accident where some surrogate insurgent groups were trying to move ammunition around inside of solder city -- inside of sadr city. >> secretary gates has made clear that it is the war in afghanistan that is the priority. what are your specific concerns about the potential for troops understandably getting a little demoralized over the next 18 months, feeling that day in iraq are now fighting the forgotten war? that this is the new forgot more -- this is the new forgotten war? >> i look at this as a positive thing because i believe is because of the progress we have made in iraq. because of the progress we were able to make, we signed a bilateral security agreement with the government of iraq. the first death of that was today which was the withdrawal from the city's. as present obama came on and we then conducted another review -- as president obama came on, little and -- we will go to a 50,000 man transition force. i believe this decisions were made because of the progress we're making here. i think our soldiers look at it as progress that has been made here. and the fact that incidents a