I have agreed to become a precinct leader for the New Voters Project. As you may remember I volunteered with the non-partisan New Voters Project back in July to get young people registered to vote. Well that has morphed into a get out the vote mission.

I was asked to be a precinct leader for part of the city of Rio Rancho, which is where I work. My job is to contact 250 registered voters between the ages of 18-24 to make sure they intend to vote, and let them know where they can go to vote. Then we are supposed to follow up with them and see if they have voted. This involves calling people AND going door to door.

Yeah it's a big job to successfully contact 250 people in a week and a half. But I am going to try!

Here is a really good read.

t r u t h o u t - Bush Invasion Plan Ignored Potential for Violent Guerilla War

It is long, but it gives some insight into what happened in our war in Iraq.

"To help bring stability and allow the Americans to exit, President Bush had reviewed a plan the day before[April 15, 2003] seeking four foreign divisions - including Arab and NATO troops - to take on peacekeeping duties.

As the Baghdad meeting drew to a close, the president in a teleconference congratulated the commanders on a job well done. Afterward, they posed for photos and puffed on victory cigars.

Within a few months, though, the Bush administration's optimistic assumptions had been upended. Many of the foreign troops never came. The Iraqi institutions expected to help run the country collapsed. The adversary that was supposed to have been shocked and awed into submission was reorganizing beyond the reach of overstretched American troops. "

Further, the question of how an insurgency was allowed to get to the point that it is today.

"But many military officers and civilian officials who served in Iraq in the spring and summer of 2003 say the administration's miscalculations cost the United States valuable momentum - and enabled an insurgency that was in its early phases to intensify and spread."

Ok, I'll stop, read the article. Really.

Don't forget to get out and vote. Vote early if you can, and vote for John Kerry.