April 7, 2003
Largely unreported in the mainstream press of America is the unified opposition to the war for regime change in Iraq from both the Greens and worldwide Socialists. The same person could have written their public statements for the way they mirror one another. This only serves to underscore what observers of these political groups have long known; the Greens are merely another element of Socialist opposition to Capitalism.
In September of last year, the Green Party of the United States issued a statement declaring their opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Under the aegis of the United Nations, which authorized the expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait, the pilots of the U.S. and allied nations have been repeatedly attacked while guarding the "no-fly zones." In the 12 years that have passed since then, Iraq has ignored 17 U.N. resolutions to disarm and thrown out the U.N. inspectors until forced to let them return.
There has been zero evidence that Iraq has ever ceased in its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, but according to Tod Sloan, co-chair of the party’s International committee, "If President Bush and Congress truly care about the security of the U.S., they will work with the United Nations to address any threat by Iraq through peaceful, diplomatic means."
The Greens/Green Party USA, a separate group, is even more vociferous in its condemnation of the conflict. "Greens throughout the world condemn the U.S. government'’ trampling on human rights and international law to kill thousands of innocent Iraqis, for the sake of oil and imperial design." It called for "a worldwide consumer boycott of selected corporations. Already, international boycotts against Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and other U.S. companies are underway." The notion that Coca-Cola or McDonald’s are the enemy, along with all other U.S. multinational corporations, is a definition of the Socialist point of view.
The World Socialists and Socialist Equality Party sponsored a conference this past weekend on the subject of "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War: the Strategy and Program of a New International Working Class Movement." If Karl Marx, Lenin, and Stalin weren’t dead, you could bet they would all be keynote speakers. So far as the World Socialists are concerned, the war’s purpose is to "plunder and colonize Iraq." Nary a word of criticism for Saddam Hussein.
In March, The Democratic Socialists of the USA chimed in with a statement by Frank Llewellyn, its national director. "This war and those that could well follow it do not flow from any direct threat to the United States." Apparently 9/11 has slipped his mind. "Bush’s war is a political war in favor of a new ideological doctrine of imperial dominance." The Red Chinese could not have said it better.
Naturally, Llewellyn believes that "the peace movement should agitate for United Nations,’ and not the United States’ administration of post-war Iraqi economic and military reconstruction." We all know what a terrific job the U.N. has done to contain and eliminate Saddam’s aggressive instincts. Finally, Llewellyn states that "The unilateral attack on Iraq is part and parcel of the Reagan-Bush worldview that conceives of the United States as the sole force for good in the world."
There hasn’t been a single word from the self-appointed environmentalists concerning the enormous environmental damage Saddam authorized in the Gulf War, setting Kuwaiti oil fields ablaze, and dumping thousands of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf. There is still no word about his latest effort to set Iraqi oil fields ablaze. There isn’t a word about the brutal oppression of the Iraqi people, nor the billions of dollars Saddam personally siphoned from Iraq’s economy.
So Greenpeace, the National Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, and the vast matrix of environmental organizations have all revealed themselves to be Socialists/Communists at heart.
They are a movement whose purpose is to undermine the economy of this nation by pressing for legislation that:
There is hardly any element of our economy that hasn’t been under attack by these "environmentalists." The immediate enemy is Iraq. The other enemy is the environmentalists for whom Socialism/Communism is the guiding agenda behind their varied agendas.
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