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North American Committee Against Zionism and Imperialism
(NACAZAI)
Al Mujahid President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti and the Question of Armed Struggle
--- John Paul Cupp,
Public Relations Director of the North American Committee Against Zionism and Imperialism (NACAZAI)
The name of the resistant leader, struggler and fighter President Saddam Hussein is the song on the lips of all the forces of people’s war and anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist independence.
Crystallizing with his martyrdom before the entire world, no modern name conjures up more the spirit of meeting the enemies of humanity in combat, defeating them through self-reliance and dying on one’s feet bravely.
In our era many make claims of being anti-imperialist or anti-Zionist, and many more further attack the righteous and pure lion of al-Tikriti, degrading his steadfastness and brilliance laid down for history – an attack which is by extension an attack on the Arab, Muslim and Third World liberation forces that love and venerate the leader and spiritual father of their popular resistance.
Yet how many among them can claim to have actualized in practice something even remotely equal to the Saddamist path – a path of unifying the Arab people, of meeting the Zionist entity with Scud missiles, of giving the US aggressors a sound defeat despite not a single cent of external aid, the path of all-Arab motherland defense holding back the waves of Khomeinianite hegemonist filth which threatens to swallow the whole of Iraq and the Arab Gulf.
With all due respect to most forces with serious hang ups against President Saddam Hussein, but which conduct principled anti-imperialist work, most of them will accomplish minor gains at best, being forgotten by history while the immortal legacy of the Saddamist Mujahedeen and their leader will be praised in songs and poems for centuries to come.
History has now made it inevitable that the sacred and majestic name Saddam Hussein will be the name given to babies birthed – a name inseparable from that of Salih ad-Din himself.
The Arab, Islamic and international ramification of Saddam Hussein
Were one to dogmatically follow dialectical materialism, as western leftists and academics are prone to do, it would seem impossible that their should be such a thing as the Iraqi and Palestinian Resistance today.
According to this two-dimensional logic, the forces of reaction far outnumber the resisting forces of independence in their financial and technological, and at times even numerical strength. Such resistance forces, while enjoying the overwhelming support of the popular masses are not led by a Marxist or “working class” organization. Neither do they possess even a single tank or fighter plane, let alone the advance military capability and weapons of mass destruction of America, Britain or the Zionist entity, and unlike previous forces which defeated US imperialism or various forms of colonialism do not have a single, let along many sources of particular political, financial, material or moral support from outside regimes or large countries.
Yet what these defeatist thinkers fail to understand is the overall primary role of consciousness as the decisive factor in confrontations with the enemy. Furthermore, the spiritual-material-theoretical understanding of the Fedayeen Saddam and Baathist resistance follows the path of martyrdom and inevitable victory from the standpoint of absolute confidence and self-sacrifice.
While all nations possess a strong love of their motherland and desire for its full social and national emancipation, the Arab national project constitutes a particular do-or-die fanaticism. There exists a long standing cultural tradition of emulating martyrdom as the greatest and most glorious of all paths one could seek and find in the course of temporal life.
President Saddam Hussein’s peculiar greatness as a Mujahid combatant is symbiotically connected to the rich spiritual life of the Arab people with particularly to Iraq and Palestine, to the project for Arab unification and liberation which the popular masses have spilled their blood for by the millions. He alone, amongst Arab leaders, was an uncompromising voice against recognition of the Zionist entity and of the interests of his nation without compromise.
Saddam Hussein never put anything about the interests of the Arab nation – unity, freedom, and socialism. He never waived on Palestine or principle. In life he lived and struggled by the masses side, gun in hand. He turned his “trial” into a stage for the promotion of the resistance, strengthening and encouraging the resolve of the people to resist.
In life, Saddam Hussein resided over the most advanced regional unit of the Arab nation and one of the few truly and genuinely anti-imperialist popular regimes in the world. He was the most actively anti-Zionist leader in the entire world, and conditioned Iraq for spiritually and materially surviving a brutal embargo and preparing for victory against inevitable aggression.
In death, Saddam Hussein has become one of the greatest symbols of resistance to imperialism and neo-colonialism – the father of all modern martyrs.