Nini: 1 PM LWESINE, JUNI 19
APHO: IQELA LESIZWE SOSHISHINO (Lisagor Rm.), Washington, DC, 529 14th
NGUBANI: UROSS CAPUTI kunye noMATT SOUTHWORTH, amagqala eMfazwe e-Iraq
UTIM KAHLOR, uBawo we-2-ukhenketho lwase-Iraq igqala elinePTSD
I-RAY MC GOVERN, owayesakuba nguMhlalutyi wezobuNhloli beCIA
Amagqala eMfazwe yase-Iraq athumela umyalezo kuMongameli Obama: Musa ukungenelela e-Iraq, kuya kuphela
kukhokelela kubomi obulahlekileyo, bobabini base-US nase-Iraqi.
Emva kobusuku obubi beminyaka engaphezu kweshumi yemfazwe, amagqala amaninzi e-Iraq abona uhlaselo lwase-US oluzinzisayo kunye
ukuhlala kwe-Iraq njengesizathu sobunzima ilizwe elizifumana likuyo. Basalatha kubudenge be-US eyongezelelweyo
isenzo somkhosi kunye nokuba nokwenzeka kokuhlaselwa kweenqwelomoya, kunokuba kuxhamle abantu baseIraq, kuya kuqhubeka nokuzisa
ukufa, ukutshatyalaliswa kunye nokuchithwa, ngelixa ibeka amalungu enkonzo yase-US kwingozi engakumbi.
Namhlanje, amagqala e-Iraq kunye namalungu osapho acela kulawulo luka-Obama ukuba luphume
ukuqala imfazwe yamakhaya; ukubonelela ngoncedo loluntu kwiimbacu; kunye nokulandela idiplomacy yamazwe ngamazwe
uxolelwaniso lwabantu baseIraq.
I-ROSS CAPUTI ngumdlali we-Marine Corps we-2nd yokungqinga i-Fallujah ngoNovemba noDisemba ka-2004,
ithathelwe ingqalelo njengelona dabi laphalaza igazi elininzi kwimfazwe yase-US e-Iraq. Namhlanje ukwiBhodi yabaLawuli be-ISLAH
(www.reparations.org) kwaye ulilungu le-Iraq Veterans Against the War.
"Ubomi obuninzi baseMelika obulahlekileyo e-Iraq abunakwenziwa bube nentsingiselo ngokuxhasa i-
urhulumente ongathandwayo onogonyamelo. Naziphi na ezinye izenzo ezithathwe yi-US ukuxhobisa iMaliki
urhulumente e-Baghdad okanye uxhase ngokungenelela komkhosi: ukuhlaselwa kunye nokuhlaselwa kweenqwelomoya kuya kuba ngokupheleleyo
ayimkelekanga kwaye iziphatha kakubi, njengoko abemi baseIraq ngokuqinisekileyo baya kubandezeleka kakhulu. "
I-MATT SOUTHWORTH ligqala leMfazwe yase-Iraq elathi ngo-2004 lalimi kufutshane nedolophu yeqhinga laseTal Afar,
Iikhilomitha ezingama-260 kumntla-ntshona weBaghdad, eyathinjwa ngabavukeli beSunni kule veki. Uye waveza eyakhe
usizi kunye nengqumbo kwinqaku leKomiti yaBahlobo kuMthetho weSizwe (FCNL), apho asebenza khona. Mat
lilungu leVeterans For Peace, umbutho omele amawaka amagqala ase-US.
“Phantse i-5,000 yamajoni ase-US abulewe, ngaphezulu kwama-30,000 enzakeleyo, amakhulu amawaka eNzakalo yokuziphatha.
kunye nezigidi zabantu baseIraq babulawa, benzakele kwaye bagxothwa, namhlanje ndiyazibuza ukuba kutheni? Akuzange kube ngoku
mzuzu ndiye ndaziva ngathi ayinto yanto…. Iindleko zabantu azibaleki, kodwa ziya kuba njalo
iitriliyoni zeedola ezichithwe emfazweni kunye nokhathalelo lwamagqala zenza nantoni na elungileyo e-US, Iraq okanye
ihlabathi? Kwiminyaka elishumi emva kohlaselo, phantse akukho siphumo silungileyo sokubandakanyeka kwethu e-Iraq sisahleli
ukanti intetho iphantse yamalunga nokungenelela komkhosi kuphela. Ngoba?"
UTIM KAHLOR nguyise womhlala phantsi kwezonyango uSgt. URyan Kahlor. Unyana wakhe usebenze ngaphezulu kweenyanga ezingama-24 kwiikhenketho ezi-2
Irakh. Yena kunye nenkosikazi yakhe uLaura bahlala eMurrieta, CA.
“Abantu bafuna ukukholelwa ukuba xa abantu obathandayo bebuya emfazweni, yonke into ilungile. Isiphelo sebali.
Kodwa kwiminyaka esixhenxe emva kokugqibela konyana wethu wathunyelwa kwaye wafunyaniswa ukuba une-TBI kunye ne-PTSD, thina
basazama ukuqinisekisa ukuba unyana wethu uyaphila kwaye uphilile kwaye ufumana unyango alufunayo kubo bonke
ukwenzakala. Ngoku ndiyazi ukuba amanxeba emfazwe akanakuze aphole ngokupheleleyo kwaye nonyana wethu njengabanye abaninzi
qhubeka nokulwa ngengqondo yonke imihla. "
I-RAY MC GOVERN yasebenza njengegosa lomkhosi we-Infantry / Intelligence ngexesha le-Sixties yokuqala; ngelo xesha yayiyiCIA
umhlalutyi iminyaka engama-27. Ungumseki weVeteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
"Sele ukubulawa kwabantu okuninzi e-Iraq kuye 'kwalungelelaniswa' 'ngokungangqinisiswanga, ukuchasana, okanye
ubukrelekrele obukhoyo (iKomiti yeNgqondo yeSenethi, ngoJuni 5, 2008). Kwiminyaka eyi-100 eyadlulayo, njengoko iWWI yaqalisa,
U-Rudyard Kipling wakhupha iintambo ukuze afumane unyana wakhe (ongaphantsi kweminyaka yobudala) kuphela, uJohn, emkhosini. Ezaliswe kukuzisola
xa uJohn omncinane wabulawa kunyaka kamva, uKipling wabeka la mazwi alandelayo emlonyeni wonyana wakhe ofileyo:
'Ukuba bayabuza ukuba kutheni sife, baxelele kuba oobawo bethu bexoka.' Umhlaba wase-Iraq ugcwele igazi
bubuxoki - ubuxoki obuqhubekayo kwaye butyhefa intetho yoluntu. Sonke sinoxanduva lwesi siphithiphithi.
Akusayi kuphinda kubekho mfazwe!”
"Ungenelelo lwase-US luya kunika amandla amatsha kubalweli bangoku kwaye mhlawumbi lutsale iqela elitsha labantu
silwe ne-US,” utshilo uMichael McPhearson, uMlawuli oyiNtloko weVeterans For Peace. “I-US ayifuni
kufuneka udale iintshaba ezintsha. Oku kuya kwenza ukuba isisombululo sezopolitiko sibe nzima ngakumbi, ngelixa sibeka ubomi emngciphekweni
abantu baseIraq naseMelika. Lixesha lokuba i-US imke emfazweni. ”
Amagqala kunye neentsapho zomkhosi ziya kuthatha inxaxheba kwindibano yeWhite House ngentsimbi yoku-1 emva kwemini kulo Mgqibelo, nge-21 kaJuni.
ngokubambisana nemiboniso kwilizwe jikelele.
