To the Iraqi people, I am so sorry

[catgirl]

I am so sorry that our inept President has ruined your country and your personal lives.
I'm sorry your family members and your friends have been killed, or wounded. I'm sorry
you have lost your homes and have no futures. There is no happy ending here and I know
my words are no comfort. I am sorry.

This latest disaster-the bombing that has taken so many lives, may be the final wakeup call
for the ignorant and selfish people in our country. A little too late, I'm afraid, for many. I just
hope things will change for you soon.

[babylonsister]

1. I share your sorrow for the Iraqis. nt

[poverlay]

2. I too feel shame and horror at what has been wrought in our names. May the Iraqis, their children,

and their children's children forgive us for not rising up and tearing the throats from the ignorant, bigoted, republican death machine.

[Annces]

3. I am sorry too

[partylessinOhio]

4. I am so sorry that we could not stop a madman. I hope the Iraqi people

know the majority in America did not support his invasion and war on an innocent people. I believe he is Satan. He was so evil he turned the election, the Constitution, our freedoms and our courts upside down.

My deepest sorrow goes to the Iraqi people.

:cry:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

5. I wish saying, "sorry", was enough. It is not,...not in a country that exhaults,...

,...democracy.

Although you are bearing the awful bloodshed of this country, we live in this country, one completely out of our control.

I never approved or granted permission or enabled the behavior and activities of this government. I am not responsible for what those in power do or have done or will do except to the extent I have and always will OBJECT/DISSENT/OPPOSE their blind allegiance to their own power and wealth.

I do not have bombs and bloodshed and violence surrounding me, as you do. However, I am no more powerful or free than you. I live in another form of violence, a form that may as well be termed "death" because I am prohibited from being exposed to what is happening to you; forced to drink of lies, every damn day, as I work my ass off 'believing' in a dream that never was.

The living bear witness to the suffering. I can't be sorry for what I didn't cause. However, I can bear witness to those who DID CAUSE the unnecessary suffering, and mourn for those who shoulder the loss of,...so much,...so many hopes and expectations and,....

I sympathize and I suffer, too.

[leftchick]

6. I am sorry too

to all of the mothers, fathers, sisters, daughters, brothers and sons the USA is responsible for killing. More than a million times I am so very sorry.



:cry:

[DutchLiberal]

7. I, too, am so sorry.

I'm sorry my prime-minister and his government in 2003 totally and unconditionally supported Bush in his invasion of Iraq. I'm sorry he, to this very day, continues to say that decision was 'necessary' (when we all know it wasn't). I'm sorry we re-elected him and his party again and did not care to discuss the topic of Iraq in our latest elections in 2006. I'm sorry we still haven't had a parliamentary inquiry into the lies our government told us about weapons of mass destruction, while it is publicly known the government fully well knew at that time it was all bogus. I'm sorry we made it possible for George Bush to invade your country. We are complicit, because we made it look like Bush wasn't the only one invading Iraq, we made it look like we stood by him.

[irislake]

8. I wonder if it's safe

for you to say you're sorry. Isn't it dangerous to express such thoughts in America?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

14. If you fear expressing empathy, you may as well be dead. eom

[ClayZ]

9. I am so sorry, too!

K and R

[Desertrose]

10. I am so sorry, too.

I wish there was a way I could end it and make things better for the people of Iraq.

My heart is so sad for everyone there.....just so unnecessary, what we have done.

I wish being sorry could change things....

:cry:
DR

[slipslidingaway]

11. I am also so sorry and glad you started this thread n/t

[Madspirit]

12. k&r..n/t

[Megahurtz]

13. Me Too.

:cry:

[MasonJar]

15. Can we send similar messages to our reps? I will do so asap. Please

join me. We are indeed a heartless and juvenile nation, lapping up things while we use up the world's resources and pollute the very air it breathes. I am ashamed to be an American.

[catgirl]

22. Yes we can. We all should.

I thought our new Congress would step in and help the Iraqis. All the
talk of bringing the troops home and not a word about the Iraqis plight.
Now nothing has happened. What is wrong with these people? I listen to
the debates and hear a lot of joking around. So far, not ONE candidate has
mentioned the Iraqi people and they avoid talking about the troops. One
american soldier recently stated that they (the soldiers) are just numbers now.
It's TRUE.

We need serious changes here. The world needs to become involved in this. Then
you look at Darfur. This is what happens when horrible people are in charge.

[flyarm]

16. me too and yesterday msm said 175 iraqi's killed in IED;s , tonight Keith said British

report 500 Iraqi's were killed as reported in England..our MSM is lying out their asses..and who is suffering ?? the Iraqi people..people..people who are dying daily..people who can't get a damn glass of water..in 117 degree weather....people who can't get more than an hour of power a day..ever try to cook on 1 hour of power a day..impossible..

what in god's name have we done to those poor people...

and that fucker in our white house has the GD nerve to even say the name of god...

what a disgrace..what a pitiful excuse of a human being..

if this bastard is ever tried for war crimes and gets the death penality..i would be more than happy to push the syringe..that is how absolutely angry i am ..to what this fucker is doing to those poor people!

my heart just breaks.

fly

[tnlefty]

17. An exception, I don't think that god nor anything in god's name

is attached to the horror of Iraq. I've become quite the agnostic since Dimson** took office, but from I remember of god and Christ, nothing this cabal has done in relation to Iraq bears even a close resemblance.

No matter how I view it, I just have a hard time realizing the misery that has been violently dealt to the Iraqi's, and it angers me to no end that so many around me just go about their business and don't seem to give a flying fiddler's fuck of the hell that the Iraqi people are trying to deal with.

[flyarm]

23. i can't agree with you more!!...

and i have had a very hard time even looking at an American flag as well...and it has been a very long long time since i have walked into a church..in fact prob 20 years..

and i too think who gives a shit about what we are doing to these people?? no one around me..i live on an island in a beach community and no one is slowing down going to the beach but me..its like there is no war going on..people just go about their business with not a care in the world..but the burden in my heart makes me not even go outside..

i keep trying to stop this madness anyway i can..

just a few minutes ago a local reporter friend just stopped at my house..and she told me a 20 year old from the town next to mine died in Iraq..on Aug 9th...a 20 year old..she was supposed to go to Arlington to report on the funeral.but the family requested no media..

a 20 year old..and he was Muslim..and he went to the local high school..

and all my neighbors are repigs..and none of their kids have gone ..they all have gone to europe as exchange students in college..and they have all sat on the beach all summer...but cheer on the idiot in this white house...

i am out of fight ..telling them daily of what is going on..i have put signs on my house to impeach the fucker in this white house ..and neighbors turned me in and i had to remove the signs...i even had a man try to attack me in my own garage..

how can you fight apathy?????

how many have to die for this madness??

how many Iraqi children have died..and these mother fucking hypocrites tell us all about their hate of abortion..........what filthy rotten pigs they are..



i guess i am so jaded now..i don't know what else we can do...how many times we call we email..we fax ..we call again and again and again..and we are still killing daily.

and as the reporter asked me a little while ago..what for????????

why did this 20 year old die..what for?????????/

i have no answer other than greed....and apathy..

fly

[tnlefty]

26. Go on, go!!! You're expressing what I feel every day!

There was a kid, 19, killed in Iraq (he's not the first young one, BTW) and the picture of his parents in the paper was just gut wrenching.

Then, there was this quote from his parents, "thanks for trying to keep us safe." I suppose some parents could feel that way, but it blew my mind...it was as if the parents had transferred their role as caregivers onto their son. And I'm fully aware that grieving people will say some rather strange things, so I didn't judge the parents, but I did find that comment rather bizarre.

I lost patience with the Armchair Warriors and Keyboard Kommandos a loooooong time ago. I'm thinking that we have another generation of chickenhshit chickenhawks in the Young Republicans. They cheer this on, but they have other priorities. If those young women and men would enlist to fight for what they believe in, as opposed to others fighting, those signing bonuses wouldn't be needed and the armed services would meet their quotas!

Rant on!!!

edit for clarity - I hope

[NancyBreen]

18. Me too and feel very frustrated that we have

allowed a maniac dictator take over our government. Why aren't our allies diplomatically stepping in? Surely, Britain, France and Germany can see what is happening. If our Congress won't step up maybe it's time for some diplomatic intervention involving the U.N.?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

19. Allies? This struggle isn't about sovereign nations, anymore. It's about global dominance.

The EU was created to counter our dominance. APEC was created to counter our dominance. Chavez is trying to create a force against our dominance. Asia is pulled apart trying to maintain sustenance over their equilibrium. Africa,...will be torn apart, indefinitely.

Stop believing there is a sovereign will that will stop this train.

[bdamomma]

21. we are the only ones to stop this.

sorry that so many Americans are in denial, excluding those DU'ers here.

We have blood on our hands also, when we realize this??

[NancyBreen]

24. But how do we stop this? That's what I'm asking.

I realize we have blood on our hands just like we had blood on our hands when we released the power of nuclear weapons during WWII. We had blood on our hands when we fought in Viet Nam. We have marched and protested against this war but nothing is happening. We are not in denial - we are frustrated that NOTHING IS HAPPENING.

[bdamomma]

27. I only wish we had the "balls" to do what Europeans do,

take over the government.

[NancyBreen]

29. I need a history lesson

What European government was taken over by the people in the last 30 years? I'm seriously asking because I don't have a very good knowledge of European history since the 60's.

[bdamomma]

30. most of those Eastern block countries, have just shut down

their governments or oust their leaders out. Ukraine's did it, sleep on the streets until they got their candidate in power, and sometimes people who have nothing to lose revolt against their government leaders. We are too complacent.

[bdamomma]

20. In a way, we are suffering as much as the Iraqi people our

country is being taken away from us also, but we are not having ourselves invaded or bombed like them, we are sacrificing our civil liberties, which at one time used to be a privilege and a right to all of us. We are committing genocide on an innocent people who have done NOT anything to us, preaching to the choir perhaps here, but how many still live their lives in denial.

[NancyBreen]

25. As I said, we are not in denial but WHAT DO WE DO??

We have told our government what we wanted but since the government has been abolished and Murdoch owns all the media, WHAT DO WE DO?
We can't even put any hope in the September 15 march/strike being covered without a WH spin. Besides, something has to be done right now. How many more Iraqis and our kids have to die for this maniac?

[bdamomma]

28. I don't know Nancy unless this stuff starts touching each of us

personally is when something will happen. Wishful thinking perhaps.