In Iraq, sex is traded for survival

[NNN0LHI]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/36B04283-E43F-4367-90BB-E6C60CB88F76.htm

When Rana Jalil, 38, lost her husband in an explosion in Baghdad last year, she could never have imagined becoming a prostitute in order to feed her children.

A mother of four, Jalil sought out employment, but job opportunities for women had decreased since the US invasion.

She begged shop owners, office workers and companies to hire her but was treated with what she calls chauvinistic discrimination.

Within weeks of her husband's death, a doctor diagnosed her children with malnutrition.

Fighting tears, she recalled the desperation which led her to the oldest profession: "In the beginning these were the worst days in my life. My husband was the first man I met and slept with, but I didn't have another option … my children were starving."

[Democrats_win]

1. By their fruits the xtian right is known. Send Mitt's kids to save them.

[orleans]

7. oh yeah? how are the mitten boys gonna save anyone? they gonna sleep

with all the women?

okay--forget i responded to this. sorry.

[liberalmuse]

2. FUCK Bush.

I hope that murdering scum gets to feel every ounce of pain he's caused in this world when he passes over. God how I hate the pro-war assholes when I read stuff like this.

[lvx35]

3. Ah yes, war forcing women into prostitution to survive.

Another thing over looked by the "family values" warhawks.

[Robson]

5. But aren't we fighting over there so we have our freedom over here?

Or is it so the Iraqis get to dip their finger in ink once every several years while living a life of hell every day. WTF is the latest excuse for this pathetic fiasco for all concerned except the neocons and Halliburton and the mercs?

:sarcasm:

[YDogg]

4. Who said bush doesn't have a legacy?

[Nomad559]

6. In Iraq, Sex Is Traded For Survival

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x301525

:)

[valerief]

8. This is what the neofundies call pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.

I hate everything neofundies love.

[WillyT]

9. Happens Here In America Too...

:shrug:

[wordpix]

10. this will be the next place to go for child sex slave "vacations," just as SE Asia is now.

The US invades, screws up a region, kills off fathers and leaves women and children to fend for themselves, if they survive. Children are sold into sex slavery, or lured into the trade with tales of good jobs. Americans and Europeans can then visit for child sex vacations, where they sexually abuse seven year-olds for $25 a pop.

BushCo MUST be stopped with their BigOil GREED "policy."