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States. They’ve even commented on
this in their journals. This is one of
their intentions. With the so-called
Soviet threat gone, there was no reason
why they could not do that.
Now, you have forces in Europe
with their own interests that are separate
and distinct from those of the
United States. They have interests in
Iraq. They want the loot from Iraq
and Iran.
France was trading seriously with
Iran and Iraq. China was as well,
although China’s not part of Europe.
These countries and entities want
their own relationships. They want to
look after their own interest.
Sometimes that’s in contention with
the interests of the United States.
Now, everybody’s concerned
about the United States taking Iraq.
They say that Iraq has more oil
reserves than Saudi Arabia. In fact,
they call it the second largest. They
say that every time you dig a hole in
Iraq you get oil. They say they have
enough oil, I think, for the next hundred
years.
The problem is that Europe is
dependent on oil too. So is Japan. If
the United States sits astride all the
oil in the Middle East, then they’ve
got control of Europe, period!
That is the real concern. Another
concern is the arrogance of U.S.
imperialism. It disallows these
spheres of interest that I was talking
about. It is quite blatant in its statement
of world hegemony.
It doesn’t even pretend that the
Europeans are equal powers. They
say this is how it’s going to be and
you fall in line or you get left out.
This is creating serious contradictions
among the populations in
Europe. There is a form of nationalism:
European nationalism, French
nationalism, British nationalism.
They resent America telling Tony
Blair what to do. They are ashamed.
They hate it. They write in newspapers
that Blair is Bush’s poodle.
Just yesterday, in the House of
Commons, Blair received the largest
defeat in the history of England.
More than a third of his own party
fought him against this war resolution.
He won the resolution, but he
won it because the Tories, many of
who were against him, carried the
day for him. They said it was a humiliating
defeat for Blair.
You have all these people who
hate that their fallen empire is a footstool
for U.S. imperialism. The same
thing is happening with the French
and the Germans.
There is a kind of nationalism
that, even as it uses expressions
about sympathy for the people in
Iraq, is opposed to it being dominated
by the United States the way
it’s being dominated. So, millions of
people are in motion around that
question.
You have certain sectors of the
ruling elite in England who are afraid
of the European Union, because if
Europe united as it’s talking about,
Germany and France are going to be
the primary forces in Europe. To contend
with them, England is hanging
with the United States, come what
may. That’s going to be their seat at
the table. They would be eaten up by
a Europe dominated by Germany
and France.
African People’s Socialist Party
It exposes this
fantasy of so-called
western democracy.
Bush would say that
it’s democracy at
work because people
are marching. That
isn’t democracy.
Democracy is when
the majority says
don’t do something,
and then you don’t do
it. That’s democracy.
The U.S. is taking advantage of
Europe in some interesting ways.
The former Soviet states are being
brought into the European Union and
they are on the payroll of the United
States.
There is the notion that their socalled
development is going to come
from the United States. So, that’s
why Rumsfeld is playing the game of
the old Europe versus the new
Europe. He’s telling Germany and
France to go to hell, because he has
Hungary, Poland and the Czech
Republic. He is going to try to play
the new Europe against the old
Europe.
Because they’re in the pocket of
Uncle Sam, England is struggling
with Germany and France about
where they are trying to take Europe
and the European Union.
The type of EU that France and
Germany want is problematic. They
want a closely-knit, single economy
and a single military. These new
forces coming in are struggling for
something loose. They’re going to be
the U.S. Trojan Horse inside this situation.
So, you have a highly volatile,
unstable situation where the U.S. is
exposing itself to the whole world.
That’s no little thing. It’s antagonizing
so many allies. One of the ways the
U.S. gets to project its imperial
power around the world is through
military bases stuck in these other
countries that it’s now making hostile.
It has already been suggested
that the bases would be going in
Germany. You know that U.S. troops
are training so-called Iraqi dissidents
in Hungary. Now there’s a military
base in Hungary, so they’re anticipating
that.
You know there was a time when
this contradiction we’re looking at
now might have caused a war
among the imperialists themselves.
The problem now is that the United
States has a military budget that is
larger than the next 20 countries
combined.
You aren’t going to get one of the
other imperialists to be willing to take
on the U.S. The EU might have the
muscle to try to push the U.S. around
sometime in the future, but there is
not a single one of the European
nations that’s capable of challenging
the United States now.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il doesn’t hide that North Korea has nuclear
weapons and can do pre-emptive strikes just as U.S. can.
It seems France is going to jump
on board once the war starts,
because they want their own action
in Iraq. They want to have their own
relationships with the economy
there. But if the U.S. takes it, then
everybody gets left out, unless they
jump on board now.
So, if France wants contracts for
rebuilding, or any kind of favorable
business deals, then they need to be
on board when the U.S. goes into
Iraq. That’s why some people are
suspecting that France will jump in at
the last minute. It won’t want to be
left out of the business deals that are
going to come with the conquest of
that territory.
It’s all cold-blooded. All their
moralistic nonsense has nothing to
do with morality. It’s all cold-blooded.
U.S. fears China will defend
Korea in struggle
The Korea issue is blatant to
everybody, too. They’re going to kill
Saddam Hussein. They don’t make
any bones about that. They’ll kill him,
his family and everybody who’s close
to him because he might one day
have nuclear weapons, and he might
have some weapons of mass
destruction.
Well, Korea says, "We’ve got
them!" — nuclear weapons. Korea
said America’s not the only one that
can do a pre-emptive strike. We can
do one too. Korea said, well bring it
on, no matter what they do. Every
day they do something new. They
crank up the nuclear reactors. They
shoot a missile over Colin Powell
when he goes to the Middle East to
try to calm things down.
This is an interesting situation. It’s
going to be hard for the U.S. to attack
Korea because if the U.S. attacks
Korea there’s an 800- pound gorilla
that nobody’s talking about — China.
I do not see how China could
stand aside and see that happen.
This is true, not because China has a
love affair with the Korean people
necessarily. China has its own interests,
and it is not interested in U.S.
hegemony over that area of the
world. China expects to be the dominant
force, not only there, but maybe
in the whole world.
Given an opportunity, China will
just go along, industrialize and build
itself. But if the U.S. attacks Korea, I
don’t see how China could sit by and
watch that happen. That’s the 800-
pound gorilla that’s sort of out there,
and no one’s talking too much about
it.
Colin Powell went over there and
talked to China. He said, "Say something
to Korea." China responded,
"That’s your problem, you deal with
it!" Guess what? Not only did China
tell them that, but also the new president
of so-called South Korea said
in his inaugural presentation that
they are not going to be a lapdog of
the United States. They said they
were not going to allow the United
States to tell them what to do. They
said that their move is now towards
re-unification of Korea.
This brings us to the basis of the
contradiction between the
Democratic Republic of Korea and
the United States. The contradiction
is one that the U.S. initiated because
it saw the growing movement
towards re-unification of the Koreas.
If Korea reunifies, the U.S. has no
basis for having almost 40,000
troops there. Those troops ostensibly
protect South Korea from so-called
North Korea. Of course, we know
those troops are there for the 800-
pound gorilla, China. That’s a serious
contradiction.
Now, everybody in the whole
world is watching this thing happen.
There’s no mystery here, it’s not like
Viet Nam. It’s not like the Second
Imperialist War. It’s not like Korea.
Bush says, "We’re not going for
the oil." Companies say, "We don’t
want their oil." Colin Powell says,
"We don’t want their oil." All of them
have to say that because the whole
world knows what’s going on.
The whole world knows that millions
of people came out in opposition
to this war, yet the Bush regime
still intends to do it. It exposes this
fantasy of so-called western democracy.
Bush said that the demonstrations
show that democracy’s at work.
He’s a fool. I’m sorry. To say Bush
and fool is being redundant.
Bush would say that it’s democracy
at work because people are
marching. That isn’t democracy.
Democracy is when the majority says
don’t do something, and then you
don’t do it. That’s democracy, you
understand.
The imperialists have this very
cavalier attitude. They’re even using
words like imperialism in their own
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