[leapfrog0202]

Part of my husband’s job is arranging for training at our base for foreign pilots whose countries have purchased our military planes.

His last class (July through Sept 2013)of 35 included a wonderful man from Iraq that was to be made a general shortly after the class was over. I hope he was not amongst these men.

He lived 3 miles outside Baghdad on a small farm with his wife and 10 children. He had much to say about the people currently in power in his country and how they compared to Saddam Hussein. I learned a lot from him.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Because of the success of the U.S. “troop surge” in Iraq George Bush was able to pass on a relatively stable Iraq to Barack Obama who in 2007 publicly insisted the surge would not work. Obama and Joe Biden have spent the last five years subtly but purposely destabilizing Iraq. Against all advice to station a few brigade-size U.S. combat units in Iraq Obama ordered a virtual evacuation from a country that is the 5th largest proven oil reserve in the world, is home to an educated consumer market for U.S. goods and services, and whose military is largely equipped with U.S. weapons creating a steady market for spare parts and replacements. As a site for bases and staging areas Iraq is strategic in confronting Iran and Syria.

Instead the White House has focused our blood and treasure on Afghanistan—Obama’s “central front on the war on terror,” also known as the “Graveyard of Empires” and opium basket of the world.