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Maybe this war has become inevitable. Maybe we were able to live too well and too long with you blindfolded and backed to the wall. Thinking we were about peace we tried to cure a legitimate rage when we should have embraced it. Rage doesn¡¯t have to be bombs and statesmen but it cannot be broken and saddled with bloodless ideals. Camus said if one is not always able not to kill, either directly or indirectly, he must put his conviction and passion to work at diminishing the chances of murder around him. Our liberation was bound to yours. We should have found away to bring a modest sunrise to Iraq before the count of rifles at dawn reached twenty-three years. I am sorry.

(quote from this letter)