US invaders is directly responsible for the looting in Iraq

[Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

   Last night I wrote in message "US Agression is the Model for
Looters" which you can find in your mail store or on the Web at 
  > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg28752.html
that the looters "are just following the lesson which the US
agression has told the world: when you are stronger, go in and grab
what you can get. Impose your rule of the strongest fist." 

   I think we have to accuse the US invaders as being directly
responsible for the looting and giving it public support. 

   I reported Chr. Amanpours observation that the US forces did not
interfere with the looters and both are instead exchanging friendly
greetings. 

   This morning I saw footage from yesterday's press conference by
chief US war lord Donald Rumsfeld where he gave direct political
support for the looting, and this not in just a side remark, but
quite extensively. 

   You can read about the same from Britain's war minister Geoff Hoon
in Robert Fisk's article at 
> http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396346
"suggesting in the House of Commons that the people of Basra were
merely 'liberating' -- that word again -- their property from the
Baath party. And the British Army enthusiastically endorsed this
nonsense." 


   This morning I heard on German national radio (DLF) the following
story: 
  
   A Baghdad shopkeeper tried to turn away with gunshots a group of
burglars about to loot his shop. The looters called in a US armed
unit and told them that in the shop were (I can't remember what)
forces of the "old regime"; the US fired at least one shot in the
shop and killed the owner. 

   Besides militias and check points being organized spontaneously by
the Iraqi people in e.g. Baghdad and Basra -- there is e.g. a group
of armed men now securing the El Kibla hospital organized thru the
local mosque -- there seems to be only one city in Iraq which is not
plagued by widespread looting, and that is Kirkuk where the Kurdish
militias of the Jalal Talabani's PUK had taken over the city and set
up a provisional local administration . 

   US forces have not yet moved into the city but put an iron fist on
the oil installations in Kirkuk's vicinity. 

   The US government is using the hostile attitude of the Turkish
government to scare out the Kurdish fighters out of Kirkuk so that
they can grab the Kirkuk oil undisturbed by the local people. 

   And it is to be expected that as soon as the Kurdish forces move
out of Kirkuk the US sponsored looting will start there too. 

   Mosul, the larger city in the Iraqi North is already now -- as
seen yesterday on TV -- plagued by widespread looting because the
Kurdish forces moving into there could not or would not establish a
local authority. 

   I don't know, since the bourgois presstitutes do hardly ever
report such important details, if Mosul has been taken by the PUK or
by Barzani's KDP. 

   Let me repeat the stark contrast between the zeal the invaders
apply to "secure" the oil wells, and on the other hand the direct
collaboration and moral and political support for the looters
destroying the infrastructure of the country. Well is that really two
sides? Isn't it the real nature of the imperialist hordes, organizing
the pillage of humanity's wealth? 

   Another point which really upset me this morning is the moderator
on BBC World who explained that the spontaneously emerging
self-organisation of the Iraqi society by creating militias and armed
checks of looters is a "danger" that the US invaders have to
address... 

   I was initially quite surprised by the outbreak of the widespread
looting in the areas of Iraq conquered by the invaders, but I now
understand it better. 

   It is the real face of imperialism as the head of all robbers and
pillagers of the world. 

   The best for the Iraqi people and the peoples the world over would
be the immediate withdrawal of the imperialist invaders from Iraq and
behind the national borders of their respective countries. 

   Only the Iraqi people themselves can organize to secure their
infrastructure. 

   And they deserve reparations for the damage done by the invasion,
both the direct destruction and mayhem and the damage done be the
looting encouraged by the occupying forces. 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx