By Kathy Kelly

“They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.”

-Air Force Brigadier General William Looney, head of the US Central Command’s Airborne Expeditionary Force, which directs operations keeping Saddam Hussein’s troops from flying south of the 32nd parallel

The above quote prefaced a recent edition of an anarchist publication called Eat the State. We wonder, does General Looney’s blunt arrogance at least offer us some further insight into a basic dictate which the US and Britain have for the people of Iraq? Distilled from recent state department remarks and a massive PR campaign surrounding passage of Resolution 1284, the message reads something like this:

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