Taking my time getting up and around today. Trying, I guess, to stretch yesterday's lazy day into two of them. My Hawkeyes got their tails whooped, Arkansas beat what should have been a pushover team from east of here, but had to struggle.Not a good sign. The one big football positive came from daughter's Missouri Tigers. They beat up on Nebraska before a HUGE crowd, winning 41 to 6! Having grown up right next to Nebraska, it does my Midwestern heart good to see somebody put a one-time dynasty in its place.
As for your reading today, I found an absolutly amazing post from an Iraq War veteran on AMERICAblog just moments ago. I'm sure somebody will call him a "phony soldier", because he's speaking out against the war, but it seems obvious to me that John Bruhns writes from the heart.
Why I fight and why we all must.
As the war drums were beating for Iraq I knew something was wrong. I was paying attention to President Bush as he continually accused Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction and being linked to terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. Yet, there was no solid proof that any of Bush's accusations had any validity to them. I guess if you repeat the same lies over and over again they begin to sound true. How else could Bush have tricked the nation into an unjust and unnecessary war in Iraq? At the time I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. It seemed as [...]
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