Uppity Wisconsin

Unfair, outrageous hyperbole? No. This is the effect of the vote on an amendment offered last month on a vile story not told widely enough.

by Gordon Duff

Is it this plain?  Are the facts this clear?  Did 30 Republicans vote to allow defense contractors protection if their employees are raped, drugged and imprisoned? 

Haliburton/KBR, the Dick Cheney company did exactly this, locked a rape victim in a box, drugged her and kept her prisoner.

68 Senators, every single Democrat and some Republicans, voted to allow defense contractors whose employees are sexually assaulted be taken to court.  Robert Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio describe their take on opposition to the Rape Protection bill. 

Read the story here. 

Shoddy work by Vice President Cheney's (former?) private defense companies in Iraq and Afghanistan is resulting in U.S. soldier deaths by electrocution.

Halliburton and KBR whistleblowers and U.S. military personnel brought the problems to light as early as 2004.

And they were mocked for their concerns and lied to.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth - a highly-skilled Green Beret - was electrocuted in the shower in a Baghdad military compound three months ago, and the Army told his mom that he died because he brought an electrical appliance into the shower with him ... like the woman just fell off an applecart or something.

These are the same people who wanted us to believe a public relations fairy tale about Pat Tilman and Jessica Lynch.

I may never stop puking.