From: Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia,
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
mailto:leftnews@kscm.cz ,
http://www.kscm.cz

Crimes and Hypocrisy of Imperialism
at the Start of the 21st Century

Anarchy, loss of security, spread of cholera in
Southern Iraq, insufficiency of medicine, food,
water and electricity, continuing destruction of
state property and political vacuum, introduces
the main characteristics of life in occupied Iraq.

At a time when Iraqis need the formation of a
temporary government which would encompass
all proprietary forces in Iraq and which would
prepare a democratic election and contribute
towards the solution of the problems arising from
the results of the war, the commanders of the
Pentagon, which plans a long-term occupation of
Iraq, not only does not hurry to the solution of these
problems, but manifestly avoids them with the logic
that, the greater the devastation of Iraq, the more will
be the profits to be realized by American companies
which will get contracts for its reconstruction,.

The well-known American company, Bechtel, which
is close to the American administration, was awarded
a contract for the reconstruction of the infrastructure
of Iraq for over 680 million dollars, and that without
submitting any bid. With the same method the
Halliburton company, which is headed by Vice President
D. Cheney of the U.S., was awarded a contract of over 7
billion dollars.

Americans in Iraq behave as though Iraqis were unable
to manage their own affairs, for they began to name an
American management for every enterprise or institution,
by no means on the basis of expertise, but on the basis
of allegiance and citizenship.

The oil pipe line which leads from Iraq across Syria to
the Mediterranean they shut off and declared that Iraq
may leave the Organization of Oil Producing and
Exporting Countries, (O.P.E.C.). At the same time they
want to draw up a plan for Iraqi Constitution which the
Iraqis must accept.

During the war the Americans destroyed 800 Iraqi
factories which before the war were controlled by
parties of UN inspectors, who declared that there
were no signs of production or storage of weapons
of mass destruction.

The Americans, who, during the war fired nearly
1,000 rockets per day at Iraq, and whose aircraft
attacked chosen targets on the average `1400 times
daily, killed around 13,000 Iraqis, mostly children,
old people and women, wounded and froze several
times more people.

The Americans, who during the year 1991, used
bombs with depleted uranium, prohibited, in the
framework of the embargo imposed on the Iraqi
people, the export of the equipment necessary for
the detection of uranium in the body.

The depleted uranium leads to similar results in
society and in nature as those known from the
use of atomic bombs. Today, there are among
the Iraqi children very widespread examples of
bodily deformities and blood cancers. Medicines
for these sinister diseases were among the
medicines whose export was forbidden in the
framework of the embargo.

It is not enough for Americans to plunder and destroy
museums, but also the nuclear objects with which they
threaten to leave Iraq with nuclear poisoning.

The Geneva Convention, which oblige occupants
of an occupied country with a guarantee of law and
order and security, is manifestly of no interest to the
U. S.

In only the years from 1998 to 2000, 36,000
overflights were recorded. That bombardment was
never included in the framework of the U.N.mandate.

The USA, which led a preventive war against the Iraqi
people under the pretext that Iraq used weapons of
mass destruction, today, and in the occupation of that
country, did not produce any tangible evidence for that
war.
On the other hand, even if the regime of Saddam
Hussein no longer exists, it does not appear that the
American troops are beginning to pack their bags and
leave the Iraqis to live in "freedom and democracy"
The reverse is true. The world is witness to the killing
of Iraqi demonstrators for that freedom and democracy.

After the occupation and systematic destruction of
Iraq, they explain the continuation of their presence
in the country by the need for reconstruction of Iraq
with Iraq's money, which guarantees fat profits for
American companies.

Finally they even say publicly that they have the
intention to form, by the year 2010, a Free Trade
Area which will include Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria,
Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates,
Yemen, Oman, Egypt, Israel, and the U.S.A...

This plan will benefit not only the political and
economic interests of the USA, but also Israel,
in that very rich and strategic region. It is logical
that those who will agree with this plan will not
have difficulties with the United States.

Those who would "make problems" would have
no guarantee that there would not be found useful
reasons, and means, for their crushing. At any time
the world will forget, that it is about the "war on
terrorism", and American policy will be in isolation
"by chance" Al-Kayda comes up and takes car of
reminding, as it was in Riyad and Casablanca.

The Iraqi Communist Party calls, to get over the
difficulties of the critical political, economic and
social situation in Iraq, that there be organizing
a National Conference, whose participants would
be representatives of political parties, and religious
circles, of the North, South and Central areas and
from exile, and that there must be at that Conference
a guaranteed presumption for the expression of free
will.

Bush, who believed that the military victory in Iraq
was sufficient to control the country, today has hit
stiff resistance, for the present it is a political
resistance of the Iraqi people, and he is obliged to
strengthen the occupying units from the side of new
members of NATO and with the order of experienced
American units from Macedonia and Afghanistan, who
may partially compensate for the European units quickly
scattered !!!

Doc. Eng. H. Charfo, DrSc.

Head of the Department of International Relations

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia


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