50,000.
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50,000.
Estimated number of Iraqi refugees, “many alarmingly young,” now employed as sex workers and prostitutes in Syria.
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T.P. you forgot “THANKS AMERICA”! after 50,000.
Estimated number of Iraqi refugees, “many alarmingly young,†now employed as sex workers and prostitutes in Syria. THANKS TO AMERICAS SETTING THEM FREEEEEEEE
where are the flowers and ????BAH!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Someone tell Laura Bush. After all, she’s been a tireless advocate for Iraqi women.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pmSomeone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pmafter 50,000.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:25 pmEstimated number of Iraqi refugees, “many alarmingly young,†now employed as sex workers and prostitutes in Syria.
GEE, DO YOU THINK THEY ARE DOING IT FOR MONEY?????
a big duh!!!!
Do they rent little boys?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:25 pmthis is all m12 s FAULT FOR SETTING THEM FREEEEEE!!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pmI guess W is a uniter after all, huh? Uniting the entire globe against the USA. We are such fools…We do get what we do deserve.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:27 pmWell looks like some future pages to me and my friends..
http://www.the7thfire.com/child_sexual_abuse/grand_old_pedophiles.htm
June 25th, 2007 at 7:28 pmSomeone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pmm12, hey we still gonna play later? Loved you in the leather skirt!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pmSAY m12, I GUESS IF YOU DONT GIVE A DAMMED ABOUT THE POOR, THEN THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pmNow, you wanna bet that American GIs are getting some of that action. And you wanna bet that GIs are organizing the smuggling of opium into the USA from Afghanistan? Anyone familiar with the corrupting influence of war and the mysterious GIs who somehow come out of a conflict with a footlocker stuffed with greenbacks will know it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:30 pmWell, there ya go. Bush and his wonderful christian values strikes again.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:30 pmPIP and m12, Bill never had to pay for sex in his life. That’s why Republicans hate him so –the GOP always has to pay.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:32 pmSomeone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
Comment by m12
Someone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by PRIMVS INTER PARES
June 25th, 2007 at 7:32 pmI don’t say this often. F*ck Off. There is a serious problem going on. If you can’t address it. Go piss off and get a life.
#10
Absolutely not, Mr. Foley. You need a good course of shock therapy.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:32 pm#14
What, you think Hillary and Monica Lewinsky are hot stuff? Hahahaha!
I hope for Clinton’s sake one of these 50000 is better looking!
Now Fred Thompson’s wife, on the other hand…
June 25th, 2007 at 7:33 pmm12,
Aww but you looked so hot, don’t be shy around the TP’ers they accept you being gay, even though you’re still in denial!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:34 pmSomeone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
They already did, and they’ll be forwarding those charges you ran up on them when you stole them. You pedophilic little b!tch.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pmWell, there ya go. Bush and his wonderful christian values strikes again.
Comment by MsJoanne
June 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pmNah. Its the evil we all have within us, Christian or not. This situation cannot go on.
Don’t expect sympathy for women forced to sell themselves from Republicans. Milton Friedman thought prostitution was a perfect example of Lazy Fair capitalism at work.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pmAbsolutely not, Mr. Foley. You need a good course of shock therapy. Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
Spoken from the voice of *experience*. Go get another dose, the last one isn’t holding – lunatic.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pmWhat, you think Hillary and Monica Lewinsky are hot stuff? Hahahaha! I hope for Clinton’s sake one of these 50000 is better looking! Now Fred Thompson’s wife, on the other hand… Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Well, they don’t compare to the Jeff Gannon fare you’re used to – that’s for sure, closet case…
June 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pmThey already did, and they’ll be forwarding those charges you ran up on them when you stole them. You pedophilic little b!tch.
Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus
June 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pmWell said!
First of all lets look at what the article says:
Now, who is it that is “banning” them from legitimate work?
Plus, I like this statement:
No one knows how many end up as prostitutes, but Hana Ibrahim, founder of the Iraqi women’s group Women’s Will, puts the figure at 50,000.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:38 pmWe haven’t cared about Iraqis since the day we started murdering them over 4 years ago.
Pretending to give a sh*t now, TPers, is more than disingenuous in that the only time TP discusses the heinous atrocity being perpetrated upon Iraqis by the USA is in the context of bashing the other party over it. Exploiting human suffering for political opportunism is not attractive no matter what party is engaging in it.
TP acting like it is concerned is a farce that is clearly visible to any intelligent eyes and is disgusting to see.
At least the Americans who openly support murdering innocent people are honest in their ignorance. TP, however, is very deceitful with their “concern”, and there is no honor in that.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:39 pm#19
Why would I need Clinton’s credit card?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:40 pmWhy would I need Clinton’s credit card?
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Because you’re a cheap *ss b*stard – duhhh. Only *you* have to ask that question, to avoid reality. EVERYONE else already knew the answer, slow child.
Do you happen to be Alan Placa, is that why you are standing by your *man* Guiliani? Or, are you just a *generic* pedophile GOP of the P=Pervert variety?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:42 pmI presume from this, m12, that your only experience of women comes between the pages of magazines sold from behind the counter.
I haven’t known suce juvenile comments since middle school. Perhaps that explains you moral POV.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:42 pm#23
You think Jeff Gannon is better looking than Monica and Hillary?
Besides, Gannon was just a reporter. A President, if he wants to go the adultery route, should do much better!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pmI presume from this, m12, that your only experience of women comes between the pages of magazines sold from behind the counter.
I haven’t known suce juvenile comments since middle school. Perhaps that explains you moral POV.
Comment by david — June 25, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
And m12 gets big laughs when he tells them to his next *date* in middle school, we’re all sure… He’s such a st*pid, greedy, immature little putz.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:44 pmValiantVenusGrewFromUranus remember me asshat?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:45 pm#28
Thankfully, I am nothing of the sort. Pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, bestiality, and homosexuality are all part of the liberal quest for sexual deviance.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:45 pmThe Right doesn’t care about people at all, other than themselves of course – the proof is strewn all over this thread by our local scumbag trolls.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:45 pmThanks George and thanks Dick for making the world a truly better place.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:45 pmYou think Jeff Gannon is better looking than Monica and Hillary? Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:43 pm
Good question? Why do you think Jeff Gannon is better looking than them?
Besides, Gannon was just a reporter. A President, if he wants to go the adultery route, should do much better! Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:43 pm
Actually he was a *hooker*, not a reporter. So Gannon isn’t your type? Because so far you’re vibing everyone that Gannon isn’t your kind of *man*. You seem to have a big *axe* to grind on Gannon not being sexy enough for your boy george – how juvenile your blatantly obvious jealousy is. Get that obsession of yours treated – sicko.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pmThankfully, I am nothing of the sort. Pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, bestiality, and homosexuality are all part of the liberal quest for sexual deviance. Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
If that’s true, why do so many GOP (P=perverts) end up getting outed for it? Even your presidential candidates are a bunch of cross dressers, divorced-cheating men. Poor little sicko – just in *denial* about your own *perversions*. That’s why you’re such a lunatic – poor little b!tch. The river *denial* runs through your dessicated little *ss.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:48 pmPIP, they aren’t “legitimately” working because they’re Iraqi women in Syria. Are you that stupid, jackass?!?
Consider that you ban illegal immigrants and refugees from working in the USA, how many Mexican women are forced into the sex trade because of that?
June 25th, 2007 at 7:48 pmIf that’s true, why do so many GOP (P=perverts) end up getting outed for it? Even your presidential candidates are a bunch of cross dressers, divorced-cheating men. Poor little sicko – just in *denial* about your own *perversions*. That’s why you’re such a lunatic – poor little b!tch. The river *denial* runs through your dessicated little *ss.
Why? Because they are diseased fools.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pmWell, you know, it’s either that or be repeatedly raped by dozens of soldiers at Abu Ghraib.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pmPoor little m12 thinks incest and pedophilia (both mental disorders) are the same thing as the relationship between two consenting adults. You know, you poor little religious wako – while homophobia *is* a mental illness, your homosexuality isn’t. That pedophilic tendencies of yours however, are a whole different matter – they are as sick, perverse and insane as the rest of you…
June 25th, 2007 at 7:50 pmWhy? Because they are diseased fools.
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:49 pm
Yet it takes liberals to out them. Why is that? You little sick pedophiles like yourself – will cover up each others sh*t until some liberal has to point out your own perversions and hypocrisy. Poor st*pid little sh*theads…
June 25th, 2007 at 7:52 pmComment by david — June 25, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
Nope. Wrong again m’boy. It’s because their religion will not allow it.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:53 pmYet it takes liberals to out them. Why is that? You little sick pedophiles like yourself – will cover up each others sh*t until some liberal has to point out your own perversions and hypocrisy. Poor st*pid little sh*theads…
Really? Tell that to former Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey!
I lived in New Jersey at the time. The fact that our governor gave $200k to his buddy was far less upsetting than having a governor guilty of homosexuality.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:54 pm#41
Yeah, you can thank the liberal lobby for that. Homosexuality is merely the first step to pushing other types of conduct through.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:55 pmNope. Wrong again m’boy. It’s because their religion will not allow it.
Comment by PRIMVS INTER PARES —
June 25th, 2007 at 7:59 pmA BIG DUMB*SS for you
religion HAS Nothing to do with IT!
oh wait, yes it does, Freedom to NOT Practice Thier Religion(Muslim)!
Thankfully, I am nothing of the sort. Pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, bestiality, and homosexuality are all part of the liberal quest for sexual deviance.
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
The evidence shows different. Most of those groups are conservative. There is a reason for this. Liberals don’t need to hide. They just do what they want. But to conservatives these are forbidden fruits, and they find it sexually attractive to taste that fruit. Again, the vast majority of sexual deviance is conservatives.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:01 pmWhy should any of us be surprised when these sick, fallen boys react to a tragedy like this with Clinton sex jokes. Theirs is a culture of death. Their standard bearers maintained a system of forced sex trade and forced abortions in the Northern Marianas for years and the fallen boys just stare off into space. Their masters lie in their faces every day and all they can say is “thank you sir, may I have another.” Their most iconic image is that of a man being tortured to death. It’s no wonder that they are sick, self-loathing, sexually ambiguous and mendacious. The only solution is to make sure they and their masters have little or no say in how our society will be run.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pmSomeone check Bill Clinton’s credit card!
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
Unlike the republicans, Bill Clinton has something called charisma. He can get laid for free.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:03 pmSee?
Aren’t they glad we liberated them?
What nice good people we are, huh?
June 25th, 2007 at 8:04 pmThankfully, I am nothing of the sort. Pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, bestiality, and homosexuality are all part of the liberal quest for sexual deviance.
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Yea?
Then why is it always republicans who get caught doing them?
June 25th, 2007 at 8:04 pmyessiree, this is the Freedom Bush keeps talking about that we’re bringing to Iraq. Freedom for these hard working girls to earn a decent wage. after all, “they’ll earn about $60, equivalent to a month’s wages in a factory.” heck of a job George W.!
June 25th, 2007 at 8:09 pm“50,000.
Estimated number of Iraqi refugees, “many alarmingly young,†now employed as sex workers and prostitutes in Syria.”
Just when I thought that being an underage “sex worker” was bad enough, here comes news that they are prostitutes too.
I wonder when this “transition” occurred.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:21 pmUnlike the republicans, Bill Clinton has something called charisma. He can get laid for free.
That’s very true, but come on now. Marilyn Monroe was Presidential material. But Monica?
June 25th, 2007 at 8:33 pmReally? Tell that to former Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey! Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
A man that didn’t use hookers or molest little boys. Maybe you should tell your theory to Mark Foley or Jeff Gannon? Or even your young college fox news darling, former porn star pundit?
I lived in New Jersey at the time. The fact that our governor gave $200k to his buddy was far less upsetting than having a governor guilty of homosexuality. Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
So you prefer *corruption*, *dishonesty* and the *closet* to someone coming out as gay? As I said before, homophobia *is* a mental illness, poor little b!tch. Get to a psychiatrist NOW!!!!
Yeah, you can thank the liberal lobby for that. Homosexuality is merely the first step to pushing other types of conduct through.
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
BHAAHAHAHA, what a tinfoil hat response! Sounds identical to what you f*ckers said about women and minorities having the right to *vote*, and inter-racial marriage. You’re a lunatic!
The liberal lobby doesn’t believe you have a right to persecute two consenting adults for being in love – you however believe that *love* is more sinful than corruption, stealing and other *real* immoral acts where there are *victims* that are stolen from. You’re the slippery slope! You’re willing to tolerate any manner of immorality, as long as people *wedgie* you with the gay issue. You’re as f*cked up as Cross Dressing Goebbels, and/or Guiliani and the rest of your closet case f*cking lunatic neo-nazi mob. You’re a st*Pid, sick little perver – and what’s sad is that you don’t believe anyone can see exactly how *disturbed* and *unhinged* you are. How *funny*.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pmThat’s very true, but come on now. Marilyn Monroe was Presidential material. But Monica? Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
Yet, you wingnuts come up with a Gay Hooker that’s into military fetish for your presidential affair – ah the irony.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm#56
What Presidential affair? Bush himself is not involved.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:45 pmBush himself is not involved.
Yeah, that’s the problem. But I suppose he’d have to be able to think to get involved. Bush’s brain is never engaged enough to do so…think that is.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:52 pm“What Presidential affair? Bush himself is not involved.”
Prove that Bush was not schtupping Gannon during Jeff’s numerous sleep-overs.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:46 pm#59
How exactly would I be able to do that?
June 25th, 2007 at 10:18 pmBeats me, m12, you are the expert on presidential affairs.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:21 pm#61
And you’re the one asking me to prove a negative.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pmm12, lol, are you joking? Ok, prove Vince Foster was murdered. It shouldn’t be tough for a nutso righty.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:14 pmm12? Are you going to prove the Vince Foster murder?
June 26th, 2007 at 1:21 amReally? Tell that to former Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey!
I lived in New Jersey at the time. The fact that our governor gave $200k to his buddy was far less upsetting than having a governor guilty of homosexuality.
Comment by m12
How much do you think was paid to Jeff Gannon for his many overnights at the White House, when there were no press conferences scheduled or even before the Talon News website for which he “wrote” (actually mostly reprinted material verbatim from other sources), was even established?
June 26th, 2007 at 2:07 amBTW, “me12years-old,” Talon News wasn’t even recognized as a proper media outlet by the then Republican-controlled Congress.
What Presidential affair? Bush himself is not involved.
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 8:45 pm
BAHAHA, and Foley wasn’t a pedophile. It must be nice to live in your fantasy world.
How exactly would I be able to do that?
Comment by m12 — June 25, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Begin by explaining where Gannon was, while he slept over?
June 26th, 2007 at 2:07 amValiantVenusGrewFromUranus
you sound like you need to cum out of the closet with the rest of us fags. Gannon slept with ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus.
Gannon calls you his little “Cleveland Steamboy”.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:29 amhttp://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
Personalizing the Iraqi Refugee Crisis
(Ahlam Ahmed Mahmoud al Al-Jabouri; photo credit: Marc Perelman)
The Forward correspondent Marc Perelman has a moving and important profile in Salon of Ahlam Ahmed Mahmoud al Al-Jabouri who is now an Iraqi refugee in Syria.
A short clip from a piece that should be read in full:
Ahlam Ahmed Mahmoud al Al-Jabouri, a 42-year-old mother of three, belongs to another category of imperiled citizens-turned-refugees whom no one seems to care about. She is among thousands of Iraqis who have worked in seemingly less exposed positions for the U.S. and Iraqi authorities, carrying out administrative tasks, rendering basic services or, as in Ahlam’s case, doling out crucial humanitarian aid to the people of her country.
But even delivering help to the poor, the handicapped and the displaced did not spare Ahlam from being labeled a traitor by some of her fellow Sunnis. In the past two years, Ahlam has been kidnapped and tortured, was forced to flee Iraq, and lost one of her teenage sons under dubious circumstances.
Although she was officially recognized for her exemplary humanitarian work by the U.S. Army more than two years ago, U.S. authorities have done little to help her, and her struggle to find safe haven continues today.
Ahlam’s ordeal casts light on the depth of the resentment among Iraqis in general, and Sunnis in particular, over the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the resulting sectarian conflict that has engulfed their country in the past two years. The fact that a respected aid worker like Ahlam has faced brutal reprisal speaks volumes about the fractured state of Iraqi society.
Nowadays, Ahlam lives with her family in a drab three-story building off “Iraqi Street,” the new name of the main thoroughfare of Said Azainab, a destitute neighborhood of Damascus overflowing with tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees. This capital city has lured the vast majority of the more than 1.2 million Iraqis who have fled to Syria.”
America could be doing much more than it is to help broker a final peace between Israel an Syria — and the fact that Syria is hosting a flow of refugees into its country and not receiving major international assistance is something the U.S. ought to take notice of.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:57 amAnd where is the origin of this stat? The whitehouse? Propaganda? Sure sounds like it.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:08 amHow much do you think was paid to Jeff Gannon for his many overnights at the White House
How many people work at the White House? More than the President!
June 26th, 2007 at 3:20 pmHow many people work at the White House? More than the President!
Comment by me12 (yrs. old)
Okay, Mr. Smarty-Pants, how many WH workers are there overnight?
June 26th, 2007 at 5:22 pm