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A Letter to John Howard?

"Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night? Do you? Do you ever wake up sleepless in the middle of the night? What have you done in Iraq? Do you ever realize, in the middle of the night, what you've done? Do you? "

Yes, these are imaginary questions directed to John Howard.

BUT they are questions posed in an open letter to President George Bush by a former diplomat in the State Department who resigned from the Department over the planned War on Iraq.

Read the full text of the letter, as published on AlterNet, here. Any takers out there willing to write an open letter to John Howard - and Tony Blair - in similar terms?

Meanwhile, PM Howard like his counterpart George Bush [and probably Tony Blair too] continues to live in la-la land [as reported here by the ABC] when he says that the Coalition's intervention in Iraq hasn't been a disaster.

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