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U.S. Imperialists Out of Iraq, the Middle East and North Africa!

by John Brown (cwgclasswar [at] gmail.com)
Anti-war today means being anti-imperialist. To be for peace the working class needs to eradicate the cause of war and divest those driven by those causes from power. We show the nature of the current war and side with the people of Syria and Iraq against both their oppressive governments, ISIS and the US led imperialist bombing. We support the armed self defense of the masses through their local coordinating committees and popular assemblies.
Big oil rules the roost at the NY stock exchange and in the City of London and most other stock exchanges around the world. It is for them that over 2 million Iraqi civilians have met a violent end at the hands of the U.S. and its successive coalitions. And deductions from your paychecks have paid for
twenty four years of Iraq wars and sanctions that have produced no stability, never mind peace
. <br /> U.S. Government has wrecked Iraq and slowly but continuously slaughtered its people. We should not forget that the sanctions regime that was supposed to cause the overthrow of Saddam Hussein killed upwards of 500,000 Iraqi children and there seems to be no count of how many civilians died as a result of collateral damage during the air campaign that coincided with these sanctions. There are no hard figures from the two wars, and you can take your pick whether you consider the current U.S.-led military campaign a continuation of the second or a third U.S.-Iraq war.<br />1
For the Sunni population, oppressed since the “de-Ba’athization,” beginning in 2003, the first U.S. war on their denomination has never ended.

Obama sells his coalition air campaign as a defense of the ‘democratic’ government of Iraq,
but it is clear to anyone on the ground that their principal goal is to attack anyone associated with the Syrian Revolution, under the guise of attacking ‘terrorists’.<br />
The U.S. government has not said who is in and who is out of the ‘moderate opposition’ to the Assad regime, while the question goes unanswered whether the U.S. itself opposes the Assad regime. We see Assad applauding the bombing and his air defenses don’t molest the marauding coalition bombers; likewise we see the U.S. air force being fastidious about not attacking the Assad regime military installations or forces. Thus we see Obama’s ‘coalition of the willing’ bombing oil fields controlled by ISIS in Syria and while leaving Kurds in Kobane in the lurch as soon as darkness falls. A number of sources who have proven reliable have already decided to call Obama’s campaign a “war against the Syrian revolution.” This certainly explains the acquiescence of the Iranians and the China/Russia imperialist bloc in the U.S. attacks on the Sunni uprising. And this goes a long way to explain the strange bedfellows we see where the UK have conferences with Iran for the first time in many years, then joining the U.S. air campaign, and where Jordan and even Saudi Arabia put aside their belligerence of generations against Iran to join in the attack on the Syrian Revolution on the pretext of fighting terrorism. In fact, the New Caliphate project of ISIS scares the royals half to death. Egypt has joined Washington’s coalition against terrorism. And the U.S. administration is silent on the human rights violations of the el-Sisi regime. In fact the throttling of the Egyptian Revolution looks to Washington like it has been accomplished, and now Washington and the monarchs and the dictators look to finish off the revolution in Syria behind the pretext of fighting another “war on terror” in Iraq. Of course there are anomalies aplenty making it easy for those who reject dialectics to confuse the working class. Washington was not able to pursue its preferred course uninterruptedly. Palestinian resistance put the Central Command’s plans temporarily on hold. It was not possible to have a U.SA.-led coalition against Muslim enemies at the same moment that the U.S. was obviously supplying the Israeli assault on Gaza.

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