NeNorman Solomon, World BEYOND War, March 14, 2023
Vast quantities of nhema kubva kuvakuru vehurumende yeUS vakatungamira kuIraq nechisimba. Ikozvino, ichicherekedza kusvitsa kwayo makore makumi maviri, zvimwe chetezvo zvenhau izvo akawedzera nhema idzodzo nechido vari kupa retrospectives. Usatarisira kuti vajekese chokwadi chakaomesesa, kusanganisira kubatanidzwa kwavo mukusundira hondo.
Chii chakaita kuti United States itange hondo yeIraq munaKurume 2003 aive masimba enhau nezvematongerwo enyika izvo zvichiri zvakanyanya nesu nhasi.
Nguva pfupi yapfuura 9/11, chimwe chezvikwapuro zvekutaura zvakaratidzwa neMutungamiri George W. Bush chaive chisina kujeka. kusimbisa pakutaura kumusangano wakabatanidzwa weCongress musi waSept. 20, 2001: “Nyika yose, munharaunda imwe neimwe, yava nechisarudzo chokuita. Pamwe unesu, kana kuti une magandanga.” Yakakandwa pasi, iyo gauntlet yakagamuchirwa uye kushoropodzwa kwakanyanya muUnited States. Mainstream media uye nhengo dzeCongress vangangove vese vakafadzwa ne Manichean worldview iyo yakashanduka uye yakaramba iripo.
Nguva yedu yazvino yakazadzwa nemaechoes ekutaura kwakadaro kubva kumutungamiri wenyika. Mwedzi mishoma yapfuura kurova chibhakera Mutongi mukuru weSaudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman - anga achitungamira hutongi hwehudzvanyiriri huri kuita hondo kuYemen, zvichikonzera mazana ezviuru akafa kubva 2015 nerubatsiro rwehurumende yeUS - Joe Biden akakwira purupiti yehunhu hwepamusoro panguva yake 2022 State of the Union address.
Biden vakazivisa "chisungo chisingazungunuke chekuti rusununguko runogara ruchikunda hudzvinyiriri." Uye akawedzera kuti "muhondo pakati pedemocracy uye autocracy, mademokrasi ari kusimuka kusvika parizvino." Ehe, pakanga pasina kutaurwa nezvekutsigira kwake kuzvitonga kweSaudi nehondo.
Mukutaura kweNyika yeMubatanidzwa, VaBiden vakasimbisa zvakanyanya kushora hondo yeRussia paUkraine, sezvaakaita kakawanda kubva ipapo. Hunyengeri hwemutungamiri wenyika yeBiden hahupi nzira yekururamisa kutyisa kuri kuita mauto eRussia muUkraine. Uye hondo iyoyo haipembedzi unyengeri hunouraya izvo zvakatekeshera mutemo weUS kunze kwenyika.
Vhiki rino, usabate mweya wako kune vezvenhau vanotarisisa nezve kurwiswa kweIraq kuti ubatanidze chokwadi chakakosha nezve basa raBiden uye murume anove munyori wehurumende, Antony Blinken. Kana mumwe nemumwe achishora Russia asi achisimbirira kuti hazvitenderwe kuti imwe nyika ipinde nechisimba kune imwe, kuedza kwaOrwellian kwakaoma uye kusanyara.
Mwedzi wapfuura, kutaura kuUN Security Council, Blinken akakumbira "misimboti nemitemo inoita kuti nyika dzese dzive dzakachengeteka uye dzakachengeteka" - senge "kusatora nyika nechisimba" uye "pasina hondo dzechisimba." Asi Biden naBlinken vaive vakakosha midziyo kuhondo huru yehukasha yaive kupindirwa kweIraq. Pazviitiko zvisingawanzoitiki apo Biden akaiswa panzvimbo yekubatsira kwaakaita kuti kupindira kwezvematongerwo enyika kuite, mhinduro yake yanga iri yekuzviparadzanisa uye kuudza. nhema chaidzo.
"Biden ane nhoroondo refu yezvirevo zvisina chokwadi" maererano neIraq, nyanzvi Stephen Zunes Ratidza makore mana apfuura. "Semuyenzaniso, pamberi pevhoti yakakosha yeSeneti inobvumidza kupinda, Biden akashandisa chinzvimbo chake sachigaro weSeneti yezvekudyidzana nedzimwe nyika kuti apinze vhoti. kusimbisa kuti Iraq neimwe nzira yakagadzirazve dura guru rezvombo zvemakemikari nezvoutachiona, purogiramu yezvombo zvenyukireya uye gadziriro dzokutakura dzakaoma kunzwisisa dzakanga dzabviswa kare.” Kutaura kwenhema kwezvinofungidzirwa kuti zvombo zvinoparadza zvakawanda muIraq ndiyo yaiva chikonzero chikuru chechisimba chacho.
Kunyepa ikoko akapikiswa munguva chaiyo, mwedzi yakawanda isati yapinda, by akawanda nyanzvi. Asi panguva iyoyo-Seneta Biden, akabata chigaro cheDare Rezvehukama hwekunze, akavabvisa vese kubva pamazuva maviri ehushasha hwakanyanya. kunzwa pakati pezhizha ra2002.
Uye ndiani aiva mukuru wevashandi vekomiti panguva iyoyo? Iye zvino munyori wehurumende, Antony Blinken.
Isu tinokwanisa kuisa Biden naBlinken muchikamu chakasiyana zvachose pane munhu akaita saTariq Aziz, aive mutevedzeri wemutungamiri weIraq ari pasi pehudzvinyiriri Saddam Hussein. Asi, ndichifunga nezvemisangano mitatu naAziz yandakapinda muBaghdad mumwedzi isati yapinda nechisimba, ndine zvimwe zvandisina chokwadi nazvo.
Aziz akapfeka masutu ebhizinesi akagadzirwa zvakanaka. Achitaura chiRungu chakanakisa mumatoni akayerwa uye mitsara yakanyatsogadzirwa, aive nemweya weunyanzvi asina kushaya ruremekedzo sezvaaikwazisa boka redu renhengo ina (yandakanga ndaronga nevamwe vandaishanda navo kuInstitute for Public Accuracy). Boka redu raisanganisira nhengo yeCongress Nick Rahall wekuWest Virginia, aimbova seneta weSouth Dakota James Abourezk uye Mutungamiriri weConscience International James Jennings. Sezvakazoitika, the musangano kwakaitika mwedzi mitanhatu isati yapinda.
Panguva yemusangano iwoyo pakati paSeptember 2002, Aziz akakwanisa kutaura muchidimbu chokwadi chaibvumwa nevezvenhau vashoma veUnited States. "Zvinorasika kana ukadaro, unorangwa kana ukasadaro," Aziz akadaro, achireva sarudzo yehurumende yeIraq yekuti vorega vaongorori vezvombo veUN vadzokere munyika.
Mushure memisangano naAziz nevamwe vakuru veIraqi, I Akaudzwa ari Washington Post: "Dai yaive nyaya yekuongorora uye vakanzwa kuti kune mwenje kumagumo kwemugero, iri raizova dambudziko rinogadziriswa." Asi yakanga iri kure nekunyanya kuve nyaya yekuongorora. Hutongi hweBush hwakanga hwakatsunga kuita hondo kuIraq.
Mazuva mashoma mushure memusangano weAziz, hurumende yeIraq - iyo yainyatsotaura kuti yakanga isina zvombo zvekuparadza kukuru - yakazivisa kuti yaizobvumira vaongorori veUN kuti vadzokere munyika. (Vakanga vabviswa makore mana apfuura nekuda kwekuchengeteka kwavo manheru ezvaitarisirwa US kurwisa kwemabhomba izvozvo zvakaitika kwemazuva mana.) Asi kuwirirana neSangano Romubatanidzwa Wenyika Dzepasi Pose hakuna zvakunobatsira. Vatungamiri vehurumende yeUS vaida kutanga kurwisa Iraq, zvisinei.
Pamisangano miviri yakazotevera naAziz, muna Zvita 2002 naNdira 2003, ndakashamiswa nekugona kwake kuita seane tsika uye nekukwenenzvera. Nepo mutauriri mukuru wemudzvinyiriri ane utsinye, airatidza kuomarara. Ndakafunga nezvemashoko okuti "guta rezvakaipa."
Imwe nyanzvi ine ruzivo yakandiudza kuti Saddam Hussein akachengeta imwe mhando yekusimudzira pamusoro peAziz nekuchengetedza mwanakomana wake munjodzi yekusungwa kana zvakanyanya, kuti Aziz angave murevereri. Zvingave izvo kana kuti kwete, Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Aziz akaramba akavimbika kusvika kumagumo. Semumwe munhu ari mufirimu raJean Renoir Mitemo yeMutambo inoti, "Chinhu chinotyisa pamusoro pehupenyu ndeichi: Munhu wose ane zvikonzero zvake."
Tariq Aziz aive nezvikonzero zvakanaka zvekutyira hupenyu hwake - uye hupenyu hwevadikani - kana akamhanyira Saddam. Kusiyana neizvi, vezvematongerwo enyika nevakuru vakuru muWashington vakaenda nehurongwa hwemhondi apo kupokana kungavaparira kusarudzwa patsva, mukurumbira, mari kana simba.
Ndakapedzisira kuona Aziz muna Ndira 2003, ndichiperekedza aimbove UN Humanitarian Coordinator muIraq kunosangana naye. Achitaura nesu tiri vaviri muhofisi yake yeBaghdad, Aziz airatidza kuti aiziva kuti chisimba chaive chokwadi. Zvakatanga mwedzi miviri gare gare. Pentagon yakafara kuisa chiratidzo chayo kurwisa kwemhepo kunotyisa paguta “kuvhunduka uye kutya.”
Musi waChikunguru 1, 2004, tichimira pamberi pemutongi weIraq mudare redzimhosva riri panzvimbo yemauto eUS pedyo nenhandare yendege yeBaghdad, Aziz. akati: “Chandinoda kuziva ndechekuti, mhosva idzi ndedzemunhu here? NdiTariq Aziz arikuita kuuraya uku? Kana ndiri nhengo yehurumende inoita chikanganiso chekuuraya munhu, saka hapangavi nemhosva yekupomera ini pachangu. Kana paine mhosva yaparwa nehutungamiriri, hunhu hunotsamira ipapo, uye hapafanirwe kuve nenyaya yemunhu nekuti mumwe munhu ndewehutungamiriri. Uye, Aziz akaenderera mberi achiti, "Handina kumbouraya munhu, nezviito zveruoko rwangu."
Kupinda kwakabatsira Joe Biden kuunza Iraq kwakaguma nehondo yakauraya zvakananga mazana ezviuru zvevanhuwo zvavo. Dai akanyatsodaidzwa kuti azvidavirire pabasa rake, mazwi aBiden anogona kufanana neaTariq Aziz.
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Norman Solomon ndiye director weRootsAction.org uye director director weInstitute for Public Accuracy. Ndiye munyori wemabhuku gumi nemaviri kusanganisira Hondo Yakagadzirwa Nyore. Bhuku rake rinotevera, Hondo Yakagadzirwa Kuti Isaonekwe: Maitiro eAmerica Inovanza Kuuraya Kwevanhu VeMuchina Wayo Wemauto, ichaburitswa muna Chikumi 2023 neThe New Press.
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