Lost Integrity
Published in Thawra Al-Wada
(Syria) on 20 March 2012
by Ahmed Hamada (link to original)
(Syria) on 20 March 2012
by Ahmed Hamada (link to original)
Translated from
by Emily Schloman.
Edited by Katie Marinello.
When American soldiers and mercenaries commit horrible crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington usually claims that they are psychologically disturbed in order to exonerate them. The American attorney assigned to defend the soldier who committed the most recent massacre in Kandahar said that his client had become mentally ill during his military service.
Although the soldier in question slaughtered 16 Afghan civilians, the CIA has smuggled him out of Afghanistan, primarily to escape the wrath of the Afghans. The spectacle of his acquittal was conducted through his lawyer and, perhaps, through his prosecution as well because they considered him to be ill or insane. This is similar to what was done to the perpetrators of the Haditha massacre in Iraq, who killed an innocent Iraqi family in cold blood after raping the family’s daughters and then burning their bodies. In the end, their trial was a farce.
On this basis, we find that America's fair and impartial judiciary has discharged every perpetrator of his actions. Meanwhile, hundreds of claims filed against former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for his role in the torture of Iraqis and for their deaths in the infamous prisons of Abu Ghraib are abandoned. Hundreds of other lawsuits, filed by human rights organizations against mercenary security companies, such as Blackwater, that kill in cold blood in Afghanistan and Iraq are likewise ignored.
The same applies to the code of the George Bush administration which ignored the judiciary, an institution that claims fairness and integrity. We do not hear of its judges indicting war criminals, even though their crimes are documented both in audio and video. The way we see it, heaven and earth will move when it comes to American interests in the world!
Although the soldier in question slaughtered 16 Afghan civilians, the CIA has smuggled him out of Afghanistan, primarily to escape the wrath of the Afghans. The spectacle of his acquittal was conducted through his lawyer and, perhaps, through his prosecution as well because they considered him to be ill or insane. This is similar to what was done to the perpetrators of the Haditha massacre in Iraq, who killed an innocent Iraqi family in cold blood after raping the family’s daughters and then burning their bodies. In the end, their trial was a farce.
On this basis, we find that America's fair and impartial judiciary has discharged every perpetrator of his actions. Meanwhile, hundreds of claims filed against former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for his role in the torture of Iraqis and for their deaths in the infamous prisons of Abu Ghraib are abandoned. Hundreds of other lawsuits, filed by human rights organizations against mercenary security companies, such as Blackwater, that kill in cold blood in Afghanistan and Iraq are likewise ignored.
The same applies to the code of the George Bush administration which ignored the judiciary, an institution that claims fairness and integrity. We do not hear of its judges indicting war criminals, even though their crimes are documented both in audio and video. The way we see it, heaven and earth will move when it comes to American interests in the world!