What about this problem about predictability in terms of the costs of Iraq and Pakistan? Could you discuss that?

My mind goes back to the time that I introduced an amendment to change the draft laws to draft women.

Most of those people are employed by small businesses, many of whom do provide health care.

Well, there is an inconvenient gap there between October 1 and March 1 of next year. How are you going to fund them?

Well, we will look into that cut. It is sort of a different type of reduction. We do not have any support for it yet, but we will inquire into it.

You are confident that you can live with this policy in terms of this war?

The Senator is correct. We noticed just an overwhelming change in the type of injuries that our people are coming home with.

That is the policy we followed in Kosovo and Bosnia and as a matter of fact in the initiation of the Persian Gulf war.

We have got to develop a better protection overall for our people.

I think you make a good point, but on the other hand, none of the research you are talking about will be available by the time we either win or lose completely the war on terrorism in the Middle East.

I do not want to belabor this. Sometime I would like to pursue it and see what the schedule is and how that flow was from those facilities into more permanent treatment facilities and how quickly these people got back near their homes.

I have the impression that the worst cases have come to Washington.