Welcome to current affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. I am joined today by Dennis Fritz. He is the director of the Eisenhower Media Network. He is also a former Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant and the author of the new book, Deadly Betrayal, The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq Available from War Books.

Dennis Fritz, thank you for joining us today on current affairs.

Well, thanks for having me. I'm indeed honored to be here.

Well, why don't you start by telling us a little bit about your personal background

because it's important to understanding why this book exists and why you've written it?

Well, my background, I spent some 28 years in our United States Air Force.

I had two assignments on active duty in the Pentagon, actually, and then also as a contract employee,

I spent two stents at the Pentagon as well. The last 10 years of my career was spent advising general officers in the field on the

moral, the welfare, and the training, and the readiness of our forces.

Upon retirement from the Air Force, let me just backtrack a moment and just tell you, as part of my advising duties to

general officers, a number of them were four-star general officers, one being General Buster Glaston,

who was the actual director of the air campaign in the first hostilities against Iraq. And I worked

as an executive officer in the Pentagon

once he returned from the theater. And also, before he became the chairman, but I still

retain a friendship and somewhat of a confidant relationship with General Dick Myers, who went

on to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, previously the Vice Chairman.

And before then, we spent some eight years together out in the field, first in Japan,

and then I was as an advisor at NORAD and Space Command, which in the Times,

Space Command at the nuclear arsenal for the Air Force.

And we're also together in the Pacific.

But if I could just jump to it, if you don't mind,

when we talk about my background, after spending some 10 years,

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