I had two short talks with Richard Perle in the DC Mall. The first one was off camera, and the second one on PBS cameras.
I asked him for two things.
1- I asked him, in the name of 87% of the Iraqi people and more than half of the US people, to pull out the troops from Iraq and give Iraq back to Iraqis.
2- I asked him to stop the plans for a new war on Iran. "Don't Iraq Iran" I said. Stop meeting the "Iranian Chalabis" who are pulling the US into a new war in the Middle East.
He gave me his personal contact info and asked me to send him information about the other Iranian groups with "non-violent solutions" that I mentioned.
I'll try to put together some information and send it next week. I can't put his information online for legal reasons, but if anyone is interested in taking a part in this by sending me some suggestions and ideas please email me within the next few days.
On a different note, I helped Global Exchange and Code Pink publish a Message of Peace in 8 Iraqi newspapers in English and Arabic). You can see it online on two of these newspapers here and here.
There is a growing anti-war grassroots movement in both Iraq and the US. This message is a part of the US peace movement's attempts to extend a hand towards its partners in Iraq.
You can check more details about the campaign here.
