[A-List] US-UK Imperialism: Christian Call to Arms

["Anyutka" <annewilliamson@xxxxxxx>]

The following was transmitted to the Press Association @ 3.15 am UK time
today 24th July

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UK pentecostalist William Spring has called for Christians of all
denominations world wide to seriously consider the question as to whether or
not they are called to  volunteer to fight with the Fedayeen in Iraq against
Coalition forces.

William Spring who is Director of CANA UK (Christians Against Nato
Aggression) an ecumenical group established in London in March 1999 to
oppose the NATO attack on Yugoslavia comments:

"Christians and Muslims need to get together to consider whether their
confessional differences have not been exploited by successive US
administrations in the cause of furthering and expanding the interests of
the American Empire.

For example in the Yugoslav civil wars US policy definitely tilted towards
the Muslims, (as in Bosnia and latterly in Kosovo).

But what was the reason for that orientation?

It was to give the Muslims a bone, when they could not take the whole
carcass (the State of Israel) because of US support for Israel.

By appeasing the Muslims in the Yugoslav wars, (which involved the US
teaming up with Osama bin Laden) the US hoped that the Muslim world would
overlook continued US support for the occupation of Arab lands by Israel.

A deeper reason driving US policy in separating Bosnia and Kosovo from the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was to acquire bases.

Hence Tusla air base, (formerly used by the Yugoslavian air force, but never
used by them for any hostile purpose against any neighbouring state) has now
been taken over by the US and British, in order for the US and British to
conduct bombing raids on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Muslims should be aware that any supposed pro Muslim bias in US policy
either then or at any other time was purely to disguise  US objectives,
always predicated in terms of US national interest, ( which national
interest is now identified with the national interest of the State of
Israel).

Now in Iraq, and previously in Afghanistan,  it would appear that the US is
following an anti Muslim agenda.

But this is not the case.

It is really immaterial to the US who controls Iraq, whether they be
Muslims, Christians, Jews or Mennonites, they would still have to be
replaced, if they did not do what America told them.

The America of 2003 is an imperialist colonialist aggressive corporatist
avaricious anti democratic immoral consumerist sex obsessed anti life polity
satiated by drugs and in thrall to a cult of violence.

The decisions of the executive of that state are not determined by any
ethical or legal considerations,  only by realpolitick, considerations of
power, and what can they can get away with.

The Americans are the new Fascists of the  21st century.

Unfortunately they have the support of the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who
follows a similar fascist agenda.

Experience has shown Fascists are not to be argued out of their position.

The protagonists of US power, such as Richard Pearle, are in any case unable
to offer a coherent argument on any point.

The only thing that will convince the Americans that they are ill suited in
their new role as surrogates for the State of Israel  is a multiplicity of
body bags, which is what the Iraqi resistance now seems to be providing.

 But I am concerned lest that resistance consists exclusively of Islamist
forces.

If that happens, at the end of the day, when the Americans are defeated, and
the Iraqi people have come together in celebration and for a national
discussion on the way forward, if the Christians of Iraq have not played
their full part in the resistance against the Coalition, then their minority
rights previously guaranteed by Saddam Hussein in his secular Republic may
be threatened.

Only if Iraqi Christians actively support the resistance, against the
Americans and the British,  will they have any right to a say in the future
format of  a new Iraqi state and constitution.

As in the Palestine conflict, where Christian Arabs and Muslims came
together to oppose occupation, so in Iraq  Christian communities should give
now full support to this new intifada, as only by that procedure will they
have an entitlement for Muslim respect when  the invader is expelled.

There is a further corollary to this:

in my view all men and women of good will, whatever their religion, or of no
religion, if they are able bodied and have no physical impediment, or
pressing reasons not to participate, and should their efforts be requested
by genuine representatives of the Iraqi people, they should now be making
their way to Iraq to join in an international brigade to expel the
aggressors.

>From my point of view I find it unfortunate some of the troops in Iraq are
British.

The British Government and Parliament committed a treasonable act in sending
our young men and women into a combat zone, to die in a foreign field, not
for England, but for the Heritage Foundation.

But those UK troops now in theatre need not remain there one minute longer.

A contract  between the British armed forces and the Government has been
broken.

When these young men and  women enlisted they understood they were joining a
professional army, not Blair's feudal levy.

They understood they would fight for Queen and country in cases involving
national defence, not becoming participants in aggressive wars and thus war
criminals.

Under the Nuremberg rulings members of the armed forces of a state  faced
with the necessity of obeying illegal orders are released from all such
obligations.

British troops now in theatre should request transfer and refuse any longer
to obey orders aimed at the military occupation, subjugation and enslavement
of the Iraqi people.

Volunteers should make their services available to the Iraqi resistance and
there should be organised committees of Iraqis in Western capitals to assess
the value of services offered by such individuals and to provide logistical
support for any Western volunteers selected to travel to Iraq.

What is at stake in Iraq is a fundamental issue involving the moral and
legal structure of this planet.

I do not want to live in a world where any state can simply invade another,
upon any pretext.

Those who promoted the Iraqi invasion are war criminals.

Until the restoration of an international legal structure a fundamental
right exists to the states of the UN to defend themselves against
aggression, which right is now being exercised by the people of Iraq.

That right also extends to a request  for  support from other states and
individuals.

The American public education system is a shambles.

Their political establishment is corrupt, (as is the case in the UK.)

The deaths of US service personnel in Iraq are wholly regrettable in that
they were wholly avoidable.

They should never have been sent there in  the first place.

The supposed killings of the sons and the grandson of Saddam Hussein
constitute a war crime by the United States.

Those who rejoice in this atrocity should remember political assassination
is an indiscriminate instrument.

The Pentecostals in the United Kingdom differ from the Pentecostals in the
USA in that we believe, or did believe, and hold to,  pacifist tenets.  (My
own brother was a conscientious objector at the time of the Suez invasion of
1956).

The right not to bear arms was written into the Constitution of our
fellowship. (My late wife's father, now also deceased, was Chairman of the
UK Assemblies of God Bible College,  at a time when Donald Gee was its
Principal. In fact my religious background is not dissimilar to that of US
Attorney-General Ashcroft.)

As time went on I found myself unable to accept the strict tenets of
pacifism and believe now force is justified in a case of national defence.

Because of these beliefs, and because I believe their struggle is
legitimate, I now send my good wishes to the Iraqi resistance and encourage
them to fight on against the US and UK occupiers, until Victory.

I also send to the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, my condolences should
these  reports of the death of one or both of his sons, and his grandson, be
verified. "

VICTORY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE

End of statement

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