Iraqi Intifada (fwd)

(AM Radio says that the liberal media--you know like AP, Reuters and
 others--are embellished in the reporting of the events in Iraq. ..
 enjoy these articles ...

 A visit to The ("antiwar") Nation magazine web site would make one
 think "Condi tells all" was the day's big story...)

Iraqi Resistance Report Sunday, 4 April through Wednesday, 7 April 2004
http://www.neravt.com/left/war/resistance0404-0407-04.html

Special Iraqi Resistance Report Thursday, 8 April 2004
http://www.neravt.com/left/war/resistance0408-04.html

"Regime Change, Resistance-Style:  Iraq's Intifada Begins"
http://www.lefthook.org/Politics/Alam040804.html

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [A-List] US Will Need 500,000 Troops For Iraq: Jane's
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:14:36 -0400
From: "Stan Goff"
To: "'The A-List'" <[email protected]>

A CNN poll right this minute is showing 43% calling for withdrawal from
Iraq.  Check the last few days' updates at www.bringthemhomenow.org.
Things are light years worse than they are being reported.  The
aggressive operations of the US are NOT offensive in nature, except in
the strictest technical sense.  They are defensive.  If the US forces
were to simply hunker down right now, as has been their wont to do (and
let Blackwater, et al, run convoys), they would be quickly fixed in
multi-focal encirclements... a swarm.  The political situation has
always been desperate.  It is now mirrored in the tactical situation.
In the game of GO, a game of positions, there is something called a
dragon's tail.  If there is a tactical alliance developed between the
North and South, this tail could snake between the coalition bases
across Iraq, and it would take 500,000 just to keep the roads open for
resupply.

This will likely now become a much more ruthless war.

> Itar-Tass reports:
>
> According to reports coming here, the U.S. military
> command in Iraq has already asked for reinforcement.
> The Pentagon has not made an official decision so far,
> but a report came that the replacement by fresh troops
> of 24,000 U.S. officers and men, planned for the
> current week, has been postponed, and they will stay
> in Iraq for an indefinite period of time.
>
> ------
>
> Is anyone tracking how this is affecting opinion within the US?
> Presumably the soldiers are going to be pissed off at not being able to
> leave, but their families and, in the case of reservists, employers, are
> going to be affected too. Are there any estimates of how a deepening
> crisis in Iraq will impact the "home front"?
>
> Michael

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pieinsky
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:37:34 -0400
Subject: Good Articles on Current Iraqi Intifada

"One year on: From liberation to jihad", Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FD09Ak02.html

"Bush and Blair have lit a fire which could consume them: The Iraqi uprising will drive home the forgotten lessons of empire", Sean Milne, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1188142,00.html

"'Report from Baghdad: Opening the Gates of Hell", Rahul Mahajan, CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/mahajan04072004.html

"This is George W. Bush's Vietnam", Rob Lyon, In Defense of Marxism
http://www.marxist.com/MiddleEast/george_bushs_vietnam.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pieinsky
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:53:06 -0400
Subject: [Marxism] More Shades of Stalingrad

The guerillas from the Iraqi Resistance seem to be working with some
success to cut off the ground supply routes for the Nazis (oops U.S.) to
their troops at the Falluja seige.  When does the really frigid (oops hot)
weather come in Iraq?  Not too far off.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B902557C-CDBB-4DDF-9577-B9D264E2787D.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3613299.stm

jay
www.neravt.com/left/
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