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by 1Planet1People
Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003 at 11:23 AM
scott_k_larson@yahoo.com
Not In Our Name is an Anti-War group nation wide. Our LA chapter just released this statement in regards to the capture of Saddam Hussein.
The Bush administration, along with the corporate media, has heralded the recent capture of Saddam Hussein as a great victory. They will use this capture as an attempt to further legitimize their occupation and to silence all criticism and opposition. However, one thing is unquestionably clear, the illegal occupation of Iraq continues.
The “new developement in the “war on terrorism does not change the fact that this war is immoral, unjust, and illegitimate. It does not change the violations of international law, the lies used to justify the war----like finding weapons of mass destruction or “liberating the Iraqi people----or the tens of thousands of Iraqi lives stolen, or the hundreds of U.S. lives lost. This will not end the Iraqi resistance, as the administration might have hoped, only a withdrawal of troops and an end to the occupation will do that.
As they talk about finally seeking justice for the Iraqi people by putting Saddam on trial, they will conveniently leave out any mention of the crimes done to the Iraqi people by the United States. It was the U.S. who supplied the dictator with the very weapons he used against his people. It was the U.S. led sanctions that killed over a half a million Iraqi children since 1990. Who will put the U.S. government on trials for war crimes?
The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean freedom for the Iraqi people. Only the right to self-determination and self-governance will ensure their liberation. Resistance to this war and occupation is needed more than ever!
End the Occupation! U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq! Iraqi Nation for the Iraqis themselves!
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