court. we couldn't tolerate that in iraq. we got a bad record. that blackwater incident inflamed passions in iraq. again, i think at the end of the day we had 36,000 killed and wounded there. they have a national police. they have an army. they have got an operating democratic government of sorts. now it's time for us to come out and maintain contact. we will have a massive contact or presence. they have a huge embassy and there will be a couple hundred military officers in the embassy to monitor foreign military sales. time to go. >> as you pointed out, the countless lives lost and you cannot put a dollar on that. when you look beyond the loss of life, the number, the dollar, $712 billion spent to date on the war in iraq. let me bring in richard engle.