4) And finally, there is one way in which the U.S. peace movement
must simply not allow this war to be over. It's spelled
r-e-p-a-r-a-t-i-o-n-s. We have to pay a full measure of
reparations to repair what we have destroyed of Iraq's agriculture and
infrastructure and leave a sizable trust fund to at least partially deal with
the deformities and childhood cancers caused by our depleted uranium
munitions.
In so many places, like Nicaragua two decades ago for example, we terrorized whole populations, laid waste to their society, destroyed their currency ... and then just walked away. "That war is over," we joyfully repeat after the President. "Another country has been given freedom and democracy." We brush off the misery and stride forward to the next and the next and the ... We cannot let this happen again to our brothers and sisters in Iraq.
Maybe in Obama's dreams; maybe in the minds of his spin doctors prattling on Sunday morning talk shows; maybe in the minds of pundits comfortably opining from New York and Washington -- the American War in Iraq is over. But not to the millions living it out in reality.
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