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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.

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Deserters from imperialist armies deserve support

by mousnonya, MSG

The U.$. harm-me is not able to recruit enough warm bodies to get turned into coffin filler.(1) This is hardly suprising since in a war you can get killed, maimed and go insane. Moreover, when that does happen, Uncle $cam tosses you on the discard pile and runs on out to save costs -- as former paratrooper coporal Richard Twohig, among other Gulf War syndrome veterans may have noted. (2) One result of all this mistreatment of Iraqi and U.$. persyns is desertion among the ranks of the enemy. AWOLs are on the up as U.$. soldiers who have figured out they are being regularly lied to are voting with their feet. (3)

MIM says to every deserter: Good job! You are the true heroes. We salute you. You have seen the truth that imperialist wars are murderous lies waged for profit. MIM asks all deserters to work with MIM to help other soldiers get out before they kill or be killed.

Meanwhile, on the ground in Iraq the british, having been in the low intensity oppression business in northern Ireland and elsewhere for decades, have been doing their best to give the u.$. imperialists tactical tips and techniques on how to use gradual and graduated force to deescalate the war rather than simply to shoot and kill anything and everything--men womyn and children.(4) However, the u.$. imperialists have not learned from Vietnam and do not want to learn from the British imperialists' experience in N. Ireland.(4) By emphasizing this alleged distinction, the British imperialists sell the conflict to public opinion as Blair's influencing Bu$h while simultaneously claiming to be civilized in Ireland compared with u.$. imperialist forces in Iraq--by which standards some mob bosses are better than others.

U.$. arrogance and indiscriminate murder of Iraqi women and children will impel the Iraq War into the indefinite future (4) and the ultimate defeat of the u.$. imperialists, so the British imperialists worry. The story goes that Amerikans want peace through genocide while the British want slow asphyxiation.

The only real question is at what cost all imperialists will leave Iraq. MIM wants the cost in blood of all persyns, incuding oppressor nation enemies, to be as low as possible. Work with MIM to help every oppressor pull his/her head out of his a$$: Otherwise, our proletarian comrades in Iraq will have no choice but to continue to expand their consciousness by blowing u.$. brains out of amerikan assholes.

Notes:
(1)Army to dress down its recruiters Enlistment work suspended a day after recruits -- including one here -- complain MICHAEL HEDGES and DALE LEZON May 11, 2005 Houston Chronicle - with a recording of lying recruiters!
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3176619
(2) Former paratrooper fighting for disability benefits KEVIN MAURER, May 14, 2005, Associated Press (in the News Observer)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2405710p-8783765c.html
(3)The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces
The Independant, 16 May 2005 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638635
(4) Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years' Sean Rayment 15/05/2005, News Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/15/wirq15.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/15/ixworld.htm l