[lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 14 09:36:38 PST 2004


Stephen E Philion wrote:


>--are they not receiving enough popular support to sustain a pretty
>impressive anti-occupation force w/o being turned in to the occupation
>authority?

Dunno about that - the capitalist hyena press, or at least the NYT branch of that beast, reports that the occupation forces have been fairly successful at arresting leaders of the resistance. And it's not likely that they could have captured Saddam himself without some help from the locals.

Doug



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