The News Line: Editorial
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Crisis hit US tries WMD deception again!
THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut
lurching forward once again.
This time it is threatening Syria, and by implication North Korea with
the same treatment that Iraq received from 1990 onwards, that is
sanctions, starvation and invasion.
There is nothing novel in the US approach to provocation. It is
repeating a message that was a lie in 2003, and is a lie today.
In 2003 the US went to war with Iraq, fuelled by the lie that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction.
Today the lie is being peddled that Syria was bombed by Israel last
year because North Korea was building a nuclear war facility for
Syria.
However the campaign has been launched in such an exceptionally
disjointed and clumsy fa****on, that it suggests that in the last days
of the Bush presidency there are serious divisions within its inner
cabal.
The threats to Syria have even managed to embarrass Israel.
First of all, Israel has up to 200 nuclear weapons, and there are no
inspections of any of its facilities. Its leader****p is allowed to
threaten to wipe out Iran and the Iranian nation with a nuclear attack
and not even receive a rebuke from the US, the UK or the UN Security
Council.
Secondly, the Zionist leader****p is currently having secret talks with
Syria concerning a peace agreement that would involve Israel handing
back the Golan Heights to Syria, and the US intervention has upset
this development.
And finally ex-President Carter has just visited Syria and said that
the US should be talking to both Hamas and President Assad. This is an
assertion that the US leader****p evidently felt there had to be a
reply to.
As far as North Korea is concerned, the allegation that it was
building nuclear war facilities for Syria is enough to scupper the
current talks between North Korea and the US. These had been set up to
try to bribe North Korea to give up all of its nuclear programme.
The Syrians have been more than able to defend themselves against the
US verbal attack. They have pointed to the fact that the routine is
old and completely discredited, and was last used in 2002-2003 when
the US and the UK stated that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and
was developing a nuclear bomb.
Iraq was invaded in March 2003 and over a million of its people were
butchered, and four million turned into refugees, with the US and the
UK now forced to admit that Iraq had no wmds, and that the
imperialists lied to the world about it.
Syrian officials stated yesterday that: =91The Syrian government hopes
that the international community and the American public,
particularly, will be more cautious and aware this time around in
facing such unfounded allegations.=92
The head of the UN atomic watchdog on Friday hit out at the United
States. IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei condemned the US,
saying that the IAEA =91deplores the fact that this information was not
provided to the Agency=92, adding that =91Under the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), the agency has a responsibility to verify any
proliferation allegations in a non-nuclear weapon state party to the
NPT and to re****t its findings to the IAEA Board of Governors and the
Security Council, as required.=92
The developing world crisis, a combination of slump, banking
collapses, the collapsing dollar, and a massive inflation in basic
commodity prices, is clearly unnerving imperialism.
It is unlea****ng a drive to war that will be continued by the next US
administration, whether it is led by McCain, Clinton or Obama.
This drive to war can only be dealt with by sma****ng capitalism and
imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution.
This revolution is now developing by leaps and bounds, driven on by
the gravest economic crisis in the history of capitalism.
This crisis demands the building of sections of the Fourth
International in all the major countries to provide the working class
with the necessary revolutionary leader****p.
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