Re: [Marxism] Democrats call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
> Havana. April, 9 2004
> Democrats call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
>
> WASHINGTON (PL).-The escalation of Iraqi resistance actions
> against the U.S. occupation forces has mobilized Democrat
> leaders, who are demanding a withdrawal strategy from the
> White House. According to Thursday's edition of The
> Washington Times, members of the opposition are criticizing
> the Bush administration position of increasing troops in
> response to the insurgents.
>
> According to Senator Robert Byrd, one of the higher-ranking
> Democrats in the Senate, the White House committed a
> monumental error in the invasion of Iraq and on no account
> should it increase the number of troops deployed there.
> Instead of that, a strategy of withdrawal should be drawn
> up, Byrd emphasized, affirming that he is definitely not
> the only person to perceive shades of Viet Nam in this
> militaristic adventure.

This is wishful thinking on Granma's part. Byrd is about as representative
of the Democratic Party leadership as Senator Gruening was in 1965, the
only one who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Furthermore,
Kerry's is pro-war. Frankly, it miseducates its readers for Granma to write
such a confused analysis. Finally, there is no relationship in class terms
between the Spanish SP and the Democratic Party in the USA. Unfortunately,
the USA lacks a labor or social democratic party, even one that has all the
reformist faults of the PSOE.


Louis Proyect
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