Letters to the editors - not published

This was submitted in March of this year, at the tenth anniversary of the war of aggression on Iraq.

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the evil and illegal and immoral war of aggression on Iraq.  Back then, I was called a “Saddam lover” because I said that no WMDs would be found and that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq would destroy Iraq for decades to come. I was, sadly, proven correct.

I did protest the upcoming war, along with tens of millions of good people around the planet. We were successful in the sense that we clearly pointed out the falsehoods and illegality, we were unsuccessful in stopping the war. Today, Iraq suffers greatly. Millions are widow and orphans and refugees. They still do not have clean water or regular electricity or real security.

For those Americans who supported that war back in 2003, I want you to know that I feel no respect for you. At best, you are a gullible fool, but more likely, you are an accomplice to mass murder with the blood of hundred of thousand of innocent people on your hands. I believe that the war supporters (back in 2003) deserve to have done to them what they did to Iraqis. 

And here is the second one, which was submitted in early February 2013:

February 15, 2003 was THE DAY THE WORLD MARCHED. On every continent, in about 800 cities and towns, millions of people marched against the upcoming US war on Iraq. It was the largest protest in human history. Here in Asheville, we held a rally at Pritchard Park.  We had the same goals and the same feelings as all good people around the planet. We did not want to see Iraq invaded and bombed based on a pack of lies about WMDs. We did not want to see a war of aggression against people who never harmed or threatened us. We did not want to see innocent people killed or their lives destroyed by US military aggression under the orders of the US government.

We did not stop the massively evil war on Iraq (that actually started in 1991 with bombing and sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands), but we do have the satisfaction of knowing that we were the moral ones and the ones who figured out we were being fed a pack of lies. (That lying continued through out the illegal occupation.) We have the satisfaction of knowing that we stood up, spoke the truth, rallied and marched for peace and justice. We have the very sad satisfaction of being correct about what was going to happen to Iraq.

In my eyes, the people who supported this war of aggression on Iraq are accessories to mass murder. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed, millions of orphans and widows were created, millions became refugees, and tens of millions of people were injured and traumatized or had their lives destroyed. Parts of Iraq were forever poisoned by toxic waste from our bombs. And it was all based on lies that were easily disproved.