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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>>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

It's neither the white man's burden nor social democracy, both of 
which have been practiced in the real world.  "[M]ultinational 
forces, excluding the US and other countries which participated in 
the war coalition," are not on this planet.
-- 
Yoshie

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