Because I'd been through the Pentagon right after 9-11 about 10 days after 9-11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and And Deputy Secretary Wolffowitz I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used Used to work for me and one of the generals called me and he said sir you got to come in You got to come in and talk to me a second. I said well, you're too busy said no no. He says We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq. This was on her about the 20th of September I said we're going to war with Iraq. Why? He said I don't know He said I guess they don't know what else to do So I said well did they find some information collect connecting Saddam to Al-Qaeda? He said no No, no, he says there's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq He said I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but We got a good military and we can take down governments and he said I guess if the only two you have is a hammer every problem has to look like a nail So I came back to see him a few weeks later And by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said are we still going to war with Iraq? And he said oh, it's worse than that. He said he reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper And he said I just he said I just got this down from upstairs Meaning the Secretary of Defense's office today. And he said this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in Five years Starting with Iraq and then Syria 11 on Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in Five years starting with Iraq my fellow citizens At this hour American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations To disarm Iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger And then Syria we had a chance to talk about A wide range of international issues including the situation in Syria And I have to say that all of us who've been seeing the Terrible pictures coming out of Syria and homeless recently uh Recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message To present a Assad that is time for a transition. It is time for That regime to move on and it is trying time to stop the killing of Syrian citizens by their own government. Lebanon both had different reasons the State Department and White House for it Wanting Israel to do it encouraging them to do it. Suborting them our air force Worked very closely with the Israeli Air Force for months before this Not necessarily with a deadline knowing when it would happen It was always going to be whenever there was an incident they would take advantage of an incident of that would the word I use was fortunate timing When the Hezbollah grabbed some of the uh Israeli soldiers in early july that was then a pretext I think that's the only word for a major offensive that had been in the works a long time Libya today we can definitively say that the Gaddafi regime has come to an end The last major regime strongholds have fallen The new government is consolidating the control over the country And one of the world's longest serving dictators is no more Somali Well violence isn't only on the rise in Afghanistan In fact, it looks like America's shadow wars have now increased by one drone strikes have long been reported in Pakistan and Yemen But now there's news that a week ago a US drone aircraft fired on two leaders of a small aid organization. I'll show Bob President Obama is sending 100 combat equipped troops to central Africa to advise local forces on getting rid of one of the Continent's most vicious operatives Joseph Kony the head of the lords resistance army a group responsible for atrocities across the region It's the first open deployment of US ground combat power to Africa since the black Hawk down incident in Somalia in the 1990s The killed 18 troops US troops may wind up now in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo It's part of a growing military effort to engage in Africa finishing off Iran I Said is it classified he said yes, sir. I said I said well don't show it to me And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said you remember that he said sorry. I didn't show you that memo. I didn't show it to you I'm sorry. What did you say his name was? I'm not gonna give you his name so go through the countries again Well starting with Iraq and Syrian Lebanon then Libya then Somalia and Sudan and then back to Iran