People ask us why we're buying when we're getting ready to retire. Three of our four grown children have houses, and it's time we owned ours. It's a way of leaving a legacy for them.

It would be nice if we could switch to a policy where we could support some kind of Iraqi resistance that would take Saddam out of the box. However there's very little support for that in the region.

We tried to buy it when we first moved in, but it wasn't for sale.