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Durham, NC, that is. I just got off the phone with the editor to verify that I did in fact submit the letter. I'm very proud of it. Here's the letter:
Putting a Face on Iraq
For over two years the Bush administration has attempted to put an evil face on the people of Iraq. The first face chosen was that of the Iraqi President, Sadam Hussein. Sadam, according to the Bush administration, was an evil man who was determined to use “weapons of mass destruction” against the United States.
When it was discovered that the suspected WMD didn’t actually exist, it became necessary for the administration to change tactics. While the face remained that of Hussein, the reason that we must stop him changed. We now had to liberate an oppressed population from the tyrannical control of a corrupt ruler. The evil reign of Sadam Hussein came to an end a year ago when a tired, weak, unshaven old man was pulled from his hiding place.
Still the war continued. The Bush administration was left with a dilemma. Now that Sadam was in custody support for the invasion was quickly turning against the administration.
Miraculously, a new face emerged. According to the Bush administration, Abu Musab Zarqawi, an Egyptian terrorist who had, incidentally, already been reported killed by US troops in Afghanistan, suddenly emerged to lead the Iraqi “insurgents” in battle. Not surprisingly, no one in Iraq has actually seen Zarqawi. The current attack on Fallujah had barely begun last week when the administration was already reporting that they believed Zarqawi had fled Fallujah for points unknown.
After two years of the Bush administration’s attempts to put an evil face on the invasion of Iraq, it is becoming clear that there is no single face. The face of Iraq is that of the men, women, and children who have been devastated by 12 years of economic sanctions and two years of an unjust and brutal war.
To the citizens of Iraq, the war does have an evil face. That face is that of George W. Bush. And the Iraqis see that face every time they look into the face of our soldiers.
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