Letters to the Editor
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The essential first steps to 'save Iraq'...
Omar Fekeiki's plan for Iraq omits a couple of crucial issues:
1) Adequate acceptance by the US (and the world) that the US (and the UN) had behaved criminally in Iraq right from 1990, by imposing sanctions on the Iraqi people for the crime that Saddam committed by invading Kuwait (and it should be noted that he did that invasion with direct US encouragement!) As Fekeiki observes: "Life in Iraq began to collapse in 1990, after the United States and the United Nations imposed crippling sanctions to punish Saddam for invading Kuwait. Fekeiki said the sanctions had catastrophic consequences. 'Everything that Iraq is going through right now is because of what happened during the sanctions...'
2) Adequate acceptance by the US that GW Bush and Gang have committed war crimes in Iraq - and by the world that we have not done enough to protest/prevent those war crimes. By acquiescing to the plans of that criminal gang, the US has also become a war criminal. By dealing with the war criminals who rule the US today, the rest of the world is also guilty of those war crimes. Until US and world citizens decide to impeach, throw out of power and adequately punish these war criminals who actually did the crimes, all US citizens, and all of us around the world, are guilty!
For instance, the article notes that "Fekeiki also pointed out that life under Saddam was not an unrelenting nightmare. 'Other than being afraid of saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, I had a pretty normal childhood.' "
Well then, just consider life now in Iraq under the merciful attentions of GW Bush and Gang:
IT'S AN UNRELENTING NIGHTMARE FOR EVERYONE THERE!
-- GSC