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Diane Wilson Meets Iraqi Parliament, August 6, 2006

A Letter from Diane

August 6, 2006
Diane Wilson, author of An Unreasonable Woman, fasted for 30 days in front of the White House before being invited with other members of CodePink to meet with members of Iraq's Parliament to discuss the Parliament's plan for peace. This letter describing the meetings came from Diane.

Well here I am in Jordon, fixing to leave this morning early for Syria. Then we're seeing how far we can get into Lebanon.

We went to a farmhouse last night of some Iraqi people who fled Iraq and now live on the border of Jordan and Israel. They live on a hill and we could see Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. Pretty amazing.

The meetings have gone terrific. We weren’t sure if we could get the meetings or who would actually show, but apparently everybody showed that was suppose to, and more. We met representatives of about 7/8 of the Parliament of Iraq. Then ex-prisoners of Abu Ghraib prison. They all want us out of Iraq!!! And they said they are ready for timetable to pull troops out. The Shiite Parliamentary member, they have about 140 seats in the Parliament, want the troops out 'tomorrow' he said. But they need something to fill the void. International forces and they'd like to get their own army. It would cost nothing to get a million soldiers compared what is spent in Iraq now.

The only group we didn’t talk with was the Kurds. We heard firecrackers one time during the meeting and I thought the death squads had found us. One of the Iraqis said, "its firecrackers" when everybody's eyes got big and round.

We leave on a bus for Syria this morning. Apparently the bridges are blown getting into Lebanon but we're going another route. Medea wants to go as far as she can go and wants me to go with her. Nobody else wants to so we might do that.

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