Gratitude, Mexican food, and facing reality on Christmas Eve

yes, i shouldn't be blogging on christmas eve... however, i did spend most of the day in the kitchen preparing a traditional mexican christmas eve dinner for the family, complete with guacamole and green chili cheese enchiladas... oink, oink...

however, even on this most special, still, cold night in the high desert, i am all too aware that the millstones are turning, grinding away at our fate... president cheney continues to plot in the shadows, no doubt with the help of his dark assistants, david addington and karl rove...

Why would Dick Cheney and the neocons who convinced Bush to start this war decide to pull out now? They created the war to achieve their imperial dream of privatizing Iraqi oilfields and building permanent U.S. military bases nearby to protect them. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers and the Iraqi people in pursuit of their dream.

Cheney is undoubtedly telling the evangelical Dubya to hang in there, God is testing him. Remember Bush said he consulted with his heavenly father before starting the war. If Bush thinks God told him to start this war, what will it take to make him stop?

And it could get worse. Cheney-Bush has sent our battleships to the Persian Gulf to "warn" Iran that we mean business. And the White House blacked out parts of a New York Times op-ed on negotiating with Iran written by two former U.S. government advisors. This means, in all likelihood, that Cheney has decided it's time to pick off the next member of the Axis of Evil. They're following the same strategy they used on the way to Iraq: convince the American people that Iran is building weapons of mass destruction, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Attacking Iran would cause a disaster of epic proportions.

and who will save us...?

Now that the Democrats are taking over the reins in Washington, we have a golden opportunity to set things right. But incoming Senate majority leader Harry Reid has decided to align himself with the 12 percent of Americans who support sending more troops to Iraq.

It seems more likely the Republicans, not the Democrats, will try to derail the Cheney-Bush war express. Senator Gordon Smith (R-Ore) declared last week on the Senate floor: "I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore."

yes, i am grateful for this brief, quiet respite from bushco's relentless siege on our constitution and our government... in fact, i am grateful for a host of things that have blessed my life beyond anything i could have imagined... i just pray that we will all use the strength of our blessings to move squarely into the light in the coming year...

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