examine our strategies to make sure they can actually deliver on preventing al qaeda from establishing safe havens. obviously, the allegations of fraud in the recent election are of concern to us. and we are still awaiting results will we're awaiting the ioc and the ecc issuing their full support. what is most important is that there is a sense of legitimacy in afghanistan among afghan people for their government. if there is not, that makes our task much more difficult. in term. revi of the review process we're going through, we flish '80 review. and even before it was completed, i ordered 21,000 additional troops into afghanistan, because i thought it was important to secure the