The United States has murdered over 100,000 civilians with its invasion. Stealing lives is a pretty big issue in my book.

So is a wealthy nation stealing a people's meager and dwindling resources.

In the 1970s Iraq nationalized its oil fields. This helped the Iraqi people by taking a chunk of the profits made off of oil out of the hands of the international oil monopolies and instead keeping them in Iraq. This money helped pay for free healthcare and education. As such this was a socialist measure carried out by Saddam Hussein’s capitalist government. It was also a measure that stood up to the interests of the rich and powerful nations. For both reasons socialists supported the nationalization of Iraqi oil
while those measures infuriated the imperialists.

The world was very different in the 1970s. The strength of the Soviet Union and its value as a trading partner alongside the defeat of the U.S. in its imperialist war of aggression in Southeast Asia helped Iraq in developing its own independent course in dealing with its own internal affairs and resources.

Does this mean that socialists support Saddam Hussein. No. We merely defended the right of Iraq as a weaker nation to run its affairs as it sees fit without US and British imperialist intervention and we supported the nationalization of the oil industry. We also understand that a defeat of U.S. imperialism in Iraq would strengthen the entire world against the seemingly invincible might of U.S. imperialism making other countries better able to shape their own destinies and independent courses as well as taking other countries out of the sights of the imperialists as the next target for war. A defeat for the imperialist governments would also strengthen the revolutionary working class movements within the imperialist countries themselves.

Brian, You say the U.S. murdering hundreds of thousands, destroying many millions more lives, and starting a war that could well last decades is all O.K. in order to steal oil for U.S. corporations. I don’t, and neither do the Iraqi people. Many more Americans will see it our way as well as America’s sons and daughters come home dead and disabled. To the extent you support this war Brian: that blood, Iraqi and American, is on your hands.

U.S. Out Of Iraq Now!