Comments on: The Pentagon’s Shameful Record On Rape

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:31:39 +0000

Way EPU’d. Here is a third reporting from european sources re the torture and raping of this woman in Bagram from The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....fghanistan

try comparing the three cited links with your US reporting here

By: danps

danps — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:58:19 +0000

Hi Christy. Have you seen this?

By: siri

siri — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:47:09 +0000

Dugg!

And blown away.
tearz here, honestly.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:30:09 +0000

My apologies for the OT, it did show that the junta controlling the government has no respect for any person and will do what they will. No one, not even their own personnel are safe, male or female from wanton assault from the psychopaths in their employ. Your gift of voice to those no longer able to exercise theirs is an act of basic humanity. Thanks, you are a treasure of great measure.

Off to “Peeling the Onion”

By: openhope

openhope — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:24:58 +0000

Thank you, Christy, for posting on this important story. I’m another rape survivor. There are so many of us.
The young vets of Courage to Resist and Iraq Veterans Against the War have been bringing these stories of the rape of their sister soldiers to rallies for several years now. Many media crews sat silent waiting to see if anything exciting was going to happen at the rallies. Hoping for riots, missing the real story.
This IS the real story.

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:24:20 +0000

Christy, thanks for grabbing on to this one. Don’t let go of it, and don’t let the rest of us let go of it, either. And you don’t need to apologize for it at all.

Ever.

Thank you, Christy and peterr.

If the numbers cited are not a serious sign of how broken our military must be, I don’t know what kind of sign will ever wake us. And whoever made or tried to enforce the no cell phone rule at KBR ought to be prosecuted too.

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:05 +0000

This sad story is another illustration of how this administration just treats armed forces personnel as pawns and cannon fodder in its grisly game of world domination. It is of a piece with its cavalier disregard for the welfare of veterans injured in body, mind or spirit.
Their mindset is that troops are to be used in the service of world domination. And rape? Its just collateral damage. Completely sicko.

Bob in HI

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:09:51 +0000

Good question, no answer…

CHS @ 29, the CIA said her husband was…. her family disputes her marriage, who would know better? It is so easy to accuse something, so difficult to refute, The stories of this woman in Bagram being tortured have appeared elsewhere, it is hard not to give them credibility. Also she was “shot in the chest” when aprehended, something not known to be life enhancing. Do I believe what the government wants me to believe…. the salt intake would be life threatening.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:09:18 +0000

Why is Congress so little interested?

Some are women, and there cannot be many CongressMEN who did not or do not have mothers, sisters, wives and daughters.

Is there ANYTHING which may bring the multiple horrors of this lawless and bestial regime ‘home’ to those who claim to represent the ‘interests’ of all the people and not just the selfish whims of the lobbyist/corporate/political ‘elite’?

Where and when does complicity and arrogant denial end?

Certainly individual Congress persons and Senators may speak out, but where is the concerted outrage? Where is the joined ‘response’? Where is even miminal ‘oversight’?

What else is ‘off’ the table?

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:06:13 +0000

Phoenix Woman upstairs with an admission by the Bush Admin that Obama is correct…