As the Texas decider swaggered across the White House lawn, five of his Best-of-Baghdad troops were brutally raping and murdering a 14-year old girl and her family and then leaving them in a blaze of kerosene. Is this why the American commander-in-chief needed a troop surge — to free up more of our glorious invaders to satisfy sexual perversities with the youngest teenagers of Baghdad?
I recently wrote an article about Americans as brutal bullies, and a commentator attempted to demean the issue by saying that history reveals lots of other regimes full of bullies. Is that supposed to excuse the recent crimes?
Someone will surely complain that my fussing over the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl is exaggerating an isolated incident. How many such incidents does it take to realize that we shouldn't be there in the first place? How many rapes and murders of innocents do we need before partisan support for the decider-in-chief prevents the US Congress from resolving to stop funding our macho boys' sexcapades with screaming teenage girls as our victory-vipers murder their parents in the next room?
During a trial of these occupation maniacs, Sgt. Paul Cortez — one of the gang — said:
"She kept squirming and trying to keep her legs closed and saying stuff in Arabic. During the time me and Barker were raping Abeer, I heard five or six gunshots that came from the bedroom. After Barker was done, Green came out of the bedroom and said that he had killed them all, that all of them were dead.”
Cortez added, "Green then placed himself between Abeer's legs
to rape her. When Green was finished, he stood up and shot Abeer in the
head two or three times."
How many brutal terrorizing acts
like this need to be committed before millions of the victims’
sympathizers rebel in righteous revenge against all of America and
Americans?
How stupid we've been — our leaders, our congress
people, and our generals — to think that Iraqis would greet our
invasion with flowers, waving American flags! Did we expect Iraqis to
simply forget the half million children killed by ten years of
sanctions?
As we carry on killing innocents who happen to be in
the way of our bullets, and gang-raping little girls like Abeer, do we
expect the resistance to go away? How many repeats do we need of this:
"Cortez said the girl knew her parents and sister had been shot while
she was being raped? He said she screamed and cried throughout the
assault."
How many of our other crimes will go up in the flames
of a kerosene cover-up that doesn't work and end up in the flames of
hatred for bully-breeding America?
How many more incidents of
marines killing civilians, as they did with 24 Iraqi civilians in the
town of Haditha in 2005, do we need before we generate hundreds more
insurgents and suicide bombers?
Dr Susan Block, in an article in Counterpoint wrote:
The
supreme victory for the rapist is proof that his victim 'enjoyed' it.
Though he may force his way into her property, demolish her home,
murder her loved ones, pillage her belongings, though he may terrify
and humiliate her, beat and batter her, break her bones and tear her
flesh, spill her blood, wound her organs and lay waste to her very
soul, if, in the midst of the rape, between tears and shrieks of agony,
if his victim should, for a moment, for some reason, any reason, if she
should smile, or, better yet, orgasm, the rapist is redeemed; he is
even (in his mind) heroic.
The American rapist-murderers of Baghdad didn't even get that satisfaction.
The
rape of Abeer was not an isolated incident. Up to 400 other incidents
of rape by American troops in Iraq have been documented by human rights
organizations, NGOs and independent media. How many more have been
undocumented?
The same commentator who groused about how
bullying was universal also groaned that my focus on it was nothing
new. The only way the travesty of raping troops is going to stop is by
bringing them home. Until that happens, the horrors of occupation need
continued exposure.
Rose Aguilar has reported on rape of US
servicewomen in the US military by American servicemen, saying “since
the fall of 2003, the Miles Foundation has documented 518 cases of
sexual assault on women who have served or are serving in Middle
Eastern countries." How many of these have been prosecuted? According
to the Miles Foundation, fewer than 3% of reported assaults result in
court martial, let alone punishment.
Last year, Lance Corporal
Smith was found guilty of raping a 23-year-old management accounting
graduate in a van in a former US navy base while on shore leave. The US
insisted that the rapist be turned over to the US military. The
Philippines objected, as they depend on American support. Smith will
get easier treatment.
The US military has become notorious as an
institution reluctant to confront a culture of abuse. .The Navy’s
Tailhook Scandal in Las Vegas in which the Navy elite aviators
including the Navy’s senior most Admirals and DOD officials were
involved in the sexual assault of 83 women, most were civilians. Not
one of these assaults resulted in criminal charges. This is the way
Americans take care of their own.
According to Veterans
Administration statistics, over 200,000 US military women have been
sexually harassed (79%, hazed and 30% raped by their own US military
male counterparts); 60,000 East Asian Pacific civilians from Okinawa,
Philippines, Korea, Japan, Thailand have been sexually harassed, raped,
brutalized and murdered with virtually no accountability by US military
men.
One of the gang rapists was recently sentenced to 100 years
in prison—a showcase to the world — after making a plea agreement that
will allow him to be paroled after ten years. Poor fool! If only they
hadn’t murdered the whole family, including the rape victim they would
have simply been reassigned in keeping with US military practice of
ignoring, forgiving, condoning rapists. It’s macho male policy.
Things like this happen everywhere in the world, maybe one happens as I am writing here. I have a 14 year old daughter and if she's coming home late I'm a package of nerves 'till I see her enter the door. I'm always worried some psycho will harm her. Is there anything to be done? 'Cause if it is, I'll do it. --- bedroom furniture
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January 17, 2008
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As the Texas decider swaggered across the White House lawn, five of his Best-of-Baghdad troops were brutally raping and murdering a 14-year old girl and her family and then leaving them in a blaze of kerosene. Is this why the American commander-in-chief needed a troop surge — to free up more of our glorious invaders to satisfy sexual perversities with the youngest teenagers of Baghdad?
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