map was drawn by a foreign power that came in and so there is to 1 degree or another sort of an unnatural union to all of this but the one thing that brought everybody together was the fact that there were oral -- oil resources. there is a discussion about iraqi courtesy and splitting off the big wick with all of that. is the idea of how do you who gets which oilfield and what amount of revenue and what form a divided iraq would take opposed to a united iraq. i think when it comes to secretary and issues i thing it's hard for us to understand them here. anybody in the middle east and this is one of the reasons why when we talk about islamic extremism there is a sense of history in the middle east and that they have very long memories and they look very far into the future about how to take their society i once sat with the gentleman who ultimately became the chief justice. we were in the bombed out building and we were getting ready to reappoint the justices to the iraqi supreme court. they had been thrown off the bench. they were almost executed by saddam hussein. he basically wanted dictate t