chairman, and bret and elisa, thank you for your testimony and for your good work. i want to talk about the division of iraq, or keen iraq whole. a the one hand, when you look at some of these borders in the middle east they were done by the colonialists and i have obvious felt why should we be obligated to maintain those borders? iraq is not a real state. it was slapped together. you've got the kurds, you have the shia and the sunni, who really don't want to be part of each other, and so particularly the kurds, who have autonomy now, practically have their own nation, and probably will proclaim it very shortly, so my sympathies would be to say to the kurds, well, why should we suck you back into iraq? you have the right to your own nation. frankly nobody has ever explained to me why the palestinians are entitled to self-determination, but somehow the kurds are not. i don't know -- i don't think that's fair, quite frankly. other than the, we're told that if the kurds break off, there's practically no way that you could stop the rad cams from dominating what's left o