Forget the troops. We need a new approach as a people, coming from the people of the US, bypassing this corrupt and disintegrating administration. We need grassroots power focused on creating the social change that bullets and bombs and white phosphorus cannot ever create.
Iraqis expected the US occupation to result in restored electricity and water, rebuilt infrastructure, and return to a bustling life where work could be found, markets worked, fields cultivated, and their oil production restarted for the benefit of their people, not 13 US oil companies.
While organizing another Boston Tea Party or march on the mall would be fun, let's move on to really mucking things up with offers to help and fix thing in Iraq, like Iraqis sort of were hoping we'd do.
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