In the name of God the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
One Arab Nation, with an Eternal Mission
Unity, Freedom, Socialism
God, grant us an immense patience, strengthen our resolve, and give us triumph over the infidels' lot.. "God is trustworthy in His words!"
The Political Program of the Baath and its National Resistance:
(The Program of Liberation and Independence)
The believer Mujahid Baath and its heroic National Resistance, while widening their operations and intensifying their actions backed by patriotic forces which reject the occupation, its stooges, and its political arrangements, sustained by a great Mujahid People, with whom stands the honorable sons and daughters of the Arab and the Islamic nations and all the freedom-loving people in the whole wide world, present their political program whose objective is to liberate Iraq and to get its national independence, and to achieve the unity of its people and its soil, and according to the priorities and order stated in this document based on the followings:
FIRST: the total national independence and that the occupier should acknowledge the following:
To fully recognize the National Iraqi Resistance in all its armed and non-armed factions as the sole representative of the great people of Iraq
To announce the total and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq during a time schedule determined in coordination between the heroic Iraqi Resistance and the occupier.
To absolutely recognize Iraq sovereignty, its national and patriotic independence, to safeguard its national unity as a people, as country and sacrosanct values and riches, to reject every attempt and every law aiming to divide and dismember Iraq.
To accept serious, honest and constructive negotiations with the Resistance leadership or with any one representing the Resistance based on the rights and the non-negotiable principles of the homeland and liberation, in order to reach an agreement of the total liberation and independence.
The US and its allies should acknowledge their responsibility of the war and the occupation. Iraq’s occupation constituted an aggression which has absolutely no international legitimacy; it is immoral and unethical.
The US and its allies must officially apologize to the people of Iraq about the crimes, aggressions and violations the Iraqis endured, and to apologize to its national leadership of all the unfair, destructive and unjust actions they undertook against the people of Iraq.
When the occupier announces his agreement to accept the above principles, the Baath and its heroic Resistance leadership will agree to start serious and honest negotiations based on the followings:
SECOND: The negotiations require the occupier and its allies to accept all the national rights of the great people of Iraq that represent the will of the people and its supreme national interests are:
1 - The total withdrawal from all Iraq, from its soil, its skies, and its waters without any conditions or any restrictions.
2 - The liberation of all the detainees, prisoners, and jailed , without any exception and to consider the ongoing trials against Iraqis null and void, illegal and unlawful, and to cancel all its consequences for they came under the bayonets of a null and void occupation, and what has been built on void is void.
Also to recognize the legitimacy of all the state government and non government institutions, all laws and decrees in force that existed before the hated Occupation.
3 - The cancellation of the ongoing political process under the bayonets of the occupation and the cancellation of all the resolutions, laws, political and economical decrees signed against the international laws and rules, which require that the laws and the rules should be those of the occupied land, and which were in force when the occupation started. International law forbids the occupier to issue any resolutions or any decree to achieve its interests or those of his stooges.
4 - The return of the Iraqi army and the other national armed forces to their assignment according to their laws, their organizations and their traditions in force before the occupation.
Also to cancel the 'debaathification' bill and to recognize the Baath national, patriotic, and human role into the leadership of Iraq and its construction as a great political, social and ideological movement having a great human message to offer, and to stop raiding, kidnapping and detaining the Party militants and Mujahidins belonging to whatever factions.
5 - The commitment to fully compensate all losses suffered by Iraq since 1991 and until this very moment morally and materially, as individuals and as institutions through a fund financed by the countries occupying Iraq and in particular the US and Britain and the other countries which participated, supported and facilitated the Occupation; after putting into evidence the huge losses endured by the Iraqi state due to the organized and systematic destruction, the plundering of factories, the pillage of funds, banks and antiquities etc.; in the framework of a specialized committees to be chosen by the Iraqi Resistance leadership; and the fund will be managed by a national government formed by the Resistance and hence elected by the people.
6 - The cancellation of all the unjust international resolutions issued against Iraq since 1991 and until this moment and specially those dealing with border's outline, compensations and every thing else.
7 - The handing over of the collaborators, the spies and the traitors those who committed the supreme crime of treason against the people, the homeland, in order to try them lawfully and to get their just punishment for they collaborated with the occupier to destroy Iraq, slaughter its people, loot its national riches and violate its sacrosanct values.
Then, the leadership of the Baath and its National Resistance will declare their national project after the liberation according to the various agreements and accords with all the Jihad and Resistance factions and based on the followings:
THIRD: The elections and the State affairs management after independence:
The leadership of the Iraqi Resistance will proceed to form a temporary Shura Council which will include 50 to 100 patriotic personalities in amongst the armed Resistance factions, parties, movements and patriotic personalities resisting and rejecting the occupations and its stooges.
The Shura Council which will include the resisting factions will form a national unity government from Iraqi patriotic personalities known for rejecting and resisting the occupation for a two-years period, supervised completely by the Resistance leadership and the temporary Shura Council to undertake the following responsibilities:
A - To completely supervise the running of the State affairs and in every field.
B - To achieve what has been agreed upon by the Resistance with the occupier in the negotiations and in particular concerning the total and the unconditional withdrawal of the invading forces from Iraq and the follow up to put into practice the other paragraphs of the Liberation and National Independence Agreement.
C - To disband the militias which belong to the occupation and its allies without any exception. To disband the present army, the police, and the security apparatus formed under the occupation and by its decisions and to act to end every kind of armed phenomenon in every part of Iraq.
D - To re establish the former national Iraqi Army in all its formations and the former national security forces in all their formations and bring life into all the disbanded state institutions caused by the occupation's decision, and clean up and liquidate the destructive consequences of these decisions and compensate the injured parties materially and morally.
E - To set a permanent constitution for the country by the Shura Council, to be presented for a general popular referendum in order to organize the public and the political life in all Iraq for a five-year period, after the Independence, during which a president of the Republic and a parliament will be elected and will guarantee the national and patriotic rights for Kurds and other minorities; and through which everybody will live together along their ethnicity, religions, communities in a kind of eternal national unity experienced by the people of Iraq all through its glorious history; provided that the elected parliament be authorized to add the required amendments in a way to suit the evolution and the stability of the political, economical and security state of affairs in Iraq.
F - To organize free, democratic elections according to the constitution after the temporary period guaranteeing the participation of every political, movement, party and currents in order to achieve the birth of a national democratic and pluralistic regime, which respects human rights and safeguards public liberties, safeguards the unity of Iraq and its people, achieves its independence and guards its material and human riches.
G - To set a global national reconciliation plan on the basis of this document national rights and non-negotiable principles, such as meetings, dialogue, understanding and reconciliation to be open to all Iraqis, as parties, movements, and individuals who accept these principles and are ready to put them into practice and to undertake whatever effort — Jihad — to snatch them, provided that this reconciliation is preceded by a frank dialogue among all the involved national forces on the Iraqi arena in the widest way to avoid the errors of the past, follow the motto of "lets forget the past" and leave aside the unending revenge politics; reject loggerhead and settling of scores, and never direct the gun barrel except against the usurper occupier in order to free the homeland and our sacrosanct values. This will create the spirit of a mutual confidence to sow in amongst the souls of all Iraqis as a fundamental guarantee to participate into the construction of Iraq after the liberation, away from revenge, power-grabbing, blackmail, and arrogance from each other.
FOURTH: The relationship with the US and the other countries of the world.
The Iraqi armed Resistance and its governments will establish the best political, and economical relationship with all the countries of the world except with the usurper Zionist entity, which stole Arab Palestine, and in every way to guarantee the mutual interests between Iraq and these countries, to set a partnership in mutual interests and respect and the non-interference into each other's internal affairs..
The Iraqi Resistance leadership understands the nature of the importance of the US interests as a superpower, and it is ready to establish good and permanent relationship with the US, based on mutual respect and the non-interference in the internal affairs according to the agreements, conventions and international laws, to guarantee the mentioned interests and safeguard the sovereignty and the independence of the countries and their peoples, and respect their choices and guarantee their right to dispose with their national, material, human and natural riches as they view right.
Also the Resistance's leadership will establish the best relationship based on mutual respect and mutual interests with all the direct neighbors of Iraq and especially the brotherly Arab countries and respect all the international agreements and conventions and never use force to find a solution for bilateral differences except in self-defense and to defend the homeland and the people against any external armed aggression.
FIFTH: This program is considered from the Baath and its national Resistance's point of view as a complete, convenient and objective introduction for the current situation in Iraq in order to end the occupation, its consequences and its creation.
The Iraqi Resistance will never accept half solutions or parts of solutions with the occupier, for it will be not possible to accept a cease-fire and the fighting here or there on the soil of Iraq to give the opportunity to push forward the ongoing political process under the occupation's bayonets and its stooges. Moreover, the Baath and the Resistance leadership utterly and totally reject the principle of participating in any political action under the occupation's bayonets and according to its will and desires.
The Baath and its national Resistance leadership, while establishing its national program for national liberation and independence is resolved to go ahead combating and directing the war with the occupiers to snatch the independence of Iraq and to build it in a national and democratic way. While establishing these non-negotiable principles and basis represent the people and the homeland and which can never be abandoned or set aside whatever the losses will be, The Resistance leadership hopes that the occupier give himself a thought, return to his senses and take the path of the truth, relying on reason, logic and history and recognize these rights and commit himself to respect them. For the liberation forces and the peoples' Resistance to get their freedom and achieve their will can't be defeated or broken for God, the freedom loving peoples in the world and the history are with them. They will triumph. God willing, whatever time the combat may take with the occupiers and the invaders. There is absolutely no other way for the occupier than to accept the non-negotiable principles of the total liberation and complete independence from any kind of hegemony, control, and exploitation but to sit on the negotiating table, to stop the blood bath and receive some face-saving or face the horrendous and ascertained defeat for its invading forces and the wrecking of its imperialistic project for global hegemony and control. For victory comes only from God in the highest, the Almighty..
Long live Iraq… Victory to its heroic Resistance..
A salute to the martyrs and to the Mujahideens!
Long live Palestine, Arab and free!
God grants success!
The Leadership of the Baath and its National Resistance.
October 2006
* Translated by Abu Assur. al Moharer.net