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Sent by jesusjay rojas | 2:01 AM ET | 09-12-2007

Your brother's reflections on 9/11 were so powerful. Like many of your listeners, I, too, join you in thanking him for sharing his experience with us. I hope this helps with his healing process, although he will never forget it.

Sent by Athelia | 1:56 PM ET | 09-12-2007

I am mystified why I had to sit through this interview with Mishkat Al Moumin. First, I could have gotten the latest Bush press release and ran it through my laptop artificial voice function and gotten the same thing (I honestly wondered at times whether or not it was a digital voice I was hearing. Finally, I determined that she obviously learned english using this method). Then I find she has not been in Iraq since 2005, yet she is commenting on intimate details of the so-called "surge"! Amazing!
What relevance did she have to me as a Black man? On the other hand, I recently heard this woman, Antonia Juhasz, in a White alt. radio interview. She revealed details of the contract the Iraqis are being forced to sign allowing Big Oil to literally OWN 80% of Iraqi oil for the next 30 years--this is the issue that the Iraqis are actually fighting about. There is fierce resistence to this submitting to this U.S. theft. Nothing about this from Michel Martin, who, unfortunately has decided that her "safe place" will also be safe from the hard truths of this war. I advocate a "Blackness surge" on TellMe More.

Sent by Darryl | 4:03 PM ET | 09-12-2007

Darryl -

Um...and what does "blackness" have to do with the point you were interested in about the disposition of Iraqi oil reserves? How does that have any MORE, or LESS, relevance to you as a black man than any other issue pertaining to Iraq?
Do white people not buy gas?

The story you mention is interesting, if true, and worthy of being pursued (I used to work at the Wall Street Journal for heavens' sake; I know how to follow the money) and, as you point out, and I don't know any different, the source of the information you cited was a "white" station.

So...please TELL ME MORE about how exactly that's a racial issue?

Secondly, Professor Al Moumin's relevance is that she is a former Iraqi official, and spent her entire life in the country until she left after two assassination attempts. That was two years ago. She is still in close contact with relatives and former colleagues, as are most expatriates.

Finally, since the demographics of our guests seem to be crucial to you, both of our guests who commented on the first day of Gen. Petraeus' testimony were African American men. Maybe you missed it.

So, is it really a "blackness" surge you're after, or maybe a facts-that-support-my-existing-opinion-of-the-war surge?

Sent by Michel Martin, host | 6:55 PM ET | 09-14-2007