Desperate Iraqi refugees turning to sex trade in Syria.
By on May 29th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Desperate Iraqi refugees turning to sex trade in Syria.
According to the United Nations, “about 1.2 million Iraqi refugees now live in Syria. … Aid workers say thousands of Iraqi women work as prostitutes in Syria, and point out that as violence in Iraq has increased, the refugee population has come to include more female-headed households and unaccompanied women.”
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just another casualty of the glorious “war on terror”
But, do the politicians talk about this? Of course not. Do they talk about all the people driven from their homes, maimed, killed? Of course not.
Instead, they do everything to distract us with mundane issues. “political footballs” for us to throw back and forth.
Yet another reason this war needs to end now. not next year. now.
Some further reading:
May 29th, 2007 at 9:59 am“Top-Ten Reasons to Get out of Iraq. Now”
http://www.populistamerica.com/top_ten_reasons_to_get_out_of_iraq_now
I’m still not clear on how prostitution happens in Muslim countries… how can you be sure what you’re buying when they’re covered head to toe? and since women all dress the same, how does one identify a prostitute on the street versus any other woman?
May 29th, 2007 at 10:04 amWho could have predicted chaos and human suffering would be the outcome of this occupation?
May 29th, 2007 at 10:07 amPretty much anybody except the chymp & family.
petey, read the effing article.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:07 amhow can you be sure what you’re buying when they’re covered head to toe?
It doesn’t matter because they keep their clothes on while they screw, too.
how does one identify a prostitute on the street versus any other woman?
They wear high-heeled shoes and you can see them below their burkas.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:14 amThis is a nice family value to have sprung up from the war perpetrated and administered by the family values party
May 29th, 2007 at 10:20 amPete, Tom:
Way to trivialize and marginalize the nightmare these refugees now call their life as a direct result of Chimpy’s demented war of imperialist aggression.
I’m sure your mothers are quite proud of you.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:21 amThe Bush-bots are generally psychotic. One moment they tar all Muslims as radical terrorists who should be exterminated. The next moment they are teary eye over a newly painted school or water project or an Iraqi election.
Bottom line is they really don’t give a rip about Iraqis.
They way they minimize and trivialize the tragedy the US has brought upon the Iraqis is a case in point.
Sad.
-GSD
May 29th, 2007 at 10:25 amI am sorry. I posted that satiric response to pete’s silly questions without really thinking. I did not intend to marginalize or trivialize the tragedy that is GDumbya’s Iraq.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:30 amFirst Bush creates more terrorists,now he’s creating more prostitution; heckofajob Georgie !
May 29th, 2007 at 10:37 amThis is what happens when women do not have equality — too late to do anything about that situation, of course.
These women were doing what they could in their daily lives — which didn’t include much education and no job skills. Now, as refugess, they are reduced to selling their bodies. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the suicide rate of these women go sky high.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:39 amThese women were doing what they could in their daily lives — which didn’t include much education and no job skills. Now, as refugess, they are reduced to selling their bodies. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the suicide rate of these women go sky high.
Comment by Zooey
Or if not suicide, then execution by family.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:42 amGiven the UN record in the Congo I’m sure they are very pleased with this news.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:43 amPatrick1 shouts more “Hey, look over there!” before 9 AM than most people shout all day.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:50 amOr if not suicide, then execution by family.
Comment by gummitch
I saw in the article that the Syrians are being careful not to send these women home. I wonder if we would be so careful?
May 29th, 2007 at 10:51 amPatrick1 shouts more “Hey, look over there!†before 9 AM than most people shout all day.
Comment by joe
We could end all of our comments with, “I love GWB,” and P1 would have to find a way to b*tch about it.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:57 amsad to us , but a success story for bush creating employment is the way he will see it
May 29th, 2007 at 11:13 amWell, somewhere whoredom equals progress. Las Vegas.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:17 amDoes any American really care about the horrors of this. Look Americans are willing to turn a blind eye on our own soldiers being killed in larger numbers so what happens to these Iraq women and children mean nothing. Americans are more interested in keeping the President’s policy of stay the course and who will win American Idol. More likely Americans wont vote if American Idol is now and then Bush can stay in office for as long as he want. Maybe when the dead soldiers number 100, 000 the American people will say something. Now if the draft was enacted the invasion would end on the spot. Americans are willing to watch soldiers die but will not join the military themselves. Just like Bush/Cheney set back and watch brave soldiers lie in Vietnam.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:17 amPete, Tom:
Way to trivialize and marginalize the nightmare these refugees now call their life as a direct result of Chimpy’s demented war of imperialist aggression.
I’m sure your mothers are quite proud of you.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — May 29, 2007 @ 10:21 am
no insensitivity toward their plight was expressed or implied… mine is a question of practicality that I genuinely am curious about… I didn’t address the nightmare because 1) I consider it a given that that’s a horrible, unacceptable way to live and 2) many posters here are doing a more than adequate job of covering that aspect… I am sorry Tom had to incur wrath from my own comments, however… he was led on by the treachery of others…
May 29th, 2007 at 11:31 am“Desperate Iraqi refugees turning to sex trade in Syria”
Hey, man, it can be tough to meet single women if you’re new in town.
(Reads linked story)
Oh. Nevermind.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:36 amSince we’ve demolished these women’s lives, it would be nice to bring them to the U.S., if they could stand it, and help them restart their lives. Sadly, Bushco’s limiting Iraqi immigration to about 12 per year now, I assume because someone in the press might interview a refugee and find out how bad things have been for these people. Given a choice between saving lives and slightly less terrible press, Bush goes in the predictable direction.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:17 pmMaybe George could send them some of that abstinence-only educational material that’s been so successful here.
Another roaring success story from the family values party. Great job, guys!
May 29th, 2007 at 12:27 pmBush does not care about Iraqi women being forced into prostitution in Syria. Besides Dubya is interested in the young Iraqi men for ‘wink’ sex.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:46 pmBush has been responsible for this growing perversion as he asuages his personal ego. He ’s whimpering on the extreme cruelty of Darfur to grab a headline of “concern”, but has his head in the sand about the human tragedy that this war has spawned . The migration of fatherless families by females of tender age has forced prostitution for survival as the result. Family values, I see, is a relative term. As long as it isn’t his relative, suffering.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:13 pmI read that article and found it mighty sad. These poor people leaving their country just to survive, and then having no money to survive turning their daughters out to prostitution. The lady quoted in the article was a mother watching her daughter solicit customers. This from a country that virginity is considered so important that there are actually doctors whose full time job it is to check hymens. This idiotic and ill-concieved war has reduced many once proud Iraqis to selling their bodies to the highest paying creep, just like Shaha Reeza.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:58 pmFreedom is on the march.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:22 amI have heard of holding or interment camps that have been built at the government’s expense since 2006 by a subsidiary of Halliburton for the purpose of processing these millions of Iraqi refugees (not the slim figure often quoted) until they are siphoned out into our population. What is being done to determine the TB and other health issues that not only concern these people (statistics say half the Iraqi’s have TB) but are going to literally pour into our public? Why is the American public not in an outrage that this influx of peoples is happening? They are going to use the CDC jets to fly them over in ‘quarentene’…the jets that were recently in the news for the fact that they are hardly ever used.
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:28 am