Sunday 11/26, war in Iraq longer than ALL of World War II.

“December 7, 1941… A date which will live in infamy.” - Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dec 8, 1941.

(Trivia: Roosevelt coined the new word “infamy” because he felt that no word his speech-writer had suggested in that place fully conveyed the magnitude of what had just happened.)

1,248 days later, Italy and Germany surrendered in what is now known as “V.E. (Victory in Europe) Day”.
99 days after that, the Japanese likewise finally surrendered on August 15, 1945 (”V.J. Day”).

Last August 18, 2006, Bush’s war in Iraq had surpassed the length of World War II in Europe. On Sunday (Nov 26), it will have lasted longer than ALL of WWII, past the end of the Japanese surrender 1,347 days later.

On January 7 of next year, it will be 1,347 days since “Mission Accomplished”. Let us pray that we get out of Iraq before it surpasses the length of the War in Vietnam (14 years - 1961 to 1975).

(Note: I apologize for the infrequent updates this past week. Things should get better after the holidays.)

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