I tried to post this in the Code Blue section.  It disappeared.  I'm not sure why since I was not contacted about it.  I find that to be a bit disturbing.  It smacks of censorship.
These are desperate times which, as we all know, call for desperate measures.  I don't see or hear of anyone taking such measures.  This is my attempt to do so.
Please follow the link and sign the petition.  Forward the link to everyone you can.  If I can secure sufficient signatures I will hand deliver the petition to the United Nations.

After nearly four years of bombings, from the air and from roadside ditches, after four years of blood, death, murder, torture, rape, beheadings, and a host of other unspeakable acts perpetrated on a daily basis by one faction, or militia or clan, or sect upon a rival clan or sect or militia, the Iraq study group is talking of threatening the Iraqi Government with....Ready?...Sanctions?


This from the Iraqi Study Group's "Executive Summary:"

"If the Iraqi government does not make substantial progress toward the achievement of milestones on national reconciliation, security, and governance, the United States should reduce its political, military, or economic support for the Iraqi government," the report's executive summary says.

This, in a country where the electric power is on for maybe six hours a day, clean water is sometimes available, three thousand people a month are being slaughtered, major portions of the physical and social infrastructure have been destroyed ,  remain unrepaired and the National Regatta is a Sunny Saturday spent watching bloated corpses drifting lazily down the Tigris.