Chilly

It’s always something. Now it’s the thermostat that is giving me problems. Or is it the heater? After having problems with the old and original thermostat, I opted to buy a new programmable one. Although I haven’t programmed it yet and I’m using the override function, I’m still not getting enough heat. I had better take out that instruction sheet; the one with the very tiny tiny print and go through the programming process, just to make certain it’s not a mistake on my part. And if that doesn’t work, I’m starting a fire! But wait a second…check the filters!

Interesting. At a meeting at the church last night, I heard one man give his opinion; that the war in Iraq was simply wrong and we shouldn’t be there. There was a lot of nodding of heads and not one person spoke up to disagree. A far cry from the attitudes of only a year ago. Could it be that people are finally getting “it”? Not that it matters to the Decider. Going against all advice and rejecting his own promise to always listen to the military leaders, Dubya has removed any dissenting generals from the field. Generals Keane and Petraeus will now implement the Deciders wishes. Both of these men agree that the war has been mishandled so far. In other words; my words… we spent $300 billion and lost the irreplaceable lives of over 3,000 men and women because our leaders didn’t know what they were doing. And we should trust them now? Why?

Those of us that are old enough to remember Vietnam, remember that we were told it would take more troops, more dollars and even more troops… to obtain victory. It never happened and those of us that opposed the war were proven right. You cannot win a war of insurgency. Yet, here we are, 40 years later, still trying to prove that the lessons of history are wrong.

Speaking of history; King George (the English king…not our current leader) tried to fight an insurgency in the late 1700’s. He failed despite his numerical advantage over the enemy. Shouldn’t we have learned something from that simple lesson?