Cheap labor flows to Iraq

[NeoConsSuck]

American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor, mainly impoverished Asians who often deceived, exploited and put in harm's way in Iraq with little protection.

The United States has long condemned the practices that characterize this human trade as it operates elsewhere in the Middle East. Yet this very system is now part of the privatization of the American war effort and is central to the operations of Halliburton subsidiary KBR, the U.S. military's biggest private contractor in Iraq.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=4093...

[SHRED]

1. Criminal...just criminal

[jody]

2. I had no idea that Iraq's unemployment rate was near zero. It's wonderful

that the U.S. is helping unemployed workers from other countries after accomplishing a near miracle by recovering Iraq's economy.

[niallmac]

3. Of course U.S. Corps have participated in human rights

abuses for decades overseas. Corps have practiced business in our name representing America while cozying up with whatever human rights violating government played ball with them. When people ask "Why do they hate us so much?" I can only

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Just to really make urself sick - read the whole article - ur "new" USSA

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From the posted article:

Some U.S. subcontractors in Iraq -- and the brokers feeding them -- employ practices condemned by the U.S. elsewhere, including fraud, coercion and seizure of workers' passports.

The State Department has long expressed concerns about the treatment of foreign workers in the same Middle Eastern nations the United States relies on to supply labor for bases in Iraq. In June, the department added four of these nations -- Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- to the top tier of its human trafficking watch list for not undertaking "significant efforts to combat forced labor trafficking."

U.S. law calls for sanctions in such cases. But last month, citing Kuwait's and Saudi Arabia's efforts in the "global war on terror," President Bush waived the sanctions against them. This allowed more than $6 billion in combined military sales to go forward. One reason laborers from developing countries are sought for work in Iraq is the U.S. military fears that hiring Iraqis would allow insurgents to infiltrate its bases.

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they don't wanna hire the people they "liberated"

USA's got one sicko foreign policy if'n ya ask me

well - a sicko leader

go figure

(sigh)