we've come in this period of time but also amazing to think, congressman, how far we need to go. you were once a three star admiral in the navy. you served for decades. you campaigned to end this war. now that it's officially over, what does this mean as we move forward? america in partnership with iraq to making sure that it is secure, that it is a sovereign nation? >> yes, it has come time for us not to be involved in this war in iraq. and with great respect to scott and all those men and women who gave the potential for iraq now to be a democracy, to actually be self-governing and also to have an economy based upon oil that can actually have a growth rate as quick and as rapid as china and india is really an accomplishment. but we have to look at our overall national security. and we have an army that in the last ten years has done nothing but train for counterinsurgency rightly and has been unable to