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Friday, August 29, 2008

Who still practices slavery?

Thanks to the neocon agenda, it's done in your name for the enrichment of Bush cronies. Sound ludicrous? Then look at the facts.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7585443.stm

Halliburton (you remember them, the folks that still have Dick Cheney on their payroll) subsidiary KBR hired 13 people from Nepal to work in a hotel in Jordan. But it was a ruse. KBR instead took them to the Iraqi war zone to work on a US air base, against their wills, where they had to work. While KBR was transporting 12 of them, they were kidnapped and killed. After the killings, the remaining man was held in Iraq, against his will, for another 15 months.

This is described in a US District Court suit in Los Angeles on Wednesday as an "illicit trafficking scheme", "engineer[ed] by KBR and its subcontractor".

That's right. Human trafficking done in the name of the USA, in order to increase Halliburton profits. Gotta love the Republican way to wage war. Even with this horrendous facet of the Bush Doctrine for destabilizing the Middle East, McCain still fully supports the Party's agenda.

What's wrong with the old method, where the US military had responsibility for taking care of the US military? I may not be a soldier, but I believe that if I were, I'd rather have fellow soldiers by my side, taking care of logistics and watching my back, instead of forced labor for somebody's profit.

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