As U.S. troops engage radical Islamic insurgents in Iraq, passersby on a major thoroughfare near downtown Seattle this week will notice a sign in a window front that urges: “Victory to the Iraqi Resistance.”
 New Freeway Hall in Seattle |
The sign appears on the New Freeway Hall Community Center on multi-ethnic Rainier Avenue, home of the local branch of the Freedom Socialist Party.
Luma Nichol, Seattle organizer of the party, told WorldNetDaily her group put up the sign because there has been a “distortion of the truth” about the Iraq war, and “we want to educate our neighbors.”
She said the reaction to the sign, noted by a contributor to FreeRepublic.com, has been much more positive than negative.
“There is a lot of opposition to the war,” she told WND. “A lot of people understand that what the U.S. government is doing is a hostile invasion that violates the sovereignty of the Iraqi people.”
However, Tuesday, she said, a “not very eloquent person” telephoned and “called us all a bunch of fags, which is not very conducive to debate.”
But some opponents would call wishing victory for an enemy of the United States an act of sedition, she acknowledged when asked.
“I’m sure there are some people that would see it that way, but the U.S. is the aggressor in this situation and in the wrong,” she said.
“A people whose country is being invaded and colonized by a hostile force have a right to defend themselves – that is what people did in World War II, and I stand on the side of the victims not the aggressors,” Nichol declared.
She said she agrees with people who call the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a “dictator and vicious man.”
“But I don’t believe that the U.S. government wants to bring liberty and democracy to Iraq,” she said. “They have their own agenda – oil, making money for Halliburton and other firms. There is no evidence that the U.S. has the interest of the Iraqi people at heart.”
It’s up to the Iraqi people to deal with their own dictator, she asserted.
“How would you feel if somebody said Dick Cheney is a threat to democracy and invaded our country?”
Nichol explained her group is a “socialist, feminist political party” that has been active in the U.S. for more than 30 years. As part of the Trotskyist wing of communism, it is distinguished from the Communist Party U.S.A. she said, “calling for socialist democracy in opposition to Stalinism.”
There isn’t a country in the world that practices her party’s model for government, she said, but Cuba comes the closest.
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