"Mr. President: have you ever woken in the middle of the night, realizing

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... what you've done to Iraq?"

A Wake-Up Call for President Bush
By John Brown, Tomdispatch.com. Posted April 25, 2006.


In this open letter, a former American diplomat asks, "Mr. President: have you ever woken in the middle of the night, realizing what you've done to Iraq?"

TO: The President

FROM: A former American diplomat

SUBJECT: Waking up in the middle of the night

Mr. President,

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night? Do you? Do you ever wake up sleepless in the middle of the night? What have you done in Iraq? Do you ever realize, in the middle of the night, what you've done? Do you?

1. You've caused over 2,370 American soldiers to die in an impoverished land that never attacked us. Was that the right answer to 9/11 or the "threat" from Iraq? Do you ever ask yourself that question?

2. Because of your Iraq invasion, thousands of U.S. enlisted personnel are maimed, physically and mentally, for life. What can you tell these victims of your war? That you're honored by their duty towards you, our "mission-accomplished" commander-in-chief?

3. Your decision to go to war has led to the death of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. Do you have any remorse for this, Mr. President? Or was it that, for you, Iraqis only really deserved to serve as props in "shock and awe" -- your name for your made-for-TV porno/violence program at the beginning of the war, produced and distributed directly into our living rooms by the mainstream media? (Thank you, Fox News.)

Continued @ http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35386/


John Brown, who writes regularly for Tomdispatch and Tompaine.com, is a former diplomat who resigned from the State Department over the planned war in Iraq. He also compiles the Public Diplomacy Press Review newsletter.

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1. No he hasn't

Surely he doesn't sleep at night.