The final death sentence for those groups in those areas. Those groups tend to overplay their hand. They have to be careful. They have to be very careful about how to act. I do not to mention the role of and reining in those groups, maybe not militarily but he still very influential. You dont want to cause trouble and you dont want to be direct enemy every day because in iraqi will come out on top. Its very difficult. And, finally, i dont think there will be a hezbollah anymore. Ive heard different metaphors about what will happen at right. Somebody told it would be like libya with different groups competing. I dont think it will be that. Theres a safe structure that those groups out to be part of protecting. It cannot be like hezbollah for simple reason, its different kind of threat and different groups. Hezbollah was only dominant group in lebanon during the lebanese civil war. In iraq of all of these groups. You have 150, eight of them are really big. We have to wonder which one wil
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Our version of productivity, i would ask to have some measure of skepticism in the i want interpretation of that y d productivity data. It is tied to revenue. I want to thank you again, i appreciate your candor, and i will tell you two weeks ago, many of us are asking for urgency, we have heard that froe you tonight. The acting secretary has i demonstrated his approach as one of urgency ask well. That i thank you very much. I do ask unanimous consent be that the former chairman of the subcommittee of oversite investigation be allowed to ask questions. Without objection, mr. Th johnso youre recognized for five minutes. Thankl you, mr. Chairman, an thank you to my colleagues for allowing me to participate. I commend you for your candor, i have i want to focus on the t it issue. As subcommittee of the o i committee, one of my very first requests of the va was to show t me the it architecture for the o va. Now, i dontn know what your ity background is, so i dont mean ar to be insulting. Do