and instead brimmer expanded to in his memoirs he said i was just acknowledging the obvious because the soldiers had taken off uniform and gone home. it's a pretty disingenuous statement. he said what he also says is they've taken their weapons with them. and had but one to stream back and call back to the color colln we could have had one of? because when it was pointed out to brimmer with no service thousand armed young men without jobs on the streets, he decided we would offer them back they and that they could come and collect their back pay and the second and that would give them something with which to start your new life. they all showed up. it would've been very easy to have a recruiting table right there saying he wanted continued your job and help guard your country, prevent looting and so forth? we would've got a significant portion and we wouldn't have had start to re-create the iraqi security forces. what this did not only put hundreds of thousands of armed young men on the street but tens of thousands of officers, most of them were sunni, and they were denied their jobs, t