Subject:  Letter to President Bush

January 31, 2007

Dear Mr. President:

I understand you’re having problems convincing the American people why there will be worse problems if we pull out of Iraq.  That’s because they’re not aware of the reasons why the Iraqi people are so angry with the United States.  Instead of trying to convey a sense of overwhelming goodness concerning our American military, I suggest you have the media tell many detailed stories about how bad and unfair we have treated the Iraqi people.  First we should explain details and make comparisons concerning “slant drilling,” etc.  Then, explain the unfairness of why we feel it’s okay for us to have WMDs and not other countries.  Then start showing photographs of the results of U.S. strikes against Iraqi civilians like al-Saa restaurant, Amiriyah civilian shelter, etc., and explain their entire situations; but this time, with the spin making us look cowardice, selfish and evil.  Have reporters interview the victims’ relatives, etc.  Make it a real tearjerker.  Get to know the lives of the dead before they were killed: their wants, goals and desires.  We should also stress a particular comparison between our invasion, taking over, and the changing of the Iraqi government, with how Nazi Germany invaded, took over, and changed the governments of many countries, and explain why the whole world hated Adolf Hitler for doing so.  Compare how before our invasion, many Americans and weapons inspectors were walking all over Iraq in safety, with no one trying to kill them.  Show them examples and pictures how it’s not that way today.  We should research the reasons Osama bin Laden gave as why he did 9/11, to better show a realistic justification why those people are willing to retaliate on U.S. soil when they have been wronged.  Today, the average American believes he’s “just” crazy, and did it just for the fun of it.  We should inform Americans who believed it was a good strategy when we killed lots of Iraqi civilians in cold blood, thinking it will surely make the rest hide under their beds, too scared to retaliate, how we discovered that Iraq had a few Toby’s and Willies.  A good example might be, from what I recall prior to 2003, the Iraqi people weren’t constantly trying to kill Saddam Hussein or his military or police personnel; unlike today, after Iraqi Freedom, where they are constantly trying to kill Americans; demonstrating that the people of Iraq must have liked Saddam Hussein much more than they do Americans.

All this will surely help the American people realize that if we pull out, there are thousands of more good reasons why Iraq would surely develop WMDs and use them against us, than before our 2003 invasion.  This way, the well uninformed American individual will better (emotionally) understand why we need to fight them over there instead of over here.  Otherwise, the protests, etc. will surely continue.  And, the democrats will probably win. 

I know I would rather know if someone has a good reason why they wanted to hurt me, instead of me being oblivious to it:  I think I’d worry a lot more about the repercussions from a person that had a strong valid cause to want to hurt me, than someone who didn’t.  I assume others would like to know this reality as well; but, I can tell those protesters aren’t very well informed: they don’t know about the escalated desire the Middle East has to nuke our homeland, than before 2003.  For example, if someone didn’t like me because I had red hair, that’d be one thing; but, if they didn’t like me because I just killed their family, that’d be another.  Today’s reports saying that Muslims don’t like us just because we are not Muslin, is like us just having red hair.  And, since saving face is mandatory, because there’s no way we’re going to pay restitution to the Iraqi people via shipments to their country, where we don’t have control of the government (where’s the sport in that?), we need to battle till the last man drops, then keep sending more.  That way, we might learn something; because, learning the hard way is better than not learning at all.  It’s like asking Israel to give all the money they spend on their military, and instead giving it as restitution to the Palestinians, for peace, so to keep a foot in the museum (Jerusalem).  It isn’t going to happen (unless I become their religious leader).  I know this sounds like giving your lunch money to the bully so he won’t beat you up; but, what we don’t (at least Americans don’t) know is that we should not have kicked his books down the hall for all those years before we found out that a younger kid can eventually grow taller and bigger than you (like the Germans almost did).

As you have said, at this point, it’s either their lives or ours.  If we would have only known that they had Toby’s and Willies, we could have treated Saddam Hussein unlike an animal and continued to work together, and via some sort of helpful / kindness measure (from us), we could have eventually utilized his (unhated) military and police to keep the peace, via his “retirement” and exciting travel and site-seeing destinations – did you ever sent those brochures I recommended in 2002? – instead of the insult of “exile.”  But, I understand, there’s no way you can do that to someone who tried to kill your father.  There would have had to have been another President in office at that time who didn’t have a personal grievance against Saddam Hussein, for our dead soldiers to be alive right now.

Additionally, this American-people awareness of all the facts (and logic), would encourage future problems to be dealt with differently; which will, in-turn, diminish far future attacks against Americans here and abroad.

Think as if you are a perfectly programmed-by-God robot that only cares about the betterment of the world (and/or just Americans) instead of your own tin, then you could easily accomplish this monumental task.

Good luck.

Mr. Critical

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