Beating the War Addiction of the Five Point Plan

May 26, 2004 Off By leigh

Given Bush’s history as an alcoholic and born-again Christian, I suppose it is fitting he proposed a “five point plan” to address his failings in Iraq. Of course, there was little new in the speech, he was clearly only speaking to his voting block to give them something to believe in. United for Peace and Justice has a succinct rebuke of his five point plan.


Given Bush’s history as an alcoholic and born-again Christian, I suppose it is fitting he proposed a “five point plan” to address his failings in Iraq. Of course, there was little new in the speech, he was clearly only speaking to his voting block to give them something to believe in. United for Peace and Justice has a succinct rebuke of his five point plan.

My personal position is very similar to UFPJ. The U.S. should begin withdrawing it’s troops immediately, informing the U.N general assembly of such and allow the U.N to implement immediate local elections leading to a national constitutional convention and then parliamentary elections managed by an Iraqi infrastructure. A suitable parliamentary model should be offered for consideration by Australia (a bicameral system without political head of state using the Condorcet system preferential voting).

The U.S. should only support this by paying reparations for the whole scale crimes against humanity it has created. All contracts should be cancelled immediately with Iraqi citizens to decide on which projects should be restarted and how. The entire Bush administration should be impeached and thrown before the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.

The main opposition to leaving Iraq immediately is that this would increase the threat of civil war. This is a racist stance that proposes that only America can solve Iraqs problems that the U.S. has created (funding Saddam, encouraging the invasion of Kuwait, murdering 100K retreating troops, imposing sanctions, bombing Iraq, then invading it again). It was OK for the U.S, Russia, Britain, Spain and other countries to fight civil wars to determine those countries futures, but somehow only the U.S. can dictate Iraq’s security and economic operations and not leave it up to Iraqi self-determination. This is not to propose that Iraq should engage in civil war, but to note that the main cause of instability is the presence of U.S. occupying forces denying self-determination, a principle enshrined in the U.N charter.