Thursday, June 19, 2014
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Riverbend
Lessons learned – but not learned here..
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Baghdad Burning
... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Ten Years On...
April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis changed forever. It’s difficult to believe. It feels like only yesterday I was sharing day to day activities with the world. I feel obliged today to put my thoughts down on the blog once again, probably for the last time.
In 2003, we were counting our lives in days and weeks. Would we make it to next month? Would we make it through the summer? Some of us did and many of us didn't.
Back in 2003, one year seemed like a lifetime ahead. The idiots said, “Things will improve immediately.” The optimists were giving our occupiers a year, or two… The realists said, “Things won’t improve for at least five years.” And the pessimists? The pessimists said, “It will take ten years. It will take a decade.”
Looking back at the last ten years, what have our occupiers and their Iraqi governments given us in ten years? What have our puppets achieved in this last decade? What have we learned?
We learned a lot. (more)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Autumn and politics
It's the season of changing colors and politico posturing. Does the fall bring out the true colors? or just the residue?
Questions for change
Progress Engage in Solidarity What in individual life can be better? How do we make the world better? Find thing to WIN. Heal ourselves Trus...
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Yesterday I was going to post news headline that underscored the distressing "state of the union"... issues included: Mercury pois...
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It couldn't be said better than "Light of Reason" blog of Arthur Silber: CRAP You can’t try to change the administration’s cou...
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High Risks in Afghanistan : "A revived Taliban army, flush with new recruits from Pakistan, is staging a frightening comeback. Major ci...
