REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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Bogged down in Iraq for about a week now, the U.S. imperialist military has been shown to have feet of clay. The failure to overcome much more lightly armed Iraqi forces has made the supposedly invincible high tech military of the U.S. look pathetically weak and ineffectual, the laughingstock of the entire world. At the same time, Bush and his gang of butchers, frustratd by the lack of success on the ground, continue to lash out ever more viciously at the Iraqi people. Air attacks on Baghdad residential areas have resulted in mass murder of civilians, while the British subject Basra to an utterly inhuman starvation blockade. Ludicrously, the bellicose Rummy also threatens Syria and Iran, when he's far from having defeated Iraq.
The real motives (of plunder and looting the oil wealth of Iraq) are revealed by the award of contracts for "reconstruction" of post-war Iraq, by a highly secretive process bypassing the normal competitive bidding, and in which only U.S. companies owned by Bush cronies were included. For instance, one contract was awarded to a subsidiary of Halliburton, from which Cheney still receives huge sums in "deferred compensation." Cheney is guilty of far worse corruption than Richard Perle, who was recently forced to resign because of his conflicts of interest.
Massive protests at home and abroad spell likely doom for Bush's imperialist adventure. The protests may well force an end to the war before the U.S. military can win it. Political strikes and massive civil disobedience against the war, as well as militant demonstrations, are the key to stopping the war.
Peace!
The real motives (of plunder and looting the oil wealth of Iraq) are revealed by the award of contracts for "reconstruction" of post-war Iraq, by a highly secretive process bypassing the normal competitive bidding, and in which only U.S. companies owned by Bush cronies were included. For instance, one contract was awarded to a subsidiary of Halliburton, from which Cheney still receives huge sums in "deferred compensation." Cheney is guilty of far worse corruption than Richard Perle, who was recently forced to resign because of his conflicts of interest.
Massive protests at home and abroad spell likely doom for Bush's imperialist adventure. The protests may well force an end to the war before the U.S. military can win it. Political strikes and massive civil disobedience against the war, as well as militant demonstrations, are the key to stopping the war.
Peace!
