“Communism has only killed
100 million people. Let’s give it
another chance.”
This was on a sign carried by a
peace marcher last Saturday in
opposition to war with Iraq.
This kind of message is baffling
to anyone who has studied
the aftermath of communism in
the former USSR.
Millions of people were brutally
murdered under the ideology
of communism, as the sign points
out.
The sign failed to mention the
programs in the USSR that were
used to purge Jews during the
Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
It also failed to mention the
plights of countries that are
under communist rule right now.
North Korea, a communist
country, says it’s not about war.
It’s about needing more foreign
aid to feed its soldiers and at the
same time keeping a few civilians
alive in the process.
Most of the aid in route to
Pyongyang feeds North Korean
soldiers, not the population as it
is meant to do.
When you hear speculation
about the nuclear facilities being
used for energy, that’s most likely
the truth.
War is very unlikely because
China wants to remain the major
power in the Pacific.
Let’s shift focus and take a look
at another message displayed at
that same march.
“Except for ending slavery, fascism,
Nazism and communism,
War has never solved a thing.”
Translation: Except for saving
the lives of Africans in bondage
under slavery, the persecution of
Jews under Hitler, not to mention
the countless lives of Eastern and
Western Europeans lost to
Nazism and the already mentioned
massive amount of life lost
under communism; war has only
freed surplus populations.
Those who agree with the sign
should read the book Kaputt, as
the author recounts the horrors of
Nazism.
In one chapter the author
writes of a train filled with Jews
on their way to a concentration
camp in Poland in blistering heat.
The people were packed in the
train cars so tightly that they suffocated.
As the sealed trains were pried
open, the dead bodies fell out.
A baby was actually found to
still be breathing with a broken
arm. The baby was held in its
dead mother’s knees next to the
poorly vented slabs on the train
door.
The mother had held her position
next to the door for her baby
to breath.
Saddam only kills his own people
just like this. But some say it’s
none of our business.
Ahmad Chalabi, head of the
Iraqi National Congress, said,
“Here in Iraqi Kurdistan, it is
easy to sense the people’s mood
of jubilation as President Bush
moves closer to ending Saddam
and his Baath party’s 35-year
reign of terror over Iraq.”
The Baathist ideology is rooted
in the racist doctrines of 1930s
fascism and Saddam has used the
Baath to create a one-party totalitarian
state.
Chalabi wrote this on
Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Wall
Street Journal making his case for
intervention in Iraq and his plans
for a reformed government after
liberation.
It is humanity’s obligation to
protect those under tyrannical
duress.
Thank God for the heroes who
fought and saved helpless peoples
from evil.
I’m thankful for the men and
women who are already fighting
against Saddam’s fascist regime.
Like songwriter Tom Petty
said, “I won’t back down.” This
writer will not back down from
his message stated in an earlier
column.
Free the Kurds of Northern
Iraq.
If this has to be done with military
action, then proceed on to
Baghdad.

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