Ndi kuchoka kwa asitikali aku US ku Iraq, oyang'anira, asitikali ankhondo ndi atolankhani akuyesera kuyika chithunzithunzi chabwino pamutu woyipawu wa mbiri ya US. Zingalimbikitsenso mabanja achisoni a asitikali opitilira 4,400 omwe adaphedwa ku Iraq ngati nsembe zawo zidasiya Iraq kukhala malo abwinoko kapena kupangitsa America kukhala yotetezeka. Koma chowonadi chowawa ndichakuti kulowererapo kwa US kwakhala tsoka lalikulu ku Iraq ndi United States.
Choyamba tiyeni tivomereze kuti sitinayenera kuukira Iraq poyambira. Iraq inalibe kugwirizana ndi adani athu a 9/11, analibe zida zowononga anthu ambiri ndipo sanali kuopseza United States. Tidakankhidwira kunkhondoyi pamaziko a mabodza ndipo palibe aliyense-osati George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld-ayimbidwa mlandu. "Matanki oganiza," atolankhani ndi akatswiri omwe amafalitsa mabodza sanachotsedwe. Ambiri aiwo angapezeke lero akukondwerera nkhondo ku Afghanistan.
Ndizowona kuti ma Iraqi adavutika pansi paulamuliro wankhanza wa Saddam Hussein koma kuchotsedwa kwake sikunabweretse moyo wabwino kwa aku Iraq. "Ine sindine munthu wandale, koma ndikudziwa kuti pansi pa Saddam Hussein, tinali ndi magetsi, madzi akumwa abwino, dongosolo lachipatala lomwe linali nsanje ya dziko la Aarabu ndi maphunziro aulere kudzera ku koleji," katswiri wamankhwala waku Iraq Dr. Entisar Al-Arabi anandiuza. "Ndili ndi ana asanu ndipo nthawi iliyonse yomwe ndimakhala ndi mwana, ndinali ndi ufulu wopita ku tchuthi cholipirira chaka chonse. Ndidali ndi pharmacy ndipo ndimatha kutseka mochedwa monga momwe ndidafunira chifukwa misewu inali yotetezeka. Lero palibe chitetezo. ndipo anthu aku Iraq ali ndi kusowa koopsa kwa chilichonse-magetsi, chakudya, madzi, mankhwala, ngakhale mafuta a petulo ambiri mwa anthu ophunzira athawa m'dzikoli, ndipo omwe atsala akuyang'ana mmbuyo mofunitsitsa kumasiku a Saddam Hussein.
Dr. Al-Arabi adalowa m'gulu la othawa kwawo aku Iraq pafupifupi mamiliyoni anayi, ambiri mwa iwo omwe akukhala m'mikhalidwe yovuta kwambiri ku Syria, Jordan, Lebanon ndi padziko lonse lapansi. Osalembedwa, ambiri saloledwa kugwira ntchito ndipo amakakamizika kutenga malipiro ochepa kwambiri, ntchito zoletsedwa kapena kudalira UN ndi mabungwe othandizira kuti apulumuke. Bungwe la United Nations loona za anthu othawa kwawo (UNHCR) lanena kuti pali vuto lalikulu m'derali kuzembetsa akazi aku Iraq.
Nkhondo ya ku Iraq yasiya mavuto aakulu kwa asilikali athu. Oposa 4,400 aphedwa ndipo masauzande ambiri avulala kwambiri. Oposa m'modzi mwa asitikali anayi aku US abwera kunyumba kuchokera kunkhondo yaku Iraq ndimavuto azaumoyo omwe amafunikira chithandizo chamankhwala kapena malingaliro. "Ziwerengero za PTSD zakwera kwambiri ndipo mu 2009, asilikali 245 adadzipha," adatero Geoff Millard, wapampando wa bungwe la Iraq Veterans Against the War. "Ngati ma vets akubwera kunyumba kuchokera ku Iraq salandira chithandizo, tiwona kuwonjezeka kwa kusowa pokhala, kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala osokoneza bongo, uchidakwa komanso nkhanza zapakhomo."
Zathetsanso chuma chathu komanso zathandizira kuti pakhale mavuto azachuma. Pofika mu Ogasiti 2010, okhometsa misonkho aku US awononga ndalama zoposa $750 biliyoni pankhondo yaku Iraq. Kuwerengera mtengo wa chisamaliro cha moyo wonse kwa ma vets ovulala ndi malipiro a chiwongoladzanja pa ndalama zomwe tinabwereka kuti tilipire nkhondoyi, mtengo weniweni udzakhala mu mabiliyoni ambiri. Ndalamazi zikanagwiritsidwa ntchito kuyika ntchito zaukhondo, zobiriwira, kapena kumanganso masukulu adziko lathu, chithandizo chamankhwala ndi zomangamanga - kuonetsetsa chitetezo chenicheni kwa aku America.
Kuwonjezera pa kuwononga asilikali ndi chuma chathu, nkhondoyi yawononga kwambiri mbiri yathu. Mfundo yaku US yozunza, kumasulira modabwitsa, kutsekeredwa m'ndende kosatha, ziwawa komanso zakupha nyumba za anthu wamba, kupha anthu wamba osalakwa m'misewu komanso kusakhalapo kwa habeas corpus zakulitsa udani komanso kuchita zinthu monyanyira kwa anthu aku America. Kukhalapo kwa asitikali athu ku Iraq ndi mayiko ena achisilamu kwakhala chida cholembera anthu.
Ndipo tisaiwale kuti kupezeka kwathu ku Iraq sikunathe. Padzakhalabe asitikali 50,000 otsala, makontrakitala achinsinsi pafupifupi 75,000, "malo okhazikika" asanu akuluakulu ndi kazembe wamkulu wa Vatican City. Monga Major General Stephen Lanza, mneneri wankhondo waku US ku Iraq, adauza New York Times: "M'mawu othandiza, palibe chomwe chidzasinthe".
Chifukwa chake tiyeni tiwonetse mphindi ino ndi manyazi akulu chifukwa cha kuzunzika komwe tabweretsa kwa mabanja ankhondo aku Iraqi ndi aku America, komanso kuchita manyazi kwambiri kuti demokalase yathu sinathe kuwayankha iwo omwe adayambitsa vutoli.
Maphunziro a kulowererapo kowopsa kumeneku akuyenera kukhala chilimbikitso ku Congress ndi oyang'anira kuti athetse chipwirikiti ku Afghanistan. Yakwana nthawi yoti tithetse nkhondo zomwe sizingapambane, zosavomerezeka ndikubweretsa ndalama zathu zankhondo kunyumba kuti tithe kuthana ndi ntchito yofunika kwambiri pachitetezo cha dziko lathu, mwachitsanzo, kumanganso America.
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Medea Benjamin ([imelo ndiotetezedwa]) ndi cofounder wa Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org) ndi CODEPINK: Women for Peace (www.codepinkalert.org).
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