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ringmastery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:52 PM
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Viagra, prostitution: Bush's legacy in Iraq
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/19/MNGQJ78Q021.DTL&type=printable

The popularity of Viagra points to new wrinkles in Iraqi society. Satellite TV -- forbidden under Saddam Hussein -- is beaming sex and its accouterments into mud-brick huts and marbled mansions. Selling alongside Viagra in many pharmacies are breast-enhancement creams, skin whitening gels and herbal slimming potions. And young Iraqi men -- too poor these days to make suitable husbands -- are trolling discreet red-light districts with condoms and sex pills as prostitution has flourished and become more open under occupation.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 07:54 PM
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1. Hey, do we know how to invade a country, or what ...

the tough part seems to be getting the hell out.
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