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To: Joe NYC who wrote (174724)	8/28/2003 7:37:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579121

To me, essentially, De Genova is saying we shouldn't be in Iraq which is what I am saying. Don't you think there is a huge difference between opposing the war and calling for deaths of millions of Americans, defeat of the United States? I have not seen the original article and I was not able to find it when I did a google search. What I did find was his follow up piece where he claims that the "million mogadishu" statement was taken out of context. In his follow up piece, he states that only Iraqis can effect their own liberation, and in that sense, they must kick out the American invaders. He says the army is made up of "racially subordinate and working class families", and often times, are forced into the army out of need. He believes that the US as an invader is acting as a colonial power and that the Iraqi resistance can be seen as fighting off another colonial power. BTW Iraq has had a long history of colonial occupation. In that sense he says it may require a million mogadishus to rid Iraq of the American presense but what's more likely is a Vietnam scenario. In the end, he makes clear the reason for his positioning: "More importantly, my rejection of U.S. nationalism is an appeal to liberate our own political imaginations such that we might usher in a radically different world in which we will not remain the prisoners of U.S. global domination." I find many of his concepts extreme/radical. And I certainly don't want us to have to leave Iraq with our tail between our legs but rather because we want to. However, this last statement of his I agree with emphatically. hnn.us ted