Posted by Wymark on 7/13/2009, 12:12 am, in reply to "Homophobia, theirs and ours."
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Not many, i'll bet. She was a fourteen year old Iraqi girl, who was gang raped, killed, and then set on fire by a squad of U.S. soldiers, who also shot dead her parents and younger sister in cold blood.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-exsoldier-convicted-of-iraq-rape-and-killings-1681208.html
You might argue that it was a case a 'few bad apples', but I don't think that holds water. U.S. Department of Defence statistics show that one in three women who join the U.S. Military will be raped or sexually assaulted by a male colleague. And considering the majority of U.S. troops in Iraq don't believe that Iraqis deserve to be treated with 'dignity and respect', according to a Pentagon survey, i'd just be very surprised if far more of these rapes of Iraqi women hadn't taken place and been covered up. It'd be much easier for troops to get away with raping the Untermensch than it would their own colleagues, after all.
So it's not only Talibs who are prone to sexist brutality.
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