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FEBRUARY 2003 PAN AFRICAN FORUM
AFRICANS AND THE AMERICAN IMPERIALIST WAR AGAINST IRAQ American President George Bush is a MAD IMPERIALIST RIDING A PAPER TIGER. Former South African President Nelson Mandela describes the United States of America as "One power with a President who has no foresight, who can not think properly, is wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." Mandela further said, "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America...What Bush wants is to get hold of Iraqi oil." Bush's plans to invade Iraq to seize Iraq's vast oil reserves, may not result in the outcomes he is seeking. Having been terrorised by American and British bombing raids over the past 10 years, the Iraqi people are being further terrorised by the threat of war and the use of nuclear weapons against them. The Iraqis have suffered 10 years of sanctions during which malnutrition, illnesses and lack of medical care and the death of over 1 million Iraqi children have wrecked their country. Yet, they may still possess the courage to frustrate American imperialist plans. Following the United Nations Inspectors' Reports and the monster demonstrations in Britain and world-wide, the Bush administration now finds itself backed into NO WIN SITUATION of its own causing. What ever it does, it ends up a loser. A declining super power, it faces further decline if it beats a tactical and diplomatic withdrawal from war. Should it be irrational enough to launch its imperialist war to seize Iraq's oil assets, it faces much further and steeper decline. International mass opposition to war is forcing it to choose the least worse option. The current situation shops the truth of Mao Tse Tung's statement that "UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM IS A PAPER TIGER. Last week, it was talking of war immediately after Han's Blix's Report to the United Nations Security Council. This week, it is talking of war in three weeks. Its plans are being blown off the war course by the winds of international opposition to its plans for world domination. Africans have played a decisive role in blowing America's war plans off course. Mandela's statement above; South African President Thabo Mbeki's vocal opposition; the decision of the African Union to oppose America's war plans; the UNITY AND SOLIDARITY of the African Group on the UN Security Council; the vigorous opposition of North American African Organisations and African peoples opposition in Britain; all these have contributed; all these have contributed to blowing America's war plans off course. The USA plans to invade Iraq under OPERATION SHOCK AND AWE. The full military might of the USA is to be used against Iraq. These Mad Imperialists plan to show the world what Armageddon looks like by unleashing America's full military arsenal against the Iraqi people. Millions will be killed and untold destruction caused. Yet, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, isolated from the vast majority of British people, says this will be an act of humanity. As Michael Bradley postulates in The Ice man Inheritance, love for killing people is one of the traits of the Ice Man. Not only that, it wants to terrorise the rest of humanity into submission to American military domination. France, Germany, Belgium, Russia and China recognised that. That is why they have thwarted America's war plans and that is why they will continue to thwart America's war plans. If the USA can get away with stealing Iraq's oil under the bogus cover of disarming Sadam Husein of weapons of mass destruction, it will be emboldened to try to seize Africa's vast mineral and oil wealth. USA supervised the brutal slaughter of over 4 million Congolese in the proxy war fought on its behalf by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. But military intervention by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe defeated America's proxy war against the Congolese people. So United States imperialism is not invincible, it can be defeated. Should America succeed in Iraq, it will have no qualms threatening African leaders and countries with invasion and war if they do not do its bidding. Africans be warned. Africa and Africans world-wide must sit up and take notice and continue to develop and build our solidarity and unity in action against the threats posed by United States imperialism. The African Communities in Britain must not stand aside and do nothing. Indeed, many participated in the monster demonstration held in London on 15th February. What more must we do? What more can we do. These are some of the issues to be discussed at this February 2003 Pan African Forum. The speakers are: George Shiri of the Zimbabwe African National Union; Esther Stanford of the Forum For Africans and African Descendants Against racism (UK); Ousman of the Movement For Justice in Africa, Gambia Section; and Yaw Adu-Larbi of the Convention Peoples Party of Ghana. The date of this Forum is Sunday 23rd February at 4 o'clock p.m.. The Venue is hackney Black Peoples Association, 18 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XN. Admission is �3.00 and Concessions �1.00. This is strictly an African Family Gathering. For further information, contact: Lester Lewis. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NB: See 150 pictures of demonstrations against the war on www.mathaba.net. Recipients are invited to further this email to other interested parties. Lester Lewis
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