Iraq case was not a question of war or peace. This would be thought too short. In reality it's a question, whether "this war could bring an end to the constant war the regime leads against its own population or not." Thomas Uwer answered this question in the weekly paper "jungle world" (issue 12/02) published in Berlin.
The deepest point of left wing newspapers reached "Junge Welt" when it printed the lie, that there hasn't been a chemical war attack in Halabja. Not even the fascist Hussein-Regime itself denied the gas deployment of the 16th march 1988, when 5000 or more people died. Human rights groups showed 41 poison gas deployments against Kurds in northern Iraq.
A "peaceful solution" wasn't possible. The Iraq could only be forced to let the inspectors enter because of an - at least giant - military deployment. There couldn't be any gain of security and no freedom for the people in Iraq without the overthrow of the regime. A withdraw of US- and British troops would have not only brought on the danger of a new armament, but the threat, that there would be committed a massacre against the Iraqi population - as it often happened in the past to break any opposition against the regime.
The antifascist strike of the Anglo-American Coalition to overthrow the Ba'ath-dictatorship carries in a social sense a revolutionary nature! Those who are anti-Americans, who think that the bourgeoisie is reactionary in itself, don't want to hear that. But the social facts are clear: a fascist regime will be removed - a capitalist democracy will be installed. Equally as in former Germany.
The attack on Iraq is a long-term consequence of the terror attacks of 11th September 2001. It is a necessary answer to Arabian extremism and Islamism. Iraq belongs also as al-Qaida to the dangerous mixture of Islam, pan-Arabism and anti-Semitism - of repression, misery and authoritarian regimes. (Tom Uwer) To lead a strike against them means to put them into their place and to give future prospects to the oppressed population.
The Iraqi regimes nature can't hardly be seen by looking only on the face of it. It is not possible to explain the causes with the look at the high amount of victims, which had to be mourned in the last 20 years, but these show the great humanitarian tragedy. After a regime change, when the first mass graves will be discovered in Iraq, it will get very lonely about Germany and France, says Bahtyar Amin an Iraqi human rights activist from Washington D.C.. (jungle world, issue 11/03)
USA, Britain and Spain stand firm to the capitulating attitude of France, Germany und Russia towards Iraqi threat. They wanted the overthrow of the Ba'athist dictatorship. But it wasn't possible to present this argument to the United Nations. The UN is to weak in front of such dangers and the international law is tolerating terror regimes and dictators.
Tactically for the USA it was of necessity to play the predicted fruitless game with the weapon-inspections, although they stressed clearly before that, that their aim was to remove the regime. Both aims compliment one another now: it is the question of disarming and removing the regime. With their military power the inspections were forced, but the Germans - illusionist and irresponsible moralists - did so as a "peaceful" solution had ever been possible.
Now a bourgeois power decided to act against a fascist regime and to get a bourgeois revolution through, therefore progressive people must support this.
After all there is now a chance for a revolutionary-democratic change in the Middle East, where the bourgeois revolution is long overdue. Israel democracy finally isn't alone any more and the despots of the Arabian world, including Arafat get under pressure.
The future of the people in the Middle East is once again open and a prospect beyond the reign of terror could be available. All suppressed in this space could acknowledge, that their problem is not the USA and Israel but their own rulers.
Editorial staff of Marxistische Kritik
