Rice to debate rape? Debate?
Rice to chair Security Council debate on rape as weapon of war
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to preside over a UN Security Council debate later this month that will press for an end to the use of rape of women as a weapon war, the US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, the council chair this month, said Rice would preside over a meeting focused on women and peace and security on June 19.
“At this meeting, we hope the council will adopt by consensus a resolution to be proposed by the United States calling for an end to the use of sexual violence against civilians as a weapon of war,” he noted.</em>
Really? You need to debate this?
NBC News later quoted U.S. military officials as saying that the unreleased photographs showed American soldiers “severely beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and ‘acting inappropriately with a dead body.’ The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.”
Condi Rice is a vile creature, but at least she’ll be wearing pretty shoes when they hang her.
