Letter To President Bush from Women For Iraq

Women For A Free Iraq ^

[zeaal]

Letter to President Bush

February 27, 2003

Dear President Bush:

As women from Iraq who fled our homeland to escape persecution by Saddam Hussein’s regime, we write to offer our support for your principled leadership. We applaud your determination to disarm Saddam and your commitment to help liberate the people of Iraq. We are daughters, mothers, wives, and sisters whose families and communities have suffered for too long. We stand with you because only the United States and its allies can help the people of Iraq break free from Saddam’s 34 years of brutal rule.

Those who have taken to the streets with signs reading, “No War on Iraq” are misled. It is Saddam who has been waging war on the people of Iraq. Every day that this war continues, more of our brothers and sisters will suffer from Saddam’s totalitarian and racist policies.

A quarter million Iraqis have been murdered in summary executions and mass killings - thousands of them gassed with chemical weapons. Millions have been forcibly displaced in ethnic cleansing campaigns, their homes destroyed, their property seized, their relatives deported and never seen again. Public beheadings, arbitrary arrests, torture and rape are routinely used to intimidate the population. This systematic campaign of terror will never stop until Saddam and the Ba'ath party are removed from power

We regret that the use of force to remove Saddam’s evil regime will entail the suffering of innocent people. But we also know that many lives have been lost in the past and many more will be lost in the future if Saddam is not stopped. The cost of inaction and appeasement would be very high for the people of America and Iraq alike. We know from personal experience that Saddam cannot be “contained” and will always be a danger to the world.

The Iraqi people will help to liberate their country, just as they heeded America’s call to rise up against Saddam after the Gulf War in 1991. But without American assistance, that uprising was crushed. Some of us participated in that uprising, risking our lives and losing relatives. When the United States comes to our assistance this time, the Iraqi people will not only be grateful, we will join in. But we cannot overthrow Saddam on our own.

We look forward to the day when, with the help of Americans and others of good will, Iraq can take its place as a Free World nation – a nation that is founded on the rule of law and equal rights for all citizens, where women participate fully in society, their rights respected and protected. As you plan for a post-Saddam Iraq, we ask you to maintain your commitment to establishing the building blocks of democracy, and to ensure that no neighboring powers interfere militarily with our desire to live in a free, pluralistic and democratic Iraq. Anything less would be an opportunity foregone to dramatically change the fate of millions of Iraqis, and sow the seeds for even greater changes across the Middle East.

Again, we wish to extend our heartfelt support to you for your leadership, and our gratitude to all Americans who will be asked to risk both lives and treasure to remove Saddam. Know that the Iraqi people will eagerly contribute everything they have to the task. Our prayers are with you, with the American people, and with the Iraqi people.

Women for a Free Iraq

[BossLady]

I hear ya!!! That's why when these Code Pink ladies go over and say they have 'talked' with Iraqi women who do not want us to go in and help them, I chuckle.....as if Saddam doesn't have his minnions out canvassing the country searching for any dissenters and holding guns to people's heads to talk the party line.....

[zeaal]

Here's the Code Pink gals' website http://www.codepink4peace.org/codepink.html

[doug from upland]

The political left in this country has a serious problem with recognizing evil and doing something about it. They are the ones who left a rapist in the White House. Given their way, they would wait to attack Iraq until a half a million people in NY were killed with chemical weapons and a dirty bomb. They would then, of course, question how much it would cost to go after them. After all, we have to provide universal health care and dump more billions down the rathole that is public education.

[zeaal]

If I were with the Susan G. Komen Foundation I would be totally upset with the pink people for using the color pink. The Komen Foundation has worked for years to have people associate the color pink with breast cancer research. It has now been hijacked by the pink people to demonstrate.

[BossLady]

VERY Interesting to see who the founders are on Code (St)pink site.

Starhawk's site in particular is a definate read!!!

[aeronca]

for later read

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

No, no, they are going to demand to know why we didn't do something sooner to avert this atrocity. It would all be Bush's fault that NY was bombed a second time on his watch.

[Carpet Kitten]

Excellent!! My first question was how many signatories, but by looking at the website, it appears that there are stories on a dozen or so names. I do hope that they get a petition or something going, to give this powerful letter and it's meaning as much effect as possible!!

Unfortunately, a lot of Iraqi expatriots still have relatives in their home country. They are compelled to remain anonymous by a very real threat of reprisals.

[KC_Conspirator]

Has anyone noticed there are no Iraqi's at these leftists protests that proclaim to speak for the Iraqi people?

[Tamzee]

I emailed this letter to Medea, two names running the Starhawk site and the contact listed at the Code Pink site.

The subject line read: To help your work on behalf of women...

[zeaal]

Tamsey,
Let us know if you hear back from them.

[Mo1]

My first question too........where has this been??

Well if the media wants to prove they do report both sides of the story, we should hear about it soon

If not, then they are exactly what they are accused of .. A Left Leaning Party Hack towing the Party Line

[Slyfox]

The political left in this country has a serious problem with recognizing evil and doing something about it.

Right you are. The left can't recognize 'peace' either, given their panchant for destroying store fronts and the like while they are engaging in 'peaceful' demonstrations.

[ohioWfan]

You wanna make a bet that we don't hear a word about it?

[Doc On The Bay]

Yes.

[Mo1]

You wanna make a bet that we don't hear a word about it?

Well Fox News has reported on these women, they were on this past weekend .. as for the other News Media .. We shall see if they are fair and balanced like they report

But I won't hold my breathe

[dsutah]

After watching that silly Medea Benjamin on Hannity&Colms last night; I wish a couple of these ladies could take her in hand and have a 'chat' with her!

She seemed to be a bit too much for even Alan Colmes(sp?) to take. No matter how much talking and scolding S.Hannity tried to do to convince her; she just kept on shaking her head, and spouting the same ol-same-ol propaganda!

That woman thinks she knows more than anyone else, and just won't listen to what others say in opposition. I don't think she wants to know what the 'other' side has to say! It just might challenge her too much. Even if these ladies tried to tell her something; she'd just shake her head, and tell them that it's nonsense, or lies against their fearless leader!

[Tamzee]

"Let us know if you hear back from them"

-Will do, but I certainly won't be holding my breath ;-)

[zeaal]

This is Medea's website http://www.globalexchange.org

[zeaal]

I have come to the conclusion the antiwars have only one motivation when it comes to their position ... it is SELFISHNESS. They only care about themselves and what they want and what they get and what they think and what their conditions are. They do not care that at this very moment somewhere in Iraq people are being tortured, executed, raped and starved. If they really cared about 'the people' they would be marching and demanding Saddam Hussein be immediately removed from office ... through either resignation and exile or through the uprising of the people OR by military action to remove him. The antiwars say they are worried about the people, NO THEY ARE NOT! If they were they would be in the streets until Saddam was removed. This is about THEM (the antiwars, movie stars, singers, actors, celebrities) NOT the people of IRAQ. Selfish, selfish, selfish. Shame on the antiwars. http://www.i-a-j.org/article857.php?selectmenu=10&itemliste=125&nommenu=Press+Releases