Re: Milan Rai on UN occupation of Iraq

[dmschanoes <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's be clear, the determinants of policy, and anti-policy, are not
polls imaginary or real that are conducted by pollsters.  What somebody
says a sample of the Iraqi people want or wanted had nothing to do with
the invasion by the United States. What somebody now says the Iraqi
people want has nothing to do with the determinants of future actions by
the occupier.

 The occupation is not governed by polls, no more than anybody took a
poll about "shock and awe."

Moreover neither the invasion nor the resistance have anything to do
with national liberation and self-determination.  National liberation
has certain fundamental economic precipitants regarding land,
industrialization, access to labor, articulated or not, and none of
those are at issue in either the struggle for or against the US
occupation.

This war was precipitated by capital's need to destroy parts of the
productive apparatus and maintain a high price for oil.  In fact, if you
look at the rise and fall and rise in the price of oil from 2001-2003,
the war drums start and increase their pounding exactly when the price
dips.

The current increase in oil prices is the exact analogy of the increase
in stock prices, and telecoms in particular, right before the shock and
awe of the collapse in the second half of 2000.

Supporting national liberation, or a "self-determination" devoid of a
specific class content of that determination, i.e. a program that
includes expropriation of the privatized, now and future, means of
production, is ultimately meaningless.

  Polls are simply ideological justifications for existing conditions.