Re: [Marxism] US, UN seek new Iraq "leaders" -- Baathist veterans gain, Chalabi on skids

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:45:42 -0400 "Fred Feldman"
<ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> The US now seems to be seeking aid from former Saddamist officials
> against the struggle for national independence and real sovereignty.
> After all, noone in Iraq has the decades of experience and
> considerable
> success in policing and suppressing the Sunnis and Shia of Iraq that
> the
> Baathist officials have had -- certainly not the United States, as
> events have shown.  So it may turn out to be the US occupation, not
> the
> Iraqi fighters against it, that ends up restoring a partially
> "Baathist"
> (in reality, Baathists turned employees of US imperialism) regime in
> Iraq.
> Fred Feldman

In other words, they are perhaps returning to what
was the old dream of people around Dubya's father,
which was a Baathist regime in Iraq, without
Saddam, that would be subservient to the US.



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