The News Line: Editorial
Friday, 2 May 2008
US AND IRAQI PUPPETS MASSACRE A THOUSAND IN SADR CITY
IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists
and who sup****t Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet
government of Premier Maliki, describing it as =91depraved=92.
The fact that the US puppet Maliki recently personally led a US
sponsored military assault on Basra to try to crush the nationalist
insurgents there, and then after he was beaten back turned on the two
million inhabitants of Sadr City in Baghdad, is =91depraved=92 indeed.
The US and Iraqi puppet forces have slaughtered 1,000 civilian
residents of Sadr City in three weeks of heavy fighting with the
nationalist Mahdi Army. As many as 10,000 civilians have been wounded
by the fighting.
The US-puppet onslaught is a ruthless and desperate one, with tank and
artillery barrages and air strikes being used to try and clear the way
for a ground assault.
This desperate assault gives the lie to the US propaganda that their
surge had changed and pacified Iraq. In fact, US figures state that 49
US soldiers died in Iraq in April, the highest monthly toll since
September last year.
The fighting in Sadr City represents a desperate attempt by US
imperialism to maintain not only its occupation of Iraq, but to keep
its puppet government in power.
To achieve this it is willing to slaughter tens of thousands of the
residents of Sadr City!
Three Sadrist deputies called a news conference in the Green Zone
government and diplomatic compound in Baghdad on Thursday, at which
they denounced Maliki and his government.
They held up pictures of dead Iraqi civilians they said were killed by
government forces, backed by US troops, in Sadr City.
This is a time for the whole Iraqi insurgency to unite to sup****t the
besieged residents of Sadr City, with a major drive to evict all of
the occupying armies from Iraq and to put an end to the puppet
government.
One of the =91peculiarities=92 of the situation is that the Maliki
government which is spearheading the drive to slaughter the residents
of Sadr City, not only has the full sup****t of the US government, it
has the full sup****t of the Iranian government.
The Iranian government should understand that all that it is going to
get from taking steps to help the US in Iraq is some very hard knocks
in the not so distant future.
This has been made more than clear by the hysterical intervention of
one of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for the US
presidency, Hillary Clinton.
When asked how would she respond if Iran were to attack Israel,
Clinton, instead of attempting to calm the situation down, made it
crystal clear that her policy in relation to Iran is not a jot
different to that of the current US president, to attack Iran with
nuclear weapons.
She said: =91If I=92m the president, we will attack Iran. . . we would be
able to totally obliterate them.=92
She added: =91That=92s a terrible thing to say, but those people who run
Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them
from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.=92
Iran must therefore drop its sup****t for the US puppet Maliki, and end
all of the discussions with the US to try and reach some deal on the
basis that it will help the US out in Iraq.
For the insurgency, the onslaught on Sadr City is no different from
the onslaught on Fallujah that was carried out under Premier Allawi
using thousands of US troops and gas and chemical weapons.
The insurgency must give its full sup****t to the residents of sadr
City and the Al-sadr movement which are under attack.
They must establish a joint command to lead the push to end the
occupation and end the Maliki government, and pledge that with Iraq
free from imperialism and its agents, there will be a constituent
assembly elected to decide on a workers=92 and farmers=92 government for
Iraq.
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