Iraq Logic of Exterminism

Frederic F Clairmont SINCE the end of the second world war, US imperialism's unswerving goal is the exclusive control of west Asia's vast petroleum and natural gas reserves. To consolidate and expand its hegemony, which now extends to the Caspian shores and the ex-Soviet Asian republics, it has mobilised all the sweeping powers of its military, intelligence, ideological and economic embargoes to crush every form of national resistance. Nowhere is this more strikingly in evidence than in Libya, Iran and Iraq. The second, is the no less merciless non-stop build-up and grinding deployment of its Israeli SS assault forces to underpin its strategic aggrandisement.