Falluja's defiance of a new empire

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It is Bush and Blair, not the Iraqi resistance, who fear free elections

George Bush and Tony Blair have apparently concluded that they can crush the Iraqi people's will to resist occupation and legitimise a puppet regime next January by occupying Falluja. Maybe they imagine they can emulate the British forces that terrorised Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1920s by obliterating recalcitrant villages.

The US generals will no doubt deliver Falluja to Bush and Blair after bombarding its neighbourhoods with artillery and rockets. But they are doomed to deliver neither the Fallujans nor the people of Iraq. Perhaps they are unaware that Fallujans defied Saddam's rule during his last years in power. Falluja - known as the city of a thousand mosques - attracted Saddam's wrath in 1998 when its imams refused to hail the tyrant in their Friday sermons. Many were imprisoned, and the city punished as a result.

But the generals certainly do know how resistance began in Falluja. On April 28 2003 US soldiers opened fire on parents and children demonstrating against the continued military occupation of their primary school - killing 18 of them in cold blood and injuring about 60 others. Until the killing of those demonstrators, not a single bullet had been fired at US soldiers in Falluja or any of the cities north of Baghdad. But, remorselessly, little-known Falluja became a world-renowned centre of defiance, where a poor and poorly armed people has courageously faced the military wing of the new empire.


Blair once again misled parliament this week by branding the resistance in Falluja as Zarqawi-style terrorists out to destroy the prospects for democracy. It was he and Bush who last year rejected the calls for early free and fair elections from those who rejected the occupation, including Ayatollah Sistani, Moqtada al-Sadr, the resistance and the widely supported Iraqi National Foundation Congress. Bush and Blair are terrified of the Iraqi people voting for anti-occupation leaders. They will accept nothing short of the legitimisation, through sham elections supervised by the occupation authorities, of an Allawi-style puppet regime.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1347354,00.html

[Nicholas_J]

1. I find it amusing

That an invader, ocupying a country, has the timarity to call the citizens of that country, who are fighting against the occupying power, as insurgents and terrorists.

It seems a litle strange dont you think. that the United States has decided to put this brand onto people who live in that country, who are not paid to fight and die who have absolutely no desire to support the puppet government put into power by the invader, as opponents of self determiniation.

It seems even strnager that the "insurgency" is growing larger day by day, and even thoug they are killing 2500 "iinsurgents" and "terrorists" a month, the numbers of these people do not seem to diminish, but have grown larger month after month.

It finally come down to brass tacks. The United States has invaded and ocupied another country, has decided to impose a government on it, and they must simply destroy the freedom fighters who do not wish to have their nation occupied, or have a foreign ideology imposed on them.

For all of the fundies comlaints that the United NAtions is trying to impose "One World Government" on the rest of the world, it seems that this "One World Government" is being imposed by the United States. but the neo-cons and their HakenKhristians.