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[theweaselking]

American defense contractors oppose regulations banning them from engaging in slavery.

No, really.

"Lining up on the opposite side of the defense industry are some human-trafficking experts who say significant aspects of the Pentagon's proposed policy might actually do more harm than good unless they're changed. These experts have told the Pentagon that the policy would merely formalize practices that have allowed contractors working overseas to escape punishment for involvement in trafficking"

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So. On the "list of behaviours condoned, supported, wrist-slapped, or simply ignored by the current administration of the US Military when performed by their employees", we have kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, and now slavery. Some people suggest that "cannibalism" is next. My personal bet is "genocide".

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You may be down, but

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Did you read the CIA clown fest story? It may pick you up...see my journal.

It also makes me think

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Fourth Bruce: Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching.

Re: You may be down, but

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen that. I love it, though.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Dude, this is a new hip, anti-froody bunch of liars in power. They're gonna commit crimes we don't even have NAMES for yet...

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

With the reports of mass graves being discovered in Iraq, you don't think that maybe they're already engaging in genocide?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The most recent mass graves date back to 1991.
#1: It's really hard to blame those on Rumsfeld.
#2: It's not hard to blame them on *a* Bush, but it's Bush Senior, and he wasn't *responsible*, he just told Hussein it was okay and then did nothing.

And maybe they are, and maybe we'll find out about it later. My suggestion was not "what will they do next" so much as "what will we find out they have been doing all along, next"

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen much on the *age* of these graves they keep finding. It is, of course, perfectly possible than any or all of them are Hussein's work, but I keep thinking how easy it would be to for the US forces to make one of their own and then blame it on Hussein.

*shudder*

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you're going to publisize a mass grave, you're going to want evidence to show people, especially the gruesome "don't let your kids watch this!" kind.

And even in a desert, people dead for a decade look really different than people dead for a few days or months.