Happy holidays?

I know the holiday season is supposed to be a happy time. A time of rebirth, renewal. A time to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior.

To the families of those soldiers dying in Iraq - dying for what? - it's not such a merry time.
But that's not much of a concern in Washington D.C., where the big debate is whether to call it a Holiday Tree or a Christmas Tree.

Check THIS link out. Or THIS. Or THIS.
To date, at least 2,137 Americans have died in Iraq. Americans are dying at a rate of about 18 per week. Is that acceptable? To whom? Another 18,000 to 48,000 have been wounded (Officially 19,801). And that doesn't count the 30,789 civilian deaths. These aren't numbers. They're people.
It has cost us $223.8 billion - billion! - so far. Instead, we could have fully funded world-wide AIDS programs for 22 years. Or maybe done something to insure the Gulf Coast wouldn't be nearly destroyed by a hurricane. $225 billion could go a long way toward building an acceptable levee system in New Orleans, don't you think?
And NO weapons of mass destructions have ever been found.
And NO al Qaida connection has ever been found.
And NO terrorist camps. (Camps operating prior to the invasion).
And NO plans to spread worldwide terrorism have ever been found.
And, given the price at the pump, the oil isn't even flowing.
One accomplishment, however: while Iraq under Saddam was NOT friendly to terrorists, it's now a major terrorist staging ground. Even the W-imbecile administration admits that.
Anyone read the Downing Street memo yet? And the lies continue.
Why, again, are we there?

And so it goes