From Iraq to Japan

Raed in the Middle has edited and re-posted an interesting open letter to the Japanese people. Go check it out.

Here in the U.S., I'm often frustrated by people who seem to think that "I think this war is a Bad Idea" and "Bush is a chimpanzee" are equally valid arguments, or somehow relevant to each other. It's refreshing to find blogs like Raed's that give me some idea of what some Iraqis actually think about the whole thing -- and it's probably good for me to find out that it's not always so very different from what the Bush-is-a-monkey camp says when they're actually on topic.