On the other hand, Hussein was a repressive mo-fo and people are going to be happy to be rid of him. That happiness and relief may temporarily overide any preoccupations people might have about American occupation. There will be Iraqis who at first applaud the Americans as liberatiors. Does that surprize people here? It doesnt surprize me. If people are going to count on "progressive" things being done by governments and armies, they had better get several cases of Jack Daniels, 'cause it aint going to happen.
Later on there will be more resistance but there will also be a comprador class of Iraqis who benefit from the invasion. In a few months (or probably sooner), after the honeymoon is over with the Iraqi people this comprador element is the one who will be appearing on our nightly news broadcasts. My ideal scenario would have been that the US get bogged down and leave Iraq, followed by the mobilized people toppling the Hussein government. Apparently that is not going to be happen. Why get depressed over it? There will be further resistance.
-Thomas
--- "Brian O. Sheppard" <bsheppard at bari.iww.org>
wrote:
>
> Scene witnessed on TV: "Freed" Iraqis looting
> stores, hauling off TVs and
> computer equipment in wheelbarrows, beating
> suspected fedayeen
> members. Stoic US soldiers nod and look on. One
> Iraqi man with a
> wheelbarrow full of goods passed the camera and
> shouted, "I love America!"
>
> Can anyone doubt that if, somehow, Saddam's forces
> had won, the same
> Iraqis would be waving Iraqi flags, cheering,
> presenting flowers for
> the Ba'ath Loyalist troops, etc.? What sentiment is
> "real," and what is
> simply the result of a people so demoralized and
> oppressed that they have
> simply become slavishly worshipful of power?
>
>
> Brian
>
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