Iraq, a humanitarian intervention?

The intervention of American military forces in Iraq was presented in Western and other medias as an intervention to protect religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq against the military progresses of the ultra reactionary jihadist group the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as the Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)). This propaganda hides the imperialists political interests of the United States in their military intervention, which has no humanitarian purpose.

Iraq: the continuous suffering

The events of recent weeks in Iraq that led to the capture of Mosul (the second largest city in the country), causing 500,000 people to flee, as well as the fall of other cities, by a coalition of diverse reactionary groups composed primarily by the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham” (ISIS) [1], former Baathists and local tribe chiefs, constitute the continuation of the long agony of the Iraqi people since 2003 and even before in many aspects.

It must be remembered that the country was under the bloody dictatorship of Saddam Hussein’s clan that caused the death, exile and imprisonment of tens of thousands of people, not to mention the gassing of Kurds in Halabja in 1988. This regime was built on a totalitarian repressive apparatus that accepted no political opposition and independent trade unions, and on a clientelist tribal and sectarian basis. In now way was it nationalist as some authors have characterized it.

L’Iraq, une souffrance continue aux causes multiples…

Les évènements de ces dernières semaines en Iraq avec la prise de Mossoul, deuxième plus grande ville du pays, et qui a provoqué le départ de plus de 500 000 personnes, et d’autres villes par une coalition hétéroclite de groupes réactionnaires composée principalement par l’Etat d’Islamique d’Iraq et du Levant (EIIL)[1], d’ex baathiste et de chef de tribus sont la continuation de la longue agonie du peuple irakien depuis 2003 et même avant à bien des égards.