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    PSSP Announcement
    20, December, 1998
    
    Who Is the Real Terrorist? United States Itself  
    - Militaristic  Attack on  Iraq Is  an Attack  on the   Peace in the 
    Middle East -
    
    Today(6:59 am. Dec. 17, Korean Time), US  launched military attack 
    on Iraq second  times. US  announced that  it would  continued the 
    attack till Iraq accept unconditioned and unlimited inspection on Iraqi 
    weapons. The  attack was  started just  after Richard  Butler, chief 
    inspector of United Nations Special  Committee on Iraq (UNSCOM), 
    warned Iraq's  noncooperation and  prevention to  its inspection  on 
    weapons of  mass destruction.  UN Security   Council (UNSC) was 
    heard about  the attack  while discussing  the report  by Butler  on 
    Iraq's noncooperation and stopped  the discussion. Following  France 
    and Russia,   China made  an announcement   saying concern  over 
    UNSCOM's decision and report of withdrawing the  inspection team. 
    They also expressed clear opposition to  the unilateral attack led by 
    US and Britain, saying 'use of military power would not only cause 
    serious result on implementation of the resolution of UNSC but  also 
    threatens world peace and security of the region'. 
    
    We argue that the attack  was done unilaterally by  US and Britain 
    alone without  any agreement  process in  UNSC. UNSC  expressed 
    earlier its oppositional position strongly to use  of military power on 
    Iraq. We  have to  point out  that the  attack was   based on ugly 
    intention  which  try  to   divert public   attention  from  Clinton's 
    impeachment issue.  This  reminds us   of Gulf War   in 1991  and 
    bombing on  Iraq  in June   1993 which  were based   on arbitrary 
    information of 'Iraq government's  plan of assasination  of president 
    Bush'.   Meanwhile,   US   Conservative   Party   announced   its 
    suprapartisan support to the attack, saying  'US's attack must have 
    continuous and   effective stroke  enough to   break down  Hussein 
    government and destroy all the major military facilities in Iraq'. We 
    send our strong warn and protest to the reactionary and imperialistic 
    attitude of US seen by this speech and the attack. 
    We also have to point out that the attack was based on the interest 
    of US   based oil  monopoly capital   which want  to dominate   oil 
    resources in the Middle  East. Unlike pro-US countries  like Kuwait 
    and  Saudi  Arabia,  Iraqi  Baht  Party,  in  1958,  nationalized  oil 
    companies of Western  monopoly capital  for the  basis of  resource 
    nationalism. US wants to  have whole control over  oil resources in 
    the Middle East. It was and is based  on this intention of monopoly 
    and  control  over  the  oil  resources  that  US  collapsed  Mosad 
    government which was elected  democratically and supported  Palebi 
    dynasty; that US supported Iraq militarily against Homaini's  Iranian 
    Revolution; that US continues its military and economic pressure  on 
    Iraq that   goes along  the  way of   independent nationalism  with 
    nationalized oil resources. We denounce  this greed of US monopoly 
    capital and the US government's military offence that threatens lives 
    of all  the Third   World people for   the interest of   its monopoly 
    capital. 
    We cannot but to think that 'US, as the only  hegemonic state after 
    the collapse of the real existing socialist countries, has the policy of 
    maintaining and   expanding its   political, economic,   and military 
    influence through endless local warfares'. This can be  confirmed by 
    US' attempt  for military   attack on North   Korea around nuclear 
    inspection as well as bombing on Iraq. We warn US to abandon the 
    whole attempts, for the  fate of Third  World people can  be at the 
    beck and call of US' military action. 
    
    1. US'  military attack  on  Iraq is  not based   on UNSC, but  on 
    imperialistic  provocation   by  US  and   Britain  ignoring  former 
    agreement in UN. US and British governments argue that according 
    to the  agreement  they have   authority, if  necessary, of   military 
    attack, but this  is a total  lie. US has  shown thorough attitude  of 
    ignoring UN resolutions if they  are against the interest  of US. US 
    has always been  a prototype  of imperialism  that follows  logic of 
    power, not that of agreement and peace. This is not US of the past, 
    but US of the present. 
    
    2. After up to 9,000  times weapon inspections and total  destruction 
    of military facilities,  threatening of  Iraqi military  power has  been 
    extinct indeed. Rather, 1.6 millions of Iraqi people have died because 
    of US economic sanction, and  at present the economy and  people's 
    life of Iraq is in worst situation. The conflict between UN inspection 
    team and Iraqi government around the issue of access to Iraqi ruling 
    party's building is due  to the imperialistic  attitude that would  not 
    admit the  least  national sovereignty  of  Iraq. One   more military 
    attack, despite of economic sanction for over 8  years and thousands 
    times weapon inspections, is the real 'terrorism' on the Third World 
    people by imperialst countries. 
    
    3. Peace in the Middle East is being threatened by US  which seeks 
    military hegemony. We argue that peace is achieved not by military 
    action but by peaceful means. In this point, US is not a mediator of 
    peace but a war maker.  We reveal that US  is major criminal who 
    destroys the Middle East peace, and we argue that US must stop all 
    the military actions and pressures immediately. 
    In our opinion, all the imperialistic military actions should be stopped 
    by international solidarity of working people around the world. 
    
    December 17, 1998
    People's Solidarity for Social Progress (PSSP)