Never to be the bullet shield for the US

The cabinet council meeting held in Chong Wa Dae on Dec. 23 last year voted for a troop dispatch to Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil region, in a scale of 3,000 strong troops next April.

Notwithstanding the resistance of our people to the troop dispatch to Iraq was so vehement in the teeth of the grim of the cold, the authorities meekly yielded to the US masters' instructions, clamoring about the "national interests", causing queasy sentiment among the people.

Moreover, the high-handed arrogance of the Bush group which lets the south Korean authorities obsequiously fall on its knees, looks more disgusting.

In case our sons and daughters are dispatched to Iraq, it is obvious that they would be a main target of the Iraqis' denunciation and cursing and pay the cost of their blood.

The Iraqi resistance forces have already killed our civilians 2 months ago and horribly warned that "the south Korean troops, if dispatched, would be targeted at any case in disregard of their mission".

A Chinese news agency reported that "even after Saddam's capture, the security of Iraq under the US occupation is getting worse".

The Bush group which drives our youngsters to danger-prevailed Iraq as the bullet shield for the GIs, is really a sworn enemy deserving of the curse of our people.

A professor at Busan National University outrightly opposed the troop dispatch to Iraq claiming that helping Bush by sending troops to Iraq is as same as helping Hitler.

And the long-term national interests lay on the assistance to the Iraqi people, not the assistance to the Bush scoundrels, the wolves, who hinder our nation's reunification and seek another Korean War.

The hunger strike of the presidium members of the South Headquarters of Beomminryon was continued despite the severe cold amidst the fervent support of the patriotic people from different social segments, and the shouts "No troop dispatch" and "No war" spread everywhere in Seoul, Gwangju, Busan, etc.

The south Korean people, together with the peace-loving peoples of the world, are strongly demanding the pullout of the US troops from Iraq and don't tolerate the troop dispatch to Iraq as the bullet shield for the GIs.

Never to be the bullet shield for the US.