Lately there has been much debate about US involvement in Iraq. I spent a little over nine months in Iraq, traveling the central and northern areas working on power reconstruction or providing security for other contractors. My work provided close contact with local Iraquis - on the job and in their villages as their guest. I am not a political analyst, and I don't have insight into the rationale behind the complex decisions that drive our foreign policy, but I have real-life experiences about what we should be doing in Iraq...(continued)