God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ...

... the courage to change the things I can ... and the wisdom to know the difference!

As 2007 suddenly became the deadliest year in Iraq yet for the United States earlier this week--after six more of our boys died in three attacks on Monday--the Serenity Prayer is about all we have left to rely upon. It seems so inane that as many as 850 of our boys and girls could have died in 2007 as the Presidential candidates parade across America with only one or two even making scant mention of the sad reality of the continuing Occupation in Iraq.