Taking it back

For me, nothing represented the taking back of my country better than Congressman-elect John Hall and Stephen Colbert reclaiming the National Anthem.



Lest we forget...

Fire

The Jaguar in front of me has a "W '04" bumper sticker
(as if I needed a reminder),
and my transmission is slipping.

Entering the store, my eyes are assaulted by a Christmas card display,
my ears by "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
As this is 10 November, I reckon it's closer to 45 days.

It has been years-- five? ten?-- since I ate breakfast cereal.
Today I have a craving for an old favorite brand.
That brand has shelf space, but the space is empty.

Then "The Twelve Days of Christmas" segues into "Fire"
(the Pointer Sisters' cover of Bruce Springsteen's song).
I smile at a total stranger, who smiles back.

10 November 2005

'Robert Gates made Osama Bin Laden'

Robert Gates Promoted and Financed Osama Bin Laden

LondonYank, Daily Kos:

Robert Gates made Osama Bin Laden what he is today. This is not exaggeration. By funding Osama Bin Laden's operations, training camps, weaponry and political influence from 1979 (even before Russia invaded Afghanistan), Robert Gates personally gave us our principal enemy in the "War on Terror".

More frighteningly, all of Robert Gates' support to Osama Bin Laden ran through Pakistan's ISI. ISI has been linked to training and funding the 9/11 bombers, the London bombers, the Madrid bombers, the Bali bombers and the Delhi bombers but is strangely immune from official Washington scrutiny.

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We owe it to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq not to put them under the command of a man implicated in financing and training the enemies they fight. We owe it to the troops to give them a commander who will protect them from IEDs and missiles, not one with a proven record of protecting the ISI who supplies those weapons.