Iraq's Communist Party says it wants U.S. troops out soon, plans political

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Comeback.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/330/world/Iraq_s_Communist_Party_says_it:.shtml

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Iraq's largest leftist party which battled Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and now holds a seat on the U.S.-picked Governing Council blames Washington for the upsurge in armed resistance and wants U.N. peacekeepers to replace American troops in the near future.

Salaam Ali, a member of the Iraqi Communist Party's Central Committee, told The Associated Press that the slowness of the occupation authorities in devising a viable plan for the transfer of authority to an Iraqi government had emboldened ''defeated elements'' of Saddam's regime and religious militants.

''If the Americans had listened to us back in May and allowed a national conference to pick a legitimate government, there would never have been this level of instability,'' Ali said in an interview in his office, where a small, gold colored statue of Lenin stood on the mantle.

Still, the party Iraq's oldest and broadest secular political grouping intends to stick with the 25-member Governing Council and to cooperate with L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in the country, during the upcoming transition. The party's secretary general, Hamid Majid Moussa, will continue to serve on the body, Ali said.

Despite the ideological differences between the communists who still stress their Marxist roots and the coalition, officials say the two sides have cooperated surprisingly well over the past several months.
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[drewb]

1. Uh oh, this is bad....

This could lead to a domino effect throughout the mideast...

First Iraq, then Iran, then Turkey, then Jordan, then Israel...

We better nip this in the bud or the whole world may go RED!!!

:crazy::tinfoilhat:

[BayCityProgressive]

2. What?

Do the Iraqis think they can pick their own leaders now?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Just the idea of Iraq becoming a socialist democracy is a hoot.

The neocons would have to start saying Iraq has WMD again.

[TheLastMohican]

4. WTF? Neocons cooperating with the commies?

We are experiencing this world collapse from head to toes.
I thought about Perle and Wolfowitz acting like true Trotskists with their "world-wide never-ending revolution" aka "war on terror".
But to state their goals so shamelessly and obviously? Makes me think...:think:

[mobuto]

5. Maybe not so surprising when you think about it

Neocons and Communists are really in the same boat in Iraq, in the sense that both are fighting both Saddam loyalists and religious fundies. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old adage goes.

Actually, whether we like it or not, I think we're all in that boat. Before we leave, (if we ever leave) I think everybody in this country agrees we need to make it possible for a real small-d democratic government to exist.

We need to find some way to hammer a silver lining onto the cloud of war.