iraq. and i know, having talked to turkish visitors, there's a great deal of interest not only in the northern part of iraq but also in bolstering their relations with the shiite part or the southern part of iraq. so i see a turkey that is increasingly interested in having a good relationship with iraq and we very much welcome this process. >> president obama's speech in cairo has produced a lot of renewed hopes for the arabs of the region and for america. the policies there. today, can you reiterate for us, for the arab audience, that you are looking forward for the day when america leaves iraq as a one country united and sovereign? i mean, united. not like what vice president biden in the past has looked for, a division of iraq and into three parts? >> we are very interested in having a long-term and successful relationship with iraq. and as our president laid out in the speech, we're interested in a long term and positive relationship with the entire region. with respect to our relationship with iraq, we understand those of us who work on the issue understand that to have a long-term and su

in northern india to work with the muslim community to engage them and the underserved communities in seeking not just polio vaccine but any vaccine. they were best vaccinated against polio in iraq and as you can see we put nearly 5,000 part-time people on the ground, people from within the communities we trained on social mobilization, interpersonal communications etc. to begin the process of building the community engagement needed to be able to eradicate polio to get the population immunity up to the levels that will stop transmission. as we worked with the underserved communities to engage them as well this required use of another tool we weren't used to, certainly in the immunization in the areas i have been working in and that was the widespread use of social mapping to figure out how we reach these populations. for those of you to medications are probably second nature and for those of us who are doctors and used to approach to medical problems and other way a lot of this is to a certain degree new but this is an example you see here from the tribal areas of pakistan border in right on afghanistan and as you can see they have mapped out the long the different parts of thi

iraq. i'm talking now beyond just the marine corps' area of operations. ours for the most part in the south is high dedsert. there are some mountain ranges that start to appear in the northern portions of our sector in the south of afghanistan. the terrain up in r.c. east is incredible. there's nothing in our country you can compare it to. we flew over the rocky mountains from a recent trip to california. it may start to get close, but it does not equate to sheer granite mountains that rise up at 90 degrees to the surface of the earth. and go to 12,000 or 13,000 feet. so it's incredibly rough the rain up there. that's causing us to adapt our tactics and recovery, our medevac capability, those types to have things, as you might anticipate. i think that's probably the first thing. the second thing, i think, is probably just the cultural itself. different language, different tribal affiliations, if you will. the tribes in iraq, i believe, had more centralized kinds of structure, decision making resting in the hands of a few sheikhs than what we're experiencing in afghanistan. it's much more decentralized, almost village to village and in that regard, it's a little tougher, i t