Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Case: My Honour Is Not For Sale, Not For a Lie

*Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Case: My Honour Is Not For Sale, Not For a Lie*
*By *GORDON DUFF
Today Editors, Jeff Gates, Raja Mujtaba and I were in the AF-Pak region over
the last couple of weeks. Jeff and I are Vietnam veterans, Raja a decorated
combat veteran, tank commander, from the India/Pakistan war. We met dozens
of Pakistani military, including nearly all of their highest ranking retired
officers, from Admiral Sirohey, Chairman of their Joint Chiefs of Staff to
General Alsam Beg, Head of the Army to Lt. General Hamid Gul, former head of
the ISI. In our party were our other Veterans Today contributors, BG Asif
Haroon Raja and BG Raza Ali, of "Charlie Wilson's War" fame.
Today, I received an email from Admiral Sirohey. His office is lined with
memorabilia from a long career of service, service as an ally and friend of
the United States. Sirohey and the rest were America's most stalwart allies
during the Cold War. These were the real allies that helped us bring about
the downfall of the Soviet Union. I was honoured to be among them. Today
Admiral Sirohey is scheduled to attend a rally protesting the illegal
kidnapping, brutalizing and conviction of Dr. Affia Siddiqui. America's
best friends in Asia, the finest soldiers in the world are horrified at what
we have done.
Can it be that bad?
The Bush administration, when it saw its "War on Terror" wasn't getting
enough suspects, hired drug cartel members and criminal elements to kidnap
innocent civilians to fill our secret prisons. Yes, we actually did this.
In this case, we kidnapped a mother with 3 children, tortured her for years,
murdered a small child and then charged her with attempting to murder her
captors after years in a secret prison on Bagram Air Force Base.
Every soldier on that base, everyone who has served there has to live with
the dishonor of this act until something is done. Remember when America,
after World War II painted the people of Germany with the stain of guilt for
not knowing about the death camps? Tell me what is different here? We
didn't know that drug lords and gangsters were stealing people off the
street to fill our prisons with "terror suspects" so Bush/Ashcroft and
Cheney could crow about their successes?
If you didn't know before, this is what all the secret "torture memos" were
all about, not real terrorists, but innocent people we "bought" as though we
were slave runners of old.
A few years after we bought our phony terror suspects, tortured, raped and
brutalized them, most were released. They had committed no crime other than
to be standing on the wrong dark street corner when the druglords working
for Bush were out hunting "meat" for America's gulags.
Dr. Aafia had to be convicted, had to be jailed and silenced. The crimes
against her and her children were so heinous; only a kangaroo court in
America, a country whose news is orchestrated by the Islam hating
MSM/Corporate media and powerful Israeli/AIPAC lobby would have the audacity
to bring her to trial.
Do we need to review the case? Remember the OJ case? He was released
because of a glove not fitting. Dr. Aafia was shot by the "translator"
during her "debriefing."
She has a Doctorate from an American university. She comes from a country
where everyone speaks English. *"If the translator doesn't fit, you must
acquit!"*
Do we now call a person with a cattle prod a "translator?"
When the My Lai massacre happened, I was with a Marine unit less than 50
miles away. All of us who were there then, not so many are around any more,
carry the stain of that dishonor and have for decades. I can talk of honor
or service but all people see is babies and their mothers, shot to death,
lining the bottom of a ditch.
It is a matter of honour.
There are no "secret prisons" and nobody is tortured without someone knowing
about it. We are all responsible; I don't care if you are serving in Iraq
or Afghanistan or anywhere around the world, active duty, reserve, National
Guard, retiree or veteran. We are nearly 30 million strong. Many of us
don't have much, memories, wounds, a small pension and our honour.
Our silence strips our honour away.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was not a terrorist. The newspapers lied, we all know
why. Either she is guilty or we all are. Better to destroy her than to
arrest those guilty of real crimes, arrest people some of us voted into high
office.
"We were just taking orders."
Where have we heard that before, Nuremberg? It isn't just this one life.
We already killed over a million people in our ill fated invasion of Iraq.
*Fog of War*. We know better, everyone with eyes to see knows better, know
it now. Then why are we still acting like criminals? No more lies. We are
at war, a war with real enemies. We have so little, our short lives, our
families and what we believe in.
Did a tiny crippled woman, illegally imprisoned for years try to murder a
room of FBI, Special Forces and Blackwater/CIA operatives?
I can tell you this: If I get my butt kicked by a 100 pound woman in a
wheel chair, you won't see me in front of a jury in New York City crying for
my mama.
The only possible answer is that everyone involved in the trial of Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui is a liar. Nothing else is possible. I know why they lied, they
were ordered to "for the good of the service." Was there something in the
oath involving "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America unless told to lie for the good of the service?"
What are we protecting?
Once the public learns that we are buying phony terror suspects from the
worlds largest drug dealers, people we are protecting, people flooding our
streets with narcotics, there might be problems. Best not let the public
know why we never found those weapons of mass destruction, that yellow cake
uranium, those mobile bio-weapons labs or why our continual search for Osama
bin Laden keeps failing.
The deal of the century, destroying an innocent life and earning the hate of
a valued ally, all to stand behind the lies and rhetoric of America's "dark
age." We would be lucky if it were only every citizen of Pakistan that was
enraged at us for this travesty. It is worse, far worse.
Who are the real terrorists? In Pakistan, Admiral Sirohey, friend to half a
dozen American Presidents is heading to a peaceful protest. What can we,
Americans, claim? If kidnapping, torture, rape and covering it up by
letting the victim rot in prison isn't terrorism, I don't know what is.
We should be thankful for that seat on the UN Security Council. We may need
it for more than covering up for Israel. The next nation facing sanctions
for international crimes may be us. All that stands between us and being
cut off from the world is our veto. All that is keeping an entire
administration from War Crimes trials is the Bush administrations withdrawal
from the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Why is President Obama allowing the outrages of the Bush administration to
continue?
SOURCE:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/03/gordon-duff-freeing-dr-aafia-a-matter-of-honor/#respond
*About: Gordon Duff*
Email: gpduf@aol.com
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, and Senior Editor at Veterans
Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking
along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense
technologies or acting as diplomatic officer of UN humanitarian groups.
Gordon Duff's articles are published around the world and translated into a
number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and
sometimes controversial guest.
--
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of punishment and hope of reward after death." --
Albert Einstein !!!
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