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Fallujah, the sequel : preparing for Butchery

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 9 November 2004
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Edito Wars and conflicts International


by Maarten Vanheuverswyn

The war drums are being beaten once again in Fallujah. After the siege in April
this year, the city will again be the scene of an onslaught, probably bigger
than last time. Life has almost come to a standstill as thousands of people are
fleeing their houses. During the last weeks, the US forces stepped up their daily
air raids while at the same time applying heavy psychological warfare tactics.
Threatening to crush the resistance, US imperialism is now actually heading steadily
for an all-out assault on Fallujah. Between 10,000 and 15,000 US soldiers and
marines backed by newly trained Iraqi forces are moving into Fallujah for what
will perhaps be one of the bloodiest episodes since the start of the war.

November 7, the Interim Iraqi government declared a state of emergency across the war-torn country, except for the Kurdish-run north, which actually gives it sweeping powers. Some days before it was reported that the government is setting up a shadow administration to run Fallujah if US Marines and Army soldiers are ordered to assault the insurgent stronghold. That leaves little doubt about the plans US imperialism has for the city. The stage has been set for massive killings - insurgents, US and British soldiers and civilians.

The case for crushing the resistance
US officers maintain that Fallujah is the main base of Arab terrorists purportedly led by the notorious Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, said to be Al Qaeda’s top operative in Iraq. The resistance council administering Fallujah refutes this, however, and says they are only being targeted because they don’t accept the occupation. The puppet interim government has no authority in Fallujah and neighbouring areas. Along with all the talk about the weapons of mass destruction, another pretext for waging an imperialist war always comes in handy. That excuse was found already a year ago in the person of Al Zarqawi. The smokescreen created since then to mislead public opinion has only become more prominent after the exposure of the WMD myth. Although nobody really knows whether Al Zarqawi is in Fallujah or not, he is now cited to be the main motivation for the assault.

In April the US imperialists had to accept a humiliating truce. Despite the massive bombing of Fallujah, they were not able to subjugate the population. In effect, what this constituted was nothing more than a defeat for the American troops. The Iraqi security forces refused to fight in the face of an uprising that began in Fallujah and then spread to the predominantly Shiite areas south of Baghdad. The resistance movement could not be crushed, and this fact in itself served to strengthen the determination of the resistance. The small detail that at least 700 Iraqis were killed and 1,500 others injured during the vicious raid on Fallujah in April, won’t have made the occupiers popular either.

After the Fallujah massacre in April, air strikes on Fallujah homes have continued without mercy. US spokesmen usually claim that the targets were “safe houses” for Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wa Al-Jihad, the terrorist organisation headed by Zarqawi. The trick, you see, is fairly simple. As soon as houses, cafés and mosques get bombed, killing dozens of innocent citizens in the “precision strikes”, at least they were bombarded for a good cause. “This was a successful mission directed against Al Zarqawi”, so the story goes. The fact of the matter is that it is nothing less than ordinary state terrorism. Besides, these attacks have a broader goal than simply removing Al Zarqawi - they are intended to crush the most militant centre of the Iraqi resistance.

Just as in April, US imperialism wants to make an example of Fallujah because it still is the symbol of the resistance. At the time they failed miserably. Whether they will succeed now is not sure at all either.

As Patrick Graham, writing in The Guardian, remarks:

“The Americans have more than enough troops to attack Fallujah, but as soon as they do the area will once more erupt, and it will take everything the Americans have to control the surrounding villages of Habbaniya, Khaldiya and Al Kharma. According to the Iraqi president, Ghazi al-Yawar, there is a good chance that when the marines hit Fallujah again, even Mosul, home to three million Sunnis, will explode. Unlike the US army, Mr Yawar knows what he is talking about and understands the way the tribes are grouped in northern Iraq, an intricate web of families that runs through the Sunni triangle. If Mosul is pushed over the edge, holding the north will be like trying to keep the lid on a pressure cooker by hand.” (The Guardian, October 21, 2004)

However, there is another element in the equation: elections. At the end of January “free” elections are supposed to take place that would lay the groundwork for a “sovereign” and “democratic” Iraq. Since Fallujah is the hotbed of the resistance, US imperialism cannot stand being faced with insurgents disrupting the carefully guided elections. Rebel Fallujah needs to be tamed and reincorporated into the rest of the country. Since it cannot be done by diplomatic means, they will do it by force. They delayed the assault until after the US elections. Now that Bush has been re-elected, the way has been cleared for a bloody retribution.

A small carrot... and a very big stick
Strikingly enough, the build-up to the assault was one of the most promoted events since the beginning of the war. Instead of taking the enemy by surprise, the Americans chose to adopt a rather open policy with regard to Fallujah. This is no coincidence. US imperialism may have stormed Iraq like an elephant in a China shop, using an extraordinary amount of military force and thereby killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, but this does not mean that they rely on military means alone to maintain the occupation. Obviously, politics and diplomacy also play an important role in warfare, and that is why the US was weighing up its tactics. They have not forgotten the painful defeat in April and are aware that simply crushing Fallujah in blood may prove too difficult. Hence, by openly proclaiming imminent attacks and moving troops around the city, they hoped to intimidate and put pressure on the insurgents. In that way, a deal could possibly be reached (though this is highly improbable now), thus avoiding too many US casualties. Now the talking is over and the siege has started. As a consequence, both US and British troops may well suffer severe losses in the coming days and weeks.

However, it is also a matter of trying to win the “hearts and minds” of the local tribal leaders. Allawi has offered local leaders some positions in the government and aid in general if they put down their weapons and show their willingness to collaborate. The tribal leaders play an important role in this war as they have significant influence on the resistance. The idea has always been to have some of the leaders in the pocket in order to curb the resistance movement. If that tactic doesn’t work, which seems to be the case in Fallujah now, the solution is less elegant: put on the boxing gloves and deliver some well-aimed punches. In other words, this is the classical carrot and stick policy: the resistance is offered a carrot, but if they don’t agree they get the stick - a very big stick indeed. With the U.S. presidential election over, there is room for using a more risky approach in order to try to deliver a decisive blow to the resistance movement. By drowning the movement in blood, US (and British) imperialism want to deliver a clear message to the insurgents in the other cities.

New war crimes
After Fallujah Part One, viewers are treated to the next episode in this horrendous drama. Fallujah has been bombed on a daily basis as part of the “softening up” for the long-awaited siege. Hundreds of Iraqi families have fled the city to a refugee camp in the neighbouring Habaniya area. Once again they are the playthings of ruthless forces deciding their fate. Innocent people are driven out of their houses, leaving a city that is already a wasteland. What will remain when they come back?

Robert Fisk, one of the few honest journalists reporting on Iraq, writes:

“The Americans have a professional army in Iraq, but it is becoming frighteningly casual about the way it kills women and children in Fallujah, simply denying that its air strikes are killing the innocent, and insists that all 120 dead in their Samarra operation are all insurgents when this cannot possibly be true. What about the latest wedding party carnage, another American “success” against terrorism? Because journalists can scarcely travel in Iraq any more, there is no longer any independent witness to this awful war. What is going on in Ramadi and Hilla and all the other cities where US forces carry out their brutal raids?”

That is a hundred percent correct. War crimes are committed on a daily basis in the name of freedom and democracy, and it is nonsense to portray the attacks as a product of terrorists alone. The resistance are not only small groups of Islamic fanatics or supporters of Saddam Hussein. What we see in Iraq is a resistance movement with a real mass basis. True, tragically enough the leadership of the movement tends to be in the hands of the Islamists, but that is only because no genuine alternative is available at the moment. The Communist Party and parts of the trade union movement are openly collaborating with the occupier. Thus, it is no wonder ordinary Iraqi people orient themselves towards the clergy, which they see as the only voice speaking against imperialism.

It is easy to see why the resistance is growing. When you see your relatives and friends being killed on a regular basis, you are likely to seek revenge. And as the deadly bombs are dropped from American planes, the anger of the Iraqi people will inevitably be directed against the occupying troops. The fact that some terrorist groupings are able to hijack this enormous amount of rage and frustration and use it for their own reactionary purposes is no excuse for the crushing of Fallujah and other rebel cities. It will only exacerbate the tensions and make the spiral of violence worse.

Nobody will deny that Iraq is in a mess now. Nobody can walk on the streets without the fear of losing one’s life. Every day suicide attacks and bombings disrupt what once was a rich and cultured country. Even The Lancet, a medical journal not particularly known for its radicalism, puts the number of civilian dead since the start of the war at no less than 100,000. That in itself is a shocking condemnation of this filthy war. Even if this number is exaggerated (but then it could also be more, as The Lancet considers its findings conservative), that does not change by one iota the nature of this war. How much “collateral damage” do they want? Twenty thousand people? Fifty thousand people or 200,000? Whatever the number of innocent people dying in Iraq, it is already clear enough how monstrous “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is.

The truth is that the occupying forces have created this mess themselves. Iraqis are not better off than under Saddam’s regime, on the contrary. The whole of the Middle East has become a deadly chessboard on which the major players - US imperialism, Al Qaeda and the resistance movement - battle for decisive victory. People fool themselves if they think American and British troops are in Iraq to “pacify” the country. In reply to the argument that only chaos will prevail after a withdrawal of the troops we say: but there is already chaos. Every day people are being killed. Is the present onslaught on Fallujah not terrible “chaos”? The responsibility for all this mess lies entirely on the shoulders of imperialism. The Iraqi people have the right to decide their own fate and to control the resources of their country. But that is impossible with an occupying force present - an occupying force that is not there to establish genuine “democracy” and “sovereignty”, but only to defend the interest of US imperialism. They should be out.

There is a lot of talk about the “ethnic divisions” in Iraq. In reality there is a lot of unity among the different sections of society, except for the Kurds (for particular reasons). The imperialists use the supposed threat of the collapse of the country into ethnic divisions to justify their presence.

There is another way of guaranteeing unity and civilised existence. That is, the working class must emerge as the leader of the nation. When we say that the organised working class should be at the head of the resistance, we don’t say this for sentimental reasons. Precisely because of its role in the economic process, only the working class armed with a militant class programme can unite the country and cut across any possible ethnic divisions. The threat of the collapse of any civilised existence does exist in Iraq. But the workers of Iraq would know how to stop this if they had power in their hands. Therefore, a big responsibility lies on the shoulders of all genuine trade union and communist activists in Iraq.

Stop the Fallujah massacre!

End the occupation of Iraq!

Bring the troops home now!

Down with imperialism and capitalism - the source of all wars, hunger and misery in the world!

http://www.marxist.com/

Forum posts

  • How true, well said, well analysed. I cannot agree any better.

    A citizen of the world.

  • Good Hunting Marines!
    Semper Fidelis and may God be with you.
    Let’s finish these terrorists off, so our children won’t have to!

    • Must be another sick minded American male. Take your gay troops out of Iraq - United States
      of Sodomites - Abu Gharib/Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp is a proof for evil.

      Marine cowards are killing innocent civilians: children, old men and women. If the Marines
      have to fight against men they die. Finally the Iraqi troops are not so dumb, they let
      Marines die.

    • Kudos, I couldn’t agree more. God is leading us in this battle and we will prevail against the Muslims. The people in Iraq will either switch religions or die. Their God is weak and our God will conquer. Only after the destruction of the demon temples will these people get the message they are either with us or they will be toast.

    • LISTEN YOU BRAINDEAD MORON.READ THE QU’RAN,THEIR GOD IS THE SAME GOD AS YOUR GOD.

    • Like hell it is. Our god doesn’t doesn’t tell their followers to issue fatwas just because they don’t agree, chop off hands or legs because they stole something, or stone women because she was raped.

    • HAVE YOU ACTUALLY READ THE QU’RAN.IT DOES NOT SAY IN ANY PART OF THE QU’RAN THAT A WOMAN SHOULD BE STONED TO DEATH COZ SHE WAS RAPED.STONING IS ACTUALLY MORE AN ANCIENT JEWISH THING.REMEMBER;HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.I BELIEVE THEY WERE JESUS WORDS.MOHAMMED WAS PREACHING TO BACKWARD TRIBES,HE APPROACHED THEIR PUNISHMENT IN A DIPLOMATIC WAT IE;YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU LIKE(WHIPPING ACTUALLY,NOT STONING)BUT IT IS BETTER TO FORGIVE AND LET GOD JUDGE.

      DONT PARROT WHAT YOU HEAR GO AND LEARN.A WORD OF WARNING THOUGH.IT IS HARD TO GET A REAL PERSPECTIVE IF YOU READ THE QU’RAN IN ENGLISH AND MOST SCHOLARS AGREE YOU SHOULD READ AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS.AND THE MAJOR TRANSLATIONS ARE ACTUALLY DONE BY GEORGES FRIENDS THE SAUDIS WHO ARE THE WORST FOR PERSECUTING WOMEN.

    • Get a reality check, run on over to Saudi Arabia and see if they don’t do those things. There are other places that practice islam who do the same thing in the middle east and aftrica. If what you say is true, they apparently for all their acclaimed virtuousness are not following the quran. Why don’t you issue a fatwa against them.

    • THE POINT I WAS MAKING WAS THAT THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES THE US SUPPORT ARE AMOUNG THE WORST ABUSERS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD.IE SAUDI ARABIA,INDONESIA,MALAYSIA ,TURKEY.

      LEARN TO READ PROPERLY BEFORE COMMENTING NEXT TIME.

  • And we will be pilloried...

    For every child that is wounded,
    For every old man that is killed,
    For every woman that is impaled,
    For every hole in the Grand Mosque
    For every civilian caught in cross-fire
    For every blue-on-blue home casualty,
    For every missed mine
    For every overlooked booby trap
    For every lost opportunity
    For every obnoxious American bravado
    For every piece of misinformation
    For every plan gone awry

    We will be blamed...

    For every insurgent that gets away
    For every massive retaliation on hapless teddy-bears
    For every overkill of 3 dudes with a 19th century firearm
    For every insanity of battle our boys commit.

    But we will never be acknowledged

    For every neighborhood secured
    For every civilian frogmarched to safety
    For every insurgent simply captured, not killed
    For every religious icon spared
    For every civil structure modestly damaged,
    For every wounded Fallujan spirited to hospital
    For every gun collected, every mortar secured
    For every howitzer destroyed, every bomb defused
    For every peace secured,
    For every hostage freed, human shield spared,
    For every stick of gum given to the kids
    For every iota of goodwill bestowed on the true Fallujans.

    About iraq and iraqis, we refueled their industry, we restocked their hospitals, we printed millions of schoolbooks, we paid and installed no less than 10 TV stations, 100 radio stations — which we abjure even censoring the content. We have fed the poor, we have clothed the destitute, we have paved the roads, repaired the war damages, restored the civic infrastructure; we have manufactured thousands of road signs, have given them proper maps, have reopened their universities, have rebuilt thousands of houses. They have cars now, and printers, and TV’s; they have mobile phones, computers, video games, refrigerators. They have paper, pens, pencils, coffee beans, non-dairy creamer. Their world is looking up, not down.

    Iraqis are rather grateful to americans and many supported the reelection of bush:
    here is a few iraqis blogs:

    http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

    http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/

    http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/

    • "You can do a lot with bayonets, but one thing you cannot do—sit on them for a long time."
      —German General Kurt von Schleicher on the futility of military governments, 1932

    • We believe that as people living
      in the United States it is our
      responsibility to resist the injustices
      done by our government,
      in our names

      Not in our name
      will you wage endless war
      there can be no more deaths
      no more transfusions
      of blood for oil

      Not in our name
      will you invade countries
      bomb civilians, kill more children
      letting history take its course
      over the graves of the nameless

      Not in our name
      will you erode the very freedoms
      you have claimed to fight for

      Not by our hands
      will we supply weapons and funding
      for the annihilation of families
      on foreign soil

      Not by our mouths
      will we let fear silence us

      Not by our hearts
      will we allow whole peoples
      or countries to be deemed evil

      Not by our will
      and Not in our name

      We pledge resistance

      We pledge alliance with those
      who have come under attack
      for voicing opposition to the war
      or for their religion or ethnicity

      We pledge to make common cause
      with the people of the world
      to bring about justice,
      freedom and peace

      Another world is possible
      and we pledge to make it real

      by
      NOT IN OUR NAME MOVEMENT

    • Iraqis had schools and hospitals,one in every mosque.What they didnt have was girls in thongs on saturday morning,X-rated movies,western propoganda or poverty.

      Funny how the first places we secured were the oil fields.Funny how people have forgotten the meaning of the word insurgence.It means defenders of their country against foreign invasion.We all have to put up with the US crap in Australia.Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,Sex in the City etc.And as we have less stringent censorship here,we cop it all in the face at all hours of the day.We should call ourselves Ausmericans.

      We feel the effects of you empire building.Coalition of the willing,willing to sign the free trade agreement,willing to abolish public health for the US,willing to let the US rubbish our beef industry willing to let the US steal the names of our products,willing to let the US test bombs here,willing to let our children be corrupted by the US filth.

      People with TV are not free they are brainwashed.I guess if someone from a western country claimed GWB was a terrorist and systematically set about deposing him and cleaning up the US,none of you would fight back.

      As for Iraqis supporting the US,they are rich shi’ites who pretensiously claim direct lineage to Mohammed,just like the British Royals claim they are of King Davids and therefore jesus,bloodline.

      Please learn before you comment.Read something other than a newspaper.

    • It looks like you only have a vision of iraq under saddam related to Moore’s movie.
      Do you really think that iraq was an heaven under saddam?

      I should link here a few sites that show pics and movies of mass torture, executions, and mass graves here in order to show saddam’s love for its people.
      but i dare not to do such a thing here.
      Even more, many iraqis died of hunger during saddam’rule, mainly of embezzlement of the ONU oil-for-food program, and saddam used his oil in order to mass bride many politicians worldwide in order to support or not oppose him instead of getting food and medecine.We understand better why so many people have opposed this war.
      http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=iraq&ID=IA16404

      about the iraqi blogs, there are a lot more than those ones shown and represent all aspects of iraq, and the majority is rather supportive for the coalition whatever thay are shiite,sunni,kurd, young, old or whatever else.
      Only "rich shiite"? why not saying cia agents too?
      They are also a real gold mine of information about iraq.

      wait as more iraqis get internet access as iraq continue his reconstruction and become one day the richest country of the middle east (yes i know it will be long and difficult, just like it was for germany and japan in 1945).
      one day an iraqi will tell you what they think of the anti-war who only pretend caring for them only when american make a mistake in order to satisfy their hatred of america , but really don’t give a shit about them and say nothing when they were slaughtered by saddam during 35 years and assassinated today by the so called "resistance"

      Is it hard to be disapproved by the iraqis themselves?

      about the medias, yes there is brainwhashing but only at making look the coalition, the soldiers and bush the worst possible.
      you won’t see things like

      http://chiefwiggles.com/

      But the "best" here are the arab medias like al-jazzera.i think you’ll love them.

      that is why i don’t rely on biased newspapers, i ask directly to the people who live the event.

    • I havent even seen Michael Moores movie,frankly I think he’s overdone.I never said it was heaven under Iraq,but it is a lot worse now.I dont know about the US media,but the Australian and US news shows do nothing but sing the praises of theBush administration.And I think you will find the US had quite a lot to do with the oil for food program.

      The US put saddam in power in the first place.Read some books for and against,get some real information.I no a couple of Iraqis,they dont say much about Iraq as they are still getting over the shock of them and their families being locked up and abused at Woomera.

      And what is Iraqs oil being used for now.Nothing,it is being withheld to push the world oil prices up.I notice you didnt even care to mention the amount of filth that has flooded there country since the US entered.

      Point is,the US was supposed to get rid of Saddam and leave,but no they are still there.Why did 100 000 Iraqi civilians have to die to get rid of one man.The Cia could have assasinated him and pinned it on some crazy radical,they’ve done it plenty of times before.

      A sad thing happened today.My nine year old son came home and told me his teacher dedicated the 5 minutes silence for rememberence day to the soldiers who’ve died in Iraq to keep the people of Australia safe.Safe from what?Iraq never was a threat to Australia.This kind of thinking is an insult to the soldiers and our intelligence.My friends brother was sent to Iraq with our airforce.He told us he cried many times at the injustice of the invasion and now he is home he is patiently waiting for his contract to expire so he can leave the armed services.Many,many soldiers will be shattered by this,as they were after Vietnam.

      As for Japan and Germany,many Japanese companies are now having to relinquish part ownership to US and Euro multinationals because of dubious loan arrangements made after WWII and Germany practically owns the US federal reserve bank.You wanna hope they dont turn around and ask for the X amount of trillions the US owes them any time soon.

      As for pictures of mass torture etc.You think coalition troops are all innocent,you really are brainwashed.The only reason US troops are not charged with war crimes ever is coz their not allowed to be.Go find some pictures of El Salvadorian girls who were raped and then had acid thrown in there faces by US troops.Or maybe you could have alook at some pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

      And I’m sorry,but all we ever see when terrorists have taken hostages etc.Is afew men with balaclavas and vague subtitles.They could be anyone.

      The end does not justify the means.

    • So far, 1 billion USD have been spent on reconstruction in Iraq. The most went to companies
      like Halliburton.
      The reality as shown by organizations like doctors against war, christian organization, the
      red cross, etc. is different.

      You people are not well informed! Basta? The American press acts irrresponsible.

      Sorry, but you are the bad guys...

    • Gee....Falluja looked like we dropped a nuke on it...hard to imagine school as usual, the pictures of the hospitals blown to bits didn’t look like they had been restocked...the piles of dead citizens rotting in the sun must be so thankful for the wonderful things we did for them, how rude that they didn’t send any thank you cards.....

  • It’s about time the US military cleaned out that rat’s nest. Take no prisoners, take down as many as you can. The sooner that you can show those rats they can’t succeed the better off the Iraquis will be able to start a new government without terrorists trying to kill them off and ruin their new start.

    • The only ’Terrorists’ killing Iraqis are poor USA teenagers who were bribed into the military because they had fuck all else to aspire to. If the USA had been invaded by arabs because they ’had weapons of mass destruction’ and were ruled by a ’despot’ wouldn’t we fight back ? Which incidentally would be justified, as the US abroad since 1945 have killed between 10,500,000 and 17,500,000 people globally.

    • Whomever you are or whatever you are one thing is certain, you’re a total dipshit.

    • Well that’s it, I put my hands up, you’ve won the argument with that well researched point. I concede to your intellect. Well done.

    • Finally, a liberal who can admit to something.

    • Obviously irony is wasted on you. Are you related to Bush ?

    • No but I like to eat bush.

    • Thats coz you’re a cunt

    • You are one of those sick minded uneducated American male.
      Take your army of practicing sodomites out of Iraq and leave them in peace.

    • You know, I wish we had that frame of mind when the nazis were running over the various countries of europe. Then you’d all be living under the nazi regime and you would be perfectly happy since you seem to think it’s all right for the Iraqis to live that way.

    • SADDAM IS GONE.GET OUT OF IRAQ.

    • You are irresponsible. You hate the US so much that you would pefer that Iraquis live in chaos. We will be gone when the Iraquis have managed to put their country back together and are secure.

    • THE US GOVERNMENT IS THE ONE RIPPING IT APART AT THE MOMENT.YOU LOW MINDED DOG,HOW DARE YOU PRESUME THE RESPONSIBILITY.

    • Of course, we take responsibility, you morons certainly don’t. All you do is whine and yell and not do anything. You don’t accomplish anything.

    • F YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AUSTRALIANS,AS THAT IS WHERE I LIVE,OUR FUCKED UP GOVERNMENT IS RIGHT THERE BESIDE YOURS TAKING ’RESPONSIBILITY’

    • Feh! Australians are only in there because the brits are in there.

    • YOU REALLY DONT KNOW MUCH DO YOU.WE ARE IN IT COZ JOHN HOWARD CANT GET HIS HEAD FAR ENOUGH UP BUSH’S ASS.WE ARE NOW LETTING YOUR COPS WORK WITH OUR COPS,WE ARE NOW LETTING YOU FUCKERS TEST BOMBS HERE AND WE ARE ABOUT TO TOTALLY RUIN OUR ECONOMY BY SIGNING THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH YOU.I CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST TIME ANYTHING BRITAIN SAID TOOK PRECEDENCE OVER AMERICAS WISHES.

      80% OF THE BULLSHIT WE SEE ON TV IS FROM THE US,ALL OUR KIDS ARE BRAINWASHED INTO BUYING YOUR BRANDS,ALL OUR MAJOR STORES HAVE US PARENT COMPANIES AND COKE IS THE THING THAT MAKES US ENJOY LIFE.

    • We will never forgive you for unleashing Kylie Minogue to an unsuspecting world.

    • And let’s not forget Air Supply.

    • BELIEVE ME,I WILL NEVER FORGIVE US FOR THAT ONE EITHER.

    • Much rather be living under German nazis than Amerikan ones. anyway you stole all their scientists and you even stole their miltary helmet design, so fuck off cowboy.

    • You may have your wish yet, but it would be under an islamic instead of nazi cover. As for stealing the scientists, it’s not hard to steal scientists that ran away from the nazis and fascists and asked for safe harbor.

  • Sad to say, but Iraqi trade unions, such as they currently are with 25%-50% unemployment, are thoroughly under the overt control of American Intelligence operatives posing as business liaisons for big U.S. corporations like Halliburton. As such, trade unionism in Iraq has enormous obstacles to overcome before anyone can hope to see in it the glimmer of a socialist revolutionary vanguard.

    And, looking for leadership from Iraqi communists, i.e., the Iraqi Communist Party, is a pipe dream at the moment, existing mostly in the collective mind of the CPUSA.

    Iraq’s immediate future political course will depend more on events that occur in the United States than within its own borders.

  • Never again shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river.

    Veritas

    Aequitas

  • "Never again shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river."

    Please, identify the innocent and the wicked.

    • Innocent being anyone on this rotating planet that is God fearing, fellow man/woman/child/animal loving that just wants in any way to be happy and to live out however many minutes, hours, days, weeks, years that they may have to be here and anything else of innocense that fits us personally without any harm to others.(Add what you see fit)

      Wicked being those individuals reguardless of sex, race, age, origin of nation that do harm to any innocent individual whether it’s some perv targeting children or in today’s situation some extremist beheading an individual because a make believe god told them to do so over a stupid word such as infidel.(Once again, add what you see fit)

      I’m not sure who you are or where you live and I don’t care as long as you fit the innocent and not the wicked. Life is simple, we as spirits occupying the human body all require air to breathe, water to drink and food for cellular growth and our end result will be the same.

    • Are the civilians in Fallujah wicked? Are the American soldiers innocent? What about Bush? Is he innocent as well? Are you innocent for supporting Bush’s actions? Am I not innocent for thinking that, thanks to Bush, the world is going in the wrong direction? You see, it’s all a matter of perspective. Life is not black and white as some people would like you to think.

      I’d also like to remind you that beheadings and other terrorist actions are taking place in Iraq right now due to the reckless invasion of the country conducted by the Bush administration. Invasion, I might add, based on false pretenses.

  • This is a message I sent to the Bellaciao collective. I hope they will credit the source of this article as it was taken from the In Defence of Marxism website ( http://www.marxist.com )

    Hello,

    I see that on Bellaciao.org you post articles from Marxist.com. One month ago you posted my article on the Motorcycle Diaries, and now you post my article on Fallujah ( http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4222 )
    I don’t mind you posting my articles, on the contrary, but it is not correct that you don’t credit the source. You should link to http://www.marxist.com , the website these articles were written for. This is especially the case since some websites have taken my article from your website, crediting Bellaciao.org whereas it should be Marxist.com.
    Please do so.

    Yours comradely,

    Maarten Vanheuverswyn
    In Defence of Marxism
    http://www.marxist.com

    • what a bunch of lefto pinky communist fuck ups. "We want the credit." Sounds very un-marxist. I bet you sell t-shirts and bumperstickers too!

  • there was a great documentary by the CBC on Bush called ’ The World According To Bush " after you see this, it clarifies everything, and bottom line, it’s about money, business, and selling your product, in this case merchants of misery products, and if you want to sell this product, you will sleep with the devil, or fanatic christians or whoever, just to sell the product...the Carlye group, is a main focus point.....Bush and gang are just figure heads to sell product, WAR....because Bush and gang are involved with war industries, ....case in point, look at all the wars on earth since 1900, it was started by corporations and bankers in order to sell their war products, ...MONEY AND POWER, nothing more and nothing less, and these evil misery merchants will use whatever means to use any group , religion , culture, organization, and any country, just to sell their product...............war

    • Oh the CBC, now there’s an objective party that will give an even handed treatment of the subject. LOL! The CBC is only second to Michael Moore in its mockumentaries regarding Bush or the US.

    • WELL GUESS WHAT,THEY SHOWED THAT SAME DOCUMENTARY ON MAINSTREAM AUSTRALIAN TV,THE SAME TV THAT HAS PUSHED FOR BUSH AND HOWARD ALL THE WAY.

    • Well congratulations, seems as if mainstream australian TV is more objectively fair than the european and canadian ones.

    • IN SOME INSTANCES.

    • CAN SOME ONE TELL ME WHAT LOL MEANS.

    • It means Lefties Only Lie

    • Yeah you lefties are heethens, we are the chosen ones, God only wants repubicans to live, hey wheres ma banjo uha, youse abu ghraib prisonees sur get preddy mouths....