An Open Letter to the Japanese People

On the 60th anniversary of the most horrible mass-murder attacks in history, the attacks that caused the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, I'm editing and re-posting this open letter to the Japanese people.

Please know that Iraqis in general have feelings of respect towards Japan. Iraqis look up to the Japanese people who rebuilt their country after WWII, and after the brutal inhuman nuclear attacks against your civilian population which marked one of the worst mass-murders in the history of humanity. Iraqi people believe in the Japanese cultural experience, and try to learn lessons from what you did and what you are doing now.

You must know that I have never met a single Iraqi with feelings of hate or aggression towards the Japanese people, and I hope these feelings will last for ever. I wish your government hadn't taken a part of the illegal war and occupation of Iraq, and that the direct relation between our cultures didn't start by sending your soldiers to Iraq. I really wish that the millions of Iraqis who never met a Japanesee person in their life didn't meet your soldiers as a first personal interaction between the two populations.

I would like to ask you to put more pressure on your government to pull out your Japanese military Forces from Iraq. Let the Bush administration handle and solve the problem they started with the Iraqi people. It is their responsibility, not yours. Don't give the Bush administration a fake international cover to justify their illegal war and occupation of Iraq. The presence of your military groups in Iraq is just political; it's just for supporting the US administration's misguided foreign policy.

Please don't let your sons and daughters in the military stay in Iraq, please don't let more of your civilian sons and daughters be killed in Iraq, and please don't start a terrible history of violence and hate between your people and our people by letting your government take a part of this new mass-murder.

Please don't help the US Foreign Policy in creating a new Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's the last thing your peaceful nation wants to do.

Our people and your people are in the same side of the bunker in this decades-long racist "war for the U.S. Empire".