With the body count mounting Pentagon plans to dismember Iraq

Ben Becker, Socialism and Liberation

...The occupation forces are now allowing internecine and sectarian conflict—which they have promoted all along—to tear the country apart. The plan to partition Iraq could be seen in the October 2005 Iraqi constitution. In the name of "federalism," it spelled out a system that guaranteed regional governmental autonomy should the central Baghdad government prove too weak or fall out of Washington’s control. This system could at least guarantee Wall Street access to the oil-rich areas of the north and the south (...) Iraq, once a secular state with extensive social programs and an education system that made it the envy of the Middle East, has been torn apart. The only force capable of halting the U.S. plans to exterminate the Iraqi nation is an increasingly effective Iraqi resistance united on the basis of anti-imperialism...

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