US Plans War Against Iraq

>> A war in the Middle East is of course a war for oil.

Wrong.

Iraq may soon have the power to destroy free people through a nuclear assault. Its evil dictator has already proven his bloodlust to the world. He intends to kill you. The rational thing is to defend yourself.

Certainly there are plans to bomb the hell out of the people of Iraq--or what the propaganda terms, to bomb the hell out of Saddam. Also the war profiteers now control both the media and the politicians. And since all politicians are now scared of the media the warmongers are in the drivers seat.

I do not agree that a final decision has been made to bomb in September. If Bush can keep and 80% favorable ratings in the polls there will be no need for another war at that moment. If however, the economy gets worse and if people start questioning all the money being spent on wars while many social programs get overlooked, his rating will come down substantially and that will be what will triggers the next war against Iraq.

You are right in criticizing politicians of both parties. Politicians are among the biggest war profiteers and they will vote for war anytime it will boost their poll ratings.

I would like to point out, that as a group a majority of both the women and the minority members of congress voted against Dessert Storm. So, if you want peace, just don’t vote for white males in the next election.

There needs to be a pogrom against white males. As history as proven time and time again, genetically, white males are the most barbaric and vicious lifeform to appear on the planet. They make the raptors in Jurrassic Park seem as cute and cuddly little teddy bears.


According to demographic forecasts, in the near future, white males will be a minority in North America. That will be a great opportunity to start with the final solution, if the remainder of the human race is to survive their brutal rape of the planet.

All the white males I know are socialists and for peace, as are all the white women, non-white men and non-white women, gay and straight. It is not a matter of identity; it is a matter of class and class outlook. The name of the game is money in this capitalist society. The primary law of capitalism is maximization of profit and the largest profits are made in war profiteering. Bush has no serious popularity, as the Enron scandal and the outcry over the presidential election fraud demonstrated. All cutbacks are now being protested and as the cutbacks take their toll, the protests and fightback of the workingclass will increase. Anyone who opposes the attack on the workingclass exhibited by the Enron scandal, opposes the election fraud and opposes the cutbacks in social services is by definition not a supporter of Bush. Bush knows this and knows he has no solid support at all. These elections are a referendum on the economy, and he knows that too, as does the rest of the ruling class. The traditional way fascist dictators discourage dissent is by being "war heroes" and such an atmosphere also maximizes the profits of the capitalist class at the same time.

You can be sure the United States will be making war against Iraq no later than September, for the explicit purpose of solidifying Bush's dictatorship in the federal government. Bush is already making war in the Philippines, which is certainly the making of a quagmire, another Vietnam. Capitalism cannot exist without war. War is simply politics by another means. We are now in a colonial empire situation, much as the capitalist world was in before World War 1, which ended with the Kaiser's army being forced to return home to Germany due to a socialist uprising led by soldiers and workers, which succeeded in forcing the Kaiser to flee to Holland and in setting up some temporary socialist provincial governments, and which also ended in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, ending the existence of warmongering Tsarist Russia.

Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are white females and Democrats, and they are just as vicious warmongers as George War Bush, a white male Republican. There are plenty of lesbian and gay warmongers of all colors too, usually backers of these named politicians.

Please keep the stench of identity politics out of the peace movement. The class struggle is primary, always has been and always will be. All power to the international workingclass.

I was just being sarcastic. I don't deny the existence of racism, and it definitely needs to be considered in some contexts (such as jury selection, etc.). I just get a little tired of the tendency of some people, to factor identity politics into every political discussion, as if it's the all-encompassing bottom line of what's wrong with the world. There are plenty of black people who don't like arabs in the area where I live, who think it would be great to kick them all out of the country, even if they were born here, and bomb the shit out of the middle-east. Of course, black people who think that way, are not really at fault -- their racism can ultimately be blamed on the white males, who invented racism.

Identity politics refers to gender, color, sexual orientation and the like, all putting identity before economic class. The problem is not white males; the problem is the profit motive of capitalism, the cause of wars. As to women, the entire US Congress and US Senate voted for the billions of dollars for war against the people of Afghanistan so Unocal could build its oil pipeline, a long-planned project, and that project is right now beginning. See http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2002/0209/448097021FR09KARZAI.html

Only one woman, Barbara Lee, voted against the limited war powers given to Bush, but she did vote for funding the war. As a woman, I am certainly happy that there are women in Congress, but none of them represent me. I also happen to be white, and none of the whites represent me. They all represent the capitalist class. Racism is an ideology of capitalism as it enables the capitalist class, both male and female, to divide and conquer the workingclass so as to maximize their profits. It is not an "invention," it is a scapegoating tool of the capitalist class, as are male chauvinism, homophobia and xenophobia.

As to women in the cabinet, we just experienced the horror of white female Democrats Janet Reno as attorney general and Madeleine Albright as secretary of state under Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton, both carrying out the racist policies of the capitalist class. Albright is now infamous with her statement on national TV that she thinks the US sanctions against Iraq that is killing thousands of children is worth the price. She is not alone in expressing this murderous thought; I have heard this statement from other warmongers. It is also, of course, anti-Arab racism, common to US warmongers.

We also have good "liberals" like Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of Marin & Sonoma, announce on KPFA that they support the bombing of Afghanistan. We all know Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco is also a staunch supporter of bombing Afghanistan, as well as being a supporter of the anti-labor NAFTA. The racism is inherent in such reactionary positions and is not an invention. It is a tool to maximize the profits of the capitalist class which they serve, and in the case of Pelosi, of which they are a member. California, Maine and Washington all have two women senators, and they all support the racist wars of the capitalist class because it maximizes the profits of that class, which is their primary concern.

Some of us can easily remember the integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas with that infamous picture of white women screaming racist epithets at black children. White men did not "invent" that racism; it is a vicious tool of capitalism used to divide the white and black workingclass. It is not white men who invented that racism; it is capitalism, all to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, regardless of gender.

As to the women, let us look to see who these women senators and representatives are that the identity politics crowd seems to prefer to the men, although they all represent the capitalist class:
Tammy Baldwin, white Democrat from Wisconsin
Shelley Berkley, white Democrat from Nevada
Judy Biggert, white Republican from Illinois
Mary Bono, white Republican from California
Barbara Boxer, white Democrat from California
Corrine Brown, black Democrat from Florida
Maria Cantwell, Democrat, Washington
Lois Capps, white Democrat from California
Julia Carson, black Democrat from Indiana
Donna Christian-Christensen, black Democrat from US Virgin Islands
Eva Clayton, Democrat, North Carolina
Hillary Rodham Clinton, white Democrat, New York
Susan Collins, white Republican, Maine
Barbara Cubin, white Republican, Wyoming
Diana DeGette, white Democrat, Colorado
Rosa DeLauro, white Democrat, Connecticut
Jennifer Denn, white Republican, Washington
Jo Ann Emerson, white Republican, Missouri
Anne Eshoo, white Democrat, California
Dianne Feinstein, white Democrat, California
Kay Granger, white Republican, Texas
Darlene Hooley, white Democrat, Oregon
Kay Bailey Hutchison, white Republican, Texas
Sheila Jackson Lee, black Democrat, Texas
Eddie Bernice Johnson, black Democrat, Texas
Nancy Johnson, white Republican, Connecticut
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, black Democrat, Ohio
Marcy Kaptur, white Democrat, Ohio
Sue Kelly, white Republican, New York
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, black Democrat, Michigan
Mary Landrieu, white Democrat, Louisiana
Barbara Lee, black Democrat, California
Blanche Lincoln, white Democrat, Arkansas
Zoe Lofgren, white Democrat, California
Nita Lowey, white Democrat, New York
Carolyn Maloney, white Democrat, New York
Carolyn McCarthy, white Democrat, New York
Karen McCarthy, white Democrat, Missouri
Cynthia McKinney, black Democrat, Georgia
Carrie Meek, black Democrat, Florida
Barbara Mikulski, white Democrat, Maryland
Juanita Millender-McDonald, black Democrat, California
Patsy Mink, Asian American Democrat, Hawaii
Constance Morella, white Republican, Maryland
Patty Murray, white Democrat, Washington
Sue Myrick, white Republican, North Carolina
Grace Napolitano, white Democrat, California
Anne Meagher Northup, white Republican, Kentucky
Eleanor Holmes Norton, black Democrat, District of Columbia
Nancy Pelosi, white Democrat, California
Deborah Pryce, white Republican, Ohio
Lynn Rivers, white Democrat, Michigan
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, white Republican, Florida
Marge Roukema, white Republican, New Jersey
Lucille Royabal-Allard, white Democrat, California
Loretta Sanchez, Latina Democrat, California
Janice Schakowsky, white Democrat, Illinois
Louis Slaughter, white Democrat, Illinois
Olympia Snow, white Republican, Maine
Debbie Stabenow, white Democrat, Michigan
Ellen Tauscher, white Democrat, California
Karen Thurman, white Democrat, Florida
Nydia Velazquez, Latina Democrat, New York
Maxine Waters, black Democrat, California
Heather Wilson, white Republican, New Mexico
Lynn Woolsey, white Democrat, California