HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Sheesh, I'm late to my own party. Two days ago Left in Bay Ridge celebrated its one year anniversary. What started as a lark to keep me occupied has grown into a full-fledged whim that still keeps me occupied.

While I'm no Rover with his 100,000 hits, I would like to thank the one person who has visited Left in Bay Ridge 50,694 times.

And especially, thank you Melisa Christian.

5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Today marks the 5th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. What do you get someone for a 5th anniversary? Paper? Silver? I think it's Body Armor.

Operation Iraqi Freedom.

What ever happened to Operation Get The Guys Who Attacked Us On 9/11? What ever happened to that Operation?

No, instead we celebrate a misguided, mishandled, and miscalculated war against Iraq.

There are some who will say (like the person who commented on The Phantom's blog but then removed it) "Yes, it's so disastrous not being attacked by madmen in jet airliners anymore."

Um...Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11. That little nugget of truth has been proven true time and time again, most recently by a Pentagon Study

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida.

That little 600,000 document study came out while Spitzer's strumpet was going down on him. So let me repeat it

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida

I'm not suggesting Saddam was a good guy. Far from it. But let's go after the guy who attacked us.

As we surpass the length of time the U.S. was involved in WWII and approach nearly a third of the time we were in Vietnam, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on

• the nearly 4,000 American men and women who gave their lives for this war.
  
• the 175 UK men and women who gave their lives for this war.
• the 133 other men and women of the Coalition who gave their lives for this war.
• the nearly 90,000 innocent Iraqis who were killed in this war.
• the more than two million Iraqis who have fled abroad because of this war
• the 1.5 million Iraqis who have sought safety elsewhere in Iraq because of this war.
  

Let's hope today is the last anniversary of this war.