Jay Garner, the man in charge of rebuilding Iraq, was quoted in the New York Times on Thursday saying, "We ought to look in the mirror and get proud, and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say, 'Damn, we're Americans.'" Frida Berrigan disagrees when US soldiers shoot unarmed Iraqi demonstrators, killing at least 17, when US police officers fire wooden bullets at unarmed American protesters, when thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed in a war for their liberation.