U.S. Military Whistleblowers Face Retribution

[seemslikeadream]

NPR's Daniel Zwerdling examines two cases of military whistleblowers who faced retribution for exposing wrongdoing. In the first case, an Army captain was sent to Haiti in 1994 to protect human rights, but when he tried to expose the fact that U.S. military was standing by while political dissidents were being killed, he was court-martialed and lost his job and benefits. In the second case, a young Navy officer who revealed something far less heinous -- that commanders were going on expensive taxpayer-funded junkets -- had his military career destroyed in retaliation.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1905858

[Just Me]

1. Guess they didn't get the memo: "protect corporatists, no questions

asked."

No wonder so many of our young people come back so screwed up. They discover that, everything they were taught to take a stand for, is a big, fat lie. Bottom line: do what you are told.

It's sad.

[girl gone mad]

6. I try to teach my son..

to do the right thing. If you don't do the right thing, I tell him, you become one of them, and becoming one of them is much worse than anything they could ever do to you.

You're right, though. The pressure to conform has never been greater, and the ethical norms have never been more corrupt. At least, not in my short lifetime.

ed: spelling.

[saigon68]

2. SCUM ATTACHED TO THE TOILET RIM

MEYERS AS OFFENSIVE LINEMAN FOR NEOCON CORPORATIONS



WITHOUT A STRONG LAPDOG RUNNING INTERFERENCE
THERE WOULD BE NO BROWN AND ROOT RECEIVING BILLIONS
Of TAXPAYER $$$$$ TO “RECONSTRUCT IRAQ”




There would be no BLACKWATER USA to have its private MERCENARY ARMY flying its
own PRIVATE MERCENARY AIR FORCE




to do WHATEVER under the sun it does..




THERE WOULD BE NO MERCENARY THUGS ACTING LIKE RAMBO WITHOUT THIS
PATHETIC LITTLE MAN

[Just Me]

3. Viagra overdose in pursuit of money. ugh. n/t

[Career Prole]

5. I believe we're about ready for a woman President

This whole testosterone overload thing just ain't the way to live.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. I would have agreed 4 years ago, but, well, a picture is worth 1,000 words

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.
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Did I make my point? :shrug:

[bemildred]

4. "Well, at least we're not as bad as Saddam".

:puke:

[saigon68]

7. I wouldn't say that

We are at least EQUAL to Saddam

[seemslikeadream]

8. When the United States of America

can stand down and let 1 million Rwandans be masacared, 3.5 million from Congo be slaughter since 1998, yes you are correct my friend saigon68 we are at least EQUAL to Saddam.



Maria, a mother of three, lost her arm defending her children in Nizi, Eastern Congo. She says soldiers ate flesh from the arm after they had amputated it.


Are we not our brothers keeper?

[seemslikeadream]

10. Correcting myself - didn't really stand down

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/breakingnews.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x572836


MERCHANT OF DEATH
Viktor Bout standing near an airplane.

Published on Friday, May 21, 2004 by the Inter Press Service
Arms Dealer Wanted in Africa, Needed in Iraq
Coalition forces find new uses in Iraq for an arms dealer they had branded a villain in Africa.

by Julio Godoy

PARIS - Arms dealer Viktor Bout was the merchant of death wanted for feeding conflicts in Africa - until Iraq happened.

Today the United States and Britain are using his extensive mercenary services in Iraq. The condemnation of his role in the diamond wars and other conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa over the past ten years is being silently erased.

The Tajikstan-born Bout would be an embarrassing ally to acknowledge publicly. But the coalition partners are showing him exceptional favors as he does some of their job for them.

The UN Security Council drafted a resolution in March to freeze the assets of mercenaries and weapons dealers who backed ousted Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. Bout should top that list, French diplomatic sources say. But the diplomats and UN sources say the United States has been working to keep Bout off that list.

U.S. officials have indicated unofficially that the reason is that Bout is useful in Iraq, the sources told IPS.

The tanks were believed to have been transported by one of Bout's air freight companies in a deal conducted through Pakistan's secret service. The deal was uncovered by the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR in Kabul, Der Spiegel reported.

more
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0521-12.htm

[bemildred]

11. That reminds me of an old Pogo comic strip.

Some KKK types are chasing some civil rights marchers around
with baseball bats, and one says to the other:

"Let that one go, he says he don't wanna be ma equal".