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Statement of the Arab
Cause Solidarity Committee
The apprehension and incarceration
of Saddam Hussein will not bring about the end of the Iraqi resistance
CSCAweb (www.nodo50.org/csca),
December, 19th 2003
Arab Cause Solidarity Committee, December, 15th, 2003, Madrid
(Spain)
Translated into English by John Catalinotto, International Action
Center
"The
apprehension and incarceration of Saddam Hussein will not bring
about the end of the Iraqi resistance, which is the expression
of the growing opposition of the majority of the Iraqi population
to the occupation and to the project of the U.S. and its allies
to bring about the neo-colonial domination of the country"
Following the capture of Iraqi
ex-President Saddam Hussein by U.S. troops, the Committee for
Solidarity with the Arab Cause (Spain) would like to make the
following observations:
1.The apprehension and incarceration
of Saddam Hussein will not bring about the end of the Iraqi resistance,
which is the expression of the growing opposition of the majority
of the Iraqi population to the occupation and to the project
of the U.S. and its allies to bring about the neo-colonial domination
of the country. The inability of the occupying powers to eliminate
or restrain resistance actions, considering the massive and undisguised
military operations carried out in the last few months, demonstrates
the capacity, strength and social support of the insurgency.
Even though a good portion
of its combatants might be Ba'thists, the resistance did not
come about from the continuation of the leadership of the prior
regime through the surviving sectors of that regime. It is instead
the response of plural, democratic and patriotic Iraqi currents
that - after the first phase of the insurgency - will have to
tackle the delicate task of forming a unified national liberation
front, that will have to formulate a social, plural and integrating
program for Iraq after winning back national sovereignty.
2. The governments involved
in the occupation are once again committing the same error they
committed at the end of the invasion of the country and Bush's
May 1 proclamation that the war was over, by considering now
that the capture of Saddam Hussein is decisive for regaining
their control of the internal situation in Iraq, since the evident
ruin that the resistance has caused in only a few months to their
project of dominating the country.
With doubt a very symbolic
event, the detention of Saddam Hussein only will constitute an
extremely limited and temporary propaganda respite for the foreign
and collaborationist forces, which have hardly shown themselves
capable of managing the serious bankruptcy of the occupation
in all its aspects - military, economic, political and social.
That failure is corroborated by the latest methods the Bush administration
applied for a transition of political power and of security to
Iraqi elements with no democratic legitimacy and to internal
security forces, with the aim of alleviating the heavy human
and material costs that the resistance has
imposed on the occupiers.
3. It is for this reason an
equally grave error to consider, as some governments and political
forces felt themselves under pressure to declare this Sunday
(Dec.14) - this was the case with the secretary general of the
PSOE (Social Worker Party of Spain), Rodriguez Zapetero -who
was opposed at the time to the invasion of Iraq, that the capture
of Saddam Hussein was going to favor a rapid process of restoring
sovereignty and democracy to the country. On the contrary: each
relaxation of external and internal pressure on the U.S. and
its allies will encourage the Bush administration's intentions
of reactivating its initial plans to impose direct military control
on Iraq and the region as a whole. It is possible to imagine
that if this were the case the Sharon government in Israel without
major pressure from the United States would re-launch its war
of devastation in Palestine.
4.Finally it is possible to
point out and condemn the immorality and cynicism with which
the governments earlier involved in premeditated genocidal policy
against the Iraqi people (which has taken the lives of more than
one and a half-million civilians, according to agencies of the
United Nations) and after an illegal war of aggression and plunder
- included among these is the Aznar government (Spain) - causing
the destruction that Iraq is suffering and the impoverishment
of its population, celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein
and those who will should be found guilty claiming that their
own crimes can be forgotten.
Particularly reprehensible
is the fact that those who keep harking back to the logic of
the "war on terrorism" in an attempt to definitively
dismantle International Law, annul the essential principles of
sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples, and turn back
for their own citizens basic social and democratic rights, present
the capture of the former Iraqi president as a long-hoped for
triumph of the principles of justice and liberty.
Regarding the last point, it
has to be remembered that the occupation authorities keep imprisoned
in Iraq thousands of citizens (more than 17,000, according to
the Iraqi Commission of Human Rights) with no legal protection
at all, no recognized rights, with a procedure illegal from every
angle that violates international conventions.
End the occupation, sovereignty
for Iraq!
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