november 2001 reveals that donald rumsfeld met as early as then with centcom commander general tommy franksview plans for the decapitation of the iraqi government. they discuss ideas of how to start a war. one suggestion is to create a dispute over wmd inspections. >> this is a regime that agreed to international inspections, then kicked out the inspectors. >> 9/11 made it politically possible for the first time to persuade the american people to break a tradition of not launching offensive wars. >> the pressure to find evidence falls heavily on all 15 u.s. intelligence agencies. >> the extremely strong policy wind that was blowing at the time, and that everyone in government corridors felt, made it absolutely clear what was preferred and what was not preferred. >> atta, mohammed atta, leader of al qaeda's 9/11 hijackings. from prague comes an intelligence report of a photograph allegedly showing mohammed atta meeting with a high-ranking iraqi intelligence officer. the photograph of the supposed meeting is never made publicly available. >> mohammed atta was a slight guy, barely what, 5'5",

military under general tommy franks outlawed the ba'ath party before i got to iraq and so the question was what are you going do about the members? what we did was a very narrow decision to say to the top 20,000, about the top 1% of the ba'ath party, that they could no longer be in the government. most of those people had already left by the time that was issued and contrary to the myth, it didn't collapse the government. the government kept going. it was the single-most popular thing that we did when we were there. it always polled above 95% popularity. in other words even sunnis agreed with it. now, i did make a mistake. i turned the implementation of this very narrowly defined decree over to iraqi politicians who then ran with it and made it much worse. that was a big mistake. on the army, just four quick points. number one, there was no army. the problem was to choose the word disband. what we really were -- because the army went home. what we really were doing was saying we didn't want to recall the army. why? saddam's army was a conscript army. most -- about 300,000 shi'a enliste

legged on the gym floor while backstage, riley's older brother, navy petty officer second class frank tommy schaefer waited to surprise his little sister. >> and, younger sibling being away for so long, and you strive to get that connection back. >> riley never lost that connection. a school project got the children thinking about a role model in their young lives and riley chose her big brother. a sailor, deployed to japan. >> still hidden behind the curtain. tommy read her words, unsuspecting riley listen. >> as long as i can remember my brother has always been there for me. >> reporter: brother she never expect to see came with flowers, hugs, and tears. >> wow, i can't wait. >> neither could riley and tommy's mother diane, military service ace shared family sacrifice. i know my little one is home and i'm very happen that i they are together. >> so are riley and tommy. >> we will go out, hang out together just me and her. it would be real good. >> i'm so excited. >> neither can we. i'm pat ciarrocchi, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> enjoy that time together. >> no doubt. >> some young people

legged on the gym floor while backstage, riley's older brother, navy petty officer he can class frank tommy schaefer waited to surprise his little sister. they have not seen each other in three years. >> it is pretty rough, you know, being away from family with the younger sibling, being aware for so long you strive to get that connection back. >> reporter: riley never lost the the connection. a school project got the the children thinking about a role model in their young lives, and riley chest her big brother, a sailor, dereplied to japan. still hidden behind the the curtain tommy read her words, and unsuspecting le. >>s can remember my brother has always been there for me. >> reporter: brother that she never expect to see, came with flowers, and hugs and tears. >> when he walked out i just couldn't believe he was here. >> reporter: neither could riley and tommy's mother diane, military service is a shared family sacrifice. >> i know my little one misses him, and i just am very happen that i they are together. >> reporter: so are riley and thomas. >> we're going to go out, hang out togeth

you know tommy frank is a good friend of mine as he is yours and he might have different views today.ppens to be the means to our own national security and that's the reason why? a lot of questions. brilliant piece. >> i think lindsey graham makes a very tan at that liesing argument, that iraq in the hands of the wrong people could have a long-term effect against us. but i also think we need to know these wars are never going to end until each of these ancient rivals have their own land. >> read all about it. washington times.com, and foxnews.com. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> 12 minutes after the top of the hour. heather has more news. >> this involves one of the big terror suspects. new information coming in overnight that abu khattala spilling secrets to american investigators as he makes his way to the united states. right now he's still on board the uss new york and they are taking their time getting here so they can interview him before he lawyers up. he's giving interrogators a bit of a history lesson about the terror group ansar al-shariah. they hope he'll be able to

some of the questions that i would when they military were pretty much in charge, whether it was tommy franks others, it always came down to -- we hadtution guaranteed in the constitution that the kurds would get a chance for a vote, what type of government or structure. we never did that. and every would bring up the question about, we have to get past this shiite-sunni-kurds think and actually try to get people to want to work together, what about article 148? , ourember our leaders three and four stars saying it is the crux of the situation, we just have not gotten to it. it is so difficult or what have you. he actually walked away without -- we actually walked away without the united states having done what it needed to do to pressure more cooperation. host: you were a skeptic from the beginning. floated against the revolution againstution -- voted the resolution. you voted against the surge. why are you open now to this administration possibly doing airstrikes? guest: first of all, i never had weaponst saddam of mass distraction. that was the first thing. --ondly, i knew that that 9/11 h