Merry Christmas

I hope all our readers are safe and well, are warm and have plenty of food. Remember that others don't have these things.

Iraq's Christians face a difficult Christmas:

Before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Judo said, his wife and children would attend Midnight Mass and then return for dinner. Now, Judo says, he doesn't feel that it is safe to go to Mass even in the late afternoon.
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"Baghdad was always safe for us, but unfortunately times have changed," he said. "We wonder when we can live like normal people and joy can return to our hearts."

Just as well we invaded Iraq to look for WMD, rather than for some foolhardy notion of regime change and making the place better.