A massive propaganda campaign focused on the hoax that "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" is being waged by the servile errands of imperialism Clinton, Albright, Cohen, Berger, and Kofi Annan. This campaign is reminiscent of the prelude of the massacre carried out in 1991, in which Bush, Cheney, Baker, Powell and Perez de Cuellar, and other representatives of the world bourgeois democracy, were unable to hide the real nature of the Persian Gulf Crisis from the eyes of the peoples of the world: the accelerated undermining of the power of Yankee imperialism and its accomplices in the face of the vigorous impulse of revolutionary struggles in the oppressed nations.
REASONS FOR THE IMPERIALIST CONTRADICTIONS AND PLUNDER
FIRST REASON: The vital necessity of the imperialist powers to impulse a new accumulation of capital that will enable them to survive and extend their tentacles worldwide, a need that led them toward military aggression on a worldwide level. The aggression against Iraq is one of them. In August of 1991, imperialism took the Iraqi government's actions in Kuwait as a pretext to bomb the civilian population killing at least 100,000 people. Seven years later (1998), not satisfied with the criminal blockade that so far has killed 1.4 million Iraqis, the imperialist powers use the guise of Iraq's "biological weapons" to threaten again this oppressed nation with more genocide. Clinton claimed that the "U.N. inspectors" have already destroyed Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" in quantities larger than in the actual bombing in 1991 and it's incapable of threatening its neighbors, if that is true, why is Yankee imperialism so concerned about this oppressed country today?As a background is the European situation, characterized by the decomposition of revisionism, mainly in the former USSR, and the imperialist competition for the spoils in the countries of Eastern Europe. This situation was precipitated by the unfettered restoration of capitalism in Hungary, Poland, Czech/Slovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania and others, and aggravated even more by the incorporation of the first three countries into NATO, right there at the doorsteps of Russia.
Also as a result of the breaking up of the USSR led by the perestroika-revisionist Gorbachev, German reunification, tainted with expansionist desires and Nazi nostalgia, and the greater interloping of Japanese imperialism in the worldwide economy, are elements making this new confrontation for hegemony, for partition of the world, quicker and more violent.
In 1991, when the USSR-USA collusion opened up the greater imperialist intervention in the Persian Gulf, the contradictions erupted immediately between the imperialist superpowers and powers. In the face of the Iraqi crisis, today Russia plays a duplicitous role posturing a "neutral role" or even opposed to military intervention with its alcoholic leader Yeltsin procrastinating a "nuclear war." He is referring to Clinton's alleged top-secret directive authorizing its military the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iraq if this country defend itself and causes heavy casualties on Yankee troops. Would Russia intervene with nuclear weapons on behalf of Iraq? Of course not. Russia is seeking to suck the Iraqi wealth, and at the same time obtains financial concessions from Yankee imperialism. It is not a coincidence that while Yankee troops reinforce their military positions in the Gulf, it obtains financial benefits (e.g., loans) from the U.S. controlled-International Monetary Fund (IMF). Russia is also negotiating with Yankee imperialism its military and nuclear sales in the Third World.
On the other hand, in its calculations to control oil supply for the impulse of capitalism restoration in Europe, which in turn would guarantee advantages over their rivals in the control of the so-called "Eastern Europe" and German preparations for industrialization and expansion into those areas, countries like England, Italy, Australia and others speed up their presence in the Gulf at the side and under the command of the Yankee troops. In this war game, Chirac of France and Kofi Annan (the puppet in the U.N.) play the role of "good cops," and so far, their role have been to guarantee the continuation of the blockade, and to violate further Iraq's national sovereignty by imposing humiliating inspections of presidential sites now not only by "undercover" U.N. inspectors, but by military attaches posing as "diplomats" from the five permanent imperialist countries represented in the U.N. Security Council.
However, the world reactionaries (led by the U.S.) are in a midst of contradictions not only at the international level, but also in their own countries. One example among many: on February 18, 1998, despite their carefully orchestrated public "events" organized by the Yankee propagandists, the three major imperialist war mongers in the Clinton Administration (Albright, Berger and Cohen) were rebuffed as murderers by their own people during a town house meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
It is enough to see the dependence of countries like Japan, Germany and Italy on Persian Gulf oil supplies, to see how their hegemonic urges corrode their alliance with the U.S. The same North American public opinion reproaches its rulers on the genocide committed in Iraq in 1991, including the waste of so many U.S. resources and lives. They acknowledge now that the military aggression was done too far and for so little, while Japan that depends on 70% from Gulf oil, only contributed $10 billion (USD); and Germany depending on 43% on Gulf oil with only $8 billion. The U.S. depends only in about 33% on Gulf oil, but spent much more and taken more casualties (147 killed) than its partners, including 90,000 thousand soldiers who have been affected with serious diseases after the war ("Gulf War Syndrome") by mishandling their own "weapons of mass destruction." Many of the Yankee army veterans, trained to murder people in the Third World, after returning with their hands full of Arab blood, quickly became demoralized, depressed, homeless, and some even turned their murderous "skills" learned against their own terrorist masters (e.g., the decorated army sergeant McVeigh.) Despite of this high cost, we will clarify later how Yankee imperialism controls the oil in the Middle East, and uses it as a leverage against the other European powers and Japan.
The new military aggression against Iraq is taking place when a serious recession, inflation, and trade deficit is spreading in the entrails of imperialism. The U.S. trade deficit in 1997 hit the highest level in nine years, and the countries with the most trade unbalance are precisely in Asia: Japan and China, both with serious contradictions with U.S. imperialism. The imperialist overproduction has triggered a brutal competition, and has saturated the world markets. To slow down this process, industries and banks have closed in oppressed Asian countries under Yankee and Japanese imperialist economic control: Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia. This has reduced the price of oil to its lowest point, and with Iraqi oil back in the market it would substantially reduced the profits of the Yankee oil corporations and its reactionary monarchies in the Middle East.
All the above makes the strategic and military situation of imperialism at the world level irreversible, and require the presence of Yankee troops in more than 100 countries to protect imperialist interests and to keep the unjust order. For this reason, no country in the world is any longer a safe Yankee heaven, in the Middle East not even its area policeman Israel, much less in the Americas where the People's War in Perú is the lighthouse of the World Proletarian Revolution. U.S. imperialism is being fought everywhere and its days are numbered.
A brief recount of the struggles that the peoples and nations of the world wage, shows that while the class struggle to conquer power for the proletariat and the other oppressed nations has expanded and empowered itself, the reactionary factions and cliques have increased their efforts to show who heads the greater oppression and exploitation of the people's masses in those countries. Coups d'etat, counter coups, mutinies, uprisings, intrigues and all sorts of machinations, characterize the native ruling classes of Asia, Africa, and America.
WORLD PEOPLE'S WAR WILL OPEN ITS WAY The struggle of the Palestinians and the Arab people in general, the wide deployments of the Maoists who struggle to guide the new People's Army in the Philippines, the People's War in Nepal, the People's War in India, actions of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the greater power of the guerrilla fighters in Kurdistan and Turkey as well as in Europe, and the growing revolutionary movements in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, etc. prove that revolution is the main historical and political tendency in the world today.
SECOND REASON: The victorious People's War in Perú is the guarantee and astounding presence of Maoism in the revolutionary struggles of the peoples and nations of the world. Its ideology of Gonzalo Thought upheld by the PCP is leading it. It is the distinctive sign of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist counteroffensive against revisionism and world reaction, in the face of their attack on Marxism. This has vital importance not only because the People's War expresses clearly its solidarity with the Arab people in general, and the Palestinians in particular, but because the People's War shows the road of victory for the peoples of the world to follow. In order to succeed, the revolutionary struggles must be guided by the light of Maoism so that they will able to achieve the immediate goal: "socialism," and without interruption reach the final goal of "communism."
In 1991, at the time of the imperialist bombing of Iraq, it was not a coincidence that the PCP hit Yankee interests on Peruvian soil. The demolishing attacks against the Mobil oil company and the Santa Lucia military base took place in response to the aggression against the Arab people. That is just an example of how Maoism is capable of structuring a simultaneous reply of a world dimension to the criminal excesses of North American imperialism and its bloody partners.
The most important part of any conflict in the world is materialized by the people. Thus, the Arab people along with the oppressed peoples and nations of the world, fighting as a single fist against the imperialist aggressor, today count among their expectations the victory of the People's War in Perú. This is because the People's Republic of Perú will be the future trench of the world proletarian revolution, which together with the oppressed peoples and nations of the world will throw imperialism and its lackeys to the dust pile of history.
Neither the hypocritical cries of false ecologists and "pacifists" against the war, nor the corns and blisters on the feet of imperialism's messenger boy, Kofi Annan (a clone of the servile Perez de Cuellar), will be able to turn around the crucial strategic defeat of Yankee imperialism, of social imperialism, and the other imperialist powers. The worldwide People's War will be a reality that will finally crush them.
The imperialist super powers in collusion and collision, have waged the war to their favor against an oppressed nation: the Arab nation. From the beginning, it was clear that Iraqi expansionism was not the problem, but rather the excuse Yankee imperialism was seeking to legitimize its military aggression in order to control the whole region, affecting many countries, including countries directly related to the former USSR, China and Europe. LESSONS FROM THE GULF WAR
Using the U.N., in collusion with the USSR, and the converging interests of other imperialist countries, despite their divergences, the U.S. started and perpetrated an invasion of the Middle East.
YANKEE INVASION OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAS CONSUMMATED IN A WAR OF 46 DAYS IN 1991. Their initial occupation of Saudi Arabia, availed by the ruling monarchic clique, was extended to Kuwait by the war against Iraq. The oil riches, the region's strategic location, and the contentions between the imperialist powers and superpowers as base for the needs of imperialism to postpone the Arab people's revolution. This is a brief background of the conflict in 1991 as well as others to come in the near future. Considering the serious problems the USSR had in 1991, derived from the decomposition of revisionism, as well as European instability with regard to German reunification, and the fighting among the imperialist powers for the spoils of the so- called "Eastern Europe.", The U.S. did not wait long to consummate its plan of military invasion of the Gulf countries. This was needed to impose its hegemony and conditions for a new partition of the Middle East.
The differences and similarities with the Vietnam War enable us a better understanding of the unraveling and future of the struggles in the Persian Gulf area and the whole Arab world.
"MULTINATIONAL COALITION" HID TRUE FACE OF IMPERIALIST HYENA FIRST:As a result of the collusion of imperialist powers and super powers against an oppressed nation, the Yankee militry aggression needed to legitimize itself through the United Nations (an organization at the service of imperialism.) The U.N., a bankrupted, bureaucratic and mostly a ceremonial entity, was used by the U.S. to emit resolutions and mandates at its will in order to legalize and precipitate the war of aggression. Yankee imperialism raised the "Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait," cynically ignoring its own invasions of many countries in the Third World. In this process, we need to highlight the active role of the Yankee lackey Perez de Cuellar who was the U.N. Secretary General at the time.
SECOND: The collusion of the imperialists powers and their active backing of the Yankee aggression was due mainly to two reasons:
- 1. A Yankee defeat in the Gulf would cause a serious risk to the future of the capitalist system. That is why the imperialist powers, in despite of their contradictions, rally together swiftly and without choice. From their viewpoint, if Yankee imperialism attacked alone, inevitably it would have been defeated, as it was in Vietnam. On the other hand, the Iraqi people resisted the aggression alone while Vietnam had China, under President Mao Tse-tung, as its natural allied.
- 2. Acting under the wing of the U.S., the imperialist powers sought to assure their own survival and their immediate economic interests with respect to oil, allocating capital in the Middle East countries.
The resulting war costs and development of the operations show that the United States, by itself, could not have defined the conflict in its favor. The strategic placement of its troops in Saudi Arabia and other countries played a commanding role. In the Vietnam War, while it had military bases in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand, the main Yankee rearguard and supply were too far away. There are also particularities in this comparison: while in Vietnam there was plenty of drugs, alcohol and prostitution (R&R) to keep in place for longer periods of time the corrupt Yankee troops, in the Arab countries there is not.
THIRD: The splits in the Arab world is another decisive element in Iraq's defeat in 1991. In the last stages of World War I, British imperialism enthroned backward ruling monarchies arbitrarily partitioning the kingdom of Arabia. Some of them, encouraged by their own backward reactionary governments, have openly backed the imperialist aggression in 1991.
These reactionary Arab countries headed by corrupt and decadent families, in collusion with a handful of imperialist oil companies, are in control of the States by means of military force. In addition, the religious differences were exacerbated by imperialism, including the imposition of the Zionist State of Israel in Palestinian Arab territory. These are the main reasons why the Arab countries are still divided and confronting each other today.
However, today (1998), except Britain, no other imperialist country is openly backing the new Yankee military aggression like they did in 1991. Also in the Middle East, in spite that only Kuwait and Bahrain have offered open support, it does not mean that the collusion of reactionary Arab regimes with imperialism has changed. It is the Arab masses in these countries what the reactionaries and imperialists fear the most because they know that the future of revolution in that area remains in the hands of the Arab people.
On the other hand, keep in mind that in the Vietnam War the U.S. confronted the Vietnamese people directly, with communists in the first ranks developing a revolutionary war.
Considering only the military operations, the figure was more than $60 billion (USD), and including what U.S. accomplices spent the sum exceeded $135 billion (USD). From 1991 to the present the estimated cost to keep U.S. military forces in the Gulf is $50 billion (USD) per year.
THE COSTS OF THE WAR Quantifying the physical destruction of the productive, civilian and military infrastructures, the amount was more than $600 billion (USD). Not to mention losses due to successive panics in the various imperialist stock markets, nor the price fluctuations of oil and capitalist finances, and what is certain is that these costs were dumped on the backs of the oppressed countries and/or nations. In the same imperialist countries it has caused huge cuts in welfare, education and health care for the working poor.
Actually in 1991, during the development of military actions (and for the promise of future concessions), it was third parties in the oppresed nations under the control of imperialism who assumed the largest part of the war costs. Let us consider the Saudi Arabian share, in money and fuels, not to speak of Kuwait. On the other hand, the U.S., England, Germany, Japan, Italy and France obtained juicy profits in the so-called "reconstruction era," which was just a new partition and a sacking of the riches and energy of the workers in the Arab countries. Just in the reconstruction of Kuwait, it was reported that Yankee imperialism sucked more than $500 billion (USD) tied to the high profitability and safety of those investments. Thus, they have turned the war against Iraq into a juicy business
What turns out to be insulting and disturbing is that all this war expense done by countries like the U.S. causes greater hardships and difficulties to the economy of the oppressed nations. Just take some figures as an example: the total Third World debt reached in the beginning of the decade reached $300 billion, but the total Third World fiscal deficit is about the same.
Let us make a simple comparison with our country (Peru), the entire eradication and substitution of coca crops, as well as really fighting drug trafficking would only cost the U.S. $8 billion; but the entire "Social Support" program and other alms for a one-year period, reaches only $300 million (USD) in Peru, that is, less than the cost of a Tomahawk cruise missile fired from a Yankee aircraft carrier against the Arab people. And of course, this is very small compared with the cost of the 88,500 tons of explosives dropped by the terrorist Stealth fighters and B-1 bombers on the economic infrastructure and civilian population of Iraq.
Imperialism, mainly Yankee, will always need the raw materials from countries like Iraq or Peru, and try to impose its will by means of military aggression. We repeat that the future of the revolution in the Middle East is in the hands of the Arab people, but there is a big difference with us, if imperialism dares to attack our country, it will be confronting the Communist Party of Perú (PCP) and the whole Peruvian people in the People's War. No doubt about that!
People's of the World Unite!
Yankee Go Home!