To the Democrats USA By Ibrahim Ebeid

To the Democrats USA

By Ibrahim Ebeid

Al-Jazeerah, November 12, 2006

Will the Democrats put America on the right track and take a new direction as they have promised before the election? Will they have the courage to end the war of aggression against Iraq and bring the troops home alive?

The American people gave them the mandate and they expect them to deliver, otherwise they will lose the confidence of the American people and the trust of the world. Ending the war must take a priority for the sake of America and for the sake of peace in the United States and abroad. If the Democrats are really concerned about ending terror and want America to live in harmony with the rest of the world then they have to start from within. We have to clean our house first before we accuse other nations as "terrorists" or “axis of evil” members. We have to admit that we and our allies are the “axis of evil,” not Iraq or other states that do not agree with us or refuse to be under our domination. We are the ones who attacked Iraq and destroyed it and the Democrats gave their full support to the war. The war against Iraq was not the war of the Republicans or Bush only, but the War of Democrats as well.

If the Democrats are really sincere in their call for a new direction, we hope that the direction will be in admitting that they were wrong in supporting this horrible war and mass killing of Iraqis and young American men and women in uniform..

Because the war of aggression was launched against Iraq with false and fabricated intentions, we should recognize the Iraqi Resistance and not those who were installed by the Bush administration.

We should release the legal Iraqi leadership whose members are captives in our jails and concentration camps: All the institutions of Iraq that we destroyed should be reinstated.

The legal military and police forces should be recognized and restored: the sectarian ones that we established should be dissolved.

All the laws, rules, courts, tribunals, and the sectarian constitution, which were created under occupation, are illegal and must be replaced by the original ones.

The sentence which was passed upon President Saddam Hussein and his colleagues is illegal and in violation of the international law. It is against the rules of the Geneva Convention because Saddam Hussein and his colleagues are prisoners of war and detained by the occupying forces.

We should compensate Iraq for all the damages and sufferings we brought upon the country. Doing so, we save billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that will not be needed to continue the violence in Iraq and we can divert other billions saved to improve the lives of the poor and deprived Americans.

The Ba'ath Party and the Resistance have offered us a dignified way to get out of the quagmire of Iraq. It is well-stated in the Program of Liberation and Independence; they have offered us conditions that we should not ignore.

The Democrats must take a new direction and should realize that the Palestinians are still dying, children, young and elderly with US guns and Zionist soldiers. Their homeland was usurped and they were forcibly kicked out, also with US guns and support. When the Palestinians defend themselves our president and officials call them "terrorists." The ones who are killing them with our support and blessing are ignored and their criminal acts called self-defense.

What is going on in Palestine is mass murder and people are buried in mass graves.

The ongoing killing of Palestinians in Gaza Strip, and especially in Beit Hanoon, is undoubtedly an act of genocide of which Democrats and Republicans are silent. The body count in the last few days will never be known to us; we have lost count. An entire family of 18 was wiped out, including children and women. Children, who were waking up, getting ready to go to school, were bombed and blown apart. Body parts were scattered in the streets and among the ruins.

Our administration was calling for "Democracy and free election in Palestine." When the Palestinians elected their representatives and Hamas won, our Democrats and Republicans objected and put the Palestinians under embargo. Children are starving and their bodies are barely clothed. They have no medicine and no nourishment. America has punished the Palestinians for being democratic and this attitude must be changed.

The Democrats are as guilty as the Republicans, but will they take a new direction towards peace, harmony and equality among nations? Will they take a fair stand towards the Palestinians?

The author is a US citizen and a Vietnam era veteran, 25 Infantry Division.

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Earth, a planet hungry for peace

Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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