TYT RANT: This Govt Has No Morals-Another Rape Case Involving Troops

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 05:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv_I5VcgPcY   Posted on YouTube: July 30, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 30, 2008 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1404

 












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[ProfessorPlum]

1. a sad K&R

Cenk's anger here is more than entirely justified. What have we become?

[CherylK]

3. Another sad and angry K & R!

:grr:

[DeepModem Mom]

2. K&R!

[flashl]

4. K&R

edit: add article

THE RAPE OF IRAQ AND OTHER SEXUAL MATTERS

By Suki Falconberg Ph.D.

I just e-mailed the following paragraph to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Refugees International, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and two women journalists at CBS news, Katie Couric and Lara Logan (foreign correspondent in Iraq):

I would like to know more about the sexual assault on women in Iraq: rapes by American and coalition forces; rapes by the Iraqi police and military; rapes by Iraqi civilian men; rapes of women and girls detained in prisons; gang rapes; women forced into starvation prostitution—either for the occupying forces or for Iraqis; the increase of brothels in Baghdad and Basra as a result of the occupation; the trafficking of women and girls into prostitution by criminal gangs, either within Iraq or in surrounding countries; the way families are forced to sell daughters for survival; any ´survival sex´ women and girls are engaged in due to desperation; ´survival sex´ forced upon the refugee population (2 million in Iraq--2 million in surrounding countries); the trafficking, by U.S. military contractors, of Filipina and Chinese girls into brothels in the Green Zone; the role of the U.S. Military Police in the pimping of Iraqi women and girls; the physical and psychological state of the prostituted Iraqi girls trafficked into the Green Zone for paid rape; the rape of female military personnel by their own men—and anything else you may have seen going on in Iraq.

For Couric and Logan, I appended: "This aspect of Iraq has been overlooked by CBS news." For Amnesty International, I added, "I would also like to know about the trafficking of girls into Guantanamo Bay to service the U.S. military there. Your organization is involved in the rights of detainees there but has overlooked this other class of tortured beings."

This is the year I would like to see the sexual exploitation of women in the wars America indulges in finally covered rather than ignored—in reparation for not having done so from the Revolution forward—the Civil War (with its wandering bands of syphilitic camp followers, mostly women widowed by the war); the Spanish American War and the two Great Wars and Korea and Vietnam and Desert Storm and Panama and Afghanistan and now Iraq—not a whisper from the whore in the dirty alley, offering it up for a few dollars due to hunger, or the hunger of her children. It is time. Katie Couric and Lara Logan (the latter journalist has been ´embedded´ with the troops over there), it is time you report on all the women and girls, in Iraq, and all the Iraqi refugee women and girls in surrounding countries forced into survival sex. It is time you profiled the 14-year-old Iraqi refugee girl sold by her family in order to feed her younger brothers and sisters.

[ihavenobias]

8. Thanks for the link n/t

[pleah]

5. K&R

[Crowman1979]

6. Get the troops out of Iraq...

...and leave the contractors behind.

[opihimoimoi]

7. OH OH, Shit is gonna hit the FAN...this is really smelly

If we let this go...we are truley WIMPs ruled by the GOP/Bush

its all Bushies/GOP FAULT

they have no concious, no morals, no nothing Human about them cept the greed and arrogance...not really Americans

of the good kind....

[truedelphi]

9. K & R'ed n/t

[gateley]

10. You know, our Government is all

"Oh, we're SO SORRY for slavery - we know better now!" Giving the impression that somehow we've developed a sense of right and wrong. But atrocities like this are covered up, and in the cover-up, no one is brought to justice. Our government is complicit and dirty.

I'm like Cenk - absolutely spitting mad.

And, I KNOW this isn't the only incident that is being covered up.

WHO is responsible?

[ihavenobias]

11. Right

It's scary to think about how many OTHER things we *don't* know about.

[AZBlue]

12. The list is long and would be terrifying to really know.

I seriously question what we've become.

[ihavenobias]

13. Yes, and what we've become. But we've gotta believe that we CAN go back n/t

[AZBlue]

14. Oh, I completely believe that.

That's why it's crucial that Obama be elected - it's not yet too late.

If McCain were to somehow win, I don't know that I could still be optimistic - another 4 years and it might just become too late for us.

[democracy1st]

15. K & R anyone have a link to the story ?

[barbtries]

24. google LaVena Johnson

there's a lot out there. see below for the URL to her page and a petition to congress to act on the case.

[Joshua N]

16. A woman, black, no wealth, no status or rank = swept under the rug

How long must this go on in this land of the free?

[lonestarnot]

17. Young Turks!

Keep on rock'n the fucking boat! K & R

[OhioChick]

18. K&R

:kick:

[navarth]

19. K & R for Cenk's righteous anger

I remember the America he's talking about as well.

The only good thing about Bu$h is he forced a lot of us to wake up.

[AnneD]

20. I grew up in an America....

that would already have seen those responsible for this in jail. The lack of prosecution of our leaders has had far reaching consequences. I can not imagine what the Iraqi women are going through.

[theFrankFactor]

21. A Man After My Own Heart

God damn it! This is the kind of thing that has a crushing effect on my hope for this fucking country. After the shit cakes we've been eating for the last seven years from the DemoCRAT party and the punking we get from everyone- including our own party (see that CU*T Pelosi), the utter joke that the hearing on executive power has be portrayed as by the media, I really have my doubts.

I am so glad Cenk has the presence of mind to know that Saint Obama is not a given. This election will tell me so much on a personal level.

First, if Obama doesn't win, I will KNOW it was a fuck job.

Second, if he does win and he doesn't KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES, we are all fucked and it is true that the DeomCRAT party is a sham.

When the DemoCRAT party represents the people... THE PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN FUCKING PARTY I will can them DemoCRATIC. For now, there is nothing DemoCRATIC about these cowards.

[democracy1st]

22. kick

[barbtries]

23. http://lavenajohnson.com/

her name is LaVena Johnson. i don't know why cenk didn't mention it. just within the past couple of weeks i received an email asking for help in her case. i am not up to date on it, but her parents are trying desperately to get the truth out and to get justice for their daughter. this is one of the saddest and most disgusting stories of the war, of which there are just too, too many. this girl was murdered and the army is covering it up while the perpetrators walk free to offend again. petition link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/56/justice-for-lavena-johnson