RE:[Marxism] Saddam and Baathists vs radical Iraqi nationalism

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From:                   "M. Junaid Alam" <junaidalam@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Abu Nasr's characterization of Saddam is ridiculous. The man didn't go
> out guns blazing as he touted he would. He had two assault rifles and
> didn't fire a bullet. Even if he had gone down fighting, that hardly
> qualifies as making him a fighter against imperialism in any sense of
> the word.
>
> Saddam is a total disaster for the Iraqis and the Arabs; he is not even
> a Bismarck. There are political realities and then there are realities.
> Politically in the US it is necessary tactically not to point out too
> loudly the pathetic and incompetent nature of Saddam's regime because it
> is hijacked as justification for America's own thuggery. But there is no
> doubt that Saddam could have done a million things more intelligently
> and differently if he was any kind of real nationalist.
>
> In the end the man is mentally disturbed, delusional, and purely
> interested only in his own survival.

  What is "mentally disturbed" about wanting save your *ss???
(btw, what the f*ck does that mean, mentally disturbed??).

A) Mentally disturbed is like calling someone a nigger.
b) It is a term you would to expect to hear from the bourgeois
types; not a marxist..
C) Are you convinced you would go out guns a blazing if you were
in a similar situation?

You sound like a psychiatrist. Psychiatry is the domestic version
of imperalism; except that psychiatrists don't colonize land, they
colonize minds.

Chooce your words more carefully, in the future...


DOQ


 None of the resistance in Iraq was
> directly tactically or materially led by Saddam; those from the party
> who are fighting the US are junior officers and mid-level people who had
> zero contact with Saddam post-invasion.>>>>

P.S do you have inside information on the Iraqi resistance or
something?


>
> To credit Saddam with being a nationalist along the lines of Nasser or
> Mossadegh is an insult to both of them, not that either was particularly
> successful anyway. I don't think many Arabs identify with Saddam Hussein
> at all. >>>>>

  Like in Palestine, eh?


Bin Laden or Yassin or Nasrallah provide greater inspiration -
> an inconvenient fact for the secular-minded but then again facts are
> stubborn things.
>

  Facts are usually based on evidence, no?

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