[Marxism] Falluja Is Stalingrad

[Octob1917@xxxxxxx]

Just as Hitler ordered the taking and holding of this city at all costs in
1942 for ideological and symbolic reasons rather than strategic ones, so the new
Nazis, the right wing ideologues occupying the White House and the upper
echelons of the US government, have determined that Falluja must be taken. House
by house the US Marines go, killing all in their path, bringing such a
superiority in manpower, firepower and equipment to bear that it makes the 
biblical
match-up of David and Goliath equal by comparison.

Iraqi Resistance fighters left in the town, despite a deluge of US propaganda
painting them as mindless and disorganized thugs, continue to put up a
Herculean and dogged opposition to this brutal assault by combined infantry, 
armor
and airpower. Using the town's typography to great effect, they have so far
accounted for 18 dead and over 100 wounded Marines (as per official US 
statistics
released yesterday).

Elsewhere - in Ramadi, Samara, Kirkuk, and Baghdad - the resistance has
mounted a fresh wave of attacks in an attempt to aid their comrades in Falluja.

This time six months ago, how many outside Iraq had even heard of this town?
Now, and forevermore, the name Falluja will drop from the lips of people all
over the world in tribute to the power of human dignity over that of human
greed.

Long live the spirit of the people of Falluja. Long live the resistance.


JoeD






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