Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse

[andrewducker]

US kidnaps workers and uses them to build Embassy in Iraq:

I mean, what the fuck?

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

ITYM: First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting Co. kidnaps workers and is retained by the US to build Embassy in Iraq. Not that this makes it acceptable, obviously, but accuracy is good.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell!

[opusfluke.livejournal.com]

I concur. WTF and bloody Hell!

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Okay, in case anyone missed this, the US is the country that tortures people, passes laws to "stop" it that still allow it, and justifies it as being completely necessary even when it's been rather widely criticised. Where senior government figures say that it's sometimes necessary. It also freely ignores the laws of allied countries and depending on what you read may well have a fairly indiscriminate policy of just shooting anyone they can who looks a bit dodgy.

Slave labour is hardly surprising.

I suppose it's only because of transport costs that they don't ship out US convicts to do some hard labour in Iraq.

[ratmist.livejournal.com]

When I heard this clip, my first thought screamed that Filipinos weren't allowed to work in Iraq anymore since the hostage crisis that occurred a few years ago. I am not surprised that Filipinos may have been targeted for a project like this, considering over 60% of the workforce work abroad and send money to their families in the Philippines.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Uh, just as a note... the lips match the speech for the first minute or so of the video, and then stop matching entirely when he gets to talking about the Filipino nationals. I find that a bit weird, especially as the way they're purportedly kidnapping people seems so blatant, and why would they be allowed to get on a plane going to Iraq with boarding pases labeled Dubai? Maybe I just don't understand how things work in non-US airports (strike that: I certainly don't understand how things work in non-US airports, so maybe this isn't atypical), buut with the lack of matching in the lips that begins at the crucial point it's all just... odd.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

The longer the war/occupation continues, the more small-scale similarities between the behavior of these occupiers and those of a previous bunch (Europe circa 1940-45) emerge.

It's as if some pathological behaviors are naturally emergent side effects of this type of situation.

See also Milgram, Zimbardo, et al ...