It was less of a decline that we expected, so Iraq was really in line of how we modeled it.

The nature of the business is these things come up periodically and when they do, they come up unexpectedly. On balance, it's part of doing business, but it's still a disappointment.

These are solid looking gains year-over-year.

Given the difficult global economy and the increasing uncertainty caused by the impending war in Iraq, we were pleased to see modest revenue and operating earnings growth in our fiscal third quarter,

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.