[lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 3:19 PM -0700 4/7/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>>Bullhockey-- from human rights challenges to Belgium's mass murder in the
>>Congo at the end of the 19th century (led by among others Mark Twain) to
>>denunciations of the fascist regimes in Europe in the 1930s to attacks on
>>colonialism in the 1950s to denunciations of death squads in El Salvador and
>>Apartheid in South Africa, the left has always called for challenges to bad
>>regimes.
>
>Um, the usual call is for self-determination by the oppressioned, 
>not intervention by your friendly neighborhood imperialist. You will 
>not anyone on the left who woulfd not haverejoined had the Iraqi 
>people gotten rid of SH.

The US government would be still supporting Saddam Hussein today if 
an Iraqi political organization with even a mildly left-wing program 
opposed to US imperialism had risen and looked like succeeding on 
their own.
-- 
Yoshie

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