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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Subject: Dear Iraqi Friends
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Sometimes, wisdom emerges from dialogue even when neither
participant saw it before. Witness Thomas Friedman and George W.
Bush--never mind that George is just a sock puppet here--acknowledging
that we were wrong in invading Iraq. As Mr. Friedman now has his dummy
say: " [Iraqis]are now going to have to step up and finish this job".
Of course Iraqis are going to have to finish the job. It was never our
job to chase fictitious WMDs, to distract the world from Bin Laden
still at large or to remake the Iraqi government. President George
H.W. Bush knew this. Colin Powell knew this. President Bush closed his
ears to his wisest advisers and blundered forward. Now we are
distracted by problems of our own. We have made a dreadful mess of
Iraq, but we can't afford to stay and fix it. Sorry; it's your
problem.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549
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