silly bear!

How dare I think that yesterday was a good day, that things were looking up, and “getting better” (whatever that is)

Today it’s back to the same old conflicts, the same old gripes, the same old tension. Only made worse because some of it is blamed on our relaxing yesterday (“you always pay”)

Heavy sigh.

Baghdad Burning. Still.

River says that things haven’t improved one bit, in fact they’ve gotten much worse. Kids are home from school more often than they go (but hey, we rebuilt the schools after we blew them up! At least it’s a start)…

Baghdad Burning: “Three years later and the nightmares of bombings and of shock and awe have evolved into another sort of nightmare. The difference between now and then was that three years ago, we were still worrying about material things- possessions, houses, cars, electricity, water, fuel… It’s difficult to define what worries us most now. Even the most cynical war critics couldn’t imagine the country being this bad three years after the war… Allah yistur min il rab3a (God protect us from the fourth year). ”