Guarding Iraq

Five hundred Granite State National Guard troops have been mobilized to support operations in Iraq next month, the largest since WW2. We?ll ask where they?re going, what they?ll do, how families and employers cope back home and what the calling of so many of our National Guard tell us about current foreign policy in Iraq. Laura's Guests are Wayne Lesperance, Assistant Professor of Political Science at New England College. Peter Josephson, Assistant Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Ernest Loomis, State Chairman of the Department of Defense Employers support of the Guard and Reserve and Lieutenant Ana Cutting, Platoon Leader for the 744 Transportation Company out of Somersworth, NH who will be leaving NH on her way to Iraq on December 12th.