jim writes: A report from the Portugal News>:

"US Arms Group Heads for Lisbon"

Directors of one of the world's largest armament companies are planning on
meeting in Lisbon in three weeks time. The American based Carlyle Group is
heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the
Iraqi war.

John Fisk writes:

SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - So where are

the Americans? I

prowled the empty departure lounges, mooched through

the abandoned

customs department, chatted to the seven armed militia

guards, met the

airport director and stood beside the runways where

two dust-covered Iraqi

Airways passenger jets -- an old 727 and an even more

elderly Antonov --

stood forlornly on the runway not far from an equally

decrepit military

helicopter.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Is Uncle Sam about to get caught...?"



"Between Iraq and a Hard Place:


An Anti-State Communist Perspective on the War"

Angyal Istvan
                 



As I write this, in early March 2003, the rulers of the United States are about to attack Iraq. If the prevalent guesses are correct, the American empire will rapidly defeat and destroy Saddam Hussein's regime, seize Iraqi oil fields, and occupy major urban centers. This will probably be accomplished with an initially low number of US military casualties, and a very high number of deaths among Iraqi civilians and military personnel. The United States will attempt to cobble together a client regime analogous to that of Karzai's in Afghanistan, and it will be at this point, the high-point of an apparently overwhelming and inexpensive US military victory, that a real, enduring defeat for the United States may begin.