"Many people who talk about war have never seen it, they've never participated in it," McDermott said. "Both David and I in our ways had parts in the Vietnam War. And when you know that, you are not very interested in bringing that down on people unless there's a very good reason."



"I tend to think there are other ways to deal with the disarmament of Iraq, and we should exhaust every single possibility to do that before the United States takes the absolutely unprecedented step of pre-emptive strike," McDermott said.

Are we going to change from being the worlds police into being the world's SWAT team?