The present escalade on armed actions in Iraq has a direct relation to the electoral counterfeit scheduled to three weeks from now. There are strong evidences of unsufficient political or safety conditions to proceed with the election on January 30th, to the point that interim President of Iraq, Ghazi al-Yawar, proposed postponing the election and that the Iraqi Islamic Party announced several days ago, backed by tens of Sunit organizations, that it will not take part in the process due to severe breaches in the electoral census and an incalculable democratic deficit. Despite all that, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, repelled any attempt at postponing the election. It is just another display, among many, of the Iraqi occupation fiasco by that country’s aggression army. The events taking place in the next days will define whether there will be an election or not on the 30th. Anyway, it will not be a democratic election, the tension will persist, insecurity will be even greater and the post election period will not present a pacified, stable or united Iraq. The superpower’s leaders are absolutely wrong in case they think the electoral counterfeit will offer any political way out of the Iraqi crisis since there is an underlying issue of a different nature that demands a solution.

The problem is that an election in an occupied country is nothing but a counterfeit. The elected Assembly is going to be a helpless body and the Constitution they are going to write will be full of empty words. Iraq will only be a sovereign nation with normal and legitimate democratic institutions again with the end of the occupation resulting from the military aggression performed by the United States’ imperialism under false reasons, belittling international law and detracting the United Nations in March 2003. Today the United States’ imperialist administration, after scorning the UN, displays, aside from its strength, their resolution 1546, which schedules the “normalization” of the Iraqi situation, establishing January 30th as the contitutional election day. However, facts impose themselves with the force of tsunamis, revealing where the Iraqi situation is being led to when international law and multilateral bodies are used as tools and turned into appanage of force.

There will be resistance as long as the occupation persists – and it will be bloodier and bloodier. Under all aspects, the war and the occupation will be a failure to the United States. Politically, although the resolution 1546 has been accepted by the UN’s Security Council and despite Bush’s reelection, the political isolation of the United States’ imperialism has never been so sharp, even regarding their traditional allies, of which Spain’s withdrawal from the aggression coalition is the most significant example. In military terms, the occupation has been a fiasco, as the control of cities and borders is weak and the safety of their facilities is vulnerable. Cities are been taken over by means of unimaginable destruction and genocide, such as those perpetrated in Fallujah. Despite saying that the situation is under control, the United States’ government, their generals and the puppet interim administration all know that they are facing generalized insurrection that involves thousands and thousands of people who joined massively the resistance forces. Under the moral and psychological point of view, the situation of the occupation forces is shameful, with desertion and suicides taking place in large scale.

The peace, national sovereignty and social progress forces all over the world are sympathetic to the Iraqi people and their resistance struggle. They long for a political way out, national unity, the country’s redemocratization, regaining peace and stability, all of which are objectives that are far from the occupation’s scope and to which the electoral counterfeit scheduled to January 30th is no good.