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Time to invade Congo. Imagine how the people who got all worked up about Saddam Hussein's rape rooms and the gassing of his own people will feel about this (FindLaw/AP):

Militiamen and renegade soldiers have raped and beaten tens of thousands of women and young girls in eastern Congo, and nearly all the crimes have gone unpunished by the country's broken judicial system, an international human rights group said Monday.

Hundreds of new rapes are reported every week, but only 10 soldiers and militants have been convicted of rape in relatively lawless eastern Congo since the end of the country's devastating war in 2002, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report.

"Perpetrators of sexual violence are members of virtually all the armed forces and armed groups that operate in eastern Congo," according to the 52-page report.

According to neocon rhetoric, Congo should be next up for liberating. After all, the Inaugural Address made clear the Bush administration's global advocacy of liberty as a human right.

Tens of thousands of women and girls have been raped. Where are the moral values in Bush's foreign policy? How can the pro-life party tolerate such a situation of nationwide, institutionalized sexual abuse?

Easy. "Democracy" and "liberty" are on the march only wherever there is oil underfoot — or Ariel Sharon nearby.

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