Re: Re: on-going mass executions...

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Heh, Macdonald, then the ANC and SACP called for sanctions against
apartheid South Africa, was that , "rank opportunism, " too?
  Sanctions regime has killed half a million, yes, but, if you look at
scholarship on Iraq, like the works of the exiled Iraqi ex-Trotskyist Samir
al-Khalil aka Kenan Makiya, in, "Republic of Fear, " there in that book, is
a detailed blow by blow acct. of the tangled relationship of the Ba'athist
Party and the Iraqi Communist Party. I'd trust their judgements, or Makiya's
over any outsider.
Michael Pugliese

-----Original Message-----
From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:44 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:16809] Re: on-going mass executions...


>
>> The Party has called for distinguishing between our people and the
rulers;
>> i.e. between the victim and the criminal. Accordingly, we continue to
call
>> for tightening the political and diplomatic isolation of the
dictatorship,
>> and maintaining military sanctions. UN control over the oil revenues must
be
>> continued to ensure that the regime does not regain total control over
the
>> country's resources.
>>
>
>These idiots are guilty of mass opportunismagainst what they refer to as
"their
>own people". One doesn't need to think anything in the slightest positive
to
>realise this kind of crap is the rankest opportunism- they have no place
calling
>from within Iraq for the maintenance of sanctions (only military [sic] )
while
>their is in place a global order based on the most monstrous of
Imperialisms.
>
>Period.
>
>Macdonald
>