Come home safe, Kenny...

I found out on Sunday that I have a personal connection with a soldier serving in Iraq. A family friend, who is pictured here standing next to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has a wife and children waiting for his safe return to them. His family is in Germany. I hope whatever the Bush administration is trying to hide is worth this man's life and the emotional and physical well-being of his family (and the 149,999 other troops' lives). Now, I hope Rummy there knows that the guy next to him has a soul mate, a son, and two beautiful daughters.

But he probably doesn't...