[lbo-talk] Worker Communist Party of Iraq, April 4, 2004

[Grant Lee]

> Michael Pugliese quoted the Workers CP of Iraq:
>
> >We repeat the demand of the masses for immediate withdrawal of the US
> >forces from Iraq. We call for transfer of the task of security and
> >stability to a government formed of the representatives of the masses in
> >collaboration with multinational forces, excluding the US and other
> >countries, which participated in the war coalition. This interim
> >government should disarm all militia forces and ensure security, freedom
> >and the requirements of a decent life and also provide suitable
> >situation to enable people to choose their government freely and
> >consciously.
>
> No doubt this call will be greeted in some quarters as an endorsement
> of the white man's burden.
>
> Doug

It's worse than that, haven't you heard? The Iraqi communists are really
social democrats...the horror, the horror.

Grant.