Reply #10: Perhaps because the IDF also has "terrorist murderers" [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

The Bush administration has invoked the struggle against “terrorism” to conceal the criminal nature of its war aims in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seeks to cover up the inconvenient fact that today’s “terrorist” or “tyrant” is, more often than not, yesterday’s ally—a category that includes not only Saddam Hussein, but also Osama bin Laden, Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega and other targets of US military action over the past two decades.

The only way to defeat the threat of terrorism is to remove its cause: putting an end to the US military, political and economic domination of the Middle East, withdrawing all American military forces, and freeing the people of that region to determine their own political course, including control of the natural resources. This is the essential precondition for a democratic solution to the Middle East conflict, allowing Jews, Arabs, Kurds and other peoples of the region to live together in peace.

The Socialist Equality Party demands the immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and the entire Middle East and Central Asia. We call for those who planned and organized the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, from Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld on down, to be placed on trial for war crimes. We call for the dismantling of the Pentagon war machine and the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction, above all in the United States and other imperialist centers.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/stat-j27.shtml