Why Did Bush Mention Sex Slavery In His UN Speech In 2003?

[KittyWampus]

He tossed it into the end of the speech... after talking about Iraq. It was strange and seemed out of context.

Here is the text:


There is another humanitarian crisis, spreading and yet hidden from view. Each year, an estimated eight to nine hundred thousand human beings are bought, sold, or forced across the world's borders. Among them are hundreds of thousands of teenage girls, and others as young as five, who fall victim to the sex trade. This commerce in human life generates billions of dollars each year, much of which is used to finance organized crime.

There is a special evil in the abuse and exploitation of the most innocent and vulnerable. The victims of sex trade see little of life before they see the very worst of life, an underworld of brutality and lonely fear. Those who create these victims, and profit from their suffering, must be severely punished. Those who patronize this industry debase themselves and deepen the misery of others. And governments that tolerate this trade are tolerating a form of slavery.

This problem has appeared in my own country, and we are working to stop it. The Protect Act, which I signed into law this year, makes it a crime for any person to enter the United States, or for any citizen to travel abroad for the purpose of sex tourism involving children. The Department of Justice is actively investigating sex tour operators and patrons, who can face up to 30 years in prison.

Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the United States is using sanctions against governments to discourage human trafficking.

The victims of this industry also need help from other members of the United Nations. And this begins with clear standards and the certainty of punishment under the laws of every country. Today, some nations make it a crime to sexually abuse children abroad. Such conduct should be a crime in all nations. Governments should inform travelers of the harm this industry does, and the severe punishments that will fall on its patrons.

The American government is committing $50 million to support the good work of organizations that are rescuing women and children from exploitation, and giving them shelter, medical treatment, and the hope of a new life. I urge other governments to do their part.

We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

All the challenges I have spoken of this morning require urgent attention and moral clarity: helping Afghanistan and Iraq to succeed as free nations in a transformed region, cutting off the avenues of proliferation, abolishing modern forms of slavery. These are the kinds of great tasks for which the United Nations was founded.

[charlyvi]

1. Maybe he should look at his own party.

Marianas Islands anyone?

[MissWaverly]

2. was there any follow up on this

or is this another fairytale like rebuilding New Orleans

[Warpy]

3. New family business, I guess

The coke market has peaked. The family's looking for new gigs.

[KittyWampus]

4. that is funny primarily because it is probably true

do I laugh or cry...

[Beetwasher]

5. Foley Fought Against Pedophiles

It's the Repubs M.O.

Publically denounce and decry the most base, vile things that YOU are guilty of. Propoganda 101.

[NewJeffCT]

10. just like the Swiftboating of Kerry in 2004

And, similar to McCain in 2000...

Or, Republicans railing against gays, but having gays in so many key leadership positions (Ken Mehlman, Jeff Gannon, Lindsay Graham, the California rep. that almost became the house leader, etc)

Or Jimmy Swaggart complaining about immorale lifestyles, but then seeing hookers...

and so on and so forth.

[skids]

6. Hrm...

Well earlier that year there was a media investigation in Australia. Other than that all I could google was this, which seems to be drawing sort of an analogue to contraception, in that they have managed to defund programs that draw a distinction between sex slavery and non-slavery prostitution:

http://www.religiousconsultation.org/News_Tracker/trafficking_in_politics.htm

In general, globalists and neocons seek to make their loot off disruption. When rules are "unified" or otherwise change or large initiatives are launched, cracks open up which they carefully cultivate to work their way into markets where they did not previously have foothold. Knowing what I know of the BFEE, the concept is not only not surprising, but an old one that has already been entertained.

[Mabus]

7. He was chastising brother Neil

When you're Neil Bush, you'll be sitting in a hotel room in Thailand or Hong Kong, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a knock at the door. You answer it and a comely woman strolls in and has sex with you.

Life sure is fun when you're Neil Bush, son of one president, brother of another.

Just how much fun was revealed in a deposition taken last March, during Bush's very nasty divorce battle. Asked by his wife's attorney whether he'd had any extramarital affairs, Bush told the story of his Asian hotel room escapades.

"Mr. Bush," said the attorney, Marshall Davis Brown, "you have to admit that it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35297-2003Dec27?language=printer

In the alternative, Republicans seem to complain a lot about things that they are doing but don't want others to do. In other words, he was giving his thumbs up to the sex trade in the Marianas Islands ("made in America") but a thumbs down to the sex trade elsewhere.

[kestrel91316]

8. That's how you deflect scrutiny. A la Foley and internet pedophiles.......

[KittyWampus]

9. that's what I was thinking/

[kestrel91316]

12. We have to go after THOSE OTHER PEOPLE. THEY are bad.

We, on the other hand, are paragons of virtue, akin to Christ Himself.

[CJCRANE]

11. IMO

he gets a kick out of saying something when he knows the opposite is true.

The most obvious example of this how he kept reiterating that you need a warrant to authorise wiretapping...of course there's plenty more examples from Plamegate, Abramoffgate, Enrongate etc.