MMIX: CRAWLING FROM THE QUAGMIRE
As the dawn breaks on a fresh year, the wide and welcoming horizon and a path to it mayhaps (and thankfully) is coming into illuminated focus as the past eight years’ trail of woeful, dangerous and calculated aberration spirals into whichever dark, dank place it deserves to decompose.
Out of sight, but never out of mind. Dazed, but not confused. We shall never forget what transpired. We shall never forget the panoply — the odious blot — of twisted, malevolent, shameful, conscienceless. neo-Orwellian undertakings and overreaches besmirching our stalwart name.
By Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen, courtesy of caglecartoons.com
And, as the U.N. mandate regarding Iraq expired at midnight, today can be viewed from one angle as the first day of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
The walls of the majestic Republican Palace in Baghdad’s Green Zone have been stripped bare. The vaults that secured American cash and classified documents are gone, and the cement blast walls that protected the front entrance were taken down this week. The U.S. military dining facility inside what was once the American Embassy served its last meal New Year’s Eve. Source
A is for Accountability. It is also for Always. And come accountability shall. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but the scales of justice will recover balance.
Off-topic, but 90th birthday wishes to J.D. Salinger.
I think that 2008 didnt start as a cute baby! I think i bornt as an ugly devil!!!
Cheers!
Comment by djibouti — January 10, 2009 @ 11:53 pm on Saturday the 10th