speaker, i will yield time to, again, the leader of that congressional delegation, bill shuster. mr. shuster: i thank the gentleman and i appreciate the gentleman talking about meeting with other parliamentarians in some of the other countries that we visited, from the czech republic to azerbaijan, to georgia. and one of the things all three of those countries have in common is they are really great allies of the united states of america. all those countries contribute forces to not only to afghanistan, but to iraq and currently they either have or have just had troops returning and when you look at a country like azerbaijan who lives in a rough neighborhood between iran to the south and russia to the north, georgia sits on the western border and has had problems with russia, but when those countries send their troops to fight shoulder to shoulder with the americans, they have no caveats, which means that their troops are allowed to do whatever mernts need thed them to do, when -- the americans need them to do, whether it's supporting the nato troops and the american troops in som