stay in afghanistan at the cost of $250 billion a year. some of us tried to make some reasonable reductions in the military budget and they rejected that. i m afraid that the unreality that s in control of the republicans, look at tim pawlenty, a main stret conservative, to win the republican nomination she just came out with a tax reduction program, a substantial tax reduction program that would greatly exacerbate the program. do you think there is some, on defense, do you think there is some opening now where you re beginning to see conservative republicans talking about tax cuts and a draw down from afghanistan. in fact, ron paum, john campbell from california and i along with other democrats have talked about that. i worked with the catto institute. i believe by the way if you