[lbo-talk] Re: Iraqi public opinion

[mike larkin]

At 6:33 PM -0400 8/28/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Christian Parenti, freshly back from a visit to
Baghdad, just said 
>on my radio show that Iraqis aren't happy with the
occupation, but 
>most not to the point of taking up arms against it.
He also said 
>that he was frequently told: "Take our oil. You want
it, take it. 
>Just give us electricity, water, and basic security."

Yoshie wrote:

Christian Parenti should have told Iraqis that, as the
US ruling 
class and governing elite refuse to invest in the US
electrical grids 
and therefore can't even secure power supply for
Americans, Iraqis 
will be waiting for a long time for electricity under
the US 
occupation.  Iraqis can't expect anything better from
the British 
either: 
<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1032274,00.html>.

The colonizers and the colonized -- locked in
power-lessness.> 

How dare that Christian Parenti rely on what Iraqis
actually told him and on his own experience in the
country. And how dare him draw conclusions that are
not perfectly in accord with the correct left line.
And the nerve-THE SHEER NERVE-of him failing to
lecture Iraqis on why they should take up armed
struggle instead of   feeding their families. I say we
denounce him as a counter-revolutionary and kick him
out of the collective.

.

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