[D66] NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte

[Antid Oto]

Dat je pro-oorlog bent wisten we al langer. De mindset van Bakker, lobbyist,
mislukt politicus. En aan je tweets valt af te lezen waarom.


On 2-9-2011 9:51, Bert Bakker wrote:
> Wat een merkwaardige observatie, "Nato prepares bloodbath in Sirte".
> Als Ghadaffi zich nu gewonnen geeft, is de oorlog voorbij.
> Of wordt hij door de internationale socialisten nog steeds beschouwd als een
> held der arbeidersklasse?
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> 2011/9/2 Antid Oto <protocosmos66 at gmail.com <mailto:protocosmos66 at gmail.com>>
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>     NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte
>     1 September 2011
>
>     Nearly six months after securing a United Nations Security Council resolution
>     authorizing a no-fly zone in Libya and the use of "all necessary
>     measures... to
>     protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack," the US
>     and its NATO allies, former colonial powers, are mounting a barbaric siege
>     of a
>     major population center that threatens to produce civilian casualties on a
>     mass
>     scale.
>
>     In their breathless promotion of the "final battle" to realize the real
>     US-NATO
>     aim in Libya---regime-change---few in the Western media have bothered to
>     consider
>     the fact that the major imperialist powers are carrying out precisely the kind
>     of act they claimed their war was designed to prevent.
>
>     Gaddafi's troops were marching on Benghazi, the world was told, and only a
>     "humanitarian" intervention by NATO could save the city's innocent population.
>     Now the "rebels" are encircling Sirte, led by British and Qatari special
>     forces
>     troops, intelligence operatives and mercenary military contractors, while the
>     city's population is being pounded by NATO bombs and cut off from food,
>     fuel and
>     all basic supplies.
>
>     The sheer contempt shown by the US and the Western European powers for
>     legality
>     and world public opinion is breathtaking. The pretense that NATO is acting
>     under
>     the terms of the UN resolution that provided a fig leaf for its
>     intervention is
>     more than absurd; it has become obscene.
>
>     One has to go back to the crimes of the fascist powers in the 1930s and
>     1940s to
>     search for parallels to such a siege: the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish
>     Civil War, the siege of Leningrad and the Warsaw Ghetto.
>
>     NATO warplanes have over the past few days conducted scores of air strikes
>     against Sirte, the town of Bani Walid to its west and the roads linking
>     the two.
>     While there have been no independent reports from Sirte, the spokesman for the
>     Gaddafi regime, Moussa Ibrahim, reported that the continuous bomb and missile
>     attacks have killed 1,000 people in the city and left many more wounded.
>
>     Part of this ferocious air assault is aimed at assassinating Colonel Muammar
>     Gaddafi, who is believed by some to have taken refuge in the city or its
>     surrounding area. Western special forces are reportedly on the ground hunting
>     for Gaddafi, while an array of US spy planes have been deployed to
>     pinpoint his
>     whereabouts.
>
>     The NATO-led rebels have taken up positions on the main coastal highway both
>     east and west of Sirte, with orders to stay in place until the NATO blitzkrieg
>     has sufficiently annihilated the city's defenders.
>
>     The National Transitional Council (NTC), the self-appointed body of ex-Gaddafi
>     ministers, Western intelligence assets, Islamists and tribal functionaries
>     that
>     has been recognized by the major powers as the legitimate government of Libya,
>     has announced a surrender-or-die ultimatum to the city. If a surrender is not
>     forthcoming by Saturday, they say, the city will be subjected to military
>     assault.
>
>     "We have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender," an NTC military
>     spokesman, Col. Ahmed Omar Bani, told a press conference in Benghazi. "We
>     continue to seek a peaceful solution, but on Saturday we will use different
>     methods against these criminals."
>
>     "Sometimes to avoid bloodshed you must shed blood, and the faster we do
>     this the
>     less blood we will shed," said Ali Tarhouni, the deputy head of the NTC.
>
>     The Western media is justifying a bloodbath in advance, reporting that the
>     "rebels" have "unfinished business" or "scores to settle" with Sirte's
>     defenders, which are said to include army units involved in the attacks on
>     Misrata and Benghazi. The city is also Gaddafi's hometown and a center of his
>     tribe, the Gaddafifahs.
>
>     The criminal methods employed by NATO and its "rebel" proxies---the bombing of
>     cities, attempted assassinations, massacres and the lynching of black
>     sub-Saharan African immigrant workers---are in sync with the aim of the war:
>     imperialist conquest.
>
>     Having supported the Western-backed dictatorships of Zine El Abidine Ben
>     Ali in
>     Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt against popular revolts until the
>     bitter end,
>     the US and its NATO allies decided to intervene in Libya, which lies
>     strategically between these two countries. They set about hijacking the
>     anti-Gaddafi demonstrations that broke out last February and fomenting a civil
>     war as a vehicle for direct NATO intervention. To this end, British and French
>     special forces units were deployed on the ground in Libya well before any UN
>     resolution was ever discussed.
>
>     This intervention was never about protecting the civilian population.
>     Tellingly,
>     a spokesman for the NTC Wednesday estimated that the total number of Libyans
>     killed in the last six months---both civilians and combatants---has risen
>     to over
>     50,000. If one were to accept as good coin the pretense that NATO waged
>     its war
>     for the purpose of saving human lives, it would have to be judged a colossal
>     failure. This war has produced far more carnage than any repression that
>     preceded it.
>
>     The goal of the NATO war is to install a puppet regime in Tripoli that
>     will be a
>     more pliant tool of the Western governments and energy conglomerates. Ruling
>     circles in Washington, London, Paris and Rome are salivating over the prospect
>     of turning the clock back 42 years to the days when the corrupt monarchy
>     of King
>     Idris let Standard Oil write Libya's petroleum laws and provided military
>     bases
>     to both the US and Britain.
>
>     Consolidating such neocolonial aims will no doubt entail an even greater
>     amount
>     of bloodshed in suppressing popular opposition within Libya.
>
>     The crimes being carried out against the people of Libya and the threat of
>     a far
>     wider conflagration that is inherent in the inter-imperialist tensions
>     over who
>     will control the country's oil wealth pose the urgent necessity of a new
>     antiwar
>     movement, based on the working class and a socialist perspective.
>
>     The struggle against war must be joined with the fight against the assault on
>     jobs, living standards and basic social and democratic rights taking place in
>     virtually every country. It must be consciously directed against the source of
>     both militarism and the unfolding social counterrevolution---the
>     capitalist profit
>     system.
>
>     Bill Van Auken
>
>     http://wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/pers-s01.shtml
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