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Happy New Year
As we approach the dawn of 2009, I raise a toast (champagne, of course) to the United States of America, for all our faults the greatest country in the world. Every day I'm grateful my ancestors got on those boats.I raise a toast to Iraq, which we welcomed into the league of democracies this year. I raise a toast to the United States Military, the main reason Iraq is now a free country and the reason we are the free-est nation that ever existed. I raise a toast to President Bush, who for all his faults is a decent man who stood his ground when others wanted to abandon Iraq - and America - to terrorists. I raise a toast to Fred, the Mods, and the denizens of Rantburg - the best damn community/family in the world. (It should be - it wraps around the world. :-D) So join me, fellow Rantburgers, in raising a toast of your choice - beer, wine, champagne, martini, margarita, sparkling apple juice, or fizzy water - to the USA, to our friends and allies, to us. Good fortune to our friends, confusion to our enemies. L'Chaim! Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-01 |
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