Thursday, March 03, 2005

Rummy Gets Slapped with a Lawsuit & Vermont= Bring Home Our Troops

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is being sued by 2 human rights groups and 4 Afghani and 4 Iraqi citizens who allege that they were abused sexually, physically, humiliated, cut with knives, suspended upside down for hours, and deprived of food and water. All eight plantiffs are willing to come to the US to testify that Rumsfeld's actions are unconstitutional and violate international and UN laws. They are seeking monetary compensation, and as The Christian Science Monitor article exposes, the blame for such abuse goes straight to the top of the line of command. And in Iraq related news, the voters of the tiny but mighty state of Vermont overwhelmingly voted to support a referendum to bring US troops home from Iraq. The resolution asks Bush to withdraw our troops and asks the lawmakers of Vermont to look at the VT Nat'l Guard's role in the war (VT has 1200 soldiers serving in the war, 2nd only to the state of Hawaii in terms of numbers of Guard members).
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