RE: Saddam regime

["Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Ferguson 12 April 2003 04:39 BST time wrote:
>
> One of the things the imperialist invasion has pointed up is the lack of
> any real mass social base on the part of the Saddam regime.  This is
> hardly surprising for the Baathists came to power in a
> *counter-revolutionary coup* which overthrew a more radical nationalist
> (and rather more democratic) regime in the late 1950s.
>
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> Now he's gone, the Iraqi people can build a real resistance.  Not only
> will this be more effective than Saddam in challenging imperialist
> domination, it will also make it more possible for workers around the
> world to identify with.
>

Sorry, Phil, but the contrary is the case.

Now, instead of only having to deal with their home-grown petty tyrants, the
Iraqi people - after suffering huge losses of killed, and maimed and of
houses,  public buildings, and hospitals, including the looting of their
country's arheological treasures - now have to deal with their imperialist
occupiers before any question of improvement in "freedom and democracy" can
become possible.

You can't possibly, seriously believe that invasion can EVER be a positive
way of ridding a country of a PETTY tyrant...

Paddy
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