Your ‘authoritative source’ consists of a lot of claims and counter claims.
It’s certainly additional information, to the news story the post reported. Whether or not ir contradicts ti will be determined by the investigaions that are under way.

It would be a terrible thing for women who are raped, if this claim were false. On the other hand, since so many of the criticisms were based on procedural rules and appearances rather than fact finding, it would be way out of line to presume that to be the case.

I, for one, need to see what the investigaions uncover before passing judgment either way.

I admit I might have a bias, because I remember what ’suspicions’ were hurled at female members of the military and West point in similar cases.
Character assasination is so much easier than proving rape.

I just hope the investigaions come to a clear conclusion, so this doesn’t become another political football.

But today, I’ve come across a more authoritative examination of the case.

Davebo, “watch out for your corn-hole”

Is the theory here that rogue employees locked the girl into the container without management’s permission? That these same rogue authorities threatened her future employment should she leave the country for medical treatment?

Look folks, we’ve all be anally raped by Halliburton.

casualobserver:

My only mention of Bush in any of my posts was to say that if this had been under a Democratic administration that Bush’s name would be changed to the appropriate name. How in the heck is this BDS?! Yes, I can read headlines and as Doma has pointed out, only the word ‘alleged’ is missing but as I stated before, I tend to give rape victims the benefit of the doubt. I have been focusing on the crime of rape committed and reiterating that rape is not political. I could also be blunt and ask if you’re able to read & comprehend what I’ve written so far but I tend to be too respectful to do that.

Having read it, I can say that it has no retion to Hillary Clinton or Iran.
Therefore, as I said, commenters do veer off topic to vent their personal and irrelevant obsessions.

And resorting to claims of BDS instead of dtaying with the topic is just pure BS.
If you have a problem with any factual context in the post, say so.
Otherwise, irrelevant is still irrelevant. and snark is still sanrk.

Excuse my bluntness……..but can you read headlines???

If you and Doma want to accuse people here of going off on unjustified tangents……….keep repeating the headline of this post to yourself……..until the fog of BDS begins to clear away………..PWT’s original comment was snarky only to Stickings’s case of BDS, not even remotely to the subject of rape…………sheesh!

In the beginning of October, Congress passed a bill to hold contractors like Blackwater accountable for their criminal behavior. It’s HR 2740 in case anyone wants to read about it.

This is good news although I doubt that they’ll make it retroactive to the start of the contract. In other words, for crimes already committed the perpetrators will get off scot-free but hopefully this will prevent future crimes.

Doma, I agree with you 100%. Funny how with just my 1 post to PWT, others decided to judge my political affiliation even when my post was not about politics but about rape.

Given the history of rape in the military, this is about male behvior, regardless of party affiliation.
Always, that history includes an initial resistance to facing up to the problem.

CNN announced that other women have come forward with similar accusations. We’ll be hearing more, I’m sure.

And we don’t need to worry about Bush vetoing a bill like this. HR 2740 passed overwhelmingly, with only 30 kooks voting against it. And I’m sure enough people in the Senate can put aside their differences and vote “yes” so that Mitch McConnell won’t obstruct.

I would like for you to now denounce Hillary Clinton because one of her fundraisers is a criminal.

He would denounce her instead for taking the US’s honest side in its conflict with Iran rather than Iran’s dishonest side.

A few things:

First, I think that even if Haliburton was as chummy with a Democratic administration and the same chain of events occurred that Michael would’ve written the very same post changing the name Bush to whoever the president was. As I stated, rape isn’t political and I imagine that most decent people would agree with that statement.

Secondly, there are very few cases where women will accuse someone of rape falsely. Perhaps it’s because I am a woman, but I tend to give a rape victim the benefit of the doubt. Hell, Army doctors examined her and confirmed that she was raped! Will authors of Michelle Malkin’s “ilk” go looking into this rape victim’s political affiliation?! I’d certainly hope not.

Lastly, what the hell does Hillary Clinton have to do with this?! I denounced no one in my post other than to chastize PWT for the snarky comment. Here, I will denounce the scumbag rapists that will most likely never be punished for their crime. Even Rep. Poe (who is a Republican and takes the victim’s side) is getting the runaround on the investigation in this 2 years after it happened! Last I checked, Justice was not supposed to be in the exclusive purview of any political affiliation.

And the conservatives “screaming” about the post somehow always find liberals here but think of themselves as “center right” when others tend to eliminate the center part of that description after reading some of their posts.

As for Mike’s posting: the normal person’s response isn’t horror, or shock, but anger and — disgust. (Indeed, rather than anger, it would be annoyance combined with disgust.) Even most liberals on this site (provided they’re not also too extreme) will say that such a thing like this is no surprise given it involves Halliburton in Iraq.

The reason why not very many center right people bother to ever participate here anymore is in plain evidence above.

Absolutely, the allegations are horrific (but to PWT’s point, a little early to rush to convictions).

However, it is also repugnant that authors of Mr. Stickings ilk take the opportunity to parlay the badness of employees into de facto badness of a corporation and a politician 6000 miles away.

I would like for you to now denounce Hillary Clinton because one of her fundraisers is a criminal.

That said, I am appalled if what has been alleged actually occurred. If it did not occur, I am, again appalled.