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and political foes of Saddam Hussein in London announced a virtual 
government in exile. Notably present at the meeting was Jordan?s number two 
leader Crown Prince Hassan. Although Jordan has publicly opposed a new war 
against its larger neighbor, the western media on July 12 widely reported 
that the pro-U.S. monarchy has "agreed secretly to allow U.S. special 
forces to operate from two of its air bases" when the invasion takes place. 
 (The Herald of Scotland, July 12)
Other lead articles have appeared in the major press of U.S. allies with 
screaming headlines like that in the July 16 National Post of Canada: "Iraq 
is bound to lose, quickly, completely." On the same day British Prime 
Minister Tony Blair went out of his way to tell the members of Parliament 
that his government will not be compelled to discuss with them any British 
participation in the coming war.
On July 14, Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon's second ranking official and a 
leading cheerleader for the war, held a press conference in Turkey-one site 
from which the U.S.  attack is likely to be launched-announcing that Turkey 
would reap ?economic" benefits from the overthrow of the Iraqi government. 
Turkey is experiencing a severe economic crisis and its government was on 
the verge of collapsing as Wolfowitz executed his widely covered 
saber-rattling media performance.
IMPACT OF ?LEAKED" WAR PLAN
The administration's psychological war, or Psyops as it is known in 
military parlance, began with special intensity when a top secret, 
five-inch thick, dossier detailing plans for an invasion of Iraq with 
250,000 troops was "leaked" to the New York Times. The Times on July 5 
featured the story prominently on the front page. It's follow-up editorial 
two days later did not dispute the legality or rightness of the planned 
aggression-as it did so famously with the publication of the secret 
Pentagon Papers in June 1971 that increased public opposition to U.S. 
policy in Vietnam. The Times follow-up editorial to the July 5 Iraq 
invasion story only called for the tactics of the war plan to be debated in 
Congress and elsewhere.
Since the Times story on July 5, the print media and television have been 
dominated by a discussion of the tactics of the coming war. Should it be a 
large-scale invasion of hundreds of thousands of troops or a lightning-fast 
Special Operations accompanied by strategic bombing? The debate, limited 
exclusively to the "best tactics" of war, is designed to leave everyone-in 
Iraq and among the public at home-with the distinct impression that the 
military conflict is unavoidable, inevitable and thus impossible to resist.
Which raises the question of who leaked the classified document to the New 
York Times in the first place?
"The Observer of London [newspaper] has been told that the leak ... came 
from within the Pentagon, from the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 
top professional soldiers who drew it up in the first place." (The 
Observer, July 14)
CAN THE WAR BE STOPPED?
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz grouping are creating an aura of 
inevitability around the war with two audiences in mind. They are hoping to 
split the Iraqi military-hoping that sections of the Iraqi High Command 
will defect rather than face certain annihilation. But Bush and company are 
also trying to demoralize any, at home or abroad, who desire to challenge 
the war before it starts.
Bush and the Pentagon know the history of the Vietnam war and they actually 
fear the potential of massive anti-war resistance from Washington, D.C., to 
the streets of Cairo and Amman.
While the centers of pro-establishment liberalism are playing their usual 
frightened and collaborationist role in the face of the ultra-militarists, 
the genuine progressives and anti-imperialist fighters need to do 
everything in their power to mobilize grassroots opposition on every 
campus, high school, workplace and community.
While Bush slashes funds for education, housing, jobs and health care he is 
calling on the sons and daughters of the working class to kill and be 
killed in the desert of the Arabian peninsula for the sake of Exxon/Mobil, 
Texaco, Chase, Citibank and his corporate constituents. This war doesn't 
have to happen.  Now is the time for the anti-war movement to intensify its 
mobilization among working and poor people, and especially young 
people-including those in uniform.
All anti-war forces should unite right now to launch an energetic and 
determined mobilization of the people-in the United States and around the 
world. It is time to remind the war-makers of the inevitability of 
resistance to their plans for slaughter and destruction.
GET INVOLVED!
Go to http://www.internationalanswer.org for information about upcoming 
activities against a new U.S. war in Iraq, including the October 26 
Internationally Coordinated Day of Mass Actions and the January 18, 2003, 
National March on the White House in Washington DC.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
dc at internationalanswer.org
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