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September 29, 2005
All You Can Be; In Other Words Raped
Some shocking news here: Survey: 6 in 10 Military Women Harassed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six in 10 women who have served in the National Guard and Reserves say they were sexually harassed or assaulted, but less than one-quarter reported it and many who did were encouraged to drop their complaints, a government survey says.The survey by the Veterans Affairs Department found that nearly half of the women who responded said the incidents occurred while they were on duty.
One in 10 said she was raped, nearly 60 percent said they were verbally harassed, and the rest of the reports were for other types of incidents, according to the survey, which was released by Democratic members of Congress.
In addition, more than 27 percent of male Guard and Reserve veterans said they experienced some type of sexual harassment or assault - most often by other men.
One in ten reported being raped. If this is how the American women in the military are treated, imagine what we do to Iraqis. (Well, perhaps we'll have to imagine a bit less since the judge responding to ACLU's FOIA request ruled that the Pentagon should release more of the Abu Ghraib pictures. Expect more appeals, delays, red tape and obstruction. The Pentagon argues that releasing the pictures will incite more violence. Hmmm, is the Defense Department arguing that these terrorists react to our policies -- instead of being out to get us no matter what? Seems so.)
Posted by zeynep at September 29, 2005 07:43 PM
Comments
Why are they pushing for release of more Abu Ghraib photos right now, or rather Why are they focusing people's attention on the possibility of releasing more Abu Ghraib photos at this moment in time? The pictures-of-mutilated-Iraqis-for-porn scandal was just becoming known, a stomach-turner for sure and one that might move more Americans to oppose the occupation. I keep thinking they're gonna selectively release a few hand-picked photos from Abu Ghraib, making sure they're much less disturbing in content than the gore-for-porn pics; Then they can continue to control Americans' perception of the reality in Iraq while succeeding in keeping people's attention away from the far more disturbing gore-for-porn pics.
Posted by: deang at September 30, 2005 12:50 PM