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Maoist Internationalist Movement

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Uncle $am threatened Pakistan:

Tough guy Bush is the world's leading menace to peace

It took him and the imperialist media five years, but Pakistan's leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf finally told the world that the Bush regime threatened to bomb Pakistan "into the Stone Age."(1) This is significant not least of all, because Pakistan itself has nuclear weapons.

In previous articles, MIM revealed that the Bush regime already did undertake bombing of Pakistan's territory, especially near Afghanistan. The U.$. imperialists justify it as "hot pursuit."

It is difficult to tell with this whether Bush asked Musharraf to reveal the truth at this moment--probably not. Bush is undertaking his "tough guy" image for the elections in November, but at the same time Bush professed to be "taken aback" by Musharraf's charges. At this moment, MIM is uncertain how this will play out--whether any tough talk against any Third World leader is good for Republican votes because Amerikkkans are such violent, fearful and racist people or whether the Amerikan public might think that Bush is unhinged for going after a power with nuclear weapons, a country with a tendency to be on the edge against India, as it is, without any further destabilization of the situation necessary.

In September, Bush went to the Congress to bat for the CIA in hopes of getting his party in control of Congress to make itself look good to rabidly chauvinistic U.$. voters. It was more of the kind of relationship that the CIA wants with the president; even if the goals come from Bush, not the CIA. Bush's at-bat also proves the wrongness of the left-wing of parasitism in getting into bed with the CIA and State Department.

Bush's request was for legal permission for the CIA to torture prisoners and ignore the Geneva Conventions that the united $tates signed. He also asked for a system of secret trials and approval of unconstitutional surveillance of Amerikans. (Whether Congress approves of Bush's monarchist ideas or not, the law as written on a piece of paper has not changed. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are higher than the will of the Congress. The majority cannot legally take away the rights of the minority free from surveillance.)

Here is how the U.S. Government itself reported Bush's September requests:

"Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, told NBC's Today program that it is important that U.S. treatment of suspected terrorists conform with the protections given to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. 'We got what we wanted and that is the preservation of the Geneva Conventions. There will be no more torture. There will be no more mistreatment of prisoners that would violate standards of conduct that we would expect of people, who work for the United States of America,' he said."(2)
McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He and former Secretary of State Colin Powell have argued that the united $tates was undermining its own troops by undermining the Geneva Conventions. What none of the bourgeois players seemed to mention was that if the Congress just backed out of the treaty when it felt like it, Amerikan treaty obligations of all kinds would be less credible. Then there is little reason to deal with the united $tates on a long-term legal basis.

Because Bush was willing to take on this risk of appearing over-the-top in public on the question of torture, and this was going on at the same time as the Musharraf revelation, MIM has some slight doubt in its mind: maybe Musharraf is actually trying to help out Bush at Bush's request, even if that request was a blunder.

In the past year, it seems that major diplomatic revelations have occurred at Russia's expense. Now Musharraf has gone public at u.$. expense.

The revelations came just as Musharraf publicized a peace treaty approved by Bush between the Pakistan central government and borderlands tribes. U.$. lackey Karzai said Musharraf was protecting the terrorists that Karzai claims destabilize Afghanistan. MIM's guess is that the peace treaty will enable spying in tribal areas, a sort of acknowledgement that military intervention to find Osama Bin Laden has failed in the short-run.

Musharraf has raised his prestige in our eyes two notches from the bottom. One was by exposing what the imperialists did to threaten his country. Two was to get into conflict with that obvious lackey Karzai in Afghanistan and three was to do this with some sense of the public opinion situation of solidarity in the Third World building against Amerikan imperialism. After attacks on Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and now plans in Iran, Musharraf provided another piece of the puzzle for the Muslim world. The people of the world badly needed that and other pieces of information. This is no time for the national bourgeoisie of an Islamic country to be covering for Uncle $am. Uncle $am killed Saddam Hussein's sons and imprisoned Saddam Hussein, so it goes to show that imperialism does not always reinforce the national bourgeoisie, contrary to Trotskyism. The national bourgeoisie of Islamic countries would have to be utterly dense to be oblivious to these u.$. attacks on its own interests. Musharraf has the added bourgeois self-interest of conflict with u.$. imperialism because of India's position attacking both Afghanistan and Pakistan for failure against supposed "Islamic terrorism."

With so many wars in so short a time, the situation of bourgeois conflicts of interest is always changing. Musharraf is going up in our eyes, while fake Maoists on-board for psy-war against Iranians of the Islamic Republic of Iran are going down. Whether we are talking about the national bourgeoisie in the Third World including generals or whether we are talking about Maoists, everyone is in flux. New alliances are arising to defeat the imperialist aggressors. The imperialists try to buy off all the important leaders, but inevitably they fail because of the nature of capitalism. Capitalism cannot buy off everyone into harmony. Only communism can bring harmony.

Notes:
1. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-22-bush-musharraf_x.htm
2. Voice of America, http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-09-22-voa39.cfm