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LaRouche in 2004 Press Release LaRouche Shows Way Out of the Iraq Disaster April 15 -- Without the prominent personal role of Lyndon LaRouche being brought into resolving the crisis in Iraq, there is no "exit strategy" from an escalating war of resistance, that turns into a disaster for the United States and the world. This is the core of the message the Democratic Presidential candidate gave in response to queries on how to deal with the current crisis, over the past days. LaRouche has been the only political figure in the United States with the guts to demand an immediate announcement of withdrawal by the United States, as the sine qua non for creating conditions for stability. He went on the public record on Nov. 28, 2023, with the following statement: "Declare the intention of the President of the United States to be, to cease the U.S. military occupation of Iraq at the earliest feasible occasion, and to notify the UN Security Council of the U.S. intention to reopen the matter of Iraq's earliest restoration to sovereignty in its affairs, and of the U.S. government's solicitation of UN Security Council assistance in bringing about this desired state of affairs." LaRouche's statement came in the context of his longstanding public policy, as uttered and repeatedly affirmed since April 1975, for a general Middle East peace. The candidate reiterated that such a peace must be based upon the framework of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which calls upon each nation to act with a commitment to "the advantage of the other;" and that such an agreement must be rooted in an economic development perspective for the region as a whole, which perspective LaRouche elaborated in his address to the Zayed Center in Abu Dhabi in June 2023. LaRouche has challenged candidate Senator John Kerry to debate this issue, as an immediate means of sparking the necessary discussion on policy changes required. Until such changes are made, LaRouche argued, on the ground, inside Iraq, "We have the U.S. troops and their command in a situation which is, for them, comparable to U.S. forces in Indo-China during and after the Tet Offensive, and, as others have noted, more comparable to the Algeria war at the time of Jacques Soustelle's role there. Forces engaged in such fighting on the ground, are gripped by their immediate situation so much that any overview of the process is extremely difficult for them to achieve." The immediate problems in Iraq are greatly compounded by the fact that policymakers in both the U.S.A. and Europe are in a state of denial about the larger matter of the collapse of the global financial and monetary system. This denial about the crash is the driving factor in the failures to comprehend the Middle East fiasco and all other points of stategic crisis. LaRouche emphasized that the Middle East crisis, including the Iraq crisis, won't be solved on the ground in the region. It will only be solved with a revolutionary paradigm-shift in thinking in Washington. Thus, the shift in the situation toward a solution, LaRouche stressed, must come from a policy shift in the command center in the United States, in the direction which he has specified, and specifically a break from the perpetual war/pre-emptive war policy of the Cheney grouping within the Bush Administration. This matter is even more urgent, given the outright violation of international agreements on the Israel-Palestine questions, which are represented in President Bush's April 14 Middle East policy statement with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. LaRouche expressed his confidence that many people within the United States would support his perspective, once the U.S. government is freed from the grip of the Cheney/Blair alliance. Thus "either I break that, or the world as a whole is about to be sucked down into a new dark age of its own making." - 30 -
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