2006. it's a testament both to president bush to an agreement he signed with president al maliki and president obama, who has made decisions on iraq. the next six months in iraq are going to be very difficult and very turbulent. what tom ricks is talking about is this very steep drawdown from 95,000 troops to 50,000 troops over the next six months. general odierno said we might want to see some flexibility depending on conditions. we'll have to see. right now, looking at an election on sunday. the real game starts when the results come out, we try to start form a government and that process will take some period of months. >> brett, before we go to the elections, let me pick up on what you just said. i think ricks pos sited that it might turn out that the obama administration ends up keeping troops in iraq longer than currently envisioned by the status of forces agreement. do you think that is a likely outcome? >> well, i was involved in that negotiation and there's a time