yesterday i had the privilege of hosting a meeting of the president of kurdish saban in my office. and he was open and honest about the strength of the kurdish people, 40 or 50 million president throughout syria and he estimated 150,000 kurdish fighters could be ready once called, but he emphasized that their greatest limitation was not the number of fighters but their equipment, their ammunition, the things they need in terms of hard support. i guess my first question to you, we would like to know if the reports are true that the administration lobbied against an effort in the senate to directly arm the kurdish peshmerga and if so why, and what is the defense department doing to insure the funds and equipment and weapons that we have to send will actually make it into the very committed capable and effective hands of the peshmerga? >> thank you congressman, and you're right. committed, capable. the kurdish forces are what we aspire to with respect to their iraqi security forces in general. they show the will to fight and the capability to fight. i pointed earlier to their seizing

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