50,000 Iraqis Forced Into Prostitution

[BlooInBloo]

jesus - stop the madness.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2701324.ece

" It's Monday night in a dingy club on the outskirts of the Syrian capital. Two dozen girls are moving half-heartedly on the dance floor, lit up by flashing disco lights.

They are dessed in tight jeans, low-cut tops and knee-high boots, but the girls' make-up can't disguise the fact that most are in their mid-teens. It's a strange sight in a conservative Muslim country, but this is the sex business, and it's booming as a result of the war in Iraq.

Backstage, the manager sits in his leather chair, doing business. A Saudi client is quoted $500 for one of the girls. Eventually he beats it down to $300. Next door, in a dimly lit room, the next shift of girls arrives, taking off the black all-covering abayasthey wear outside and putting on lipstick and mascara.

To judge from the cars parked outside, the clients come from all over the Gulf region - many are young Saudi men escaping from an even more conservative moral climate. But the Syrian friend who has brought me here tells me that 95 per cent of the girls are Iraqi."

[NMDemDist2]

1. sigh

I have outrage fatigue, it just keeps coming and coming :cry:

[MONCHiKi]

2. jeez

...jeez

[NMDemDist2]

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[shadowknows69]

9. I can't bear anymore misery in this world

I'm going to be institutionalized because of it I'm sure of it. I'm too damn empathic for my own good. What pill do the people that don't care take because I'm about ready to sign up for a scrip.

[NMDemDist2]

10. ....

:hug:

You're a good man Shadow :pals:

[Divide Et Impera]

3. I guess....

....if we couldn't spread freedom, we could spread something!

[Jed Dilligan]

5. Well

it worked in Southeast Asia, didn't it?

[Homer12]

4. See Bush brought freedom to underage Iraqi women so others could...

...practice their love with them.

Religious Christian conservatives hypocrisy know no bounds.

[northofdenali]

6. GWB would be throwing (our) dollar bills. n/t

[Lex1775]

8. This has been going on in Korea since the Korean War.

Only the Koreans "got smart" and import their girls, mostly Filipinos and women from the various countries that used to be the Soviet Union. First they lure them into the country with all kinds of BS and then they take their passports away and force them to work at the "juicy" bars until they can "buy back" their passports.

[butterfly77]

11. What's the problem...

bush said he would bring them the good old american values...

[BlooInBloo]

14. heh. Free market & all.

[MindPilot]

12. War! What is it good for? Not a goddamned thing!!

There are no words...:cry::banghead::cry: repeat.

[Nikki Stone1]

13. Whenever there is social breakdown, human life becomes expendable.

Women's lives become even more expendable.

[karlrschneider]

15. I wonder if some of those "young Saudis" go home and denounce 'whores'...

:grr:

[BlooInBloo]

16. Once again, Islam not so different from Christianity.

[karlrschneider]

17. And ironically, both will violently (!) disagree with that obvious truth.

No religion has a monopoly on hypocrisy.

[tbyg52]

18. You know they do

Just because they pay for them doesn't mean they have to respect them. Quite the opposite, in fact.