Be Thankful

I hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Among the things that we are thankful for, I think we should all take time out to be thankful for not being in Iraq.

The bloodiest bombings in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion in 2003, and the
reprisals that swiftly followed, show that Iraq's sectarian conflict may be too
far gone for leaders to stop, even if they want to.
The killings of some 250
people in just a few days last week marked a "high-water mark", analysts said.
It demonstrated with savage clarity how little control Iraq's government
exercises, with a security force accused of sectarian bias and a series of peace
plans doing little to slow the pace of killing.

We should be thankful for what we have, feel anguish for those who are not as fortunate as we are and feel contempt for those who are committed to take from some so that they may enrich themselves.