Obama founded ISIS; Clinton Is the Co-Founder.

On a hot, Iraq afternoon I leaned back in my turret as we rolled down the road listening to Paul Simon and scanning the roadsides for anything or anybody that seemed out of the ordinary. An explosion shot molten metal through the gun-truck in front of me. I had been through this before so I didn’t even acknowledge any creeping thoughts of terror as the vehicle jumped off the road side and landed in a mud bank.

I started quickly rotating my turret and scanning the surrounding people to try and find the trigger man as Doc raced towards the damaged vehicle. He pulled Ulises out of the turret who was screaming in a mixture of English and Spanish that his body armor was burning him. He had a gut full of copper from an explosively formed penetrator smuggled in from Iran to defeat our armor. I saw Todd get up to help so I knew he was ok. I didn’t see Matthew. I never would again.

Those are the dreams you get when you come back from war. And the nightmares come when you realize that while you were out fighting for your country it was being lost at home.

I was never a fan of Bush or his reasons to bring us into the war but they were not made in malice. My team had to fight for every inch of peace in Iraq. But when we passed over to the next unit there was no doubt to our team that Iraq was better for it.

When I got off the plane from Iraq the family of another one of my teammates who came back under an American Flag was there to greet us. They wanted answers. They wanted resolution. And most of all they wanted to know that the sacrifice was worthwhile.

“We accomplished something. We truly did make the Iraqi military capable and we left Diyala able to defend itself.”

Then Hillary Clinton became the Secretary of State. Bush had waited until the last hour trying to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement that would allow Iraq to maintain order between the Shia majority and the Sunni minority that had oppressed them under Saddam. Hillary didn’t care about a transition plan. She decided that a foreign diplomacy of “hope” would broker peace. The Administration announced they were pulling out and before our troops could even start getting on planes to leave the Shia president issued an arrest warrant and death sentence to the Sunni Vice President. The Sunnis began to flee to the nearby states like Syria where they could regroup with other Sunni majority states. It was the catalyst that led to ISIS. Iraq fell apart and the sacrifices we made were all immediately lost in a war she voted to start as a Senator.

A few years later Clinton endorsed an Iranian deal that would lift sanctions and give Iran 400 million dollars that they could turn into more copper plates to kill us and our allies. She didn’t only waste our sacrifices; she put us in danger of more.

She voted for war. She wasted what we sacrificed. And she is OK with giving Iran more money for the same devices that burned my friend from the inside out along a roadside in Iraq. The screams still keep me up at night.

I drive all over Iowa helping candidates and activists organize to beat Hillary. I still wear a headset in one ear as I drive but instead of listening to Paul Simon I make calls with an auto-dialer persuading Iowans to vote against her. That woman cannot be our Commander-in-Chief. She may be willing to waste all the sacrifices of my brothers but I am not. It motivates me every day to do my part to Make America Great Again!

— To get involved contact me at john_kurt_thompson@yahoo.com. John is a member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Iowa.