War drive
Who's next in US bomb-sights?
EVERY DAY now brings fresh evidence that George W Bush and his cabal of far-right Republicans who control the US policy machine are now intent upon a war against Iraqi dictayor Saddam Hussein.
Despite the growing alarm among the USA’s traditional allies, not least among the reactionary Arab regimes which facilitated the last Gulf War and have connived at the bombing of Afghanistan, the Washington hawks have convinced themselves that by ruthless use of massive air power and bombardment they caould if necessary "go it alone" and invade Iraq, oust Saddam, and install a new regime more suited to their political tastes.
However it has also become clear that the US war-drive will not end even with Iraq. Bush, tacitly backed at every stage by a servile Tony Blair, has argued that the problem of "terrorism" involves a protracted war against an "axis of evil" which also includes Iraq’s long-standing enemy Iran, the bankrupt and isolated North Korean regime, and others.
The US "war on terror" has also included support for outright terror regimes, notably Irael’s brutal Zionist regime, and of course an escalation of US military intervention in the Pacific (Philippines) and in Latin America (Colombia).
The fight to stop the war drive must challenge these and other attacks, designed to bolster the global power of the US and its crony states.