[lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance"

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sat Feb 14 10:40:04 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

--it took 8 long months to catch sodom. and what i've read of the success in capturing 'leaders' has been mostly claims from centcom PR, usually unverified and contradicted by on the ground reality. no?

steve



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