00:00And is he now?
00:01He told me all those things in July of 2009, and I told him then he was dead wrong, that
00:07he was underestimating the resilience of the Iranians, that I thought he had been lulled
00:14into an unrealistic position by the absence of an Iraqi reaction when the Israelis destroyed
00:24the Osirak reactor in Iraq, he'd been lulled by the Syrian lack of reaction when we destroyed
00:31their, when Israel destroyed their reactor, that was during the second Bush administration.
00:39But this is the war he's been trying to sell for years.
00:42And I told him then, that this notion that he was saying then, the regime is fragile,
00:48this is 2009, the regime is fragile, it'll crumble at the first attack and they won't
00:53have time to do anything else.
00:54I told him then he was wrong.
