A couple of hundred thousand more reasons to show the world that

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America is not represented by the WH:

"O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.

I am a Muslim I am Iraki.

what america does to irakis especially to our children

Do not come to me talking of your feelings. Do not come to me asking for forgiveness. Who do you think you are?

I will not ever forgive or forget what your country has done to us. I will not ever forget or forgive what your country has done my family, my city, my country, my people.

Never.

My grandchildren’s, grandchildren, will teach their grandchildren to hate America for what she has done to us. Never ever ever will I, or they, forget or forgive what your barbaric country has done to us.

Never."

This was written by the 16 year old nephew of an Iraqi doctor. The doctor treats injured and dying children every day and does not perceive much difference between the WH and democrats who are holding hearings and having debates. The author of the firedoglake article "Ordinary Germans Like Ourselves" (www.firedoglake.com) adds:

"We’re all a part of this. We have not done enough. We have not spoken out when we should have. We have taken the easy way and as a result, we are all complicit to war crimes. For every day that we hem and haw and our elected representatives play tiddly-winks with each other in Congress, more and more and more people die. More children are orphaned. More mothers watch their children suffer and die for lack of food, medicine, and clean water."

There are a LOT of suffering and angry people in Iraq who need to know that Americans are different than the criminals in the WH. We need to show them exactly who they should be angry at, to show them we don't tolerate immoral, illegal unjust wars against civilians. We need to clearly separate ourselves from the officials in government who foisted this disaster on the world.... first firing them from their jobs then punishing them for their lies, illegal activities, corruption, and war mongering.

Then maybe the 16 year old and the doctor and a few hundred thousand other victims will understand. This is of no small importance for them and for us. In fact, I'm not sure there's anything more important at the moment.