children were killed and 150 others escaped, many with cuts and broken bones. in terms of a rescue effort, the government was not able to get in there except for bare manpower, going in with hands and picks and shovels. the sophisticated equipment had to come in from overseas. we saw u.s. crews and rescue teams from france in there with specially trained dogs, special electronic equipment to go into this rubble t

and look, david mattingly reminded you, even george bush and i can remember condi rice that saddam hussein did comply with the united nations obligations, and if hans blick had been able to say, i've been there and seen the lot and the leftovers, i have been right through the document, we have all of the paper and seen the evidence, he's got rid of lot of it, that would have been regime change and it would be a different sort of regime. so i don't accept -- you seem to want me to say that blair signed up to saying, regardless of the facts and regardless of w.m.d., we're going to get rid of the guy. it was not like that. thank you. >> you want to ask one or two before we break? >> just wonder if i could fall off on one or two points. >> and -- and you i think talking about the crawford press conference, or quoting from the prime minister's press conference, and crawford -- he said, well, had him say, all of the options available will be considered. can you recall from the meetings that were held on iraq and that was in 2001 and 2002, when meetings the prime minister did hold to consider all