this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
An Iraqi boy looks at a US soldier from the First Battalion, 17th Infantry in an alleyway as his platoon conducts a sweep for insurgents in neighborhoods close to downtown Mosul, north of Baghdad. Iraqi politicians were working to meet a tight deadline to register candidates for fresh parliamentary elections, a day after a new constitution was adopted amid persistent violence that brought US military losses since the 2003 invasion to 2,000.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)
from No Expectations
by Keith Richard/Mick Jagger
Take me to the station and put me on a train
I’ve got no expectations to pass through here again
Once I was a rich man and now I am so poor
But never in my sweet, short life have I felt like this before
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