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- eastwood24, on 09/17/2009, -7/+338FTA:
"Despite requesting to be housed in an all-female barracks, she was placed in quarters occupied predominantly by men. A potential recipe for disaster."
This isn't a problem for any civilized men. Only the apes and dogs of the world. Poor girl. I haven't seen the evidence, but my hunch is she's telling the triuth. - richmomz, on 09/17/2009, -5/+283I can't believe how much ***** this poor woman has had to go through just to get a freaking day in court!
- abovegod, on 09/18/2009, -5/+180I agree. That "A potential recipe for disaster." line really pisses me off. Not only is that the most stupid line that anyone could ever include into any type of written document, it portrays all men as rapists.
- AmazingA, on 09/18/2009, -2/+177What a bunch of ***** up comments. Some of you guys need to read the story of what happened to this woman. She didn't just get home and decide to sue Halliburton 'cause it was an easy way to get cash-If I remember correctly, after they brutally attacked her, they imprisoned her to prevent the story from getting out, and once she was able to contact her father they still wouldn't let her go until her family got their congressman to get her released. Does that sound like somebody crying 'wolf' to you?? Get some facts before you start bashing the victim.
- novenator, on 09/17/2009, -5/+123Haliburton didn't provide her with safe accommodation ? That's pretty messed up, even for a corporation with their track record.
- Rotzooi, on 09/18/2009, -4/+94Strange, this time around I don't see Dick Cheney on Fox News, proclaiming "So?"
- blumarlin1, on 09/18/2009, -2/+73"She claims her KBR bosses told her she could either "get over it" or go home without the promise of a job when she got there, according to court records."
...wow, just get over it, a really responsible employer
/s /s /s /s /s - evanft, on 09/18/2009, -3/+70I'd say rape is much worse than tax evasion, jackass.
- Machzy, on 09/18/2009, -3/+63Couldn't agree more.
I hate over-dramatic lines like that.
I was waiting for the "dun dun DUN!" after it. - oldgal, on 09/18/2009, -2/+62I can't believe that a corporation can have a forced arbitration clause for criminal activity. Sounds like if she had been raped in the presidents office, she would have had to go into arbitration with the company. What if she had been murdered...arbitration? Is this corporation and are these people accountable to no one?
- WoWii, on 09/18/2009, -5/+55Honesty I'm surprised Hali didnt off her, would be so much easier...
- AmazingA, on 09/18/2009, -1/+48http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702& ...
"Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.
"I said, 'Dad, I've been raped. I don't know what to do. I'm in this container, and I'm not able to leave,'" she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.
"We contacted the State Department first," Poe told ABCNews.com, "and told them of the urgency of rescuing an American citizen" -- from her American employer.
Poe says his office contacted the State Department, which quickly dispatched agents from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Jones' camp, where they rescued her from the container."
I don't see how any of her story could be made up unless you're calling their congressman a liar, and the state department. Why would they be holding their own employee prisoner when the embassy folks showed up if this story is BS. There's plenty of evidence here that nobody is disputing. - lindenwold, on 09/18/2009, -1/+46apparently one of the guys accused of the rape, ali mokhtare, has been accused before - google it and you'll see other stories.
also, the link is down, here is an ABC news story on this from 2007:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702& ... - belthize, on 09/18/2009, -5/+49I like the title, it's the first good description of what Haliburton did to Iraq that I've seen.
- Bukowsky, on 09/17/2009, -13/+55I like how there's a pic above this story of a stripper licking a pole.
- theDashRendar, on 09/18/2009, -2/+41Now if only we could charge all of Halliburton for the rape of Iraq.
- GSnake, on 09/18/2009, -5/+44Halliburton, Blackwater (now renamed to Xi after being a ***** embarrassment to the US and to humanity), etc...
All cut from the same cloth really, entitled ego maniacs running around jacked up on steroids, making very good money, not really held accountable to anyone (shoot first, ask questions later). I'm not surprised by this at all, in fact, I'm surprised that there haven't been MORE of these cases (unless the victims have a very difficult time coming forward/are silenced).
It's bad enough that there are foreign forces in Iraq raping the Iraqi people, but now we have foreign forces raping each other in Iraq.
Time to pull out (pardon the pun). - CaptainNoPants, on 09/18/2009, -1/+39So, if we were in the same position as these soldiers, you're saying we'd be walking around raping women on sight? After only a couple months? The problem isn't that there are no womens barracks, the problem is the government giving contracts to walking, talking, lying pieces of *****.
- inactive, on 09/18/2009, -3/+41and on another note, ***** HALLIBURTON.
- PhilliesBlunt, on 09/18/2009, -5/+40I'd go with Haliburton because the victims were real instead of theoretical. In both cases, federal funding needs to be revoked.
- squidandwhale, on 09/18/2009, -1/+34I can't believe that even this is turning into a political debate.
The case started in 2005. People don't go through 4 years of hell, (all the while making up incredibly detailed and coherent lies, apparently), just to... what? Disrupt the Republican agenda because she's a liberal and we're all liberals for sympathizing with her?
For the predominantly male, victim-blaming folks out there, here's a wikipedia article you should read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming
There is a lot of reason to believe that this is very true (for example, the fact that it has withstood scrutiny for 4 years and that, obviously, she has no motive to lie). I don't think us guys need to be so sensitive as to take this as an indictment of our gender. Hawks don't need to see this as a criticism of the Iraq war. - lolerskate, on 09/18/2009, -3/+34Huh...this story is true and dates back to 2005, with the ruling appening now, im not saying your a moron but...
- turbog20, on 09/18/2009, -2/+32Why aren't people calling for funding for Halliburton to be cut off? ACORN deserved to lose funding. Why aren't corporations held to the same standard? I'll bet this story doesn't get so much as a beep on conservative outlets...
- RoboRay, on 09/18/2009, -4/+33Having actually been in that position myself (two tours), unlike yourself (obviously), I can say definitively that you are full of *****.
- pintomp3, on 09/18/2009, -2/+31Are you seriously equating rape to tax evasion? Don't right-wingers support tax evasion?
- draculthemad, on 09/18/2009, -2/+31Because... Umm. Its Haliburton? The same company whose operation history involves such things as inadvertently electrocuting soldiers in showers that were ungrounded ( because, hey, 3 feet of copper wire to ground it is expensive!)
Seriously, there is a reason they have a bad rep. If its not war profiteering, its circumventing trade sanctions, etc. - daVinci1980, on 09/18/2009, -1/+27None of that has anything to do with this woman's rape, or the subsequent attempts to cover it up or sweep it under the rug.
This isn't about politics. It's about criminally negligent behavior. - Dollfacekilla, on 09/18/2009, -2/+28Equally as disturbing are the pro-rape comments below the article.
- greenm1981, on 09/18/2009, -1/+26My utter disdain for Halliburton lies not with who hired them and when, but my experience with them while serving overseas.
I would come back from the field, still caked in dirt and hungry, and upon entering the dining hall I would be treated like one Michael Vick's dogs by their overpaid food servers.
These guys would make anywhere between $60 - $80 per year to serve me slop, and act like somehow they got the short end of the stick! For that kind of pay I expect royal treatment and all the food I can eat, not told to go to the back of the line because I wanted them clarify what sort of "meat" they were about to serve me.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. - kooft, on 09/18/2009, -1/+26She was rescued from a shipping container, which was under guard by Halliburton, by US Embassy officials. Either you are ignorant, by refusing to read about the case, or just generally hate women.
- jayb1rd, on 09/18/2009, -6/+29Do you honestly think that she would have gone through all of this for 4 years if she was lying? I don't think so.
- tonberryqueen, on 09/18/2009, -1/+24I think Halliburton was probably worried about having to pay more to operate another dormitory, not a discrimination suit for following the woman's own request. Just a hunch.
Read more about the case. An army physician took photos and made notes of her injuries (all of which were later "misplaced"), and conducted her rape kit (which was also "misplaced," for a time, until the State Department got involved), all of which were handed over to Halliburton/KBR.
There are also an awful lot of examples of women being raped and never coming forward at all. Under-reporting of rape is probably much more commonplace than making false accusations. Recanted accusations just make for nicer news stories.
And a jury CAN'T decide on whether those men raped her--at least in the sense of bringing criminal charges against them--because Halliburton/KBR destroyed any chance of using the collected evidence in criminal proceedings. - IMustBeEmo, on 09/18/2009, -1/+22"Only the apes and dogs of the world." Don't give apes and dogs a bad name. These people are absolute scum, bottom of the rung. Dogs are much better people than these vile pests.
- cowtown, on 09/18/2009, -1/+22Assuming I remember my CivPro right, since it's a civil case against Halliburton, jurisdiction would be proper in the state of incorporation, where the company's operational HQ is, or where the events took place (but there's no US Federal District Court of Baghdad, I suspect). Maybe one or two other places as well.
Ideally, yes, it would be excellent if these asshats had been tried criminally in an Iraqi court, but you take what you can get, I guess. - pintomp3, on 09/18/2009, -5/+26Why aren't right-wingers calling for Halliburton to be shutdown the way they are going after ACORN?
- jjuulliiaann, on 09/18/2009, -0/+20If you click the link provided at the top of the article, it brings you to a previous article about the same woman. In this article she says "Jones also states that her breast implants were disfigured and her pectoral muscles were torn, later requiring reconstructive surgery."
How do you "cry wolf" about something like that? - chadsmith729, on 09/18/2009, -2/+22My memory and yours are rather closely related.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/halliburto ...
FTA (because ***** don't read): "Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping container after she reported the attack to the company?" - krazydl, on 09/18/2009, -1/+21This case was aired last year or so and if I remember correctly, her husband is in US Army in Iraq too. And there are many more cases like this that Halliburton is covering up and the Gov let them do it.
People were trying to serve our country and the Big Corp do ***** like this. It's unbelievable. - avianeddy, on 09/18/2009, -5/+25This is BEYOND *****.
Will we ever see justice for all
the ***** during the Bush Years?! - funkyloki, on 09/18/2009, -3/+22WTF does this article have to do with ACORN? Stop trying to twist everything, EVERYTHING, to your own ***** agenda. I know you are just trolling for *****, but c'mon people, really, why do you even respond anymore?
- Apokalyps2547, on 09/18/2009, -1/+20Because the company
* refused even basic protection for her when she was being harassed, despite her requests.
* held her against her will, after the crime, to cover it up.
* continues to impede any investigation for as long as possible. Meanwhile, the trail is getting colder.
You wouldn't have to ask if you bothered to read. - inactive, on 09/18/2009, -2/+20Enough already.
- NotAChickenHawk, on 09/18/2009, -1/+18Agreed - I wonder if such clauses would really be legal? I can understand arbitration for civil matters, but how can it be legal for criminal matters? How can an agreement between two parties usurp the law?
- zeitgueist, on 09/18/2009, -1/+18What the ***** is wrong with you? This is why you don't get laid.
- avshanbh, on 09/18/2009, -2/+18Is the congress going to cut off all the contracts to Haliburton?
- spiralfunk, on 09/18/2009, -1/+17It's a recipe for disaster because of the Lucifer effect. The Lucifer effect was first observed in the Stanford prison experiment, but wasn't called "the Lucifer effect" back then. The L.E. phenomena was at work in the Abu ghraib disaster too.
The Lucifer effect is of course not accountable for anything, it's still the people involved who should be held accountable for their actions... - michrech, on 09/18/2009, -4/+20It's especially bad for those of us who are homosexual...
- nicholasroussos, on 09/18/2009, -1/+17I've seen SO many stupid comments on this case, especially about stupid legal questions.
So to clear it up, this isn't about criminal charges (NO CRIMINAL CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED, because pretty much nobody governs military contractors in the US, which is pretty disgusting and should cause bile to rise in your throat.) It's a civil lawsuit about her employment. She got the job in the US. She's a US citizen, and it's a US corporation ... AND here's the topper, it happened on a US military base by other US citizens. That definitely falls under US jurisdiction.
And the fact that Halliburton wanted to take this to arbitration should equally disgust everyone. Arbitration has been shown over and over to favor big corporations, not to mention all the moral wrongs alleged in this case. - DPDish12, on 09/18/2009, -1/+16They did it to the American taxpayer as well. Oh, also the military men and women they were supposed to be serving.
- DankBuddz, on 09/18/2009, -2/+17"Halliburtan is a favorite punching bag of the liberals, but for what purpose? Just because Dick Cheney used to be CEO, once upon a time?"
Do you really not get your information from anywhere else but Fox News? I hate bringing up Fox News, but come on, are you actually serious? -
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