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February 28, 2009 at 13:56:14     Permalink A Letter a Day until the War Ends Diary Entry by Josh Mitteldorf (about the author)

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The war is not over. Every day, in our name, innocent Iraqis are being killed by frightened American soldiers who are in over their heads. Countless others are being inflamed against America. President Obama is committed to ending the war slowly. We can support him to end it quickly. I have committed to writing a letter each day until the war ends.

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Dear President Obama,
    
    I want you to give up the illusion that American soldiers are serving a stabilizing role, or helping to keep peace among warring factions in Iraq.  Our troops are way over their heads in a culture they do not understand.  They are frightened and shooting when startled.  There is no notion of who is the good guy and who is the bad guy.  Every day that they are there, they kill Iraqi civilians, and every person that they kill incites the anti-American rage of a hundred others.

    We, the people who elected you, want you to withdraw from Iraq without delay.

                            Yours,


                            Josh Mitteldorf

 

Josh Mitteldorf, a senior editor at OpEdNews, was educated to be an astrophysicist, and has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an (more...)
 

 

 
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