[Peace-discuss] Public Square submission

[Morton K.Brussel]

I've submitted the following to WILL's The Public Square: 
Suggestions/comments for changes are welcome.


Open letter to Senator Obama:

Dear Senator:

It is clear that the United States is in a quagmire in Iraq.

There are growing calls for the United States to withdraw from Iraq 
coming from all parts of the political spectrum.  I urge you to add 
your voice to this chorus.

Please do whatever you can to make the United States withdraw its 
forces and bases from Iraq!

There are those who argue that the United States has a moral obligation 
to rebuild Iraq. I agree, but that does not require keeping troops and 
bases in Iraq, thereby maintaining our grip there. The only moral and 
reasonable recourse is for the President to withdraw all U.S. troops as 
quickly as possible.

Some argue that withdrawal from Iraq may lead to disaster: Civil war 
may break out; an extremist Islamic government may take over; outside 
countries may intervene; the country may be partitioned. But all these 
possibilities have been engendered by the depredations of the U.S. 
troops in Iraq and by the U.S. control of Iraqi life. There can be no 
true democracy in Iraq under an American boot. We have to let the Iraqi 
people find their own way.
On the other hand, pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq will leave American 
forces less vulnerable to attacks by the armed resistance, will 
diminish the casualties among Iraqis and the destruction of their 
society, will probably diminish terrorism. and will bolster the 
American standing in the world, especially if the United States truly 
helps Iraq reconstitute itself by giving ample reconstruction aid as 
reparations for our aggression there.

The United States must withdraw its troops from Iraq despite its 
obvious, if denied, original motivations, which were to secure a 
strategic base to control this oil rich region.

Please make this a top priority. You were elected by many who had faith 
in your good judgment to stop the war in Iraq. Act with others to do 
so.
Sincerely,
Morton. K. Brussel
2/7/2005
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