This is an incomplete update. I've got some notes here, some straggling in. Please bear with.
Something about being a friend, or at least a confidant. How there was last week's update, full of brio, stepping out on a limb, taking a mighty big chance on being wrong, on being viewed as a goof or a crackpot.
I am not clairvoyant. When the time comes, I wish they'd chisel on my tombstone: "He never said 'I told you so' in an inappropriate way."
Because saying something like that can be awful.
I wish I could be a comfort rather than someone who predicted something that, tragically, came true.
But I got it. And I gots to report it.
Last Saturday (7-30-05) I wrote:
"When the headlines get all puffy like this I know something's going down. Mark my words. July 30th, 2005. There are some big troop movements happening right now, or some serious negotiations over the price of oil, something."
The "puffy" headlines I was referring to were:
Astronauts test shuttle repair techniques
Bombing suspect interrogated in Italy
Two British contractors killed in Iraq
President Bush gets annual physical exam
Lightning strike turns Scout hike tragic
States move on sex offender GPS tracking
Soldier in Iraq records country-music hit
And so what happened this past week? If having the largest number of troops killed during troop movements yet in our war in Iraq is a good indicator of "Big troop movements happening," then, sadly, tragically, I was right. That twenty guys--all from Ohio--died during troop movements over the course of two days this past week is awful. What's worse is when we remember that THE key or swing state this past election was Ohio. That's right, in case you forgot, it all came down to the Buckeye State last November. More on that election is here.
I wish I had better news.
This man may not be a friend, he may not be a confidant, but I'm guessing he likes fire
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