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Time To Get Out of Iraq!

On Nov. 28, 2003, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement outlining the only possible approach to resolving the total mess which the insane invasion of Iraq has created in that country and the world as a whole. As the death toll in Iraq rises, and partisan warfare makes Americans increasingly vulnerable targets of the resistance, it is time for sane Americans to rally around this perspective.

True, there are few Americans, particularly from the Bush Administration, who would be trusted by the Iraqis, or other leading Islamic figures, even if they made the proposals which LaRouche puts forward. The only American statesman who could truly be trusted would be LaRouche himself, whose prominent role and importance in policy-shaping in the United States continues to be buried by the leading Establishment press, and the banker-controlled sections of the Democratic Party.

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All the more reason that Americans—Democrat, Republican, or Independent—who wish to prevent the worsening Vietnam in the desert which is now unfolding, will rally behind LaRouche, and force a breakthrough for his policy role.

LaRouche's first proposal was as follows:

1. Declare the intention of the President of the United States to be, to cease the U.S. military occupation of Iraq at the earliest feasible occasion, and to notify the UN Security Council of the U.S. intention to reopen the matter of Iraq's earliest restoration to sovereignty in its affairs, and of the U.S. government's solicitation of UN Security Council assistance in bringing about this desired state of affairs.

There is still no alternative to this proposed move. It doesn't represent a specific plan for withdrawal, and in effect, does mean a kind of humiliation for the United States. But, as LaRouche said at the conclusion of his statement, "Sometimes the humiliation of one's own government, when done for the sake of freeing that government from self-destructive practices, is the most patriotic act of all."

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National:

Cheney's Iraq Obsession:
A National Security Menace
by Jeffrey Steinberg

Dick Cheney's name is now synonymous with the deepening quagmire in Iraq, which one military analyst has just described as 'America's Algeria'—a reference to the brutal 1954-62 independence war in the French colony in the Maghreb, which ultimately led French President Charles de Gaulle to withdraw all his forces and grant full independence.

Untruth and Consequences
by David MacMichael
David MacMichael is a former CIA analyst and a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. His commentary appeared first on tompaine.com on March 17, and is here abridged.

LaRouche Launches Penna. Media Blitz, as State Rep. H. James Endorses Him
Under the headline, 'Stop Taking Our Votes for Granted! Send a Message—Make Your Vote Count!' Pennsylvania State Rep. Harold James (D) released his formal endorsement of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. for President, who is running in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary being held on April 27.

Perpetual War Wrecking U.S. Military:
Return It to Engineering Principles
by Carl Osgood

The tortured 'debate' of announcements and denials and qualifications in early April, over whether more American forces can or will now be added to the 135,000 already in Iraq, and from where they will come, points to the extremely stretched condition of the U.S. armed forces, engaged in increasingly Vietnam-like wars. More than overstretching is hurting the American forces; they need to return to their founding, West Point 'corps of engineers' principles, in order to survive as forces actually securing the strategic defense and national security of the United States.

  • Cheney's Private Army in Iraq
    by Edward Spannaus

    The killing of four security personnel working for Blackwater USA, in Falluja, Iraq on March 31, has put a spotlight on a crucial aspect of the Iraq war and occupation which has been kept largely in the shadows: This is the role of private security contractors, who had been operating largely out of sight in Iraq, as well as in many other countries around the world.
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Terror on Worldwide Main Street: President George Bush's April 2
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Release on April 3, 2004 by the LaRouche 2004 campaign.
April Fools' Day came a day late this year. On Friday, April 2, the pack of ghouls and goniffs otherwise known as President George W. Bush, Jr.'s campaign strategists, pulled one of the dumbest publicity stunts in modern history, with the wayin which they, and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, orchestrated the fraudulent reports intended to convince the world's dumbest suckers that there is an ongoing uptick in the already stumbling, bumbling, broken-down U.S. economy.

April 2 Fake 'Recovery' Could Kill the System
by Lothar Komp

President George W. Bush's re-election strategy was based on a glorious victory in Iraq and a great economic boom at home; however, the Iraq situation is growing worse by the day; and in spite of an incredible amount of so-called stimulus to boost the economy—tax cuts by the Administration and interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve—the recovery simply refused to materialize.

Debt-Choked System at Hyperinflation 'Boundary'
by John Hoefle

When the international bankers adopted their 'wall of money' approach to save the global financial system from collapsing in September 1998, Lyndon LaRouche told them they would be better off putting the system through bankruptcy. If you go ahead with this bailout, he warned, it will only make matters worse, leading to hyperinflation and, ultimately, a much bigger explosion.

Kerry 'Me Too' Economics Could Wreck Democrats
by Paul Gallagher

The interest-rate 'backfire' and bond-market crisis triggered by President Bush's trumpeting a faked U.S. jobs report on April 2, but also Sen. John Kerry's pathetic responses since that Friday, have re-raised the Presidential election question: Will it really be Bush vs. Kerry? All bets on that may be off, because Bush's manic April foolery triggered an economic phase-shift which is also political.

Documentation:
'What We Must Do': LaRouche On the FDR Model for Real Recovery Measures

To Pennsylvania Legislators, March 31, 2004
We're going to have to react to this crisis, with the mental outlook of Franklin Roosevelt's entry into the White House in 1933; Roosevelt-type measures. The situation is somewhat different. It's more severe, in fact. But the same philosophy of government must be applied to the present situation, that was applied by Roosevelt, using the lessons we have learned from the experience of Roosevelt, and the lessons we have learned from abandoning the reforms that he introduced to get us out of the depression into recovery.


Economics:

Argentina Must Nationalize Foreign 'Energy Vultures'
by Dennis Small and Cynthia Rush

A Spain-centered grouping of foreign-owned privatized oil and utility companies has declared economic warfare against Argentina, in an attempt to strangle that country and bring about the overthrow of the Ne´stor Kirchner government. These energy vultures are deliberately creating natural gas and electricity shortages for the approaching Winter months in South America's Southern Cone...

Will the Philippines Follow Argentina In Facing Down the IMF?
by Michael Billington

EIR reported in February that the premier British colonial banking institution, Standard and Chartered, threatened the Philippines with the 'Argentine treatment' if it failed to accept the full conditionalities demanded by the international financial institutions ... Since that time, President Kirchner called the bluff of the actually bankrupt international financial system—and the IMF blinked, rolling over the debt, and dropping the demanded conditionalities.


International:

Iraqi Resistance Makes Rummy's Vietnam in the Desert
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) grabbed headlines on April 6 when he called Iraq 'President Bush's Vietnam,' but he was sayingmuch too little,much too late. Months ago, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned that Iraq would become 'Vietnam in the desert' if the United States pursued its insane war and occupation policy. LaRouche had clearly indicated what exit strategy the United States must take from an impending disaster (see EIR, Dec. 12, 2003).

  • EIR's 2003 Warning: Lessons of Iraq's Resistance to Imperial Conquest
    by Hussein Askary

    This historical analysis by an Iraqi author and EIR correspondent was first published in EIR for Nov. 14, 2003. It's original title was 'Lessons To Be Learned,' which indicates why we republish it now.
    In Iraq, as in many other places, history keeps repeating itself,
    sometimes with all the ironies and paradoxes of war and peace. In the view of this Iraqi author, the situation there, due to the foolish policy of the Bush Administration and the wicked plans of the war party of Cheney and his neo-conservative cronies, is moving rapidly towards a major confrontation all over the country.

Ghaleb Darabya:
'They Are Not Living As Human Beings'

Ghaleb Darabya represents the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority. He has worked for the Middle East Broadcasting Center in London, and hosted an English language program for the Palestine satellite channel. On March 17, he spoke at The Palestine Center in Washington.

Will Cheney Flash Sharon 'Green' To Kill Arafat?
by Dean Andromidas
Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon let it be announced clearly on April 6, that he will kill Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. This would put off any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement for years and could blow up the entire Middle East. Only the American President could stay Sharon's hand.

Terror's Legacy: Hjalmar Schacht, Otto Skorzeny, and Allen Dulles
by Michael Liebig

Part 2
The 'Strategy of Tension,' which has entered into a new phase with the terrorist attacks in Madrid, has a long history, extending back to the 1940s. From May 1944 until just before the conclusion of World War II, secret negotiations were held between the Nazi SS leadership and Allen Dulles, a key figure in Anglo-American synarchism.

Are European Terror Threats 'Islamic'?
by Rainer Apel

Along railway tracks, at central railway stations, water dams, chemical factories, and at numerous other key industrial and administrative sites in Spain ... Attacks—by whom? Officially, a number of groups and terror cells linked in some way or the other to al-Qaeda, are said to plan bomb attacks on sites in Europe, modelled on the example of the March 11 train bombs that killed almost 200 passengers and wounded more than a thousand in Madrid.

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