Jobs Down, Thumbs Up
American soldiers caught up in the Iraq abuse scandal are collateral damage from a U.S. economy that is losing good jobs
by Naomi Klein

There's something else connecting the sorry state of the U.S. job market and the images coming out of Abu Ghraib. The young soldiers taking the fall for the prison-abuse scandal are the McWorkers, prison guards and laid-off factory workers of Mr. Bush's so-called economic recovery. The résumés of the soldiers facing abuse charges come straight out of the April U.S. Labor Department Report.

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