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Statement by the Executive Committee Abroad
of the Iraq Freedom Congress
It was
on this day in 2002 that the US government
decided to wage its bloody war against the
Iraqi people. Clearly, it was not enough for
the US to kill and maim thousands of people
in the first, 1990-1 Gulf War and 12 years
of catastrophic economic sanctions were
followed by the barbaric war launched in
March 2003.
Since
1990, in addition to the brutality of Saddam
Hussein's regime, Iraqi children, women and
ordinary people have faced war, terror and
the destruction of their homes, schools,
hospitals and all kinds of social and
economic infrastructure.
The
people of Iraq have been brutalised so that
the US can advance its goal of a New World
Order. The occupation of Iraq has killed
many thousands of civilians, and opened the
way for the murder of thousands more by the
various armed Islamist militias who are
using the occupation as a golden opportunity
to advance their reactionary cause.
The
countless crimes of the occupation over the
last three years have exposed the Iraqi
people to violence of all kinds, sectarian
civil war, the division of people into
religious sects and ethnic-tribal gangs, the
kidnapping of women, forced prostitution and
the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, to list
just a few of numerous outrages.
Bush
and Blair claimed that their war would bring
freedom, security and welfare to the people
of Iraq, but instead there is more violation
of human rights, widespread terror, suicide
bombings and ever more deaths.
The
only hope lies in the civilised, progressive
anti-occupation movements in Iraq and
worldwide. The struggle of Iraqi workers and
women are clearly visible as the only force
capable both of undermining the occupation
and preventing Iraq's regression to the dark
ages.
In
today’s Iraq, there is a wide mass movement
stands against the occupation in a daily
basis. The Iraq Freedom Congress is trying
to organise this movement for a brighter
future for Iraq. The formation of the IFC
provided a light at the end of the tunnel,
to organise freedom-loving people in Iraq
and across the world to fight for a society
free from occupation, terror and violence.
Today,
24 September, we call on people across the
world to support us and join the IFC in
order to end the occupation and end the
ongoing violence and terror in Iraq, uniting
all our struggles against US militarism.
End
the occupation now!
Iraq
Freedom Congress - Executive Committee
Abroad
www.ifcongress.com
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