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tribes or even to the peshmerga? it would be very challenging. secondly it would be a slap in the face to the iraqi government. the real key is how to get the government to develop more trust with its people. if we do something like this it would be contrary to gaining trust and not going to help the long-term strategy of the war effort. >> this is not just philosophical on your part. you were in iraq during the anbar awakening. and you saw how arms played out there. what was the lesson learned? >> well the key lesson to me i was not in anbar, i was in multinational division north. so we had all the five provinces north of baghdad. and it was the same thing. it was the solemn movement it was the awakening, it was the sons of iraq. but what the difference was is there was a u.s. military control cooperating with the iraqi government. they didn't even want to do it at the time under mr. maliki. he did not want the sunni tribes or even the citizens armed because he was concerned about