the atlantic council middle east program. research professor of the strategic studies institute at the u.s. army in pennsylvania. i believe you're there currently but you'd retired army colonel recently for iraq on the national security council. this month published a paper, try to not remix up u.s. iraq security again. plenty of things for us all to be talking about over the next 90 minutes or so. so i think i'll hand it over too each of the panelists to give us a quick instruction to open up to the conversation. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you for this introduction. bring to moderate this panel. u.s. iraq relations are very important for iraq. united's interest in the region as well. the united states has brought post- 2003 change in iraq not just the regime change about an entire change in the social settings of iraq. philosophies and anything that is direct to date is completely different from what it was before 2003. whatever iraq will come to, will be the legacy of the united states government or successive governments on their policies. but is very important but also for iraq as a country that would like to have established a difference in the importance of iraq between 2003 they looked iraq