Iraqi Resistance is the legitimate representative of the Iraqi people

First, on the character of the aggression on Iraq. Iraq and its people was direct target for ongoing aggression since the war in1991: The UN-embargo took the lives of almost two million Iraqis and the Anglo-American aggression war and occupation begun in 2003 and continues today.
I will neither discuss the pretexts of the Bush Administration to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iraq, such as "disarm Iraq" of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and Iraq’s alleged links to "terrorism", nor the mass media propaganda clichés of "liberation" and "rebuilding of Iraq", because none of these pretexts give an understanding of US-lead war on Iraq.
To understand the nature of this aggression, we should find the real reasons for it: a frame of USA’s Empire building, imperialism plunder and war in the world and the Israeli-Arab conflict. This frame will give us the whole picture of the Anglo-American aggression on Iraq.
The end of the cold war and the collapse of the USSR weaken the international position of US. US international dominance is challenged not only by EU, Russia, Japan, but also by upcoming powers, India and China. The occupation of Iraq meant to capture the Iraqi oil and to use it as political strategic blackmail instrument against these powers. According to Pentagon estimation, the Iraqi oil fields contain 425 million barrels of oil, which make Iraq the world's largest oil-reserve. The capture of the Iraqi oil is indispensable instrument for US Empire building!
Iraq's nationalisation of its oil wealth in 1974, and its success in investing oil revenues in economic development and infrastructure projects, has demonstrated Iraq's ability to build its own cadre for the proper administration of oil industries, making the ultimate end of such industry serving the interests of Iraq. In spite of internal political destabilization in the end of 70ies and the war with Iran in 1980s, Iraq succeed to achieve a level of the most developed and industrialized country not only in Middle East but also in the Third World. Iraq is the only Arab country which had heavily invested in scientific research and institutions which are able by its acquisition of the capability to became a regional power. A serious Arabic challenger that can balance the Israel dominance and constitute a threat to USA’s imperialist interests in the region.
The ridiculous claim that the war and occupation on Iraq will be to bring about a democratization of the region is a total nonsense. The Abu-Graib scandal, more than 80.000 prisoners all over Iraq and the use of the weapons of mass destruction in Fallujah are just a few examples of the American democracy in Iraq. Everyone knows that the US Administration, like many other western imperialist powers, fears democratic processes in the Arab world because they would inevitably bring about a radical change in the foreign policies of the present regimes. Most of these regimes can not even stay weeks in the power without meanly US military, economical and political support.
The hidden agenda behind US political pressure on the regimes in the Arabic world is not to implement the wish of the Arab people for democracy and development, but a desire for a remapping of the region, which is aim of "The Greater Middle East Project". A remapping that will strengthen US role as controller of the world oil reserves and Israel as protector of imperialist interests in the Arab region.

"Civil war"/ "Sectarian war"

By "civil war" they mean a war between "Shiites" and "Sunnis". As the pretexts of illegal war on Iraq has been changed from WMD and link to Al-Qaida to "democracy" and "rebuilding of Iraq", the pretexts of ongoing occupation are also changing. The "civil war" is the current propaganda campaign of distortion and disinformation perpetuated by the occupation and mass media to justify ongoing occupation of Iraq. Iraq is not a sectarian society. The violence in Iraq is a US-generated criminal killing instigated by different groups of militia created, financed and armed by the US and its allies. Even Egyptian President Mubarak takes part in this propaganda; "civil war" in Iraq "was on the doorstep" and a US troops withdrawal "would be a disaster", he said to please the Bush Administration.
As a part of containing and ruling Iraqi people, The US and Britain stigmatize Iraqis in three groups based on old British colonial "Divide and rule" politics. Already before the invasion and occupation they impose a division of Iraqis in "Shiites", "Sunnis" and "Kurds". In spite of the fact that Iraq is an Arabic country and more than 85% of Iraqis are Arabs!
For centuries, Iraqis, regardless of their ethnic and religious affiliations, have lived together and intermarried with each other. Iraq has been a non-sectarian mosaic society since its inception. Since our modern state formation in 1921 Iraqi people never identified themselves in religious or sectarian context, until occupation imposed this division on us. Religious and sectarian parties which established and financed in Iran in the eighties, came to Iraq in 2003 on the back of the US tanks. Iraqi society is the most politicized and secularized society in the Middle East. When you look at the political map of Iraq modern history, you will find the political identification beyond the ethnicity and religion. Iraqi Communist Party and the Arab Baath Socialist Party dominate the political scene in Iraq and shared out the political affiliations of the Iraqis.
The question about "civil war" will remain, but who has interest from it? And who is able to start it?
There are two powers on the ground, which has proved their ability to affect the security balance in Iraq; one side is the occupation and its allies, the second is the Iraqi Resistance by all its groups. While Iraqi Resistance have and work in context of a strategy for national liberation, the occupying forces implement a strategy of ongoing occupation of Iraq by all means. And according to these two strategies, which cross each other, should all events in the occupied Iraq, including the question of "civil war", be understood and interpreted. The US strategy in Iraq is to destroy its Arab-Muslim identity, to destroy the fabric of its society, divide its people and plunder its natural resources, which is the nature of any occupation, including US occupation.
Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have been arrested, tortured, and murdered in cold blood. More than a thousand of Iraqi best academics, professionals and scientists have been assassinated, who is killing these people? And who have benefit of killing our scientists?
These US sponsored militia groups are:
The Kurdish Peshmerga whose leaders supported the U.S. invasion and Occupation.
The Iranian-trained Badr Brigades,
The armed wing of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) led by Ibrahim Al-Jaaferi of the Da’wa party,
The INC militia of Ahmed Chalabi, and the INA militia of Iyad Allawi
They have infiltrated the new police and military, which is already based on sectarian and racial quota recruiting system.
There are more than 200,000 US troops, thousands of mercenaries, tens of death squads and Iraqi militias (police and military), their mission is to destroy Iraq’s patriotism and liquidate any opposition to the occupation. All these groups are involved in terrorist activities against Iraqi civilians. They operate in the context of "the end justifies the means".
The current so-called "sectarian" violence is a US -orchestrated tactics that attempt to instigate a civil war known as Vietnamization of the war. During the US war on Vietnam US-army recruited about 1 million Vietnamese in the South Vietnam army as part of Vietnamization. The world never considered the war in Vietnam as "civil war", on the contrary there was a clear consensus that it was a national liberation war. Should the situation in Iraq be different? Definitely not!
The aim of this violence is to change the main struggle between the occupation and Iraqi Resistance to turn to be among Iraqis, to discredit the Iraqi Resistance to the occupation and to press Iraqi Resistance to enter into unconditional negotiations. Therefore "Sectarian war" is an option on the US to defeat Iraqi Resistance.

Iraqi Resistance and Anti-war movement

The invasion of Iraq was an illegal act of aggression, in violation of international laws and the UN Charter, and therefore is illegal and illegitimate. The U.S. invaded Iraq in order to colonise Iraq and control its resources, mainly the Iraqi oil. All institutions built, formed and established by the occupying forces are illegal/illegitimate too, including the political and security infrastructures.
In regard to these consequences of this illegality Iraqi people and Iraqi Resistance has full legitimacy to self-determination and Resistance against the occupation by "all necessary means at their disposal" according to International Law. The Iraqi Resistance is well-known as The legitimate representative of the Iraqi people.
The above are indispensable principles to understand the situation in the occupied Iraq. And according to these principles has Iraqi Resistance defined its strategic objectives as a national liberation movement: "to expel the occupation forces, liberate Iraq and safeguard it united and a homeland for all Iraqis", The political and strategic program of The Iraqi Resistance, September 9th 2003.
In spite of this very clear declaration from The Iraqi Resistance, the campaign of misinformation and distortion of the Iraqi Resistance still takes place not only by the mainstream journalists and mass media but also by western "anti-war" movement.
They persist on describing the Iraqi Resistance and situation in Iraq as "Multinational Forces", "Terrorism", "Insurgency", "Bomb Throwers", "Suicide Bombers", "Radical Islamists", "Foreign Fighters", "Civil War", "Sectarian War", "Killing Civilian", "Things Will Get Better", etc.
These are just examples of the distortion of the Iraqi peoples struggle to liberate their country. Worst when those who brand themselves as "lefts", "progressives", "socialists" and even communists show euphemism to US imperialism agenda in Iraq on the issue of so-called "Federation of Iraq", " Elections", "Democracy", "Liberation" and "Human Rights Improvement"!
We know that terrorism is an ideological instrument of propaganda and control used by western media to justify the expansion of western imperialism and devastation and killing of the others. The Iraqi Resistance is not an "insurgency". Insurgency is an organized rebellion such as the Contras, against the legitimate government of Nicaragua in the late 1980s. The "Green Zone" government in Baghdad is a puppet government installed by US occupation.
There is no democracy during occupation and lack of sovereignty. An occupation that more than 300,000 Iraqi civilians, most of them innocent women and children, have been killed and continue to be killed "accidentally" can not be democratic. As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said;"US have nothing to give".
There are conscious efforts by western "lefts" to discredit the images of the Iraqi people and Iraqi Resistance against the occupation. The Iraqi Resistance does not need interference from those who romanticize the Vietnamese NLF or ANC in order to cast a bad light on the Iraqi Resistance.
The Iraqi people and Iraqi Resistance do not need recognition from the "anti-war" movement, or from the "lefts" in the west to legitimatize our national liberation struggle. Either from those who became a part of the "Establishment" and at the same time demand Iraqi Resistance to be socialist, while themselves do not believe any more in Socialism. Iraqi Resistance and the Iraqi people know that the people all over the world support our just struggle, which's outcome has importance for all mankind. There are two fronts in Iraq to choose side on: either the occupation and its allies, or the Iraqi Resistance and its people
On the other side we are highly honoured for all support from The International / European Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Capitalist forces to our Resistance. As voice of the International Anti-Imperialist movement Prof. Jose Maria Sison described the situation in Iraq as: "This is the arena where the Iraqi people and all the forces of resistance have an excellent chance of fighting and defeating the US, its criminal partners and puppets over a protracted period of time. Because of your resistance, US imperialism finds itself in a quagmire in Iraq. It is our internationalist duty to do our best in gathering moral and political support for the Iraqi people and the Iraqi Resistance", Message to The Iraqi People and Iraqi Resistance, on the third anniversary of The Iraqi Resistance.