I believe we ought to push the military to get that going as fast as possible.

I believe that this generation serving right now is going to go down in history as the worst generation instead of the best in terms of the energy situation.

I believe this is the most important issue, training the forces of Iraq.

What about those who have said, hell no, we won't go?

I want to assure you that we stand ready, as Senators here have stated from both sides of the aisle, to respond at any time when resources subject to our control are necessary to ensure the troops in the field or preparing to go to the…

This bill--this fund applies only to Iraq and Afghanistan, Senator.

Now, I would intend to change that to say it shall be used only for these accounts except for the $5 billion.

Senator, it would not be used for the elections, but it would be used to assure that our troops in Iraq have the funds...

It specifically states in the bill that it's for an emergency essential to support activities and agencies in Iraq or Afghanistan, period.

It would be my intention to ask the committee to provide that whatever funds are available for this IFF would be available upon enactment just to make sure we don't face another request for the balance of this year.

That's a blank check theory and it's something we're going to run into in the floor and I don't like to run into it.

I would like to ask this question, and that is how would this contingency emergency reserve fund really operate in terms of the drawdown?

Totally military requirements now?

But it's needed and I hope we can talk later sometime about the necessity to restore the confidence in our system to increase the enlistment rates in the Air National Guard and to restore the total enlistment rates for the whole Department…

I commend you for that and I commend this committee.

The good news is that NATO forces are coming in.

This fund is for emergencies.

I would see no problem with that because I think it's implied already.