Amos, it's a great letter and I hope it is disseminated as widely as ever can be. I am concerned that many, many people in Iraq are lacking essentials like potable water and enough food and any barest excuse for medical care -- and it is easier for them to blame their poverty and want on the sanctions and the US gov't than on their own leader, who (A) doesn't care if they live or die, and (B) could cheerfully kill them off for speaking out against him, and (C) is the subject of an endless and ubiquitous series of messages, posters, etc., telling them how wonderful he is. They are in a very tough place, it seems to me, and I can't imagine what options they have. Ideas are indeed very powerful things and I will try to imagine the ideas in your letter winning out over Saddam's maniacal ideas. In the very long run, I have complete faith in the force of positive and loving ideas, but in the short run, bullets have a helluva lot of force, too -- and these people are suffering at the very bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.