and elizabeth dwoskin. co-wrote an article about all this for the new issue of "bloomberg business week." and we thank you both for being with us. elizabeth dwoskin, i'll start with you, how much material did the u.s. have in iraq to be brought home? >> well, millions and millions of pieces of equipment. probably over four or five mlg. but when they started the drawdown and ended the combat mission the major general in charge started with a list of two... just over two million pieces of equipment that he was in charge of finding new homes for. >> woodruff: and at a huge value cost. >> we don't know the total cost of the equipment but we can imagine it is from some of the breakdowns that we've seen. >> woodruff: general pagonis, just from your perspective of having to do something like this give us the sense of a magnitude of an operation like this. >> everything has to be brought back and we've been there almost over nine years. equipment, that that's easy to bring back. but you have to bring back the cloth