Brown Christmas

Here in Baghdad, we will not be having a white Christmas. Thanks to the rain we've gotten the past couple of days, I will be enjoying the fine Iraqi brown Christmas. Complete with all the mud you need to completely mess up your boots, pants, and your living areas. It rained so hard last night that it flooded our parking area with a good 4 inches of water.



The work has been pretty much non-existent the past 4 or 5 days now. Not sure if it's because of the weather or not. I guess that's a good thing, whatever the reason is. Not sure how close everyone follows the news but, or if this has even been in the news, but the united nations resolution 1483 will expire at the end of December. This is the resolution that legitimized the US and UK occupation of Iraq back on 2003. No, we're not all going to be on planes back home on New Years eve, as nice as that would be!! The Iraqi government and the US government are in the final stages of signing the Status of Forces Agreement which will keep us here until at least 2011. But, things are changing though. All the bad guys we catch are going to be going through the Iraqi court systems now. Not sure if that will make things better or worse. We'll have to see.

Anyway, not sure why I started talking about a brown Christmas and ended up talking about the US resolution and status of forces stuff.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas,

G