how did it play out, nina totenberg? >> it played out horribly. when you read the postmortems, a lot of people from iraq and here and policy wonks, many who were supportive of the effort, have come to regret it, and part of the reason is we have changed the balance in the middle east. we had a saddam hussein who was a check on iran. he is gone. there were no weapons of mass destruction and the country is in shambles. >> i have read comments from those who fought there that thought they were engaged in a noble effort, colby king. >> of course they did. they did nothing wrong. what was wrong was to commit the country to a war on a pretense that turned out to be false. weapons of mass destruction -- once they were not found the yetpose for the war was gone. we continue to go on. and do not cite the surge as some cause. it was supposed to stop violence. if you look in iraq today, where are we? nothing was achieved of any great value. >> charles? >> it was a noble effort -- in fact, the region was rid of a dictator that was one of the coolest on the pl

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right after that i say nina totenberg who was trying to break in in boston, and she would go in and say, we have our woman. that was my favorite. we have our woman. that was all the time, we have our woman. but i'm going to give you, we're going to get to the end of that chapter because it's a valentines story, and you'll see why in a second. because this is what happens after you go through discrimination and family and balance and a really remarkable career of a woman named june of "the wall street journal." and she started in the dallas bureau of "the wall street journal" in 1976. very macho place, she tells us. five years later i was sent to rhodesia, and i liked africa so much that i was dpiive the african beat. then i was asked to develop a beat on third world issues. in '83 i came back to be bureau chief in boston, in '85 i went to hong kong to be bureau chief, caught the revolution in the philippines and returned to washington to be the deputy bureau chief in 1987. now, here's a unique twist happens. she marries an american diplomat and leaves journalism for seven years. now, sh