Saturday, October 17, 2009

Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment

Apparently contractors in Iraq could murder, rape, and steal with impunity, and the American people had to pay for it. And this President doesn't seem to want to change this fact.

in reference to:

"In April of 2008, KBR employee Dawn Leamon went public. A few months earlier, she had been raped and sexually assaulted by co-workers while deployed at Camp Harper, in Iraq, and after weeks of being pressured not to report the incident, forced to work alongside her attackers, and medically neglected, Leamon brought the story to a Houston attorney and to The Nation. Leamon joined a slowly building chorus of female defense contractor employees who'd been raped or sexually assaulted by co-workers while in Iraq, to utter impunity on the part of their assailants. In response, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called a hearing to investigate why the Justice Department had not prosecuted any sexual assault allegations in Iraq since the going to war in the country."
- Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment - Yahoo! News (view on Google Sidewiki)

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