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Bush White House reportedly worked in support of sexual slavery in Asia as favor to Jack Abramoff

Remember how just two years ago George Bush claimed he wanted to put a stop to human trafficking – i.e., women being forced into sexual slavery? Then why was the Bush administration’s premiere advocate for stopping such sexual slavery forced out of his job a while back?
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One of George Bush’s top aides, the man who ran Bush’s re-election campaign, and the man who thanks to George Bush now runs the Republican party, is also reportedly the man who fired a top Bush official in charge of stopping the international human sex slave trade because Jack Abramoff’s clients like sex slaves.

George Bush, Ken Mehlman, and the entire Republican party have made a mockery of religious conservatives, and family values. And more importantly, religious conservatives have made a mockery of themselves and their God. If this is what it means to be a conservative Christian, to elect people who constantly stab you, and your faith, in the back, then it’s no wonder Karl Rove’s office reportedly thinks these people are nuts.

After all, isn’t that the definition of insanity: voting for the same people, who are making the same broken promises, again and again and again, while expecting a different result each time?

Displease a Lobbyist, Get Fired

For five years, Allen Stayman wondered who ordered his removal from a State Department job negotiating agreements with tiny Pacific island nations — even when his own bosses wanted him to stay.

Now he knows. Newly disclosed e-mails suggest that the ax fell after intervention by one of the highest officials at the White House: Ken Mehlman, on behalf of one of the most influential lobbyists in town, Jack Abramoff.

The e-mails show that Abramoff, whose client list included the Northern Mariana Islands, had long opposed Stayman’s work advocating labor changes in that U.S. commonwealth, and considered what his lobbying team called the "Stayman project" a high priority. "Mehlman said he would get him fired," an Abramoff associate wrote after meeting with Mehlman, who was then White House political director.
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Besides the Stayman matter, the e-mails reveal Mehlman’s role in helping an Abramoff client, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, secure $16.3 million for a new jail that government analysts concluded was not necessary. Mehlman also helped Abramoff obtain a White House endorsement in 2002 of the Republican gubernatorial ticket in the U.S. territory of Guam.