How Many Child Prostitutes Is B*sh Responsible for?

[tekisui]

March 18, 2008

George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the U.K. Independent.

Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN.

Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the Women's Will Association.

"70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis," 23-year-old Abeer told the New York Times. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available."

According to the Times, "inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates."

Driving women and girls into prostitution violates numerous human rights agreements, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. George Bush himself denounced sex trafficking at the United Nations in 2003.

Bush's invasion of a country that posed no threat to the U.S. was illegal under both U.S. and international law, according to legal experts. Bush has been convicted of war crimes by citizen tribunals around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Just las week, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro Vermont voted to indict and arrest Bush and Cheney.

In 2002 and 2003, Bush led a propaganda campaign to defraud Congress, the American people, and key allies into believing Iraq was a threat. Bush claimed Iraq had stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons to use against the U.S., and was sharing them with Al Qaeda.

Speaking near Rochester NY, Bush later admitted, "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

According to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity, top Bush Administration officials told at least 935 lies about Iraq on 532 separate occasions. These included 259 lies by Bush, 254 lies by Secretary of State Colin Powell, 109 lies by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 109 lies by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, 56 lies by National Security Advisor Condi Rice, and 48 lies by Vice President Cheney.


more at link, with video: http://uruknet.info/?p=m42143&s1=h1

[uppityperson]

1. k&r. He should do the right thing and resign.

But I guess he's just the pimp, not the john.

[margotb822]

2. Wow, just wow

Can we get some reporting like that in the MSM?? Please!

Also, I believe that Cheney has told more the 48 lies. He told more today. Apparently he just works more behind the scenes.

I am sending this to everyone I know! Thank you!!

[AndyA]

5. Send the link to the story to Keith Olbermann.

And to Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, etc. Get the word out there. Someone might pick it up.

[Bozita]

3. Bush has certainly spread his "family values" to Iraq.

Just ask Neil.

[villager]

4. Are we counting the ones brought to the White House in the Reagan years?

As per the Washington Times story, etc.

[Horse with no Name]

6. I'd love to have a NATIONAL discussion about the Mariana Islands

and the fact that the republican pedophiles use this as their own little playground.

>>>snip
n November of 1997, Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) publicly questioned the credibility of a teenage girl's claims that she'd been the victim of the sex trade in the Northern Mariana Islands. The statement, which Rep. Hall entered into the Congressional Record, was prepared by Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist for the islands.

"he wanted to do nude dancing," Hall's statement said of the fifteen-year-old girl. She had earlier told federal investigators that she'd been forced to work for a local nightclub in a nightly live sex show. You can read the entirety of Hall's statement here.

Press accounts at the time detailed how the girl had been taken from her parents in the Phillippines, and forced to perform sex acts on stage and before video cameras at a Northern Marianas sex club. A 1998 Department of Labor report confirmed those reports.

Hall's challenger in Texas' 4th District, history professor Glenn Melancon, has made the episode a campaign issue. "When investigators discovered child prostitution and forced abortions on the Mariana Islands, Congressman Ralph Hall was paid for covering it up and publicly attacking one of the raped children," read postcards his campaign distributed to voters.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/001591.php

>>>Snip
Doolittle, who traveled to the Mariana Islands in 1999, subsequently spoke favorably of conditions there and opposed bills to raise the minimum wage and impose U.S. immigration laws.

Doolittle, who has taken $14,000 in campaign contributions from Abramoff, also helped the lobbyist get his contract with the Marianas renewed in 1999 by endorsing a sympathetic island politician. Abramoff is now cooperating in a wide-ranging congressional influence-peddling investigation.

"John Doolittle and others like him in our Congress have lost their moral authority to lead because they've sold out the American people just as surely as they sold out the women and children in the Marianas," Brown, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said during a news conference.

Activist Wendy Doromal wept as she recounted abuses that included indentured servitude, forced abortions, rape and false imprisonment.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/10/30/politics/p170040S28.DTL&type=politics


On edit:
I have NO idea why everything is crossed out :shrug:

[tekisui]

7. It is long past time for that to be thoroughly investigated

and spread in the media. Al Franken did a lot on it, when he had his radio show. Maybe he'll beat that drum when he gets to the Senate.