i don't know what they would do today if they captured the equivalent of khalid sheikh mohammad. probably read him his miranda rights, i don't know. that is not in my mind -- to give up those capabilities. i hope that there are no more attacks, but even as we meet here today everybody drove to work with their car radio on this morning. there is a threat that is sufficient credibility, at least at this stage that the authorities are saying you know, this is unconfirmed but we are taking it very seriously. so, i think, i do think it was a mistake for them not to stay as actively and aggressively involved. krauthammer wrote a brilliant piece on the notion that somehow we overreacted. i don't think we did. i think we did exactly what we had to do, and the results speak for themselves. >> we will do one or two more for me and then we will open it up to questions from others. you often made the case that iraq was a central front in the war on terror. looking back on iraq, one of the things that people have focused on in reading your book and in the reviews of your book is the fact that