Kodi asitikali aku US akanakhala ku Iraq ngati dzikolo lilibe dontho lamafuta pansi pa mchenga wake? Andale ambiri amazemba funso ngati limenelo. Ndipo kwa zaka zambiri, atolankhani aku U.S. Kukana koteroko kumabwerera mmbuyo.
"Tikulankhulanso za kukhalabe ndi mwayi wopeza mphamvu zamagetsi zomwe ndizofunikira - osati pakugwira ntchito kwa dziko lino, koma padziko lonse lapansi," Purezidenti adatero. "Ntchito zathu, njira yathu yamoyo, ufulu wathu komanso ufulu wa mayiko ochezeka padziko lonse lapansi zikanakhala zovuta ngati kulamulira kwa nkhokwe zazikulu za mafuta padziko lapansi kugwera m'manja mwa Saddam Hussein," adatero.
Kulemba pazokonda zamakampani ndi zothandiza anthu ndi njira yodziwika bwino yogwiritsira ntchito media kwa apurezidenti ndi maulamuliro awo limodzi ndi akatswiri ambiri. Patsiku lomaliza la Novembala 2003, pomwe asitikali aku U.S. alanda Iraq, wolemba nkhani wa New York Times, Thomas Friedman, ananena kuti 'nkhondo iyi ndi ntchito yofunika kwambiri yolimbikitsa demokalase ya ku United States kuyambira pomwe idakhazikitsidwa ndi Marshall Plan.' pa zinthu zabwino koposa zimene dziko lino linayesapo kumaiko akunja.’ Friedman sanatchule migolo pafupifupi 112 biliyoni ya mafuta osagwiritsidwa ntchito ku Iraq.
Zaka khumi ndi ziwiri pambuyo pake, milungu ingapo isanachitike ku Iraq, wolemba nkhani womasuka ku Washington Post, Richard Cohen, adayambitsa chiwembu chotsutsana ndi membala wa Congress yemwe adayesa kuzindikira kuti mafuta ndi "chilimbikitso champhamvu" pankhondo yomwe ikubwera. Cohen anali vitriolic. Mawu oyamba a m’danga lake anali ‘wabodza.’ Ali pamenepo, anawonjezera chigawo chake ndi kuloza kwa Woimira Dennis Kucinich monga ‘wosagonja wosagonjetseka’ ndi ‘chitsiru’ amene anali ‘kubwereza bodza.’
Nkhani ya Post yomweyi inagwiranso mawu omwe adali mkulu wa CIA James Woolsey-a Chalabi yemwe, malinga ndi nkhani ya Legal Times, adakhalapo pagulu la Chalabi. Woolsey adati: 'France ndi Russia ali ndi makampani amafuta ndi zokonda ku Iraq. Ayenera kuuzidwa kuti ngati angathandizidwe kupititsa dziko la Iraq ku boma labwino, tidzayesetsa kuchita zonse zomwe tingathe kuti boma latsopano ndi makampani aku America agwire nawo ntchito limodzi. Ngati ataya gawo lawo ndi Saddam, kudzakhala kovuta mpaka kosatheka kunyengerera boma latsopano la Iraq kuti ligwire nawo ntchito.’
Pa Wall Street, akatswiri azachuma anali okonda kunena moona mtima kuposa andale kapena atolankhani andale. "Ganizirani za Iraq ngati malo ankhondo omwe ali ndi malo osungiramo mafuta ambiri pansi," atero a Fadel Gheit, katswiri wazogulitsa mafuta ku Oppenheimer & Company. Iye anawonjezera kuti: ‘Simungathe kupempha zabwino kuposa zimenezo.’ Pambuyo pa zaka zoposa 200 za kufufuza malonda a mafuta, Gheit anati: ‘Ganizirani za Iraq monga gawo lachikale. … Ndi nyenyezi yamtsogolo. Ndicho chifukwa chake dziko la Iraq likukhala malo ofunidwa kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi.’
Zolembazo, McQuaig adalemba kuti, 'akuwonetsa kuti omwe adatenga nawo gawo mu gulu la Cheney - kuphatikiza oyang'anira makampani akuluakulu amafuta - anali ndi chidwi kwambiri ndi mafuta aku Iraq komanso makamaka pangozi yakugwa m'manja mwa makampani amafuta akunja, osati m'manja oyenerera amakampani okonda mafuta a U.S. Monga momwe zikalata zikuwonetsera, nkhondo ya US isanayambe, makampani amafuta akunja anali okonzeka kutengapo gawo ku Iraq, pomwe makampani akuluakulu amafuta aku US, pambuyo pa zaka za nkhondo za US-Iraqi, sizinali choncho.' makampani amafuta okhala ku USA, chithunzichi chikasintha kwambiri pambuyo pa kuwukira.
Tsiku lotsatira, Associated Press inanena kuti 'Purezidenti Bush adayankha ziwonetsero zotsutsana ndi nkhondo dzulo ndi chifukwa chatsopano choti asilikali a US apitirize kumenyana ku Iraq: chitetezo cha minda yaikulu ya mafuta ya dziko, yomwe adanena kuti idzagwa pansi pa ulamuliro wa zigawenga. .' Mapeto a kutumiza kwina kwa AP anati: 'Munthu wina wogwiritsa ntchito mafuta nthawi imodzi, Bush anakana milandu yakuti nkhondo ya Iraq ndi kulimbana kuti athetse chuma chambiri cha mafuta. Purezidenti wapewa kugwirizana pakati pa nkhondo ndi nkhokwe zamafuta za Iraq, koma kukwera mtengo kwa petulo kwakhudza kwambiri magwero a mafuta padziko lonse lapansi.
Nkhaniyi yasinthidwa kuchokera m'buku latsopano la Norman Solomon 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keeps Us Us Us Death.' Kuti mudziwe zambiri, pitani ku: www.WarMadeEasy.com