tremendous 89 some odd parties competing for 325 seats. the problem will be, can they govern the country? can they form a government after this election? that s really the question in my mind. okay. if these elections are deemed successful, in your judgment, how do we then view the whole iraq experience there, this war experience? i know it s going to be left to historian s ultimately, but fro your vantage point? we ve had 36,000 wounded and killed. we ve spent arguably $500 billion at a minimum. the question will be, a year from now, is iraq a governing state that isn t a threat to its neighbors or its own people? my inclination is, they probably will make it, but the jury s out and the dispute will be decided, not just by today s 19 million voters, but whether they can hammer out some kind of consensus, politics instead of killing each other? they re about 96,000 troops in