gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 17^th, 2011 at 4:59pm:


Thanks  giz time for a drink 

Any way its all a little absurd and more than a bit arrogant to have US forces here for security when we have a regional super power - China more than capable of projecting its self in that manner.

corporate_whitey wrote on Nov 17^th, 2011 at 3:12pm:


Matter of record, so is their court cases.
Your off the planet on this one.

Whitey,
In the last 10 years how many women were raped by US soldiers
on each foreign base - start with e.g.  Japan?

falah wrote on Nov 24^th, 2011 at 3:33pm:



That's terrible but zero in Japan in the last 10 years?

Gizmo,
Quote:


Yeah but you make out like the Yanks just can't keep their zippers done up.
Out flops the Alabama Black Snake & it's all on.

The US military has tried to cover up attacks on its own women:

Former US troops sue for sexual abuse

Former US service members have filed a lawsuit against the government, claiming to have been sexually abused while on duty.


The US government is facing a lawsuit filed by former service members claiming to have been sexually abused while on military duty.


The lawsuit was filed by 28 former troops, who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed, The Navy Times reported.

The lawsuit claims that former defense secretaries Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld violated the service members' constitutional rights by running ill-advised institutions.

According to the claims, the institutions failed to protect military personnel from sexual harassment and assault, often promoting perpetrators while even openly retaliating against the victims “ordered to keep quiet”.

The institutions are also accused of mocking congressionally mandated reforms.

“If you look at just the last 10 years, there have been numerous instances of rapes and sexual assaults and they have been poorly handled,” Washington D.C. attorney for the plaintiffs, Susan Burke said.

Burke added that the “retaliation is widespread; there are efforts to blame the victim. Many of the victims are drummed out of military service.”

Leading plaintiff Kori Cioca, a former member of the Coast Guard from 2005 to 2007 says she was raped in 2005 by a superior, while Naval Aircrewman (Avionics) 3rd Class Katelyn Boatman, currently on active duty, says she was drugged and raped in 2010.

Former Coast Guard officer Panayiota Bertzikis also claims to have been raped in 2006 by a shipmate.

Most of the victims have been accused of being “liars”.

Earlier this year, the Pentagon ignored complaints by a group of female veterans over rape and sexual harassment by fellow active duty service members.

Last year, over 50,000 American male soldiers were also positively screened as victims of a 'military sexual trauma,' outnumbering 30,000 such cases eight years ago. Pentagon statistics also indicated that 56 percent of reports of sexual assault involved solider-on-soldier allegations

According to the Feres Doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court in 1950, current and former service members are barred from suing the government for damages for sustaining personal injuries while on duty.

The US Department of Defense did not consider soldier-on-soldier sexual harassment as an offense until 1992 and only acknowledged female victims.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/212481.html

The Americans are not shooting their Australian comrades-in-arms. Not something that can be said about our great friends the Afghanis. But we won't talk about thatr because we all know that while the Americans will be judged by our and their moral and legal standards, the AFghanis are held to much lower standards.

There is no outrage about AFghani soldiers shooting their AUstralian comrades but there are endless bleetings on this thread, for example, about what might or might not happen if Americans might or might not commit a crime in Australia.