Holy Shite: Welcome to child trafficking via war!!!

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Children, too, are abused in U.S. prisons
By Arlie Hochschild The New York Times
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005

BERKELEY, California Last month John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said that half the victims of human trafficking may be children under 18.

Children are "at the center" of the problem of trafficking, which, Miller noted, is one of the great human rights issues of the 21st century.

Yes, children should be at the heart of America's concern for human rights. But that concern should start with the children detained in U.S. prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Under international law, the line between childhood and maturity is 18. In communications with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the Pentagon has lowered the cutoff to 16. For this reason among others, we don't know exactly how many Iraqi children are in American custody.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/06/29/opinion/edchild.php

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1. This crew in Washington...

has so much to "fix" before people get wind of the whole picture of just how depraved they are. Their ability to mess up at every turn boggles the mind.

GITMO

Fallujah

DSM

WMD

the list grows...

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2. pardon me for a moment...

But can we please kick this up?

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3. excuse me but

does this not scream for attention? you guys!!!! kids, raped, iraq... things ugly beyond imagination:((

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4. kick

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5. Kicking this with tears in my eyes.

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