End the occupation!

So the day after my self-avowed journey into philosophy I am going to make a post about contemporary politics again. This weekend marks the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq: a war that was opposed globally and nationally in the united states. Back then, liberal columnists raved and ranted in favour of the invasion together with the current minister of the exterior in Sweden, Carl Bildt. Now, four years later, there is even less democracy than it was when Saddam was at the helm. 650 000 people have died and that number is rising daily. Of the occupants there are about 2500 American troops and a few hundred of the 'coalition of the willing'. The imperialist debacle has spread across the world, rising Orwellian laws in it's wake.

It is time to end the occupation: there can only be democracy, freedom and justice in Iraq if the Iraqi people do it themselves: from the grassroots. The US out of Iraq, end the occupation! Demonstrate in Malmö at 11.00 or wherever the closest demo might be held.