So why do you not come meet with Senator Inouye and me and let us see what we can do to help you.

Failure in this endeavor is not an option for us, as you have stated, Mr. Secretary.

We want to go from a coalition in that country to a partnership with Iraq.

That was very generous, General, and deserved. Of course, Senator Inouye and I hate to see such young men retire.

I would like the committee to have sort of a flow chart on how you decided to disperse the wounded from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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

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 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.

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

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

Well, that is what Senator Inouye and I worry about. The demand is up.