On the road again,,,and who do I run into
Well, I got to see first hand the devastation wrought on San Diego, CA.
Of course in the Great North West, we have had San Diego's weather (sunny and warm).
So now I get to listen to the global warming nuts proclaim that by August there will be no
forests unburnt north of Sacramento. But there was some real highlights.

One was, I got to meet the Mexico Women's Olympic Soccer team. They stayed in the same
hotel and most spoke very good english, especailly compared to my spanish. I should have
gone and bought a soccer ball at Kmart and had them sign it. They were in San Diego to play
an exhibition game with San Diego WFC women's soccer team, the Sealion's.
See:
http://www.wpsl.info/news/

The Second was on Saturday, a company of Marine reservists checked in to the hotel having
just come back from 7 months in IRAQ. I was able to talk to them over the next 3 days. I got
a lot of information from them on what had happened in Iraq while they were there. I also
thanked everyone of them for their service.

Each one of them told me of how grateful most Iraqi's are with what we are doing in Iraq. And
that in many areas of the country things are slowly improving. How tense it was leading up to
to the elections and how much it has changed sinvce those elections. Overall, most of them
stated that you can tell things are changing in Iraq.

There was one thing that they all agreed upon, you are not getting the truth about what is going
on in Iraq from the mainstream media outlets. Too much attention is paid to the violence and
not to the rebuilding, the restoration of human & health services and education efforts in Iraq.
They even praised the civilian contractors also in Iraq.

This definitely gave me a better read on what is happening in Iraq.
Mike
- posted by Mike @ 4:03 PM