First Blackwater and now this.
I hope you've seen an absolutely shocking allegation from Jamie Leigh Jones, a Texas woman who was gang raped while working in Iraq for Halliburton.
To make her brutal humiliation even worse, when Jones wanted to seek medical help, she was locked in a shipping crate without food and water for over a day. All courtesy of Halliburton.
Jones managed to convince a kind(?) guard to let her use a cell phone, and Jones called her father who, in turn, called the State Department. The State Department sent an envoy from the U.S. embassy in Iraq to extricate Jones from the situation.
Look at these lawless corporations running Iraq. Shooting civilians and raping women. Way to rebuild a country, good sir.
Perhaps Americans don't really think about the Iraqi women who routinely are victims of the same brutality that Jones experienced. But maybe the fact that one of their own has received such abhorrent treatment will galvanize individuals against the free reign given to these corporations by the Bush administration. While I in no way want to minimize the horrors that Jones endured, I can't help but suggest that her experience is a perfect (and terrifying) metaphor of what Bush, Cheney, and their corporate cronies have done to America, Iraq, and the rest of the world.
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Shades of the KKK controlled Indiana statehouse (1920s) when Governor Jackson raped, poisoned, imprisoned and then killed a woman. This finally woke up the country to the horrors of the Klan but it wasn't exactly the first atrocity by the KKK (and unfortunately far from the last.)
You forgot to mention that he bit her. I have seen a History Channel documentary on that. Awful awful awful.
Why the fucking FUCK was the rape kit left with KBR officials?!
What...the...hell? It's a company, it doesn't have a law enforcement role!
And sorry, but contractors are subject to the same codes of laws and justice that the rest of us are. That's just how it is. It's that simple. There's no GODDAMN LOOPHOLE. They're CONTRACTORS, that's all they are. They're civilians with a fancy name!
AAAAARGH, I think I'm having an aneurysm!
I know... Of course they're subject to laws, but which laws do we prosecute them under? I don't imagine they're subject to U.S. law. And who knows what the hell the U.S. has written into Iraqi law these days.
This should be easy as pie. No matter how crude the Iraqi civil and criminal codes are, they have to have laws governing RAPE.
If a bunch of foreign nationals raped a woman of foreign extraction on US soil, you can bet that America would either extradite them, or try them right here.
The loophole is imaginary. There's no loophole! It's like some kind of loophole by sustained effort of will, and total indifference by the media and the American public.
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