Comparison between Saddam-Iraq and Musharraf-Pakistan Situation.

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Written by: Faisal Rehman (on January 23, 2008 - 09:40 PM)

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Here is a compilation of a series(parts 1,2 and 3) of posts on my blog (http://united4justice.wordpress.com) with the name “History Repeats itself—>Comparison between Iraq-Saddam and Pakistan-Musharraf Situation”.

History repeats it self because nobody seems to learn from it and that’s what is happening with us.

Our leaders specially and nation in general are repeating the same mistakes we did before or made by others like us in the past. Now I come straight to the point which I want to discuss (my brain storming is not allowing me to write any more starting lines).

In the 80’s Iraq was a key American ally and Saddam was the best friend America had in the region. Saddam’s regime was fully backed militarily and financially by the Americans specially during their conflict with Iran but what we saw on December 30th 2006? Saddam hanged by the American sponsored Iraqi government. We have lots of things to learn from this, during Saddam-US love patch US was making Saddam stronger and stronger and making Iraq weaker and weaker by using it against Iran and also by encouraging him to take actions against Shia Iraqis and Kurdish Sunni Iraqis and it is also to be noted that Kurdish movement is being supported secretly by Israel and also the American investment was there for other Saddam opposing forces so what America wanted to achieve from that?

By strengthening Saddam Iraq and weakening Iraq America successfully made Saddam the main power centre also during that time the US-CIA was able to start Iraq-Kuwait War and after that America started to attack the Iraqi power centre i.e. Saddam (and his government) by calling their best friend a dictator, a tyrant and …Then with the help of US sanctions and support of anti-Saddam forces they were able to weak Saddam’s forces and government hold (making no fly zones etc) and after 9/11 during their course of modern day crusades (The so called War on Terror) they attacked Iraq and toppled Saddam’s government on the charges that they have developed WMD and called the Operation Enduring Freedom (Because US hates dictatorship, loves democracy, rule of law and freedom).

Now look at our situationAfter 9-11 (Which according to many is an insider’s job), US without any solid proof blamed the Taliban and Al-Qaida for the event and launched a crusade against them. They forced Pakistan to be a part of this so called” War on Terror” and this was made possible by the General (R) Musharraf’s( Who has his own liberal fascist agenda and this war gave him the chance to get the US support for implementing his agenda) regime which not only sacrificed the real friends but also sacrificed the national integrity and honor by allowing foreign forces to act from the Pakistani soil.

The support later proved to be really damaging for the Pakistani interest and resulted in a series of crises in Pakistan.In this so called war against terrorism the biggest sin Musharraf did was to make the country’s own army to fight with the people (the fight in northern Pakistan and later Lal Masjid etc).In doing so they violated several constitutional points and it lead to a confrontation between the Supreme Court and the dictator (specially in the missing person’s case) and because of this (along with the issues of sugarcane, steel mills and other financial and constitutional issues) which lead to the action of 9 March by the dictator.But the real thing which disturbed the dictator and the imperial power US is the rise of the Pakistani Civil society specially lawyers, students and the middle class who started nationwide protests against the actions of the dictator but to the disgrace of the government who meanwhile conquered ‘Lal Masjid’ by killing innocent children and women, the decision from the full court bench under Justice Ramday reinstated CJP Iftikhar Chaudhary.

After the reinstating of the CJP the judiciary and the lawyers community felt that they should now seriously think and do something for the supremacy of law in the country which Musharraf and his pet politicians named ‘judicial activism’.After that the real hurdle Musharraf faced was to legitimize his illegal elections so to do that he imposed Martial Law in the country on 3rd of November (because there was a case under hearing against the illegal election of the dictator and he was sure that he will lose it on the grounds of merit).

Meanwhile the US support for the dictator and his illegal actions continued (only some surface statements were passed to please the US civil society and also to keep some points for making the future case against Musharraf as they did with Saddam, first encouraged him to do wrong actions and then made those actions the reason to invade a country and to kill thousands of innocent people).

To be continued……..(I will inshaAllah write the remaining part soon.)

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