US and Britain Have Sown Seeds of More Terror

LONDON, 29 October 2003 — UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared earlier this month: “As long as there’s an occupation, the resistance will grow.” Monday’s attacks in Iraq bear out his solemn warning and are a cruel reminder of the problems at the heart of the US and British occupation.

This increasingly emerges as a war we should never have started and now do not know how to end. Despite positive work by British forces in southern Iraq, many of our current policies in the country are creating further resentment among Iraqis, and providing stimulus for the growing violence.

There always was a contradiction at the core of this government’s Iraq war. We were going to war “to uphold the authority of the United Nations”, the government said, meanwhile rubbishing the objections of other security council members and initiating military force without any UN Resolution specifically to authorize it.

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Looks like Bush & Co. are starting to figure that out. They will drain as much money as they can, then skeedaddle. Before the 2004 election, the US will set up a puppet government and declare the occupation over. Will it work? Will the public buy it?