let's be very clear. he was negotiating and talking through our allies in the country of qatar and the qataris. secondly, they want to have selective amnesia, when the fact is the bush administration literally, not just negotiated, but paid the sons of iraq in the anbar province, ones responsible for killing american soldiers, to get a strangle hold and force al qaeda in iraq. so that is what is so infuriating here. let's bring this american g.i. home. let's heal him up, and let's -- if he desertsed, if that's the facts, let's court-martial here and bring him to justice. but to say the commander in chief did the wrong thing and to attack him way is conflating the issues, like they did by the way, as you know, as you pointed out, with jessica lynch. jessica lynch, great soldier, not a rambo.