the sir galahad got in very quickly with supplies. >> as you said, this is something very good at. we heard from the commander of the first troops across the border, you quickly become responsible for broke conflicts. straightaway they were into having to administer areas of iraq. as you said, you did not want them to be doing that for too long. >> the answer to your question is that we recognized that they would be engaged in this task, and indeed, you are right, the moment they arrived, there would have been soldiers already engaged in the second phase of operation while some were still fighting. that process was an iterative process that went on until we had taken those four provinces >> the picture that is being built up by a succession of military witnesses, and not contradicted by anything you have said today, is that effectively we had to make this up as we went along. our military found themselves in charge of civil administration of the southeast of iraq, for which they had not been prepared, which they did extremely well. it was not what they were there for, and had not b