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Hey, they don't even consider the idea of cutting the pensions of folks like
Alan Greenspan, whose astounding incompetence as Federal Reserve
Board chairman allowed the housing bubble to grow so big that its
collapse would destroy the economy.
But going after the rich and incompetent would not be Serious. In
Washington, "Serious" means beating up on people without money and
power. It's that simple.
Correction: This article has been amended to reflect the correct
amount of wage and benefit cuts per federal worker. The calculation for
the initially published figure mistakenly included postal workers.
Murder and Rape Rampant in Afghanistan
The latest Afghan rape and multiple murder atrocity reflects countless
others. It's because US soldiers are trained to be violent in war
theaters and show no mercy. Anything goes and does
By
Willy Scanlon
Last evening I was watching an episode of Bill Maher on HBO and
he put up a copy of the New York Times that showed the 2,000 pictures of
Americans killed in Afghanistan since the war began. Having been to
Afghanistan I thought how ludicrous it was. Maybe what they should have
shown were the more than 36,000 pictures of the unarmed men, women
and children who were killed or raped by American forces in Afghanistan.
Or the stories of female American soldiers raped or sexually assaulted by
their male counter parts in Afghanistan. Then we could all get the real
truth about American behavior there. On December 13, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups filed a federal lawsuit seeking
Pentagon records in order to get the real facts about the incidence of
sexual assault in the ranks.
The Pentagon has consistently refused to release records that fully
document the problem and how it is handled. This journalist has filed
several Freedom of Information requests to see them come back stating
that material is deemed "classified". Sexual assaults on women in the US
military have claimed some degree of visibility, but about male victims