Hello Everyone:

Well, I have to apply to university soon and I really don't know where I want to go. I have hesitant and frankly too lazy to really study the universities and to judge them. I really would love to go to Carleton in Ottawa for History, but I also don't know what my minor is going to be....sigh....oh well, everything will work out hopefully. So, I've been watching the US midterm elections and for the first time in history a women (Nancy Polosei) has been appointed speaker of the House of Representatives. The Democrats have taken the House and narrowly, the Senate. Among all things I hope this change in power shifts the US governments strategy in the Iraq and the Middle East. Following that, some more great news, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfled has stepped down...hopefully his successor will be less stubborn and actually listen to the military men who know what they are talking about. The US has to learn to better balance politics with armed force when the two become inseparable in such a situation as Iraq. I hope Iraq can one day be, not Westernized, but thats its people can enjoy the freedom, peace, security, and prosperity that has been a hallmark of Western life.

-frig I love history...and sometimes politics