LaRouche: U.S. Is Losing War in Iraq, Like Indo-China

'Vote for Street: Defeat Ashcroft,' Says LaRouche

LaRouche on Democratic Presidential Ballot in Missouri

Missouri, home state of U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft, is the first state in which LaRouche has filed.

From Volume 2, Issue Number 44 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published Nov. 4, 2003

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LaRouche: U.S. Is Losing War in Iraq, Like Indo-China

In a strategic briefing to the LaRouche Youth Movement on Nov. 1, Democratic Presidential primary candidate Lyndon LaRouche said, "the Iraqi military is in the process, now, of winning the war, against a U.S. invading force! This is not a mismanagement problem: The United States is losing the war! And, it's losing that war, in the same degree that it lost the war in Indo-China."

LaRouche explained, "What happened in Iraq? At a point, that the U.S. killing operation—air power use of super-weapon; destroy whole territories—became severe, the Iraqi military disappeared. It vanished! It didn't vanish to nowhere—it still existed. What you're now seeing—a decision was made, among within part of the Iraqi population, among the military: Since they could not defeat the strategic arsenal being deployed against them by the United States, what they would do is, they would take a lesson from Korea and Vietnam. And they would say, "We can't beat their weapons, but when we're close up to them, next to them ... and they have to deal with us man-to-man; if we're willing to take the brunt of that, we can win that war."

The past week of casualties suffered by the U.S. and forces working with the U.S. surpasses any tallies that occurred during the phase of "major combat" that President Bush declared to be ended as of May 1. On Nov. 2, a U.S. Chinook transport helicopter was shot down near Amiryah, south of Fallujah, killing 15 U.S. troops and wounding 21 others, according to early reports. The chopper, reportedly carrying troops to Baghdad Airport for R&R, was shot down by ground-fired missiles, according to witnesses. Another U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad when an "improvised explosive device" detonated and struck his vehicle, and two American civilian contractors were killed and a third wounded when another improvised explosive device hit their convoy vehicle in Fallujah.

'Vote for Street: Defeat Ashcroft,' Says LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche issued the following statement on Oct. 28, which was read at press conference held at State Senator Harold James and other legislators the same day. See this week's EIW InDepth for a report on the Philadelphia fight.

As in the case of the California recall election, the Republican Party, faced with the plunging loss of credibility of the Bush-Cheney government, has resorted to a pattern of unusual bureaucratic tricks to try to pre-rig the results of the 2004 Presidential election by capturing control of key positions of state and municipal government. The governorship of California, the key state for the next Presidential election, and the thuggish role of Attorney-General John Ashcroft's ham-fisted recklessness in the Philadelphia mayoralty campaign, are reflections of these dubious maneuvers.

There is much more than an election-result as such at stake in this. The U.S. today is gripped by a general financial-monetary collapse which is far more dangerous than the 1929-1933 depression dumped on us by foolish and cruel policies of the successive Coolidge and Hoover Presidencies. Unless we return now to the philosophy of government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the condition of our nation, especially the lower eighty percentile of family-income brackets, will be far worse than during the 1930s Depression.

We might wish that the administration of President George W. Bush, Jr. would change its ways; but, are you willing to gamble your family's, your community's life on that hope?

Let us make sure that in Philadelphia, we do not have a repeat of those shameful performances by my fellow Democrats, which allowed Ashcroft to become Attorney General in January 2001, and allowed Arnie 'Beast-man' Schwarzenegger to take over California earlier this month. Let us deliver a devastating blow to Ashcroft's gestapo methods, by a massive turnout to re-elect Mayor John Street. This election has taken on national and worldwide significance, as the result of John Ashcroft's filthy effort to steal an election through his all-too-familiar methods of terror, deceit, and brutal abuse of governmental power.

I call on all my fellow Democrats—including my rivals for the party's Presidential nomination—to join me in this effort to send John Ashcroft packing. This is not a partisan issue. The kind of Hitlerian gestapo tactics being employed by this Attorney General, in league with the Dick Cheney-led neo-conservative war party in Washington, cannot be tolerated if America is to remain a free society. Our Constitution, the greatest living document in modern history, was crafted in Philadelphia. Let us perform an act of grateful service to our Founding Fathers, by delivering a crushing blow to the Ashcrofts and Cheneys, who would trample on those sacred principles of the general welfare and the common good, which our Founders worked to establish on these shores.

LaRouche on Democratic Presidential Ballot in Missouri

Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democrats to qualify for federal matching funds for the 2004 Democratic primary elections is now officially on the Missouri Democratic Presidential primary ballot. LaRouche's name is posted on the State of Missouri website as a Democratic Party Presidential candidate.

Missouri, home state of U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft, is the first state in which LaRouche has filed.

According to the official records of the Federal Election Commission, LaRouche has a larger number of individual contributions in Missouri than any of the Democratic candidates, except Rep. Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Congressman from Missouri, and Howard Dean.

The high level of support from the population—as opposed to "the media"—in Missouri, is also true in Ohio, where LaRouche is ahead of Rep. Dennis Kucinich in his home state. On Oct. 28, The Vindicator of Youngstown, Ohio, reported on Oct. 28 that Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is the third-highest fundraiser in the Mahoning Valley, only surpassed by John Edwards and John Kerry. "LaRouche ... has the third-highest amount of money raised from Valley contributors among Democrats running next year for the nation's highest office" the newspaper reported.

"LaRouche has raised a respectable amount statewide, from Ohio contributors compared to others running for President—$57,810 compared with U.S. Rep Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, who's raised $55,975 in his home state, and Kerry, who raised $63,900 in Ohio. None of the other Democratic candidates have raised more than $1,000 from Valley contributors."

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