Grady Judd

Can you imagine that?

Iran and that regime with a nuclear weapon that could potentially reach the United States and certainly could reach all of the countries in the Middle East and as far away as Spain and Great Britain.

I mean, that is a scary, dangerous thing.

Well, obviously hindsight's 20-20, but I believe prior to George Bush going in,

that we didn't need to do that.

That was your position?

That was my position from the very beginning because we had already set up no-fly zones.

We could have tightened up the no-fly zones and restricted Iraq there and just economically worked on them.

I'll harken back to Colin Powell.

He said, you go into Afghanistan, you go into Iraq, you own it.

You've got to own it.

And I can remember on one occasion, I believe it was Colin Powell, General Powell, said, look, you think about this.

Is the leader of Iraq a vicious, murdering man?

Terrible guy, yes.

But it takes a vicious, murdering, terrible guy to control that country.

So if you take him out, who do you replace him with?

Because you're not going to change the culture just because you can bomb it to pieces.

Well, you see the aftermath of that.

So I truly believe we should have left him in control.

shut down and control the no-fly zones and even shrunk that and made him an island in that Middle East until he capitulated for world peace or at least world economic peace.