Leave Our Country Now (great read)

[welshTerrier2]

source: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0218-26.htm

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We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and killed in our homes.

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Workers in Iraq's southern oilfields began organizing soon after British occupying forces invaded Basra. We founded our union, the Southern Oil Company Union, just 11 days after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003. When the occupation troops stood back and allowed Basra's hospitals, universities and public services to be burned and looted, while they defended only the oil ministry and oilfields, we knew we were dealing with a brutal force prepared to impose its will without regard for human suffering. From the beginning, we were left in no doubt that the US and its allies had come to take control of our oil resources.

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We see it as our duty to defend the country's resources. We reject and will oppose all moves to privatize our oil industry and national resources. We regard this privatization as a form of neo-colonialism, an attempt to impose a permanent economic occupation to follow the military occupation.

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Bush and Blair should remember that those who voted in last month's elections in Iraq are as hostile to the occupation as those who boycotted them. Those who claim to represent the Iraqi working class while calling for the occupation to stay a bit longer, due to "fears of civil war", are in fact speaking only for themselves and the minority of Iraqis whose interests are dependent on the occupation.

We as a union call for the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces and their military bases. We don't want a timetable - this is a stalling tactic. We will solve our own problems. We are Iraqis, we know our country and we can take care of ourselves. We have the means, the skills and resources to rebuild and create our own democratic society.


NO MORE MONEY FOR WAR ... the Iraqis want us out now ... all progressives should honor their request and block additional funding for this insanity ... more money will only mean more occupation ... bush has colonial designs on the Iraqi oil fields and on maintaining a permanent military presence in the Middle East ... it is imperative that we cut off his funding ...

[chlamor]

1. How about operation US evacuation

I believe those four words which are the articles title sum it up. I'm somewhat stupefied by those who are against the war suggesting that the US must stay to prevent civil war from breaking out or must stay to rebuild. I understand the sentiment but not only are the Iraqis quite capable, a culture of ancient engineers, but in no way is it possible for the US troops to have any credibility even if the mission changed course, which it shall not. Even the Pentagons own polls had the Iraqi people wanting the US out by something like 92%. OH, and it is their country, their oil, their water, their agriculture.

Thanks for the excellent article, I will pass it around.

[Jokinomx]

2. A great article ....

Thanks for posting the link... I found what Hassan Juma'a Awad had to say important. We have no right to stay in Iraq ... for that matter we had no right to enter Iraq in the first place.