mr. rohrabacher and you, too, mr. kucinich, but this is an important issue before us. today as we are here in the house of representatives, mark wells is being buried. he was killed on march 5 representing us in iraq -- excuse me -- afghanistan. he had been to iraq and, yes, he is of irish heritage so his family decided we want to have his service on st. patrick's day. i talked to his father, burrell, earlier this week, and he's proud of his son's service and he's proud of his -- our service in afghanistan. he said to me, he said, congressman poe, i fear there are dark days ahead for america because we may not choose to persevere. and what he meant by that was that his son and others who have died for this country, died for that concept of freedom, that people that live after them, our soldiers that are over there and we who make decisions may not persevere and finish this war. war is hard. it is expensive and america never quits and america should never quit in this war. our enemies in iraq and afghanistan have always had the policy and philosophy, america will get we

mr. rohrabacher the gentleman from california. >> did somebody say global warming?laughter] >> i want to thank you, general, for mentioning the earth objects. and again, too many people take this issue so lightly and it would surprise no one if tomorrow there was a discovery made that an object was heading toward the earth that could cause tremendous loss of life, and we would be caught flatfooted. those of us who are willing to take the laughs and et cetera and the scoffing, are playing a very important role in protecting a large number of people on this planet. i understand in your budget you are taking care of a certain usage of the telescope that will ensure that that important part of identifying objects that could threaten the earth stays in play. let me know about nimpose project, had that project been on time and on budget, we wouldn't be worrying about anything right now, would we? we would have all the money we want, if we just would have run that one project all the money for heavy lift and all of that would be available because it's all been wasted. your