Is this petition meant to be serious or ironic? If the former, it is
tragicomic, with all due respect to rank-and-file Democrats who
sincerely desire to end the US occupation of Iraq. -- Yoshie
<http://www.democrats.com/node/13188>
Ask the Iraqi Government to End Our Occupation of Their Country
Submitted by davidswanson on June 6, 2007 - 5:35pm.
306 of 100000 people have signed this petition.
We've asked Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and seen no
progress. Iraq's Parliament, on the other hand, is taking steps to
legally require that the occupation end. A note from you, as an
American, to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C., might help move
the Iraqi government where Congress dares not go.
As a resident of the United States, I am contacting you in a spirit of
friendship and sorrow. I apologize for the behavior of my government
and its insistence on occupying your nation. I would like to urge your
government to do what the majority of the American people and the
majority of the Iraqi people want done, but what the U.S. government
is unwilling to do: end the occupation. If you will take this step and
send our military men and women home to their families, I will commit
to doing everything I can to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq by
Iraqis once the occupation is over.
--
Yoshie