let s talk about this with van jones, co-host of cnn s cross fire, and bob sexton, and also former cia officer, who served in both iraq and afghanistan. gentleman, welcome to both of you. and, van jones, you up first. just your reaction to what dick cheney said. well, you know, it s ludicrous. i know that he s a big champion of welfare, corporate welfare, for halliburton. i m sure he would love for us to get in some other big land war where halliburton could make a lot of money. but we re going from having about a little more than half a million soldiers to a little bit fewer than half a million soldiers. people can jump up and down and say that s ridiculous, but the reality is we ve got to right size our military so we can fight the wars of the future, which will rely a lot more on technology, being agile, closing some of these bases are make us stronger, not weaker. he threw in that food stamp reference, because that s what