Apo Democrat weCalifornia Pete Stark akataura chokwadi nezveMutungamiri Bush neCongressal Republicans, vana neIraq, akave pariah ipapo. VaBush vakapikisa mutemo wezvehutano hwevana uye maRepublicans mudare vakatsigira mutongo waPresident.
Zvakwana, Stark akadaro. Muchikamu chake chegumi nesere chinomiririra San Francisco's East Bay, mumiriri wenguva refu wehutano hwevana akaburitsa hasha dzake paImba pasi paGumiguru 18. "Hauna mari yekutsigira hondo kana vana," Stark akapomera Republicans. "Asi iwe uchashandisa kuputitsa vanhu vasina mhosva kana tikakwanisa kuwana vana vakakwana kuti vakure zvekuti utumire kuIraq kuti vabvise misoro yavo nekuda kwekunakidzwa nemutungamiri wenyika."
Kunyange vateereri vaiwanzova vasingakendengi pauriri hwakazara makuhwa vakateerera. "Ivo [veRepublicans] chokwadi havana hanya nekuwana $ 200 bhiriyoni kuti varwe hondo isiri pamutemo muIraq. Mari iyoyo mungaiwanepi? Muchatiudza nhema dzamuri kutiudza nhasi? Ndizvo zvamuriwo here? kuenda kunopa mari kuhondo? Chokwadi ndechekuti Bush anongoda kuputika zvinhu. MuIraq, muUnited States uye muCongress."
Mutauri Nancy Pelosi akafanotaura akarova ruoko rwaStark. "Kunyange nhengo dzeCongress dzichifarira maonero adzo, zvakataurwa naCongressman Stark panguva yegakava zvainge zvisina kufanira," akadaro Mutauriri weparamende, "uye zvakatsauswa kubva mukukosha kwenyaya iripo - kupa hutano kuvana veAmerica."
Pelosi akati Stark akapa maRepublicans nzira yekuvhiringidza kubva padanho rekukunda pabhiri rehutano hwevana: kusave nehanya. Vese maDemocrats vanobvuma kukunda kwavo muna 2006 muDzimba dzese mbiri zvaireva kuti Congress nyowani yaizopedza hondo uye nekuchengetedza shreds yejira republic.
Bush akaparadza Bumbiro reMitemo nekutora simba rekurwadzisa ("varwi vemuvengi", tap (nhare dze "vafungidziri vehugandanga" uye kufuratira (mitemo yekongiresi). Congressional Democrats vanogunun'una vachipindura, asi kusaita kwavo kwakaita kuti simba rake rive pamutemo. Saka, Stark's hasha, senge tsumo yechando, yakavanza zvitadzo zvakadzika - uye njodzi yakagamuchira pachena uye zvakajeka hondo yaBush uye nehutsinye hurongwa hwemutemo Nhengo dzinomupa mari yebhajeti yehondo - yeIraq neAfghanistan - uye inoramba ichiwedzera mari ye "kudzivirira" iyo isingadziviriri Chenjerera "block buster bomb" mubhajeti nyowani iyo Pentagon hawks inoda kushandisa kuIran.
White House yakatozivisa Congress kuti inoronga kukumbira imwe mari ye "hondo yepasi rose yehugandanga." Vashoma Nhengo vanoshinga kubvunza zvikumbiro zvisina musoro zvakadaro. Al-Qaida iri kumhanya muIraq, anodaro Bush, uye maererano nemafungiro ake zvinoreva kuti tinoda mari yakawanda kuti tirambe tichimhanya?
Mukupera kwaGumiguru, Bush akakumbira Congress $196.4 bhiriyoni yebhajeti re2007-8 rinopesana nehugandanga, $25 bhiriyoni kupfuura gore rapfuura. Pentagon inoda imwe $481 bhiriyoni.
Congress ingangobvuma chikumbiro cheMutungamiriri uyu chakakundikana kunyangwe hazvo mvumo yake yakaderera, uye vacharamba vachimupa - vachipihwa kusagona kwake uye nehutongi hwehunyowani - masimba asingaenzaniswi.
Makore makumi mana nematanhatu apfuura, Mutungamiri Eisenhower akayambira nezve izvo zvave zvisingataurwe asi zvinonyatsozivikanwa mamiriro eBush anogara achiwedzera masimba ekubata uye pamwe kuputika kwaStark: imwe neimwe ye435 congressional district ine hukama nemauto, kuburikidza nemabhesi kana kugadzirwa kwechimwe chikamu. ye "defense" bhajeti. Vakuru veAmerica vakafuratira simba remauto-industrial-scientific-construction-engineering complex. Yakave sine qua non yehupfumi hwenyika.
Pasina hurongwa hwakadai maRepublicans angave akashinga kuda kuti Stark akumbire ruregerero? Chokwadi, Stark pakutanga akati maRepublicans anofanirwa kukumbira ruregerero nekutadza kupa mavhoti ekupfuura veto yaBush. Vatsoropodzi veMapato ese maviri vakashora Stark nekupomera Bush kunyepa nekuuraya mauto edu ane mbiri nekuda kwekunakidzwa kwake. Bush murume ari serious. Kwasara mazuva matatu chete asati arayira mauto eUS kuti apinde muIraq akavimbisa pasi rose kuti: "Uchenjeri hunosiya pasina mubvunzo. Irak inoramba iine uye kuviga zvimwe zvezvombo zvinouraya zvakanyanya zvakambogadzirwa."
Nekutaura kwakadzama kudaro Bush atumira 4,000 pamwe chete neAmerica - masoja nemauto - kurufu rwavo; vanenge 30,000 2005 vakakuvara. Asi muna Chikunguru XNUMX, Bush - Bush chaiye? - akaseka achinyepedzera kutsvaga WMD yakarasika kuseri kwefenicha uye pasi pesofa - "kwete pano" ichiteverwa nekuseka, kana kuseri kwedhesiki muOval Office. "Kwete, kwete pano." Vezvenhau vaiuya kuzodya manheru vakachema nekuseka kwaPresident.
Hapana akaseka kupopota kwaPete Stark. Sezvineiwo, manzwiro evanhu akamira seri kwehasha dzake. Hapana chinosekesa pamusoro pekuzvipira kwaBush kwehupenyu, mari uye mukurumbira weUS muIraq. Bush yaita kuti Iraq nepasirese zvive nengozi. Vapoteri vanopfuura mamiriyoni maviri veIraq vakatizira kune dzimwe nyika; mamwe mamiriyoni maviri akadzingwa mukati. Chiyero chekushaikwa kwemabasa muIraqi chakachinja kutenderedza 70%. Huwandu hwevaIraqi vakafa uye vakakuvadzwa zvino havazivi nhamba - vanomhanya pakati pe600,000 ne1 miriyoni.
Bush anoti hondo iyi yakangouraya zviuru makumi matatu chete zvehupenyu hweIraq. Asi Iraq Body Count, iyo inotarisisa zviwanikwa zveveruzhinji, inoisa huwandu hwevanhu vakakuvara kunosvika zviuru makumi masere. Ongororo yaChikunguru 30,000 kubva kuJohns Hopkins yakashandisa ongororo dzemhuri dzakawanda kuyera kufa, kunofungidzirwa pane imwe nzvimbo muchikamu che80,000. Chikwata cheJust Foreign Policy chakavandudza huwandu hwevanhu vanopfuura miriyoni vakakuvara. Kuverengera kwekupedzisira kunogona kusvika pamadhora mazana maviri nemazana matanhatu emadhora zvichienderana neNational Priorities Project's maverengero efungidziro kubva kuCongressal Budget Office.
(http://www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=297&Itemid=7)
Tichifunga nezvenhamba dzakadai, sei mhinduro dzehussy kudaro kubva kuMutauriri Pelosi kuenda kuna Stark kutaura zvaangangofunga? Barbara Lee chete (Oakland) ndiye akapa kuzvidzivirira. "VeRepublicans varikuda kushandura nyaya kubva kunyaya chaiyo iripo, rinova basa rakatidyira mari inosvika chidimbu chebhiriyoni remadhora, uye hapana chinopera," akadaro. "Ndiyo nyaya chaiyo pano, uye maRepublicans, nemutungamiri wenyika, vari kuda kunzvenga."
MaDemocrat haayeuki here zvakaitwa neRepublican draft dodger muna 2004? Vakadaidza Senator Max Cleland, murema akarasikirwa nemakumbo muhondo yeVietnam, mbwende uye akabvunza kuda nyika yake. Uye "vakamhanya" John Kerry zvakare.
Mitemo yakasiyana? Kana maDemocrat akataura chokwadi kune Hutongi hunozorekodhwa nenhoroondo sevakapa rukudzo rwakaipa nehuwori, vatungamiriri vavo vanovatsiura nekuvadaidza kuti vane hasha. Mutauriri Pelosi haatauri izvo iye pamwe nevamwe vakasununguka veDemocrats vangangofunga: "Hapana munhu anofanirwa kubata George Bush neruremekedzo. Haana kuiwana nemanyepo ake uye unyengeri pazvinhu zvakakomba, nekutuma kwake mauto asina hanya uye kuparadzwa kwake. Iraq, nekugadzwa kwake kwevasina hunyanzvi pakutungamira kwemapazi akasiyana ekutonga. "
Musi waOctober 23, Pete Stark akakumbira ruregerero kune "vaaishanda navo, vazhinji vavo vandakagumbura, kumutungamiri, kumhuri yake, kumauto."
Kukumbira ruregerero kwake, akadaro, kuchaita kuti ave “asina basa sezvandinofanira kuita uye kuti tidzokere kunyaya dzatingagadzirisa. Sekusapedza hondo kana kurova bhajeti remauto kana kumisa kushungurudzwa kwaBush kweBumbiro reMitemo? Mukurongeka, Congress haiwanzoita nehushingi kunze kwekunge mamirioni avanhu aenda kumigwagwa - uye kugara ipapo; kwete pamberi pemakomputa avo uye maTV.
Landau is an Institute for Policy Studies Fellow and author of Counterpunch Press book A BUSH AND BOTOX WORLD. His new film, WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE is available on dvd from roundworldproductions@gmail.com
