Re: uncomradely debate

["Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jose G. Perez" wrote:
>
> >>Yet Henry Liu thinks we ought just to accept Saddam's butchery<<
>
> I think what Henry is upset about is the tendency towards social
> imperialism, I mean some socialists in imperialists countries, to
> "differentiate" themselves from someone who is, at most, a piker compared to
> their own rulers in terms of "butchery." The real butcher of Baghdad is
> Bush, not Saddam.
>
> This constant harping about Saddam and his (alleged) crimes is entirely
> unhealthy, unhelpful and totally besides the point. The battle has been
> joined. The question is, quite simply, which side are you on: you are either
> with the Anglo-American imperialist pirates or with the Arabs, the iraqis,
> with Saddam. There is no third camp.
>
I thoroughly agree with this take on the issue, but I still felt that
Henry's attack on Tom was inappropriate in this forum. In the current
war I stand for the defeat of the impreialists - but nevertheless in
discussion among ourselves I see no point in painting Saddam as some
kind of "socialist" hero. The Iraqi working class has a number of
accounts to settle with Saddam, but it rightly doesn't trust the
impreialists to do anything in the interests of the Iraqi masses.

Einde O'Callaghan