[Marxism] On the 'Iraq Constitution'

["Lil Joe" <joe_radical@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Comrades

I am 'new' to this list; but I am a child of the 60s, and 'old' comrade in
arms.

Though an [African-] American I am of the multiethnic cosmopolitan
proletariat: the working-class. As such, I am in complete [unconditional]
solidarity with the Iraqi working class, in opposition to the cosmopolitan
[and Iraqi] bourgeoisie, and to the American imperialist's brutal military
occupation, and its installed quisling, so-called "Iraqi Interim
government".

As engage in the activities of Americans in opposition to the
Invasion/Occupation of Iraq by American armed forces, I am in the process of
collecting/analyzing data - the processes leading to the January 2005
"democratic 'elections'". I am therefore presenting to this list the
analysis that I did of the "transitional 'Iraqi' Constitution", that was
written to provide a fig leaf of 'legality' for the "Interim 'government'"
for its cover for American troops violent suppression of the meantime Iraqi
Resistance.

I am therefore submitting this critique of the "Iraqi Constitution" to the
list for criticism, and correction.

Lil Joe
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March 10, 2004

                     On The Iraq Constitution
                                Pt.1


I will examine and comment upon this so-called Constitution or "Law" section
by section, to as much as possible avoid convolution.

Lil Joe
Joe_radical@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Joe_radical@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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U.S. "legal scholars" instructed the Quisling Iraq Governing Authority to
write a Constitution, that would ostensibly give authority to its lackey
government, and to justify the U.S. aggression and occupation. The Iraqi
Lackeys Wrote:

LAW OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE STATE OF IRAQ FOR THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 8
March 2004

PREAMBLE: The people of Iraq, striving to reclaim their freedom, which was
usurped by the previous tyrannical regime, rejecting violence and coercion
in all their forms, and particularly when used as instruments of governance,
have determined that they shall hereafter remain a free people governed
under the rule of law.


Lil Joe: The Imperialist from the United State has by this document ordained
a Quisling Authority in Iraq, whose duty is to provide a native face in
front while behind the scenes the U.S. military continue their terror
campaign of violence and repression. The duty of these Iraqi Sambos is to
follow orders including the Co-Signing of this Law.

The Quisling Governing Council is striving to justify the loss of Iraqis
independence and freedom, which is usurped by the Anglo-American invasion
and occupation of their country. These lackeys by accepting the brutality,
violence and coercion in all their forms, and particularly when used as
instruments of governance, have agreed that the Iraqi people hereafter
remain a colonized people, governed by the rule of laws written by
ideological representatives of the interests of the Iraqi bourgeoisie, in
collaboration with Anglo-American imperialism.

To say nothing about the genocidal sanctions and repeated bombing campaigns
that Britain and the U.S. have conducted against the Iraqi people, the
Constitution reeks with hypocritical platitudes and demagogic rhetoric about
a "free people governed under the rule of law". By focusing on denouncing
the previous Iraqi governments this document serves to justify the
Anglo-American bestial aggression against the Iraqi people and the brutal
occupation of Iraq. The laws that are dictated by U.S. imperialism are in
the interest of U.S. imperialism: the "rule of law" is foreign troops
forcing Iraqis to obey orders at the threat of prison or death.

There are no laws that workers are duty bound to respect: neither in Iraq,
nor, for that matter, in the United States. The most powerful and
economically dominant class is the dominant political power. The political
and legal representatives of Capital, represented in bourgeois dominated
democracies, write Constitutions and legislate laws in their interests,
against labor. In nations-states dominated by Capital flowery rhetoric about
"free people governed under the rule of law" is nothing but bullshit
platitudes that hide the ugly essence of the situation: the state (special
bodies of armed men, with prisons at their disposal) is an apparatus of
violence, separate from the people, used to subordinate the people to the
economic and political powers of Capital.


The Quisling IGC: "These people, affirming today their respect for
international law, especially having been amongst the founders of the United
Nations, working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations, have
endeavored at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland in a
spirit of fraternity and solidarity in order to draw the features of the
future new Iraq, and to establish the mechanisms aiming, amongst other aims,
to erase the effects of racist and sectarian policies and practices."


Lil Joe: The Iraq Governing Council is today only "affirming" the submission
of Iraqi collaborators to U.S. political domination of Iraq by military
occupation.

The only role that the United Nations has played in the Iraqi affair was one
of posing as an "international community" co-signing U.S. and British 12
years of genocidal sanctions on the Iraqi people and repeated bombing of the
country.

CONTINUE:
http://laborpartypraxis.org/iraqconstitution.html

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