A Letter to Congress on Iraq worth 20,020 words. Please pass it on...

[IndyOp]

I don't believe my previous letters are getting through to them. Maybe this will:





PLEASE feel free to use the images above and/or print one of the PDFs below and send it off yourself - I will be handwriting a message in the margin of each one I send...

If your child or grandchild was growing up in Iraq, would you be considering an "exit strategy" or would you be DEMANDING the troops get out now!?!?

Abandon the bases, abandon the weapons, abandon the oil. Bush has failed. His stupidity will cost us dearly for generations. There is no way to "win" anything. Think of the Iraqis and the US soldiers on the ground. OUT NOW!

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[IndyOp]

1. Kick. Please pass it on. I think it might get just a second of attention in DC.

[IndyOp]

6. kick...

[puebloknot]

2. K&R Thanks for your effort! nt

[IndyOp]

3. Thanks. These are the images that haunt me and I keep wondering

whether the people in Congress & in the military & in the CIA and the DIA and all that crap live in the same world I do. I KNOW that some don't. Do any of them live in our world?

:(

[puebloknot]

4. The "right" stuff.

A few years ago, I had a neighbor who was the son of the Chief Resident Agent for the CIA who engineered the coup against Allende in Chile. He was a teenager then, and remembered seeing agents coming into the house with bags of U.S. dollars, used to buy influence where needed.

When he grew up, he thought he might follow in his father's footsteps. In applying for entrance to the CIA, he was given a battery of psychological tests which he *failed*. The tests showed that he didn't have the killer instinct (quite literally) to do the job.

He went into banking instead! (Irony, irony!!!)

Since I haven't mentioned any names here, I think it's safe to report that this young man's mother *and* father were both alcoholics, and ... following in their footsteps, so was he.

Yes, they live in a different world than we do. Something in them dies when they take up the mantle of "Intelligence Operative." That's if it was ever alive in the first place.

This is not to cast aspersions on the people who work for intelligence agencies and just try to do their jobs and live decent lives. (Now there's a challenge!) I was one of those at one time, although I was not an agent -- merely a clerical type. Nevertheless, I knew I didn't want to spend too much of my life in that venue!

[IndyOp]

5. The CIA is simply "Government Mafia" -- mafia members

who live outside the law move smoothly in and out of the CIA and DIA. I hope that some Intelligence Operatives - like Valerie Plame for example - are not part of those soul-less minions who kill hope around the world.

Thanks for your story - interesting.

:hi:

[salin]

7. K & R

though I sadly think that many in Congress (staffers up to Congressfolks) will turn a quick eye and not look - as it is too painful - and in that quick aversion of the eye go back to trying to absolve any sense of guilt for those who voted for such atrocities to occur - rather than a sense of outrage over being decieved into supporting a horrendous war (by false and serious looking intel per national security) - instead taking that 'being decieved...' as an absolution - per the guilt - and then returning to the puzzlement as to how to "change the course". Tragic. Psychological defense mechanisms, imo, lead to a wierd perpetuation of things - and the tragic images shown in this OP - will just multiply :cry:

[IndyOp]

10. I am not sure that showing the photos will just activate defense

mechanisms. I know that there is a fine line to tread. Confronting denial requires putting the truth directly in front of their faces. Too much truth, too intense an experience could activate defense mechanisms, but I find more often that not that people in denial who are not ready to face the awful truth just don't see/feel what you are saying - it just goes right past them.

Hope all is well with you... IndyOp

[truedelphi]

8. The little girl in the dress with the roses haunts my dreams

her back story: parents and her siblings travelling down the road (St Patrick's Day or so last year, year before?)

Ordered to stop at checkpoint. They Don't stop soon enough.

Parents killed. Then she and her surviving toddler brother are surrounded by the American combat troops with their rifles pointed at their heads. Sick, sick, sick.

[eridani]

9. K&R

Thanks to you and all of our artistic contingent. When you get mad, you Photoshop, and the rest of us find good uses for it.

[Founders Know Best]

11. Congress lives in a bubble, and we need to pop it!

Fabulous idea!
K&R