now this point we are set to caution our editors that just because don rumsfeld said it doesn't mean it is necessarily wrong. [laughter] in fact rumsfeld puts his finger on it in this important memo. it is a very short memo but he raises this important question in and the question is this. are we with their operations now and again this is december 2003 in iraq, are we creating more militants then we are taking off the battlefield? and if we are, we have to look at this whole campaign against a new enemy in a different way. again rumsfeld for all of his flaws, had a vision here. he had a problem and it wasn't being addressed. you expand the problem and that is essentially what he did. starting with his top military advisers, this is really one of the first times where the government is starting to look out from that kill and capture mentality. so what we do in the book is look at the evolution over 10 years where the government goes from knowing very little about al qaeda and terrorist organizations in general to where we stand today with a pretty detailed knowledge of its leadership,

in other words, she lost all confidence in don rumsfeld, the secretary of defense.t's condoleezza rice's new book coming out this week. kevin madden let's get back to campaign trail. your old boss, mitt romney, you were his press secretary in the last campaign, advising him during this campaign. he continues to be up towards the top of the polls but he does not seem to generate any excitement. every time a new flavor comes along-- first it was michele bachmann and then it was rick perry. they chew up and then they go down. he stays in there about 25%. is someone who does not excite the republican electorate going to be able to win in the general election. >> we have to look at public opinion. it's not an event. it's a process. because we have a lot of choices here before the voters, the polls are going to go up and down. we've seen the same polls that are now bringing folks like herman cain up there were the same polls that brought rick perry up. we saw what happened to rick perry over the period the last month since he's been in the race. what's most important is t

this is when secretary don rumsfeld and a very important memo to about half a dozen of his top civilian and military leaders. at this point we have to caution our editors. just because rumsfeld said it does not mean it is necessarily wrong. after -- [laughter] in fact, rumsfeld put his finger on it in this important memo. a very short memo, but he raises this important question, and the question is this. are we, with our operations no, december of 2003 and a rock, are we creating more militants then we are taking off the battlefield? and if we are we have to look at this whole campaign against a new enemy in different ways. again, rumsfeld, for all its flaws, a division here when he had a problem and it was not being addressed. you expand the problem. that is essentially what he did. starting with his top military advisers he just expanded throughout the government which is one of the first times that a government is starting to of look out from that kill and caption mentality. and so will we do in the book is look at the evolution over ten years where the government goes from knowing v

did, you focused on generals casey and -- [inaudible] didn't focus on your friend and mentor, don rumsfeld. why is that? >> well, i, i thought i wrote a pretty good book. [laughter] i thought it was relatively balanced. i chose not to, um, dwell at length sort of on what transpired in the immediate aftermath of our going into iraq. i mean, we had -- there'd been a lot of books written, some of them pretty good, i think, about the policy in terms of setting up a new government in iraq, of, you know, jerry bremer's written one, several other books have been written, rumsfeld's written pretty extensively about it. i basically took the approach that i could focus on a few things, and what i really wanted to focus on was the surge. and the counterinsurgency doctrine that accompanied the surge that we put in place at the beginning of '07. so there's a lot written about that in my book. but i didn't spend a lot of time going back over what the state department did with respect to managing the situation in iraq or what the pelt gone did -- pentagon did outside normal military activities in 'em the

predicted don rumsfeld's resignation, the capture of saddam hussein. doesn't always get it right, and it moves as you'll see in a minute. >> if people put -- >> where their mouth is. >> where their mouth is. >> let's look at iowa. >> let's look at the volatility in iowa. >> iowa is interesting because intrade is basically saying, again, notwithstanding -- notwithstanding all of the talk about whether romney will come or not come. in fact, not only will romney come, but romney will win. and these numbers were updated overnight. as of yesterday, before what we were just talking about on politico, romney was at 35%, cain was at 28%, and perry was at 15%. and you can see that literally instantaneously, unlike a poll that takes days, intrade will adjust the view of the world. and the view at the moment is that cain is having a very bad day and romney, in fact, should follow the heilemann strategy and put this thing to bed. >> you look at intrade much? tell me about intrade. >> well, steve's covered it very well. it's been very accurate and sometimes so accu

you weren't hearing this sort of -- they hadn't stood up to ask don rumsfeld why can't we get arm r forhat are being blown up and rhythmsfeld gave them the army you go with the army you got and not the one you want. i can't remember the exact words and so they turned to me and i've been an advocate for these soldiers and for our veterans coming back from this war. i have a film festival that i started in the town i live in, in northern michigan, and i restored an old movie palace along with the help of hundreds of people in town. and we have a policy -- we have an affirmative action policy in our theater that we will give preference to any returning iraq or afghanistan veterans. we also have a policy that if you are in the service, you never pay. you come to the movies for free wherever you want and bring your family and you do not pay. that's my personal values. that's how i'm wired and i have -- i think all of us really hold out our hands to these returning vets that are coming back. >> host: allen emails you, mr. moore, why did you say that a mosque could be built on ground zero? doe