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The right to resist: theirs and yoursMore than any other single event since Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, the massacres in Fallujah ripped the mask off the government’s lies about “freedom” and “liberation”. In Iraq today, exercising the right to demonstrate can be deadly. Occupation troops were ordered to open fire on unarmed demonstrators, including children, who just wanted their school back. A reporter on the scene, Chris Hughes, wrote: “I watched in horror as American troops opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 unarmed people here yesterday. “Many, including children, were cut down by a 20-second burst of automatic gunfire during a demonstration against the killing of 13 protestors at the Al-Kaahd school on Monday.” In the coming days and weeks, you can expect Bush, Rumsfeld and their partners in crime to tell you that the Iraqis fighting the U.S. troops are “terrorists,” “Iranian agents,” “Saddam Hussein loyalists,” “criminals,” and God knows what else. One thing you can be sure of; they will not tell you that Iraqis have the right to organize armed attacks on the Bush regime’s murderous occupation of their country. The politicians and brass certainly will not tell you that the Iraqis will keep on fighting until they have won their national independence and driven every last soldier out. In Viet Nam, U.S. troops being used to deny the Vietnamese their national independence got tired of being ordered to butcher civilians. By 1969 their rebellion was in full swing. They refused to fight for U.S. imperialism any more. Their movement spread to the Marines, the Navy and the Air Force. The politicians in Washington and the generals couldn’t stop the GI rebellion because the troops were too well organized. Local officers couldn’t stop them because they decided to kill their officers wholesale, giving the world a new word: “fragging.” They acted as teams, just like they were trained to do. But they figured out who their real enemies were and turned their guns around. You bet that stopped the war and brought the troops home. Think that over very carefully. The life you save may be your own. 
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