[lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance"

[Gary?]

From: "Doug Henwood"
> 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.
>
I think there is a certain amount of housecleaning here, using the occupying
forces to do it. Removing Hussein takes the heat off an area, the search for
Hussein must have meant a very heavy military presence and action, any
opposition force would have wanted this aleviated, no , and Hussein was no
loss ?

Gary?
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