Re: Iraqi CP appeal

[Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

   In reply to: 

> # Subject: Iraqi CP appeal
> # From: "Pip, Peter & Zoe" <ppz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:36:52 +1000
> http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg28775.html

  with an appeal from the CP of Iraq, proposing among other: 


> In this extremely grave situation, we call upon you to: 
> 
> *  Press for a halt to the war, ending US unilateralism in dealing 
> with the Iraqi issue, and returning to international legitimacy and 
> the UN, acting within the framework of its responsibilities for 
> preserving security and peace in the world. 

  ... 

> *  Reject the invasion, occupation and US military rule of Iraq, and 
> to ensure that our Iraqi people exercise their right to decide their
> destiny, choosing the form of their future government with their own
> free will, without foreign interference or patronage from any quarter. 
> 

  This is a very soft and weak demand. I think we should stick to the

very simple demand of an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of US

and UK invasion and occupation forces from Iraq. 

   Let us not be confused by the propaganda which demands that the 
invading forces should clamp down on the looters and so should take 
responsibility for running and policing the country. 

   For one, I think that the US invaders are directly responsible for

the looting, giving it political and moral support, actually
sponsoring 
it. 

  Secondly, I think that self-organisation is appearing which will 
strengthen itself and which, I expect, will clash at one not so
distant 
point with the US and Britisch invaders. 

   Which leads me to the following ideas which call or accept foreign

intervention into the inner affairs of the Iraqi people: 

> *  Support convening an International Conference on the Iraqi Issue,
> under UN auspices, with the participation of representatives of Iraqi
> democratic and patriotic forces, in order to tackle all aspects of the
> Iraqi crisis, put an end to war and its tragedies, and to open up
> prospects for resolving the issue on the basis of international
> legitimacy, so as to ensure genuine democratic change in our country. 
 
> * Support Iraqi people's aspiration to establish a transitional
> broadly-based coalition patriotic government which would ensure
> democratic freedoms, and prepare conditions and prerequisites for free
> elections under UN supervision, as an essential step along the path of
> building a constitutional democratic Iraq. 

   I think that the best source from where the new Iraqi government 
might evolve are those armed militias which appear in different parts
of 
the country, taking up arms initially only to stop the looting. 

   And the invading forces should get out of their ways. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main