and south. none of the major areas, none of the major points of the capitals of each of these provinces, but they were all over the country. and the idea that if i had said on may the 2nd or third, we are not leaving, we are staying, does anybody truly believe that i would not have had to put insignificant more american forces? send your sons, your daughters, like mao my sun was sent to iraq to maybe die? and for what? for what? the only rational thing to do in my view was to set up an pre—position american forces for the purpose of evacuation in the aircraft to preposition those ahead of time so that we could be able to begin the process of evacuation of american citizens, and