It wouldn't surprise me.

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?

According to the Sunday Los Angeles Times, he was fired because convicted criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff was representing one of the countries that most profits from sexual slavery and human trafficking, the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff wanted this Bush administration official fired because the official's anti-human-trafficking agenda - now George Bush's agenda - posed a direct threat to Abramoff's pro-sex-slave client.

Read the rest at Americablog.

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November 8, 2006 3:38 PM

[0+]  Ted said:

And Bush is supposed to govern by principle. I, like he, have twin daughters and I could not imagine slowing the anti-trafficing effort for political expediency. That is totally, morally bankrupt!

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