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In reply to the discussion: So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)of rape for political purposes. Nothing weakens the rights of rape victims than to use it as a political football and anyone who does this or supports it for their own political purposes, should themselves be prosecuted for abuse imo. I am hoping that eventually in this case, considering all the evidence that this is indeed what happened in this case, there will be charges of prosecutorial misconduct, something that has already been considered.
I am also appalled and will continue to say so, although so far from those who claim to be so appalled, there has been no response, when rape is used as a weapon of war, when a Government has appalling evidence, viewed by our Elected officials, of these crimes, when children are sodomized and the crimes are video-taped for further humiliation of the victims, and when that Government chooses to 'move on' from those crimes.
When those who are appalled by a case where no charges have been filed, where there has been more exculpatory evidence than evidence of a crime, are willing to support ignoring those egregious crimes against women and children, when they refuse to pressure their Government on behalf of those victims, they have zero credibility claiming their outrage in this case.
The Obama administration needs to move from its amnesty of those war criminals, stop protecting them, as revealed in the Wikileaks documents, and start bringing the perpetrators to justice. Otherwise every word that is said by the US Government regarding this case is pure hypocrisy.
I will always remember the woman named Noor, who could not be found after the reports of her vicious abuse in Abu Ghraib turned out to be true. Where are her advocates among the outraged?