Kukunda kwekutanga kwaJohn Kerry kuri kuwedzera uye "chero munhu-asi-Bush" vavhoti vari kutarisira kuratidzwa-pasi neMugari. Seneta weMassachusetts "zviunze" hurukuro dzekukunda dzinoita kuti maDemocrats adzingwe, asi kana zvasvika kune mutemo wekunze, Kerry haave anti-Bush vazhinji vari kushuvira.
Sezvo jockeying inotanga pakati peavo vanofarira basa rehurumende kana Kerry akarova Bush muna Mbudzi, hazvisati zvanyanya kunyanyo kurumidza kupa vane tariro vari kurayira mumiriri kuti atarise.
Funga nezvevanopa mazano aKerry kune dzimwe nyika. Bvunza vatsigiri vemumiriri, uye chipangamazano wavanotanga kutaura ndiJoe Wilson, nhengo yeClinton yeNational Security Council yakaferefeta nyaya yekuti Saddam Hussein aiedza kutenga uranium-giredhi rezvombo kubva kuNiger. Wilson akakunda nyeredzi dzehondo kubva kune vanofambira mberi kuenda kuruzhinji nezvaakawana, izvo zvaipokana nezvakataurwa neBush management. Mudzimai waWilson, mumiriri weCIA Valerie Plame akaburitswa neWhite House sosi kana masosi semhedzisiro.
Wilson anogona kunge ari ngowani chena, asi zvakaoma kutaura zvakafanana nezvaRichard Morningstar, Rand Beers naWilliam Perry, dzimwe nhengo nhatu dzeboka reKerry rekune dzimwe nyika.
Morningstar, aimbove chipangamazano kuMutungamiri Clinton paCaspian simba, akabatsira mukusundira kune gakava repombi yemafuta eBaku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan. Hurongwa uhu hune rutsigiro rwakasimba kumativi ose ezvematongerwo enyika. Mubatanidzwa wemakambani emafuta akadyarwa zvakanyanya, kusanganisira BP yeBritain, uye mafemu eUS Unocal neAmerada Hess. Mumakore ekuma1990, hutungamiriri hwaClinton hwakaita zvese zvahwaikwanisa kuchenesa nzira yeBTC, kusanganisira kuwedzera mari yeU.S. Export-Import Bank, uye kutora Dick Cheney, James Baker nevamwe kuti vatsigire hurumende dzemuno.
Kambani yemutemo yaJames Baker, Baker Botts, inomiririra BP. Dick Cheney's Halliburton, mutengesi weindasitiri yemafuta, akahwina kondirakiti yekuvaka mafinefineri ematunhu akati wandei eCaspian. Senhengo yeBoard of Directors, Condoleezza Rice akabatsira kutaurirana nezvechibvumirano cheChevron chekuboora munda weCaspian unonzi wakapfuma kwazvo, weTengiz.
Muna 2003, Morningstar yakatsanangurira chirongwa cheHarvard University Caspian Studies kuti pombi, iyo yaizopfuura neAzerbaijan, Georgia neTurkey, inotarisirwa kushandiswa neCaspian Sea states kuunza mafuta avo kumadokero kumusika. Sokutsanangurira Morningstar kunhengo dzepurojekiti yeHarvard, inosimudzira zvinangwa zvakasiyana-siyana zvedunhu, pakati pazvo, kusimudzira kuchengetedzeka kwesimba uye nekuona kuti hapana Russia kana Iran inogona kusimudzira kutonga pamusoro pepiplelines kubva kuCaspian. (Chirongwa cheHarvard cheCaspian Studies chinotsigirwa pakati pevamwe, Chevron, Unocal uye Amerada Hess.)
Nechibvumirano cheTurkey, basa papombi yeBTC yakatanga munaGunyana '02. World Bank yakabvuma muna Mbudzi wapfuura kupa mari inosvika mazana maviri nemakumi mashanu emamiriyoni emadhora, asi masangano anorwira kodzero dzevanhu nevanoongorora zvakatipoteredza vachiri kutarisira kuti inogona kumiswa. Gore rapfuura, Amnesty International yakaburitsa gwaro ichitaura kuti chirongwa ichi chaizotyora kodzero dzevanhu zviuru nezviuru uye kukonzera kukanganisa kwakanyanya kwezvakatipoteredza. AI inotaura kuti chibvumirano chevatsigiri vepombi nehurumende yeTurkey chinotorera vanhu veko nevashandi kodzero dzavo. (“Human Rights On the Line,” Amnesty International, Chivabvu 250.)
A Kerry manejimendi neMorningstar seNational Security Advisor inogona kutarisirwa kuchengetedza BTC munzira. Hapana chakanyanya kuchinja munyika yeagribusiness nekutengesa futi. Muna 1999, semumiriri weUS kuEuropean Union, Morningstar yakapa kurwiswa kunotyisa kwemutemo weEU unorambidza chikafu cheGM. "Matongerwo enyika uye demagoguery zvakatora zvachose hurongwa hwekutonga," akadaro. Bush's Agriculture Secretary, Ann Veneman, anoshandisa anenge mazwi chaiwo.
Mumwe wevanopa mazano aKerry kune dzimwe nyika iRand Beers. Sean Donahue weMassachusetts Anti-Corporate Clearinghouse akanyora nhoroondo inoburitsa yebasa reBeer yeCounterpunch webhusaiti mwedzi wapfuura. Zvakakwana kutaura kuti Beers yaive chiso cheveruzhinji chechirongwa chaClinton chekupfutisa zvirimwa muColombia. Akambotaura achipika kuti magandanga eColumbian awana kudzidziswa mumisasa yeAl Qaeda muAfghanistan. (Chirevo chaakazofanira kubvisa.)
"Kana John Kerry akarega Rand Beers ikaramba ichitungamira mutemo wake wekunze, hutongi hweKerry hauzove nani kune vekumaruwa vekuColombia pane hutongi hweBush," akanyora kudaro Donahue. Vavhoti vanoda kuti Senator Kerry vape imwe nzira yehunhu kuna Bush vanofanirwa kuda kuti Senator iite mhiko yekusaita Beers Secretary of State.
Kutenderedza timu yaKerry ndiWilliam Perry. SeMunyori weDziviriro, Perry akatungamira hurongwa hwehondo mushure mekutonhora kugadziridza indasitiri yezvidziviriro, asi chirongwa chePerry chaive chisiri icho "chikamu cherunyararo" chaifungwa nevanhu vekuAmerica. Perry akasundidzira chirongwa chehurumende chakabhadhara makondirakiti emauto kuti abatanidze, achipokana kuti masangano makuru chete ndiwo angave ane izvo zvinotora kukwikwidza mu21st Century. Pentagon yakapa chidimbu chekunyora pasi pekubatana kweindasitiri yekudzivirira.
Mune zvakadanwa nemutsoropodzi Bernie Sanders (I-VT) "mubhadharo wekudzingwa," Pentagon yaPerry yakanhonga mutengo wemidziyo yekufambisa, kuputsa mafekitori nekupa maparachuti egoridhe kuvakuru vakuru. Foreign Policy muFocus inoshuma kuti Perry aifanira kuwana kusawirirana kwekufarira asati avhenekera chirongwa chekubatanidza-rubatsiro. Akashanda semupi wezano anobhadharwa waMartin Marietta pakarepo asati ajoinha hutongi hwaClinton. ("Military-Industrial Complex Revisited," Foreign Policy in Focus, 2001.)
Nhasi, Lockheed Martin, iyo yakagadzirwa mumubatanidzwa yakaziviswa mwedzi mishoma mushure mekutanga kwegwaro raPerry, ndiye mukuru wekugadzira zvombo munyika. Zvikamu zvaro zvinosanganisira Martin Marietta, Loral Defense uye General Dynamics. Iko kubatanidzwa kwakaderedza mihoro yekambani, asi zvakanyanya kuwedzera simba ravo rezvematongerwo enyika.
Paakasiya basa mu'98 Perry akabatana nebhodhi reimwe huru - iyo Seattle-based Boeing Corporation. Kune avo vanofarira, Perry akabatanawo neboka reCarlyle, iyo Saudi-based firm ine vadyidzani vanosanganisira vasina kupera kwevatungamiriri venyika vanosanganisira aimbove Mutungamiriri weBritish Minster John Major, aimbova munyori wenyika James Baker uye Mutungamiriri wekutanga Bush.
Chero ani kunze kwaBush pamwe, asi vazhinji vanovhota vangangodawo kuona muhurumende chero munhu kunze kweMorningstar, Perry naBeers.
ZVINOTAURWA: Laura Flanders ndiye muiti weKufona Kwako akanzwika pakati pevhiki paKALW-FM muSan Francisco uye painternet uye munyori weBushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, (Kurume 2004, kubva kuVerso Books.)