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U.$. Atrocities in Iraq Guarantee:Uncle $cam Will Lose this War Just Like Vietnam
by mousnonya, April 16, 2004 U.S. forces are indiscriminately killing even more Iraqis than usual in the wake of the 80+ U.S. soldiers killed last week. It is not surprising that the U.S. press is ignoring this fact. Since the imperialists are bickering about how best to exploit the Third World the foreign press is not reluctant to report some of the facts. For example, the Agence Presse France notes that "At Fallujah, after more than a week of bloody combat, young marines are not hesitating to kill Iraqis to 'avenge their comrades'" (1) -- killing innocent people for no reason at all other than their brown skin. MIM credits AFP for pointing out the beating death of one Iraqi by U.$. soldiers: U.$. mercenaries truncheoned Salem Hassan to death.(2) Why did the U.$. kill him? Because he refused to remove a picture of a cleric Moqtada Sadr from his car. These people call themselves the forces of freedom. MIM calls them lying parasites. Some bourgeois journalists claim to be concerned by mercenaries in Iraq. However the fact is all imperialist soldiers are mercenary vampires feeding off the blood of the Third World. The AFP does not say whether it was the U.S. regulag army, the nazional guard, marine$ or private armies who killed Hassan. To MIM it does not matter which imperialist hatchetmen bludgeoned Hassan's skull to pulp. The fact is: Imperialism in its death spasms pointlessly kills even more persyns! The imperialists' murder rampages hasten imperialism's doom. Expect more and more resistance in Iraq, more and more repression from the united $tates (do -you- feel united?) and ultimately a defeat in Iraq --- just like Vietnam. For MIM these tactical realities present strategic choices. We are witnessing today a straight out power grab: U.$. imperialists bet that they could seize Iraq's oil. They bet they could buy off the Iraqi ruling class. And they hoped to be able to threaten any other oil-dependent imperialist country like France or Japan by cutting off the Arab oil. The fact that the war in Iraq is about oil should be obvious to anyone who thinks. U.S. imperialism has already lost this gamble: the Iraqi ruling class is not going to be bribed. Not only that, OPEC has reacted: oil has gone over $35 per barrel. Even after devaluing the dollar from 120 Euro cents to 0.8 euros (a devaluation of at least 20%) oil still remains so high that more recession is just about guaranteed--unless the U.S. can squeeze oil out of Iraq or overthrow the government of Venezuela (the last time the U.S. tried that it failed). Since capitalism guarantees recession it also promises us more pointless wars and more needless death. These needless deaths are inherent in imperialism, capitalism's highest stage. Arab states are gambling that they can max out oil profits and justify it as resisting U.S. and I$raeli imperialism. European imperialists are gambling that they can expand eastward into the Caucusus and thus at least avoid energy dependency and possibly also hope to redenominate oil contracts in Euros instead of dollars -- which would drive the value of the dollar down by as much as 40%.
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