Support diplomacy with Iran, not war

A desperate plea for direct, candid bilateral talks between the U.S. and Iran by professors Stephen Kinzer and Scott Hibbard, Scott Ritter, Larry Everest and other prominent experts on U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East clearly indicates the abysmal failure of the Bush program. Masses speaking truth and demanding an end to endless war is exactly what we need right now. With our army illicitly occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, our navy poised with two entire carrier groups in the Persian Gulf, bolstered by significant U.S. military deployments directly to the east, west and south of Iran, Bush has deliberately created a dangerously volatile situation. Once again, the Bush regime seems bent on igniting war with or without provocation.

If Americans do not want to be sucked into the vortex of a much larger Middle Eastern crisis, if we do not want to instigate another conflict which would further erode the world economy and inflict even greater damage to the planet, and if we do not want to kill and maim thousands more of innocent civilians in Iran as we have so callously done in Iraq and Afghanistan, then we need to take action and speak out for peace now. We need to demand dialogue and negotiation with the Iranian government. And we need to act now.

Every American community large and small should ad their voice and their votes to prudent diplomacy with Iran and throughout the Middle East at this critical juncture in history. For the facts, the truth neither Bush nor the mainstream media will disseminate, or additional information, people should visit www.worldcantwait.org.

It's been eight years too long waiting for the American people to override the subversives within our government. It's time Americans reaffirm their principles and rediscover their backbones.

Barbara Zaha

St. Charles