> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Travis Fast
> - One strategy is to insist on an immediate pull out and a
> commitment from the
> - USG to massive reparations to the Iraqi people to be delivered to
> the
> - first popularly elected Iraqi government.
>
> Yes, a good position, which wasn't in the GOP withdrawal position.
It's not like any one resolution has to have EVERYTHING in it to be worth voting for. The Democrats could have voted for all these three if they had wanted to:
1 the Republican resolution for immediate withdrawal (which was non- binding and Republicans wouldn't vote for anyway -- so even pro-war Democrats could have voted for it, knowing that it wouldn't pass and would be of partisan significance only) 2 the Democratic resolution for "withdrawal" with many loopholes for the right to meddle in Iraq and the rest of the region continuously 3 a resolution -- to be authored later -- for reparations to the Iraqi people
Really, though, reparations is the last thing on the Democratic mind. When politicians say money for reconstruction, they mean money for American corporations -- nothing has and will trickle down to ordinary Iraqis (only some elite Iraqis will get a cut).
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>