Tariq Ali: The Iraqi Resistance: a New Phase

"What we are witnessing in Iraq is the logic of a colonial occupation. Listen to the bells tolling in Fallujah and Basra They toll for those liberal and left-liberal journalists in Italy who denounced the resistance as 'terrorists' when Italian occupation personnel were targeted. They were there for 'humanitarian' purposes we were told. Well the mask is now off and the elected leader of the Italian people has said that Italians in Iraq will fight for Bush and die for Bush and kill for the Empire. " This retort to Martin Kettle in The Guardian
is all the more remarkable for being published at least three days before Martin Kettle's was!