[L-I] Saddam Is Captured - my comments

December 14, 2003
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Saddam is captured.
Saddam is captured.
Saddam is captured.
Get used to the sound of it. It will be heard over and over again.
Saddam was captured and the occupation lives on.
The media denies the power of the masses and tells the public that the 
resistance of the patriotic Iraqis is all the fault of Saddam. They fight because 
Saddam is still alive and is on the loose.
Saddam is captured, but the resistance will not end.
The resistance is rooted in the rage of the Iraqi people. They have been 
defiled, killed, and tortured by the imperial forces and the public is told that 
the resistance is because of Saddam.
No…the Iraqis fight for their freedom. No people will be subjugated without 
resistance.
“Caught like a rat,” says General Odierno of the US capitalist army. Saddam 
may be caught, but the Iraqi resistance lives.
The capture of Saddam means nothing, for the occupation has not ended and the 
abuse of the Iraqi people continues.
The pictures in the media show scattered groups of Iraqis cheering and 
marching. In one video is seen a group of no more than what appears to be 50 Iraqis 
carrying pictures of an Islamic cleric. Yet another video shows a group of 
perhaps 200 Iraqis waving red flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle.
Where are the masses of people cheering and marching? They are not there for 
the masses – and the masses are fully attuned to the reality – recognize that 
nothing has changed.
Does this capture of Saddam gain jobs for the 70% of Iraqis who are 
unemployed.
Does this capture of Saddam end the occupation?
Does this capture of Saddam sound the death knell of the forced privitization 
of Iraqi industries?
Does this capture of Saddam liberate the Iraqi people from the imperialist 
boot that is pressed against the peoples’ throat?
No.
The capture of Saddam is meaningless. The capture of Saddam provides a photo 
opportunity for the imperial forces. Nothing more.
Yet this ebullience amongst the imperialists will be met with resistance.
Will the resistance die down as Saddam has been captured?
No.
The imperialists will have their troops murdered. The resistance will 
continue.
The blood of the occupiers will flow in Tikrit. The blood of the imperialists 
will stain the ground of Mosul and Khaldiya. The blood of the capitalists’ 
fighters will stain the Iraqi soil.
The stain will live as a testament to the resistance. The blood is not 
desired because the Iraqi people love violence. The blood is desired and the blood 
will be spilled because the Iraqi people love freedom and liberation.
Remember the statue of Saddam! It was toppled in Baghdad and the imperialists 
said they were victorious. Fuhrer Bush proclaimed “Mission Accomplished”. 
Some were pained to see the statue toppled. The U.S. was in control. Yes, the 
statue was toppled, but a statue cannot resist. A statue has no beating heart 
and no desire for freedom.
Mission accomplished he said.
Mission beginning the Iraqi resistance said.
So as the statue fell and imperial triumphalism reigned, the seeds of the dest
ruction of imperial control were germinating.
One soldier dead in Falluja, ten dead in another village. The resistance did 
not die in its infancy when the statue was toppled. Neither will it die with 
the capture of the real Saddam.
The Iraqis fight on and the resistance will continue.
The blood of the imperialists will flow.
The Iraqis will be liberated.
Saddam is gone, the resistance is not.

FOR A FREE IRAQ!
FOR A LIBERATED IRAQ!
DEATH TO THE IMPERIALISTS!
DEATH TO THE COLLABORATORS!
LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!
NO TURNING BACK!


December 14, 2003
Comrade Andrew
Moderator of Proletariat group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletariat)

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