Letters to the Editor
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We need to act
How much more documentation do we need that President Bush has no intention of playing it straight with the American people or the Congress? How much more do ordinary, informed Americans have to see the beleaguered and miserable Mr. Maliki on TV making whatever promises he is told to make to us, and to Iraqi Shiites and to anyone else who corners him, to realize he is not a powerful leader with a strong constituency who can deliver on anything -- even if he may be well-meaning. He is hopelessly enmeshed in a civil war, just as we are, and it's beyond our his control and ours.
It is time to resurrect the anti-war movement and take to the streets. President Bush MUST listen to the common wisdom of a people who know what it is to live in a Democracy, the American people. There is no evidence that the Iraqi people wanted Democracy or knew what it was in the first place, and there is plenty of evidence now that their idea of it is misery, hardship, no electricity, murder and hopelessness.
Now, they need to find their own leadership to pull them from the morass. It is beyond us.