same thing with a plea bargain for the nigerian loon. but no one, no one has been able to put forth anything other than ideological arguments to support the trial deal. life or death situation, ladies and gentlemen, that is simply not good enough. that's a memo. the top story, does the president have a point? can the war on terror criticism go too far? joining us now from austin, texas, karl rove. i thought the iraq war criticism did go too far and i thought it cost us lives of american servicemen over there because it was so intense and the back and forth was so debilitating to the military, sapped morale, made decisions harder to make that even though iraq was controversial, i recognize it would have been better if america had come together. i think we're in the same position now. am i wrong? >> well, it is possible to take criticism too far. i think, for example, the accusation that bush lied about weapons of mass destruction was enormously hurtful to the country and inappropriate. but look, when on the surge, when president obama, th