The Iraqi Communist Party

It is by far the most disgraceful and most disgraced communist party in the Arab world.  If this party strove for decades to recover from its support for the partition of Palestine in 1947, it won't ever recover from its support for the American invasion of Iraq.  Today, I searched the New York Times to see if there is anything about the decision by the Iraqi puppet government to harass the party and to evict it from its headquarters, but I found nothing--there is a long article about the removal of a wall from a neighborhood.  But the Iraqi communist party deserves its plight: it aligned itself not only with the American occupation, but also with the sectarian forces that came along with the US tanks.  IT deserves the worst plight just like that Tudeh party which aligned itself with Khumayni in Iran before he ordered its dissolution and execution of its members and leaders.  The Iraqi communist party--historically speaking--is one of the reason why the Arab left suffered from a bad press and reputation.  The relationship between the Iraqi communist party and the left is akin to the relationship between Sa`d Hariri and thinking.