Predictions for 2007: doesn't look good

I remember when Bush proclaimed the Iraq war to be over. Remember the cheesy suit? The carefully staged fighter pilot wannabe setting? He took a page out of Top Gun and unbelievably enough, people swallowed it.

The Iraq war, needless to say, was nowhere close to finished that day. Friends are still going to the front lines - recently a good friend's husband of a few months went to Iraq, leaving her behind -- and war goes on. There is a proverb: It is easy to light a fire, but hard to put it out. That is the truth behind war. It seems that we never learn.

Here are Kiplinger's predictions for the war in 2007. The death of Saddam Hussein changes nothing, according to Kiplinger. It was just another act of barbarism in a senseless world, according to Yellow-Dog Democrat. A lynching, according to Baghdad Burning. Today we reached a death toll of 3,000 U.S. troops. My prayer for 2007? For peace, for an end to occupation, for an end to U.S. Imperialism and for a new beginning.

Let there be peace, and let it begin with me...