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• for Iraq favour. Phone .. email IRAQ's beleagured government has condemned the hypocrisy of the foreign ministers from other Arab countries, who have voted at a summit meeting to condemn the US-led war - but to do nothing about it.
Baghdad is clearly hoping to appeal over the heads of the reactionary Arab rulers to the mass movement of Arab working people who have rallied in their tens and hundreds of thousands to show their opposition to the war and support
These corrupt and right wing governments are far more terrified of their own working people than of any expansion of US power in the region: most of them cling on to the western powers for support. The Amerians know this, too: a hefty bribe for the Egyptian government has even been included in George Bush's latest $75 billion request for war funding from Congress.
Only Kuwait voted against the summit motion to condemn the invasion of Iraq: even Qatar, which houses the headquarters of the imperialist war effort, voted in
Yet as Iraq points out, the most obvious way for the oil-producing countries to show their opposition to the war would be simply to switch off the fuel supplies to the USA and Britain until the military onslaught is halted.
The same is true of Iran, which has also called official demonstrations against the war and warned that it will not accept a US-installed puppet government in Baghdad - but continued pumping oil that literally fuels the war effort.
While workers in the west campaign against what many see as a war for oil, the Arab and Iranian masses have a new insight into the links between their repressive rulers and the imperialists: they must demand they cut off the oil for war.