Mr President,
I saw another headline that we have turned the corner in Iraq again.

I believe we heard the same headline after you landed on the carrier several years ago May 2, 2003 with a great big "Mission Accomplished Banner waving behind you.

I heard it when the insurgents were first called insurgents and you told us we would remain, and the dead-enders were on the run, after Saddam was captured claiming the insurgency would soon dissolve,

I heard it when the Iraqi government was established; I heard we turned the corner again after the elections and purple thumbed Iraqi's crowded in front of TV news cameras.

I think we have turned so many corners in fact that we have come full circle.

We still have 130,000 troops on the ground. Reporters find it so unsafe thy can't venture out without getting killed or kidnapped. Electricity and oil production is less than what it was after we invaded the country. Thousands of Iraqis died last year. 100,000 iragi's have left their homes because of sectarian fighting. It's hard to see progress in Iraq, when plane-loads of dead and injured soldiers keep flying into Dover Air Base,

"DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - The U.S. military is struggling to recruit Arab-Americans for its war on terrorism some five years after September 11, with many in the community wary of U.S. foreign policy and fighting wars in the Middle East."

You were having trouble translating Arabic materials before your war; it has gotten worse.

Your knee-jerk deportation of thousands of arabs for minor immigration violations helped chase away another million or so Arab-Americans since 2001.

Your unfailing support for Israel, and repressive policy to Palestine doesn't get you any favors from the Arab community to begin with.

They are also turned off by the way you have conducted the war, and the way you treat their fellow mulims.

Suspected muslims, caught up in many sweeps in Iraq, have been held under deplorable conditions. They know many innocent civilians are routinely tortured along with real terrorists.

Many Arabs that you unceremoniously kicked out of the country left relatives here, and unless thay hated their relatives they won't help you very much.

Arabs are routinely singled out by federal and local authorities. After a while they just assume they are on some government watch list since they are consistently treated with so much suspicion.

Families that just came from mid east are unlikely to go back to those hell holes. It would take a lot to get them to go back.

Tough luck all around; your actions speak a lot louder than any recruiter's poster junior.

From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: May 3, 2006 2:42:44 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com

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