I was sooooooo surprised along with you. Oprah's first guest was this guy, an expert analyst from back in the first Bush Administration, whose main study over all these years has been Saddam Sussein, and his point of view is, we should get rid of Saddam now.
She also had on a Hussein survivor, a guy who gave first hand experience with the brutal regime. He said Iraq is the only government in the world who has rapists on their payroll. Saddam pays to have dissident women raped.
Judith Miller's taped report on the horrors Saddam is capable of, would put the fear of God in anyone.
I was amazed as Oprah let all this pro-Bush resolution information reach her audience. She did not interrupt or argue...this was really an informational show.
One idiot in the audience said 'the first president Bush had trouble with Saddam, now this president Bush has problems, but we didnt' have any problems when Clinton was president. It was a major DUH moment. That stupid, stupid woman couldn't figure out from her own analysis that Clinton had intentionally failed to protect our country from Saddam, for a decade. Oprah got it. She seemed incredulous that this woman was trying to make such a flawed argument.
But I think Oprah's response to her was a good way of shooting her down and clarifying indirectly how idiotic her comment was. Plus the audience laughed- I think they knew the comment was stupid, too.