So Long Saddam

[Chuck Munson]

> Dennis Perrin wrote:
> 
> Just watched Hitch on MSNBC, and when asked about Iraq he said that
> "It's already been decided. Saddam goes this year." Which doesn't come
> as a surprise, I suppose, but then he went on to say that Bush has
> chosen this moment to alienate and otherwise diminish the role of the
> Iraqi opposition who are ready to fight their own battle. The US seems
> to prefer either a military coup (and a nicer version of Saddam) or an
> all-out invasion.
> 
> Which leaves us with this question: What do "we" do once the invasion
> begins or coup takes place? Oppose the imperial designs, surely; but I'm
> confident that all of us here would have little problem seeing Saddam
> overthrown from within, even with CIA help. It seems to me that the
> simple-minded "No US War!" chant doesn't really apply anymore, that "we"
> are in for some major changes. The struggle is to insist that Saddam go
> -- not on Bush's terms, but on the Iraqi people's terms, and expand and
> develop this view in concert with post-Taliban Afghanistan and the
> crucial issue of Israel/Palestine, a place where I'd have no problem
> seeing US troops escorting the IDF and settlers back to the pre-1967
> borders.

Perhaps we need something that is more ballsy about challenging the
legitimacy of the Bush adminstration. Shit, let's just organize some
international resistance to the United States. If the Left's concern about
the hundred of thousands of Iraqis killed by the U.S. is sincere, it
stands to reason that we get in the face of Empire a bit more.

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