By Robert Fisk

Who said this and when?

“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows… We are today not far from a disaster.”

Speech at US Labor Against War Conference/Chicago, Illinois/12-4-2004
By Bill Fletcher, Jr

Thank you very much and good morning. I am very pleased and honored to be at this conference and speaking with you this morning, December 4th, the 35th anniversary of the murder of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton here in the city of Chicago.

I want to speak about 3 things: the elections; the issue of empire; and the crisis in the AFL-CIO. Believe it or not, I hope to accomplish this in less than 8 hours.