"They hate us for our freedoms"...NO, but this would be one reason;

[LynnTheDem]

Using Asia's Poor to Build U.S. Bases in Iraq

The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.

According to the Tribune, American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor into Iraq. Most of those falling for the fraudulent job offers are impoverished Asians who, the newspaper said, "often are deceived, exploited and put in harm's way with little protection."

The Tribune got on the story after 12 young civilians from Nepal were kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq and a few days later publicly slaughtered. The newspaper sent a reporter and photographer to Nepal, where they interviewed families and friends and soon discovered that thousands of men are routinely recruited for "good" Mideast jobs, but wind up in the most treacherous stretches of Iraq territory working in private jobs for the U.S. military.

To maintain the flow of cheap labor that is key to the military support and reconstruction in Iraq, the U.S. military has allowed KBR to partner with subcontractors that hire workers from Nepal and other countries that prohibit their citizens from being deployed in Iraq, the story said. That means that the brokers operate illicitly and falsify documents that describe far different jobs near Iraq, which eventually turn out to be smack dab in the middle of the country.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/26660/

The blowback is gonna be a bitch.

[prescole]

1. Thank God only American deaths count

Bush can spare all those Nepalese peasants.

[MisterP]

2. heck, Macedonia tricked 9 Pakistanis into coming over, then murdered

them by machine-gun and claimed an Al Qaeda cell had been broken up!

[teknomanzer]

3. America the Beautiful...

Nothing much has changed... How many Chinese died building American Railroads... brown people aren't worth squat to imperial capitalists.

[Kurovski]

4. The Chicago Tribune is a real newspaper.

They've made some mistakes in the past--big ones--but they have some of the best journalists working for them, and their aim is true.

Cheney's Halliburton along with the upcoming indictments should help to but things into perspective for Americans in the next few months.

Recommended. Oh!, whaddaya know, it's a LynnTheDem thread! :hi:

[babylonsister]

5. Not to negate what Halliburton has done and is doing, but

Asia and its poor have long been a resource for cheap labor. The people that work in risky business live in dire straits and this is better financially for their families. We have never known dire straits like they do. I'm obviously not condoning, just noting.

[lostnfound]

9. But did you catch that it is often against their will?

even the poorest should be able to judge if 'this is better financially for their families' or not.

There are many who may judge that a high-paying job in Kuwait or Jordan would be worth it but who may rightly determine that a low-paying job in Iraq would not be. In fact, I've heard their voices when they were interviewed on FSRN. There's a bait and switch going on, and the salaries are falsely advertised too.

[alittlelark]

6. Blowback is AKA the USA.

My Family got off on the Mayflower.

My Great Uncle was the architect of the Supreme Court (Cass Stirling Gilbert).

My family has fought and died in every war (aside from Gulf I, and this debacle.).
This country has become a fascist state.

It hurts to say this - but sometimes the truth hurts.

I survived 'rehab', I think many others can as well.

[Kurovski]

7. And what is the unemployment rate in Iraq these days?

Yes, there are many understandable reasons for anger and hatred.

Alittlelark's post reminds me that the Bush administration wishes to once and for all end America's ability to ever right itself.

[lostnfound]

8. There is little difference between this and slavery. nt

[charlie]

10. Same old, same old

Making free marketeers auxilliaries of our State/Defense departments seems to always end the same way, with those clowns running off the leash. The promised efficiency and cost effectiveness never happens, and accountability goes out the window.

Remember Dyncorp and its kiddie prostitutes? You'd guess that a scandal involving child sex slaves would be enough to promptly end government contracts and shutter a company. Last I looked though, Dyncorp is still choogling along, fat and happy on our dime.

[Disturbed]

11. A few more reasons.

Troops occupy mosques when they invade Iraqi towns and cities.

[fleabert]

12. I am not muslim, and that is so offensive to me.

I can only imagine how offensive that is to muslims. Can you even fathom if a group of foreign soldiers did that at a US mega-church or some-such? The Holy Shit would hit the Holy Fan.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

13. Your right..I feel the same way

edit:
I am not muslim either.

Melonhawg

Proud Members of Melonhawg Society

[Arkansas Granny]

15. And I suppose this is one of our freedoms that they hate us for.

[annabanana]

14. I'm sure God told them to do it..

"Let my people be enslaved"

Surely we can peel off a few fundies on this one...

[Burried News]

16. Krup in WW2 or Halliberton in Iwreck.

Arbeit macht frei - lies that feed the war machine.