up in the nine or 10 meetings that i was in. again, just to go through with the president said last night, as a result of the taliban- provided safe haven for al qaeda, 19 men hijacked four planes and murdered nearly three dozen people on september 11, 2001. the previous administration [inaudible] under control. are you going to keep referring to 9/11 as the basic cause? again, as was mentioned in the authorization to go into afghanistan, was as a result quite clearly the activities of al qaeda in a television- provided safe haven in afghanistan. that is why we are in afghanistan right now.