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International - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 End the Occupation of Iraq - 5th Anniversary of the Invastion
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Monday February 04, 2008 12:28 by Young Socialist - Socialist Youth socialist.youth at btconnect dot com SY Offices, 13 Lombard St, Belfast NI: 07876146473

If you would like petitions, badges or leaflets please contact Socialist Youth at socialist.youth@btconnect.com or Paddy @ 07876146473
4.30pm Wed 13th February
Venue: Socialist Youth Offices,
13 Lombard St, Belfast
* No more blood for oil!
* Money for wages, NOT war!
* No sectarian killings - Unity of Iraqi workers
March 15th marks the 5th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. At the beginning of the war, George Bush estimated that they would 'normalise' Iraq within 4 years. Instead they have created a hell on earth with barbaric conditions for the majority of Iraqis.
 Poster for the Public Meeting The group Just Foreign Policy estimates over 1.13 million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the war and occupation. More than 3,900 American soldiers have been killed. More than 28,000 have been seriously wounded. 174 British soldiers have died during the occupation.
According to Oxfam International, 70 percent of Iraqis lack access to safe drinking water. Electricity supply is beneath pre-invasion levels. 43% of the population lives on less than 50p a day.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2.3 million people have been displaced within Iraq and another 2.3 million have fled the country. Official Iraqi Government figures state unemployment is between 60% and 70%. Child malnutrition rates have increased from 19 percent during the economic sanctions period prior to the invasion, to 28 percent today. 8 million Iraqis are in need of emergency assistance.
Money for wages, NOT War
So far, the US has spent nearly $500 billion on the war and occupation. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, slavishly following George Bush, have wasted more than £7.4 billion of taxpayers' money on this disastrous occupation which has no hope of succeeding. Billions of taxpayers money can be found by Gordon Brown for war, but he says there is no money for wages, for hospitals, education and other services which require much needed funding.
Defeat for Bush, Blair & Brown
Instead of a 'normalised' Iraq, US imperialism is confronted with a crushing defeat. According to a recent ABC/BBC poll, 98% of Sunnis and 84% of Shias in Iraq want all US forces out of the country. 65% of Americans want the troops brought home. Bush is one of the most hated presidents in US history, while the US Congress' approval rating is even lower at 18%. Tony Blair will go down in the history books as a liar who went to war despite mass opposition.
The occupation has increased the likelihood of more terror attacks and has further destabilised the Middle East. It has also led to the strengthening of right-wing Islamic fundamentalism and sectarian forces in Iraq which have carried out campaigns of ethnic cleansing, threatening the potential bloody break up of the country along religious and ethnic lines.
The cost of the war and occupation has been enormous, but not for everyone. Haliburton, the company that supplies the US military which has close links with the Bush regime, has won over $16 billion in contracts since 2003. Private security firm Blackwater are under investigation for killing innocent Iraqis but still have a $1billion contract with the US military.
Troop Surge - can it work?
An extra 30,000 troops were sent to Iraq in June raising the total number of US troops in Iraq up to 160,000. This is part of a desperate attempt by Bush to defeat the opposition to the occupation, but it is doomed to failure. According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, the number of Iraqis forced from their homes quadrupled during the 'surge'. Attacks on occupation forces have not ceased. There are more than 2,000 attacks a month. Since the surge, according to news reports more than 7,500 Iraqis have been killed. The true figure is thought to be far higher.
The daily bombings which have scarred Iraq since the start of the occupation reduced slightly towards end of 2007. But this is largely because the sectarian conflict has completely polarised Baghdad along religious lines, physically dividing Sunni and Shia’s.
Whoever is elected to the White House later this year will not withdraw the troops voluntarily. All candidates, both Republican and Democrat, are opposed to withdrawing the troops. But a movement of workers, youth and Iraq war veterans against the war can develop and exert pressure to force a withdrawal of troops. Such a movement would also need to raise the need to build a working class anti-war party to challenge the Republicans and Democrats.
What solution for Iraq?
Socialist Youth is opposed to the reactionary anti-women, anti-gay and anti-socialist policies of some of the forces opposing the occupation in Iraq. We stand for unity of working class and young people in Iraq in their struggle for decent jobs and services, against sectarian division and the occupation. This struggle must also fight for the resources of Iraq to be democratically owned and controlled by the working people of Iraq. By developing the great resources Iraq possesses such as oil, a genuine reconstruction of Iraq could transform people's lives.
A socialist Iraq, planning its production to meet the needs of people and not the profits of US neo-conservative backed companies could act as an inspiration to workers across the Middle East. It could pose an alternative to the corrupt dictatorships in Iran and Syria and also the US-backed dictators in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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