PLEASE help all of our dear friends in the UK understand that the Americans are not interested in Iraq's oil.
We lost 3,000 members of our family to terrorism. Any forthcoming war is about security and our deepest fears. Please understand we never want another 9/11 again. That is what is driving this country.
Never ever do we want to see hundreds of people hanging out of windows pleading for their lives before dozens of floors collapsed below them. Do people in Europe know that there were hundreds of our family members who were never found?
Any war is about prevention from that ever happening again. Iraq is indeed encouraging and harbouring terrorists, and do not believe for one second that anyone in Europe, if they do not participate in this war, will be safe from terrorism. Extremists will target any and every one of us, merely from the fact we are free!
Oil is not driving this nation (and most Americans are baffled at that assumption), it's not ever wanting to see a 55-year-old grandmother plunge to her death, or blown-up by some horrible terrorist.
A lover, visitor, and an American friend.
Laura Gibbon
Dumfries
Virginia
USA
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