New Article by Bob Avakian: A War by the U.S. to "Liberate the Iraqi People"?...GIVE US A BREAK!

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A War by the U.S. to "Liberate the Iraqi People"?...
GIVE US A BREAK!
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP,USA--April 6, 2003

posted at http://rwor.org

Bush and the rest claim to be waging war "to liberate the Iraqi people." But
what they are doing is not new--and it has nothing to do with liberation. It
is a pattern, repeated over and over again, that the rulers of the U.S. seek
to crush any force, anywhere in the world, that gets in the way of their
imperial rule and their imperialist interests. And it has never mattered to
these imperialists whether those they are seeking to bring down are actually
a brutal and tyrannical clique or a popular force supported by the masses of
people.

The Saddam Hussein regime is a brutal reactionary dictatorship--that is
true--but for many years he was backed and aided by the U.S. government
exactly because his brutal dictatorship and its actions served the interests
of these imperialists. Now he no longer serves a useful purpose for
them--now, he is in the way--so the Iraqi people must be subjected to
massive bombing and invasion to "liberate" them from Saddam Hussein--and put
them under the more direct rule of the U.S.

And how about leaders in other countries who came to office through
elections that are at least as "democratic" as U.S. elections? For example,
Allende in Chile in the early 1970s, or Lumumba in the Congo in the early
1960s, or before that Arbenz in Guatemala and Mossadegh in Iran--all of whom
came to office as a result of elections but were then removed from office
through bloody coups and attacks directed by the CIA.

Or what about popular revolutionary leadership which clearly has the support
of the great majority of the people in their country, as with Ho Chi Minh
and the "Vietcong" in Vietnam? Well, the imperialist rulers of the U.S.
certainly couldn't have that, so they unleashed a war of mass destruction
and slaughter, killing several million Vietnamese and devastating large
parts of their country, in the vain attempt to bludgeon them into accepting
the dictates of Washington and Wall St.

These are just a few examples illustrating the long, bloody history of what
the U.S. imperialists have done around the world. In country after country,
they have declared for themselves the right to intervene, or outright
invade, to drench the land in blood and subject the people to slaughter and
torture, all in the effort to ensure that there is a government subordinate
to and serving the interests of the U.S. empire.

This provides some historical perspective with which to judge the pious
proclamations of the present regime ruling in Washington, presiding over and
seeking to further extend U.S. imperialism's position of domination over
peoples and nations throughout the world. It brings some reality to their
claims to be "liberating" the Iraqi people!

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