WELCOME TO IRAQ

If you are sitting down and possess a healthy imagination, try conjuring up similar conditions here in our land.

• Start with the fact that few people buy bottled water and what comes out of the tap is guaranteed to at least make you sick if not kill you
• Three times as many of our fellow citizens are out of work as during the Great Depression
• On a good day we have three or four hours of electricity to preserve food or cool the 110-degree heat
• No proper hospitals or rehab clinics exist to help the wounded become productive members of society
• Roads are a mess
• Reports of birth defects from exposure to depleted uranium have begun surfacing around the country.

Reflect for a minute on the grief brought by a single loved one’s death. Then open your heart to the reality of life if we suffered casualties comparable to those endured by the people of Iraq.

• In the former cities of Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Seattle, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Baltimore, San Francisco, Dallas and Philadelphia every single person is dead.
• In Vermont, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Oregon, South Carolina and Colorado every single person is wounded.
• The entire populations of Ohio and New Jersey are homeless, surviving with friends, relatives or under bridges as they can.
• The entire populations of Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky have fled to Canada or Mexico.
• Over the past three years, one in four U.S. doctors has left the country.
• Last year alone 3,000 doctors were kidnapped and 800 killed.

In short, nobody “out there” is coming to save us. We are in hell.