John Shadegg: “It seems to me as I listened to you each speak about this, it has got to be hard for the average American citizen to…”

“It seems to me as I listened to you each speak about this, it has got to be hard for the average American citizen to appreciate all that we have done, because we in America take our freedoms so much for granted. We cannot even imagine the kind of repression that they suffered. The gentleman refers to commerce in the streets. One day, I believe when you were getting a classified briefing, I was up in a helicopter in our trip not eligible to get that classified briefing and we flew over a market. This bustling market with hundreds of people there buying and engaging in commerce was just a tremendous display. Also, thinking about the perspective of the average American out there, it seems to me that we have heard so much about this issue of weapons of mass destruction and I think we are as a nation kind of second-guessing, well, was it appropriate to go, did we do the right thing given that David Kay and the others that we sent were not able to document huge stockpiles of WMDs?”