of colonialism to stabilize and allowed their economies to grow. but what we have now really is a war against international terrorism that requires an enormous amount of maneuverability, and at the same time, we have the strategic objectives of the country, which are best served by strong navy technology, anti-penetration through cyber warfare, these sorts of things. and we need to have a valid ground element, but not necessarily what we re doing here. in real time, we ve got none of this information from gates. we got none of this information from rumsfeld. now gates tells us it was a mistake to go into afghanistan and iraq after we ve already gotten in there. telling us now. we have rumsfeld telling us now there were no nuclear weapons in iraq, no attempt to build them, no attempt to buy them. no, nada nuclear weapons. these guys tell us after the fact the facts. what do you make of it? well in all fairness to secretary gate, i don t think that s what i let s focus on rummy t