Merry Christmas!

And happy holidays to all, for all the celebrations of the season.

My number one wish for the season is that we find a way to get our guys and gals home out of Iraq, and that the damage we've done to that poor country is somehow repairable and that somehow, at some point, good can rise from the ashes of this neo-con blunder.

And that the blowhards who use "I support the troops" as a blunderbuss finally get their acts together and help work to really support the troops by bringing them home out of this mess.