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GORDON DUFF: Dr. A’fia Siddiqui: VICTIM OF BUSH RAPE AND KIDNAP SQUAD
WOMAN KIDNAPPED, RAPED AND HELD 5 YEARS IN SECRET BAGRAM PRISON NOW
FACING TRIAL FOR ATTACKING CIA TORTURE SQUAD
By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Next week, a mother of 3 children is facing trial for, supposedly, wrestling an M-16 away from a CIA torture squad and trying to kill them. How did the CIA get her? They bought her. She was sold to them by a corrupt official in Pakistan as a “terror suspect,” a common problem and a well known ploy in the George W. Bush phony war on terrorism.
Was she a terrorist? There is no evidence of this, even after years of torture. The only serious crimes we find her guilty of is being a house wife, mother and Islamic and, I forgot, having an education. Her victims? Crippled and 100 pounds, she took on a room full of former Navy Seals, Special Forces and “private interrogators.” The obvious truth, of course: the charges are a fabrication by a pack of cowards and liars.
What do we really know? We really don’t know anything at all. Nobody has any evidence that this woman, a scientist educated in the US did anything at all. There is talk, empty talk about her sending money to charities that might be tied to terrorism. The amount of money is about 2% of a typical payment from one of the Saudi royals that have funded terrorists and suicide bombers for years, but none of them are kidnapped, raped, shot or beaten.
They have oil.
The case against her is made, at length, in the Wikipedia article about her. It is a good read. It makes me proud to be an American. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
What we see exposed, however, is the slave trade in “terror suspects” created during the Bush Administration fear frenzy when intelligence agencies around the world started dragging innocent people off the streets and selling them to the US for millions of dollars to supply the needed number of “terrorist arrests” to justify wild claims of a successful war on terror continually being made by Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and the rest of the gang.
The crime is an amusing one. A woman who was either just arrested or had been in custody for 5 years, depending on which of her captors you listen to. This should seem like an interesting read:
“On 4 August 2008, shorty after press rumors suggested that Siddiqui had been in Bagram for the last five years, the US government announced that Aafia Siddiqui was arrested on charges related to her attempted murder and assault of United States officers and employees in Afghanistan
The US claims that Siddiqui was not captured in March 2003, that she was arrested on July 17, 2008 outside the home of the Governor of Ghazni.[24][25] The US account of the July 18, 2008 shooting is that FBI agents, interpreters, and several GIs entered arrived at the Afghan facility where Siddiqui was being held. The personnel entered a second floor meeting room—unaware that Siddiqui was being held there, unsecured, behind a curtain.
The Warrant Officer took a seat and placed his United States Army M-4 rifle on the floor next to the curtain .[26] According to the US account the GIs set down their weapons, whereupon Siddiqui burst from behind a curtain, grabbed an M-4, and opened fire. One interpreter who was accompanying the officers seized the firearm from her.
US officials claim they have no idea where Siddiqui has been in the five years since she was captured on March 17, 2003.
Siddiqui arrived in New York on August 4, 2008, and was presented before a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Siddiqui refused to accept the charges.[27][28][29] Siddiqui’s lawyer stated that no one can believe the FBI story and that Siddiqui had actually been captured in Karachi, Pakistan along with three of her children.
On August 8, 2008 the Daily Times reported that Aafia was captured in Ghazni with her eldest son, Muhammad Ahmed.[31] The report stated that documents existed that confirmed that Affia and her children had been captured in March 2003.”
REAL ISSUES FOR DECENT AMERICANS TO CARE ABOUT
This woman and her three children were kidnapped, and illegally held for 5 years under the most brutal conditions imaginable without any legal reason. She had been accused of no crime. After years of imprisonment, rape and torture, she is finally arrested for attacking those who tortured her.
REALITY CHECK: TIME TO STAND PROUD IN OUR WAR ON TERROR
After 5 years of imprisonment, Dr. Siddiqui was a total physical wreck, barely able to walk, and seriously disabled from hundreds of torture sessions. Yet she is accused of overpowering several Navy Seals and US Army Special Forces unarmed combat specialists, seizing a weapon and nearly killing all of them, this at a weight of 100 pounds.
“Nearly killing” is a bit of an overstatement. In fact, nobody was injured at all. The more we investigate this, the more this sounds like an outlandish war story cooked up to file for PTSD.
She faces 20 years for this crime and only this crime. Since when was it a crime to attempt to escape from illegal imprisonment? Any American who is illegally detained and imprisoned without due process can’t be charged with a crime for resisting torture or imprisonment.
Americans consider such actions their patriotic duty.
PHOTO STUDY OF OUR SECURITY FORCES IN KABUL PROVING THEIR CHARACTER AND DISCIPLINE:
ONE OF THE GREAT SUCCESSES OF THE WAR ON TERROR
Attorney General John Ashcroft considered the kidnapping of this woman, along with her 3 children, one of the great victories of the War on Terror. However, after 5 years of interrogation and 7 years of confinement, no charges could ever be filed against her other than trying to single handledly crawl out of her death bed and dispatch a room full of “drug store” Rambo types.
Ashcroft has many success in his career. He is the only person in American history to have lost a seat in the US Senate to a dead man.
In an unpublicized but much more interesting case, Ashcroft and his band of merry US Attorneys, in their attempt to rack up arrests for terrorism without doing adequate homework actually managed to drag in an entire CIA intelligence organization which had, until broken up by John Ashcroft and gang, penetrated the highest levels of Al Qaeda.
Not much more can be said, but several top CIA operatives now have the embarrassing history of having been arrested for terrorist related charges. Ashcroft and later Gonzales have, through incompetence, done more to cripple US intelligence efforts than any group other than the Mossad.
Even the “outing” of CIA nuclear proliferation specialist Valerie Plame, believed to be responsible for North Korea getting nuclear weapons, involved much less utter bungling and inanity.
OBAMA, HOLDER AND A BUSH ERA “WITCH HUNT”
Nearly every legal expert in the world, including almost universal outrage among the legal community is Israel, has called this one of the most insane acts of abuse of any country that claims to have a functioning legal system and representative form of government.
Even the alleged “suspicious acts,” which are, by the way, buying totally legal and harmless gun accessories, is in itself totally insane. Am I going to have to register that dangerous combat assault flashlight I keep by my desk for when I drop my reading glasses?
Any idiot who goes to gun shows knows that the weapons that small children carry around in Afghanistan are ten times better than the things Americans can get from sporting good stores or thru mail order. Every time an American collector sees a photograph of a Taliban member who owns 2 goats carrying an AK rifle with forged receiver and top quality ART sniper scope, something worth $3000 or more in the US, the insanity of purchasing 3rd rate clone parts in the US to ship to a country that has enough assault rifles to supply the world for centuries begins to sink in.
Where is the NRA and ACLU?
AMERICAN ANTI-GUN CRAZIES
Even if we weren’t dealing with a kidnapped and raped mother facing trial for, not terrorism but for showing super human powers and violating, not terrorist laws but, moreover, the laws of physics themselves, I can’t help but come back to an old theme.
If I buy a semi-automatic shotgun and the Black Helicopter Secret Police raid my home, is a US Attorney going to call it a “ultra-high powered special operations assault mid caliber artillery piece?”
Is my Ruger 10/22, purchased for plinking tin cans going to be an assault machine gun?
However, when Dr. Hasan went on his terror campaign at Ft. Hood using an FN Herstal 5.7mm 20 round assault pistol with classified ammunition available ONLY to our special operations troops, ammo specially designed for penetrating body armor, newspapers, TV, everyone was silent. We can be so very “uncurious” when we need to. I am still waiting to find out why we are concealing this.
WHO IS THE VICTIM HERE?
These things are obvious. We paid criminals to kidnap an innocent person for cheap public relations gain, elections were coming up and our War on Terror was looking as phony as, well as phony as it actually is.
Then, after years of rape and torture, this frail Islamic woman tries to fight back, or so we are told, told by people who imprison innocent people, rape and torture. Are these witnesses we would have in an American court?
She already considers herself dead. What human can survive such brutality, injustice, humiliation and abuse. Who are the real victims here?
Americans who know nothing of the trial, American who sat silently while this went on, Americans who thought their cowardice was buying them “safety.”
We are the victims because we are despised around the world for brutality and injustice we know nothing of because we gave up our free press and our love of honor for, well, I don’t actually know. A picture of Sarah Palin comes to mind, her or “Joe the Plumber.”
and so it goes
References
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- ^ Ozment, Katherine (2008). “Who’s Afraid of Aafia Siddiqui?“, Boston Magazine. Accessed 1 January 2008.
- ^ Amad S (2008-08-18). “The Grey Lady of Bagram: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui”. MuslimMatters.org. http://muslimmatters.org/2008/08/18/the-grey-lady-of-bagram-dr-aafia-siddiqui/. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ^ The Carroll L. Wilson Award Recipients 1986-2005
- ^ Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s husband breaks his silence after six years By Aroosa Masroor
- ^ Most Dangerous Woman in the World by Juliane von Mittelstaedt
- ^ a b Pakistani couple sought in Qaeda hunt By Khalid Hasan from the Daily Times Thursday, March 27, 2003. Accessed via the Internet July 6, 2009
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- ^ Terror Watch:Tangled Ties, MSNBC, Newsweek, April 7, 2004, Column/Terror Watch, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
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- ^ DAWN, Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s disappearance, a plea from her uncle, 2004/05/02
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- ^ a b Khalid Hasan (2008-08-09). “Did Aafia Siddiqui smuggle gems for Al Qaeda?”. Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008�8�8story_8-8-2008_pg7_11. Retrieved 2008-08-09. mirror
- ^ Muhammad Bilal (2008-07-07). “Pakistani woman detained at Bagram airbase”. Daily Times (Pakistan). http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C07%5C07%5Cstory_7-7-2008_pg7_13. Retrieved 2008-07-14. mirror
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- ^ “Alleged detention of Pakistani woman at US base challenged in Court”. 2008-07-29. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1420220.php/Alleged_detention_of_Pakistani_woman_at_US_base_challenged_in_court. Retrieved 2008-07-29. mirror
- ^ “Woman suspect ‘held at US base’”. Gulf Times. 2008-07-30. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=232834&version=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23. Retrieved 2008-07-30. mirror
- ^ a b c d e Lary Neumiester (2009-07-04). “Details emerge on woman accused of al-Qaida ties”. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Farticle%2FALeqM5iTN4w3kCOjtCSOP0WvpNLHU9EP0wD997TP281&date=2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ “Hearing slated for today for former Boston resident suspected of Al Qaeda ties”. Boston Globe. 2008-08-05. http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/arraignment_tod.html. Retrieved 2008-08-07. “Aafia Siddiqui allegedly yelled “Allahu akbar” and grabbed a soldier’s rifle and fired two shots before she was shot herself in the July 18 incident.” mirror
- ^ Masood Haider (2008-08-07). “Aafia Siddiqui appears in US court, denied bail”. Dawn (newspaper). http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/07/top7.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ “Aafia Siddiqui Arrested for Attempting to Kill United States Officers in Afghanistan”. United States Department of Justice. 2008-08-04. http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-nsd-687.html. Retrieved 2008-08-08. mirror
- ^ “‘Al-Qaeda’ woman appears in court”. BBC News. 2008-08-05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7542249.stm. Retrieved 2008-08-06. “Rights groups say she has spent the last five years in secret US jails.” mirror
- ^ Syed Shoaib Hasan (2008-08-06). “Mystery of Siddiqui disappearance”. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7544008.stm. Retrieved 2008-08-06. mirror
- ^ ÍÓä ãÌÊÈیٰ (2008-08-06). “ǘŠÑ ÚÇÝیÀ ˜Ç ÇáÒÇãÇÊ Óÿ Çä˜ÇÑ”. BBC Urdu Service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/regional/story/2008/08/080806_aafia_ny_court_as.shtml. Retrieved 2008-08-06. mirror
- ^ Huma Yusuf (2008-08-07). “Why Aafia matters”. The International News. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=128565. “Most importantly, news of Aafia’s court appearance should provoke Pakistanis into demanding (with renewed fervour) that judges be restored to their posts immediately.” mirror
- ^ Faraz Khan (2008-08-08). “‘MI handed Dr Aafia over to US’”. Daily Times (Pakistan). http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008�8�8story_8-8-2008_pg7_7. Retrieved 2008-08-09. mirror
- ^ a b Aftab Borka (2008-08-05). “Pakistan demands access to al Qaeda suspect in U.S.”. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSISL107305. Retrieved 2008-08-15. mirror
- ^ Sanjeev Miglani (2008-08-14). “The case of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui”. Reuters. http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/08/14/the-case-of-pakistani-neuroscientist-aafia-siddiqui/. Retrieved 2008-08-15. mirror
- ^ “Release her children at least”. The International News. 2008-08-07. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=128570. Retrieved 2008-08-07. “I don’t know if Dr Siddiqui has done anything illegal or not but the way she has been picked and handed over to US authorities along with three innocent children is a violation of basic human rights and human dignity. What happened to moral values, respect for law and human rights? If she has done something wrong, she should have been held accountable in the court of law and punished. But why detain her illegally, along with three children, without any charge whatsoever for five years?” mirror
- ^ “Let this mom go!”. Daily Mail. 2008-08-09. http://dailymailnews.com/200808/08/dmeditorialpage.html. Retrieved 2008-08-04. mirror
- ^ a b “HRCP appalled over Siddiqui treatment”. The International News. 2008-08-07. http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=128677. Retrieved 2008-08-07. “It is a picture of a severely dehydrated, sick person almost as if on the death bed. It shows the inhumane brutality of an apparently civilised nation by the administration of a country which claims to be much civilised.” mirror
- ^ a b Usman Manzoor (2008-08-09). “Musharraf’s son accused of pocketing bounty for Dr Aafia”. The News (Pakistan). http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=16527. Retrieved 2008-08-09. mirror
- ^ “Afghans free son of Pakistani woman detained by U.S.”. Globe and Mail. 2008-09-15. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080915.wSiddiqui0915/BNStory/International/home. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ Maryam Hassan (2008-08-20). “Summary Corrected/Confirmed by Elaine (Aafia’s Lawyer)”. MuslimMatters.org. http://muslimmatters.org/2008/08/18/the-grey-lady-of-bagram-dr-aafia-siddiqui/#comment-24666. Retrieved 2008-08-20. [1]
- ^ a b c Christine Kearney (2008-08-11). “Pakistani accused of US troop attack to get doctor”. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN11499491. Retrieved 2008-08-11. “Other medical issues need to be investigated by a variety of medical specialists.” [2]
- ^ “Pak diplomat meets Aafia Siddiqui”. The Nation (Pakistan). 2008-08-09. http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/10-Aug-2008/Pak-diplomat-meets-Aafia-Siddiqui. Retrieved 2008-08-09. “A senior Pakistani Embassy diplomat, who met with Aafia Siddqui in the Brooklyn detention center on Saturday, assured her that the embassy would make all possible efforts to ensure that her rights as an under-trial prisoner were respected.” mirror
- ^ “US gives Pakistan consular access to Aafia Siddiqui”. Associated Press of Pakistan. 2008-08-09. http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48122&Itemid=2. Retrieved 2008-08-09. mirror
- ^ “Haqqani assures Aafia of govt support”. The Nation (Pakistan). 2009-07-21. Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nation.com.pk%2Fpakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online%2FPolitics%2F21-Jul-2009%2FHaqqani-assures-Aafia-of-govt-support&date=2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7735009.stm
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24/america/Al-Qaida-Suspect-Shooting.php
- ^ Weiser, Benjamin, “Scientist In Afghan Terror Case Faked Her Mental Illness, Prosecutor Says”, New York Times, March 27, 2009.
- ^ a b Bruce Golding (2009-07-07). “‘Terror’ mom in talk show: rambles on at ‘sanity’ hearing”. New York Post. Archived from the original on 2009-07-30. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F07072009%2Fnews%2Fregionalnews%2Fterror_mom_in_talk_show_178007.htm&date=2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ Benjaim Wieser (2009-07-05). “Court to Hear New Reports on Pakistani Scientist’s Fitness for Trial”. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/nyregion/06competency.html?ref=nyregion. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ a b Larry Neumeister (2009-07-29). “NY judge: Terror defendant competent for trial”. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2009-07-30. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Farticle%2FALeqM5iTN4w3kCOjtCSOP0WvpNLHU9EP0wD99O6R480&date=2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ Aijaz Zaka Syed (2009-07-29). “New York, the Untold Story”. Khaleej Times. Archived from the original on 2009-07-29. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2FDisplayArticle.asp%3Fxfile%3Ddata%2Fopinion%2F2009%2FJuly%2Fopinion_July154.xml%26section%3Dopinion%26col%3D&date=2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-07-29. “The witch-hunt and victimisation of innocent Muslims as portrayed in the movie, New York, is not the figment of Bollywood’s imagination. It is a frightening reality that is not limited to some unfortunate individuals like Sameer, Omar and Maya who happened to be at the wrong place at a wrong time. The horrific ordeal of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a MIT-trained neuroscientist who disappeared with her three children five years ago from Islamabad to mysteriously resurface in US custody as a terror suspect and al-Qaeda mastermind, is a case in point. Who knows how many Aafia Siddiquis, Sameers and Omars are out there, waiting for justice and freedom? I can hear their helpless, terrifying cries all the time…”
- ^ Backstory: “The Intelligence Factory” By Petra Bartosiewics
- ^ http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/21-Nov-2009/Dr-Aafia-to-boycott-trial
Katherine Ozment, “Who’s Afraid of Aafia Siddiqui?“, Boston magazine, October 2004
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Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine Combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
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i see that she was still breathing and had her head. so what is the problem?
Maybe I am an old timer, but getting beaten up by a girl and runniung to the police for help seems a bit “light loafered” if you get my meaning.
Maybe the crowd over there in Afghanistan needs a bit of toughening up.
It is one thing getting your ass kicked by the Taliban, it is something else getting it kicked by a girl and running home crying to mama.
Semper fi.
Paul,
Excuse the typo, but as this was done at Bagram, I can’t help but picture a bunch of fat guys doing shoots out of each others ass cheeks.
That was Bagram, wasn’t it?
Damn it. I am lucky I can write my own name…SHOTS…or was it Shooters…
all depends on the jello content.
g
calm down, damnit. no, it was hoi an.
NOTHING SHOCKS ME ANYMORE!!!
Our whole damn government is corrupt……
Look at all the BACK ROOM deals being hatched out by both parties.
LEGS NEED TO BE BROKEN BEFORE ALL OF US LOSE OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS.
The media isn’t much better (INCLUDING FOX).
No matter how much we complain the EVIL DOERS keep screwing us.
Were in a DEPRESSION!
The problem is everyone is so brainwashed they can’t see the truth.
Wait until inflation kicks in later this year.
Milk will be $10.00 a gallon and the price of gasoline will cost you and I $5.00 if we’re lucky.
GOD HELP US ALL!
We’re screwed……………………….
Rick
3 bucks for milk..no more and I am otta here!
g
Fox isn’t much better? Are you tripping? Fox has been the house organ, the main propaganda platform hosting all the well known liars who gave Bush & Co. the excuses needed to begin all the horrors of the last nine years.
You don’t believe the official 9/11 story, do you?
Here’s the way to look at it. The total Federal debt was doubled by the Republicans, and four fifths of that doubling went into the pockets of friends of Bush. Though Al Quaeda no doubt exists now, given they are trying to throw the foreigners (us) out of their countries, in 2001 they were a CIA/Mossad fake designed to take the fall for the inside job of 911. It worked, and look at who made all the money….. Oh, and remember how long it took to get body armor and armored vehicles? It was because there wasn’t enough profit…. The Halliburton and Blackwater horror stories are endless.
And even we people who care don’t believe how close it is to disaster in this country.
Fox News. Jesus, like Pravda or Tass. Worse, now.
There is a strong belief that Dr Afia’s minor child was also taken into custody by FBI/CIA, probably that child is dead while in custody. Her one son was released after a few years but two are still missing who were arrested alongwith her.
Lets look at this another way.
If we were a democracy run with all the chekcs and balances that a democratic republic is supposed to have in place in order to be legitimate, then this would be incredibly shocking.
But we are not really a democracy, we are not really a federal republic on any level where "government" meets group behavior in our name. What we are is a sort of congolomeration, a kind of confederacy of criminals acting in the better interests of the bosses that run the various domestic and overseas enterprises that make money for the super wealthy who finance these "endeavors". And our "government" simply exists to give these thugs legitimacy in whatever they wish to do.
This is not new. We have been operating this way ever since the British taught us the ropes prior to our revolution against them.
We need to look at some facts. We, as a group and as a people , committed contiunous and consistent war crimes against hundreds of people in western Asia in the past eight years at the very least and then when we were caught we cried for consideration in what is known in academia as "special pleading".
That means, when YOU commit a crime you are a felon. When I commit a crime, I am innocent because the surrounding circumstances were somehow different for me. And they are. I am me and you are you and I count and you don’t. That is normally considered a sociopathic mindset common with criminals and psycopaths of all sorts.
The very first sign of inhuman behavior is an inability to empathize with a victim or another person suffering in our presence of sphere of influence. We have shown that over and over in our response to 9/11.
In the end what we have done is further polarize the entire Muslim world. The price that we will eventually pay for this error in judgment will be huge and incredibly damaging to us.
CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)
We have a sociopathic comment above. It may only mean that our reader is a Limbaugh/Beck/Bush type but, isn’t that a sociopath? Isn’t this an expression of ‘situational narcissism?"
For reasons unstated….out of ‘dumb’ or other…I have had to question people…and been responsible for their treatment.
When humanity fails, all we have is manners.
Taking us back to the movie, Lawrence of Arabia…quoting Fisa….(Alec Guiness).."Those stories, about our treatment of prisoners, tell the press they are untrue……we treat all our prisoners in accordance with the Geneva convention……to you it is law……to us….it is simply ‘good manners’….which do you believe is more reliable?"
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Would it help if the Doctor had been given due process as we know it? This War on Terrorism has brought international due process into the fore front of world opinion. In World War II it was a non-issue, vis, the fire bombing of Dresden, the carpet bombing of Monte Casino, the bombing of London and other incidents. In War, historically, the rights of the individuals are routinely ignored for more pressing political issues. The point this article, right or wrong, brings to me is that, when you leave the United States, you do so at your own risk. The part I missed in the article was where somebody kidnapped the Doctor and forced her to leave the United States and go to Pakistan. This appears to be the sole salient fact. Want peace and due process? Stay in the USA and live in peace. Want to take your ass in your own hands? Then marry someone of questionable character, buy military hardware, support questionable religious organizations and wind up in Pakistan just by coincidence. It is a recipe for getting killed. End of story.
If a person who buys a flashlight from a company that sells pistol grips and reads the Koran and marries someone the Bush family doesn’ t like can be kidnapped at will and you think this is acceptable, perhaps you should run for public office.
If you don’t think we kidnap people here, where were you for the Bush years?
I have friends under indictment for terrorism.
As for Pakistan, yes, anyone who will kidnap someone because they are paid off by America is just as guilty as America.
Your logic, however, isn’t just flawed, it is unrecognizable.
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Perhaps you would like to point out to me in the article where is says the Doctor was kidnapped in the United States. I don’t know about the Bush family kidnapping people, but I do know about the Clinton family. Brother Bill preying on a twenty-one year old child in the Oval Office and then lying about it does not bode well for the Democrats. To add insult to injury Brother Bill said he did it “just because he could.” Seems like some social democrats in Germany said pretty much the same thing cerca 1932-1945, but I don’t equate Brother Bill with them. One is a murderer and the other is a chump. Apples and oranges.
the most insane thing in new york city right now is a judge who considers it a crime for a woman to attempt to kill soldiers who kidnap her and her children, rape and shoot her. EVERYONE involved in this, even in the slightest, most indirect way must be tortured and shot on the SPOT. She is being held at the brooklyn metropolitan detention center, march down there oh men, and free her, break her out of her prison and take out anyone in sight. YOU KNOW THAT ANYTHING LESS THEN THIS IS BETRAYAL OF THIS WOMAN. I hope the judge, the intelligence agents and the soldiers in involved in this meet unparalleled misery. Another unbelievably insane thing is that an intelligence officer scanning my blog right now will have alarm bells ring in his head not for this kidnapped woman, but for me as a possible threat. FUCK AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!
New York is a city filled with Jews.
A generation ago, these same Jews, their parents anyway, were the moral center of much of what was free and decent about America.
While we are beating up on a new generation of Zionists, we can also remember another generation of heroes and patriots that helped build America.
We miss them. They would be there, freeing her.
This article is as phony as this site that is run by a bunch of coward phony’s, who lie, lie, lie. Just to blame Bush for anything and everything, so as to excuse their own party of its crimes ie; John Kerry admitting before Congress of war crimes PROVEN FACT, nothing phony about that, its all on tape and can be view at any time by any of you cowards.
Ah shit, I just farted..Its Bush’s fault I tell you, he made me do it, hang him and hang him high…Then we will find someone else in the Rep party to blame things on…
You BOYS and thats all you are, are BOYS, no men among you. Just go beyond the call of duty to lie….I even think you are laughing as you post crap like this..and laugh even harder when you sucker some dumb ass into believing you…
Come on Duff you write this stuff under the dennis rick name just to stir the pot …..Nobody can be that STUPID and still remember to breathe
No, this really isn’t me. he is all over the internet, threats, craziness.
I think he is probably an angry arab student who got strip searched one too many times and hates the United States.
If there actually were Americans as crazy as the Dennis Rick person, he would have reason…we all would.
I can’t imagine a real American who isn’t in prison being this …..?
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SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF LEFT WING BULLSHIT TO ME!!
No, just decent honest Americans, veterans, standing up against, well, people like you.
The 15 minutes when it was ok to be a total jerkoff is done.
Please move on with life.
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Duffy this goes directly to bush,cheney,rumsfield,cond-ho-sleeza and maybe even my swollen collin powell directing real tough guys to beat up rape and torture a women (maybe in front of her children?)while they were all sitting in the oval office pleasuring themselvs.it discusses me no end to hear the amount of cowboy rambo shit these cowards committed daily.when in the hell did this country go off the hinges? because now we a plethora of have degenerates like “dennis the menical” and the “river rodent” actually defending something we used to prosecute and put people down for.have you ever heard of alien abduction? because i think there are some people that have been and when they were violated then returned they put there freakin ass where their freakin mouth should be! zieg heil you great patriots you make amerika proud!.
I came to the US in 1977. The country was recovering from Vietnam. It was easy going, peaceful and not arrogant. I felt safe to say what I thought, and really felt that the Constitution protected me. All that is gone. Mr. Duff, your article reminds me that there are still people around who love that America. I sure want that America back.