. >> the gentle lady from california, ms. davis. >> thank you, mr. chairman, general, mr. secretary, for being here and you're outstanding work and i know, general, you are being credited for helping turn the situation around and we appreciate that. i want to ask about "the wall street journal" report yesterday that the iraqi is are having difficulty with their budget crunch and oil prices decreasing and purchasing equipment they had already requested from the u.s. government, and there are a number of issues combined with that. how difficult and how high of a priority is it for us to get this straight, and are their policies in fact we should be looking at right now that would allow them to purchase more of those in advance? >> i think it's very important we have been working this for quite some time. first the iraqi budget because the price of oil the budget has decreased quite significantly. their combined budget is about $10 billion a year about 85% of that is fixed, nondiscretionary and has to do with salaries and other things so that leaves a very small piece left to