WOULD YOU SIGN A PETITION TO HELP A SOLDIER BRING HER PUPPY HOME FROM IRAQ???

Last May, a 28-year-old Army sergeant from Minneapolis, Minnesota, named Gwen Beberg rescued a puppy . . . who she named Ratchet . . . from a burning pile of trash in Iraq.

--Anyway, Gwen is scheduled to return to the U.S. next month . . . but it's against Defense Department policy for soldiers to bring home pets that they adopted in the U.S. Central Command (--which is northeast Africa, the Middle East and central Asia).

--That said, exceptions have been made . . . and an organization called Operation Baghdad Pups has gotten 50 dogs and six cats transferred to the U.S. in the last eight months.

(--So what am I getting at? There's an online petition . . . which has already collected 38,000 signatures . . . that you can sign to ask the government to allow Gwen to bring Ratchet home with her. Check that out here . . .)