buildi numbers and momentum and and acquiring, you know, weapons, and we sat back and watched. now we're acting so surprised. so that, to me, is that's such a false statement, and it just shows the lack of honesty from this administration and the incompetence. it's not, trust me, it's not all their fault. this has been a building of events. but nevertheless, let's be mature, let's be grown-ups, let's address the situation, let's show some courage as the commander in chief to do what's right in the best interests of this country and security going forward than just what is politically expedient and plays to the base. >> separate from what we should do, sandra, it is a little hard to believe that they couldn't, you know, they wouldn't know what's going on there. this isn't a secret -- >> or that they didn't see it coming. >> right. even if you set aside that we know for a fact that they did know, we could just sort of theorize it would be hard to not know what's happening in iraq. we have people in iraq who,