. >> i will exstrapulate. you question whether we should have gone to war in iraq?> what i said is the war in iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of mass destruction. >> using your measurement and your lessons that you take from recent history, how does libya fit into this? >> i would say that the broader point that i try to remind people of is the inherent unpredictability of war. churchill said something to the effect once the guns start the fire the statesmen lose control because nobody can predict what will happen. by the same token, i think the president's decision that we would go in big at the beginning, and establish the no fly zone, and then recede into a support role because of all the other commitments we have in iraq and afghanistan, and humanitarian work in japan because of the earthquake and so on, and that's was his understanding with the other leaders from the very beginning of this thing, that that's the way this played out. he struck to that and made clear it would not be u.s. g