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AIDING THE ENEMY

Friday, October 19 2007 @ 03:11 AM CDT

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Malcom Lagauche

Justice finally prevailed. After seeing defendant-after-defendant in military trials be let off the hook for killing innocent Iraqis, a U.S. Army Reserve officer, Lt. Col. William Steele, is in the middle of a court-martial that could sentence him to life in prison.

How many Iraqis did he kill? None. How many Iraqis did he torture? None. Steele’s offense is that he allowed a two Iraqi prisoners to use his cell phone for a few minutes.

According to USA Today of October 18, 2007:

U.S. soldiers who guarded the lockup that housed Saddam Hussein in his last months testified Wednesday their camp commander let former regime inmates — including those on death row — use his cellphone for unmonitored calls.

The testimony, on the third day of the court-martial of 52-year-old Lt. Col. William Steele, an Army reservist from Prince George, Virginia, faces a life sentence if convicted on the charge of aiding the enemy by allowing the prisoners to use his phone.

The prisoners Steele let make the cellphone calls have not been identified — and it was not known if Saddam was among them. Soldiers testifying Wednesday only identified the inmates by the last three digits of their detainee number.

The practice of Steele’s allowing Iraqi prisoners to use his cell phone was not widespread. The case against him includes only two calls: a two-minute call by an Iraqi female prisoner and a five-minute call by detainee number 167.

I thought I had heard all the absurdities about the Iraqi occupation. This one, however, is surreal to the nth degree. How can a five-minute telephone call from a prisoner who has been incarcerated for more than three years affect the security of U.S. troops? The high-value Iraqi detainees had been severed from the outside world for years and most had not even been able to speak to their families. If one of them, maybe Saddam, could in a five-minute conversation give information detrimental to the U.S. that could affect the combat, he must have had brainpower that would make Einstein’s look minuscule.

For years, we have seen general-after-general lie about the torture of Iraqi inmates. We have seen court-martial-after-court-martial declare murderers of Iraqi civilians innocent. We have seen military people on the witness stand admit to killing Iraqi citizens and then pissing on their heads. We have seen a U.S. Marine who murdered Iraqi civilians state that he was nothing until he joined the Marines. His wife tearfully told the court that it was difficult having ends meet with her husband’s salary suspended. There was no talk about the family of the Iraqi whom the Marine murdered and how they must have a hard time making ends meet.

Few murderers in the U.S. military have been given sentences for their actions in Iraq. And, those who have been slapped on the wrist are low-end enlisted people. The officers have been given a free pass.

But, let a Lt. Colonel who has sympathy for the human race allow his phone to be used for seven minutes, and he’s a traitor. Initially, Steele faced a death sentence if found guilty of aiding the enemy. Major General James Simmons, a former acting commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq, was benevolent and he ruled against a possible death sentence.

It is unreal that a U.S. Army officer faces life in prison for a humanitarian act while those who ordered cold-blooded murder or violent torture can sit in the officer’s lounge on a U.S. base and drink cocktails while describing their war tales. Where is this "Christian compassion" that U.S. citizens frequently cite? Where is this "fair play" that U.S. leaders have constantly invoked? They are both illusions, the same type of illusions the U.S. government has forced on the world under the guise of "democracy and freedom." Ask any Iraqi citizen and he/she will tell you all about the bringing of democracy to Iraq.

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