US Plans War Against Iraq

The US is planning to attack Iraq massively by September, in time for the November congressional elections. This is the latest escalation of an ongoing war the US has perpetrated against Iraq since 1991. Thousands of US military personnel are being moved to the Persian Gulf area, ready to attack Iraq, with a ground force of 200,000 troops against starving people. With massive cutbacks in social services, war is the means by which the Bush administration plans to stay in power.

We can rest assured the Democrats will fall in line with the Republicans, as they too promoted the bombing of Iraq and deadly sanctions under Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton. The US has been bombing Iraq on a weekly, and sometimes daily basis. The sanctions, an act of war perpetrated by Bush, Senior, with a willing Congress, including that "liberal" Democrat from Berkeley, Congressperson Ron Dellums, have killed over 1 million people, and were openly supported by that good Democrat, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who told the world on national TV, she thought the price of killing Iraqi children with sanctions was worth it.

A war in the Middle East is of course a war for oil.

For more on the US war against Iraq, see
http://www.endthesanctions.org/

For more US plans of escalated war against Iraq, see, "Bush Administration Confirms Plans for War Against Iraq" by the World Socialist Website editorial board, 2/16/02 at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/iraq-f16.shtml

Pertinent paragraphs from the World Socialist article cited above:
"Not since Nazi Germany, with Hitler's demands for immediate liquidation of 'the Czech problem' or 'the Polish problem,' has a world power spoken in such terms, or acted with such blatant disregard for international opinion."

"The Bush administration represents the emergence, at the highest levels of American capitalism, of a criminalized, gangster element. Its attitude to democracy was shown in Florida, its attitude to working people is shown in Enron, its attitude to the world is being displayed in Afghanistan and Iraq. And the more Bush & Co. threaten war, the more they become compelled to translate words into action, regardless of the consequences. The deepening crisis of American imperialism is dragging the world towards a catastrophe."

Please come to the peace march in San Francisco, February 23, 2002 at 11 a.m. at Dolores Park. See: http://www.sftownhall.org/calendar.php