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Date Posted: 11:32:23 03/15/02 Fri
Author: Robbie Sweeney (Reposted by Admin)
Subject: Eoghan Harris

I might add to previous criticism of Eoghan Harris. Just because he spent his life immersed in eliist circles of parlour-socialism does not mean that he should subject us to ecstatic tales of becoming enlightened, of becoming a conservative. I have a friend from Tenessee, USA, who is libertarian socialist. He laughs off suggestions that he is a victim of "anti-Americanism" and while he is proud of his state, his culture, his dialect, his accent and the oasis of music which surrounds his hometown, he is aware of US crimes in Chile, Vietnam, Central America, Cambodia etc. Harris once wrote in the Sunday Times of how an Iraqi opposition spokesman addressing a GOP caucus in the USA debunked the anti-sanctions campaign as a collection of dupes who served Saddam Hussein's agenda. I think Harris related, if I may paraphrase, that his "jaw hit the floor" on receiving this wisdom. Perhaps his jaw would have crashed right through the floor had he become aware that that gentleman's organisation, the Iraqi National Congress, is an assortment of absolute monarchists and old oil-elites, discredited and exiled by the democratic upheavel which ended the Saudi-style autocracy which had pliantly ruled the country for Western interests. Unless Harris considers Saudi Arabia to be a bastion of democratic values to which a new, post-Hussein, and "free" Iraq should aspire? The aim of the US is to "remove Saddam but to leave his regime intact" according to a former Pentagon employee. Altruism? Pah! The geopolitical reality of the present- not "forthcoming" (as aerial bombardment occurs every week)- military campaign against Iraq renders Harris a willing apologist. Seems like he has spent too many years in the chattering parlours!
That will be the geopolitical

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