Today the last of the troops have left Iraq. I would to take this opportunity to welcome them home to their country and loved ones. Your service is under appreciated by too many but remember that you are never forgotten. It saddens me that our economy became the #1 issue to people when we have fellow volunteer Americans dying every day in wars. You lost a job, someone else lost a father, mother, son or daughter. How does that stack up?
I would also like to thank President Obama for sticking to President Bush’s timeline and getting the troops out of there as planned. It is unfortunate that the troops’ stay was as long as it was. If it had been done right, Mr. Rumsfeld would have been released in 2004, we would have had a surge when we originally needed it and our troops would have been gone by summer 2004.
December 18, 2011
