Editorial from Kommunistisk Politik, No. 5, March 1, 2003
These days are giving object lessons in how an imperialist looting war, being wanted only by the US and Israel, is becoming brutal reality despite the protests of a whole world.
The US superpower is using its whole repertoire of means; threats, dictates, pressure, military and economic pressure, arguments and pseudoarguments, and a propagandistic apparatus that by far exceeds the one available to Hitler.
Bush and the US monopolies want war in order to take possession of the Iraqi oil and control the whole strategically important Middle East. Israel wants war in order to hinder a peace agreement with the Palestinians, to further construct the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel, and to permanently weaken its Arab enemies.
Tony Blair is on the wagon as the minor partner because the Anglo-American alliance has given the old British colonial empire that once ruled the world a second life, and because the UK does not want a EU, which is run by Germany and France.
Why do Fogh Rasmussen and his government of villains want the war? Because they are taking care of the interests of the big Danish monopolies, and because A.P. Moeller, who is getting a lot of money from the US army for his contributions, is making a lot of money on both war and oil.
The global day of protest on February 15, already historic, showed that all the world's peoples do not want this war. No government can say that it will wage this war in the name of the people because the peoples have unambiguously said: Not in our name!
Fifteen to fifty million people have been on the streets around the world.
Nothing similar to this globally rolling protest has ever been seen.
The giant popular protests have put the governments under pressure. A majority
of the UN member countries - including the whole so-called Non-Aligned Movement
that comprises most countries in the world - have rejected the US war. The potential
superpower rivals of the US - the EU with Germany and France as the core, and
Russia and China - do not want the war because they know that its objective
also is to ensure the global hegemony of the US at the expense of their interests,
which are just as imperialist as the ones of the US.
A majority of the UN is against the war and has expressed that. Nevertheless,
everything indicates that the war is coming, and that it is coming very soon
because the US wants it.
The whole world knows what this war is about. The whole world knows that the
main danger for world peace is the US which is equipped to the teeth with weapons
of mass destruction of every imaginable kind, and which refuses to sign international
treaties on abolishing them, but will not hesitate to use them.
What we are witnessing is an enormous, calculated mass murder of innocent Iraqis, a gigantic war crime, whose responsible history will judge, as it condemned the Hitler regime and its henchmen at the Nuremberg Trial. We are seeing that the illusions about the US as being "the defender of peace and democracy" are collapsing and are being replaced by an understanding of the US as a superpower, which, with all means, is pursuing its own imperialist profit interests - contrary to international law, human rights and all other forms of varnish. We are witnessing that the UN is not capable of carrying out its most important task of preventing war because the US superpower has a dominating role and can push most governments in the world - capitalist, exploiting governments - to follow its dictates.
The consequences of war will be huge, and it will not be possible to return to the time before. After September 11, the US has chosen the road of war and aggression as the main road for strengthening its global monopoly, its world hegemony. After Afghanistan, the turn has come to Iraq. After Iraq? But it will come. Bush has declared "endless war", and he has a list of up till 60 states against which war can be waged. The Pentagon is constantly working out plans for new wars. Recently, a plan for war against North Korea has been issued, a plan according to which one million people will be killed the first day. This is lunacy. And this lunacy is ruling the world.
But as a commentator noted in relation to the global day of protest against the war: There is not just one superpower in the world. There are two - the US and the peoples. The latter has just started realizing and showing its strength.
February 25, 2003