Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:48:32 -0500
From: jonathan flanders <72763.2240-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: M-I: The Stakes in Iraq


>> Certainly it is not going to enhance US control of oil no matter 
what, much less stop Saddam (or his successors) from 
building weapons of mass destruction (or allowing UN 
inspection teams to visit).
Barkley Rosser <<

  Unless this mobilization is just another step toward the eventual
occupation of Iraq by the US and the other imperialist powers. If the oil
is going to run low in ten years, then absolute control of the Gulf must
appear critical to US policy makers. It may seem crazy to us to think they
can get away with it, but after all, the capitalist system has always
produced a mad criminal psycho-pathology.  How rational were Hitler's plans
to seize Europe and the Soviet Union?

  They must break down resistance at home step by step. Waving cans of
anthrax around is the current "scare them to death" tactic.  The imperial
death star's propaganda force field will be deployed full on.





Jon Flanders


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