[Coop]

If the Bush administration knew in May 2003 that the events of the last three weeks would have unfolded as they did, do you think they would have even dreamed of staging that event?

I didn't think so.

I can't say. It was a great publicity opportunity, no matter how you slice it. And it was going to be criticized, no matter how you slice it.

[Alberta's Child]

It was a great publicity opportunity, no matter how you slice it.

It was a great publicity opportunity if the situation in Iraq had remained quiet for the most part from that point forward.