Iraq women lament costs of U.S. invasion

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-arab-women-iraq-idUSBRE9AB00J20131112



Widows work on sewing machines at a widows' training and development centre in Baghdad in this November 13, 2012 file photo.

Iraq women lament costs of U.S. invasion
By Suadad al-Salhy and Isabel Coles
BAGHDAD Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:32pm EST

(Reuters) - One year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-President George W. Bush told a gathering at the White House: "Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein are forever closed."

A decade on, that statement rings hollow for many Iraqi women.

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Domestic abuse and prostitution have increased, illiteracy has soared and thousands of women have been left widowed and vulnerable. Many women also rue the political leaders that came to power after Saddam was overthrown and the growing social conservatism that has diminished their role in public life.

Once at the vanguard of women's rights in the region, Iraq ranked 21st out of 22 Arab states in a poll of 336 gender experts released on Tuesday by Thomson Reuters Foundation (poll2013.trust.org).




unhappycamper comment: When the financial dust settles, the Iraq invasion and occupation will have added at least $3.5 trillion (with a 'T') dollars to the National deficit. Remember Emergency Supplementals?

[ann---]

1. Thank you

America. What a shame at what we have done to those people.

[libodem]

2. May our Mother/Father God forgive us

For what we have done.

[PearliePoo2]

3. Shrub, Darth, Rummy and all the rest...

of the fucking PNAC bastards need to be in shackles and in prison.