Joel Wendland wrote:Unfortunately the bit of over-dramatic rhetoric below indicates the lack of "grounding in the reality of events in Iraq" by some on this list. The statement posted was indeed authentic and was written by folkswho have lived and struggled in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq rather than "analyzing" info from within the U.S.
This is not a question of proximity. It is a question of participating in a quisling formation run by Ahmed Chalabi, a CIA asset and thief.
It is pretty clear that uprisings in the last few days are not "anti-imperialist" but indeed are a struggle for power within the framework of the handover by the US on the June 30th.
This is exactly the line of Fox TV.
Leslie Campbell wrote in _Arab Reform Bulletin_ 2.1 (January 2004), a publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, alarming conservatives (e.g., J. Michael Waller, "U.S. Taxpayers Could Back Iraqi Reds," February 6, 2004, <http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/02/17/Features/U.Taxpayers.Could.Back.Iraqi.Reds-593491.shtml>):
***** Secular constitutional democrats, inspired by western notions of universal democratic standards, are scattered throughout the country. At present, the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) boasts the most significant organizational structure of the secular parties. With dues-paying members and small offices nationwide, the credibility of long opposition to Saddam, and a newly adopted European-style social democratic platform, the ICP could anchor a secular democratic coalition that could rally some former Iraqi National Congress parties and the newly formed or reinvigorated parties of moderate, secular Governing Council members. These include Adnan Pachachi's Democratic Centrist Tendency and Independent Democrats Movement and Kamil Chadirchi's National Democratic Party.
<http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/arb-january2004.pdf> *****
Campbell is the director of the Middle East and North Africa programs of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, whose chairman is Madeleine K. Albright <http://www.ndi.org/about/bdadv/bdadv.asp>. The NDI's field assessment report ("NDI would like to acknowledge the support of the National Endowment for Democracy, which funded this report, as well as the Institute's assessment mission, trainings, and focus group research in Iraq," "NDI Assessment Mission to Iraq, June 23 to July 6, 2003," <http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/mena/iraq/ 1625_iq_report_072503.pdf>) approvingly quotes a former secretary general of the Iraqi Communist Party: "If the CPA were to withdraw from Iraq, there would be a civil war and democrats would have no chance" ("NDI Assessment Mission to Iraq, June 23 to July 6, 2003," <http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/mena/iraq/ 1625_iq_report_072503.pdf>). The same quotation is recycled by Kenneth M. Pollack of the Brookings Institution in "After Saddam: Assessing the Reconstruction of Iraq" (January 7, 2004, <http://www.iraqrevenuewatch.org/reading/After_Saddam.pdf>, a report for the organization created by George Soros.
Evidently, liberal technocrats affiliated with the Democratic Party have found the social-democratized Iraqi Communist Party quite useful for the purpose of legitimating the US occupation of Iraq.
The Iraqi Communist Party, for its part, has been happy to jump at networking opportunities:
***** SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Building Democracy in Iraq - Working for Peace in the Middle East Rome, 18-19 July 2003
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS . . .
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA National Democratic Institute, NDI Ken Wollack Les Campbell . . .
IRAQ Iraqi Communist Party, ICP Hamid Majid Mousa Subhi Al-Jumaily Raid Fahmi Fuad Aziz
<http://www.socialistinternational.org/6Meetings/SIMEETINGS/Conference/RomeJuly03/Conference-epartic.html> *****
With friends like these, the people of Iraq need no enemy. -- Yoshie
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