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    Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"

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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    I just read "Babylon by Bus" over the weekend, and I HIGHLY recommend it - its about two guys who kind of wandered into Iraq in 2004 and wound up working for US Gov. Its completely true (apparently), and provides a really disturbing view into how badly things were managed then.
    Also, its an incredibly easy read, if, like me, your head is imploding from textbooks.
    They don't get into women's rights, at all, but it was still a really interesting view into the incompetence of the entire situation.
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    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    And let's not forget the issue that underscores the trafficking problem, which is that it flourishes in places where there are military bases and installations. This is the horrible lesson that we had to (and haven't) learn after Bosnia, Korea and Vietnam.
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    03/09/09

    @screwtapeletters: But sex work is a "choice", right?
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    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    I'm sure that it's just me being naive or under-informed, but if the U.S. State Department knows about the sex trafficking and acknowledges that the Iraqi government is ignoring it, why are we not doing anything to prevent it? If the war really is about rooting out terrorism, why isn't our country actively trying to improve the lives of Iraqis, thereby improving our image?
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    03/09/09

    @sequinsandgin: Rape and sexual slavery are consistently present to military invasions and states of war. the fucking UN had to "try" to stop their own staff from helping themselves to the underage prostitutes who set up camps in occupied areas in Africa.
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    Image of Miss Scarlett Miss Scarlett
    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    I'm sure there is a stigma there about mental illness so I would assume that people aren't completely honest in surveys like this and the number is actually higher. It must be so difficult to be in an area where treatment isn't available and that can make you even more depressed.
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    03/09/09

    @Miss Scarlett in the Hall with a Revolver.: Also I would like to say there is stigma in most places about mental illness (even in the US) so I'm not picking on Iraq specifically.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    Maybe Iraqis should stop complaining.
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    Image of ratz ratz
    03/09/09

    @morninggloria:

    What point are you trying to make? At first glance, this comment is disgusting.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    03/09/09

    @ratz: Oh wow, I am joking.
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    Image of DutchessOfDork DutchessOfDork
    03/09/09

    @morninggloria: If I hadn't had known your previous comments, I would have assumed the worst too. It's hard to detect sarcasm on here.
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    03/09/09

    In reply to Women In Iraq Are Suffering A "Silent Emergency"
    On Saturday, Time also reported that women's rights in Iraq have actually regressed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and sex trafficking is now rampant in the country.


    Strange but true. Though he was an evil dictator, Saddam's regime was one of the most secular in the Middle East. This article is interesting.

    [www.hrw.org]

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    03/09/09

    @VivianDarkbloom: I always appreciated the irony that we made the one 'safest' places in regards to Al Qaeda and the Taliban into an extremist hotbed. Because there was absolutely no advantage to having a psycho secular dictator immediately adjacent to the most psycho of extremist Muslim dictators.
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    Image of HarpMadness HarpMadness
    03/09/09

    @battleaxonista: I remember a precious few voices trying to be heard on that point before the war started. Far too many people just couldn't comprehend what was being said. It was so obvious that too many people in positions of power just couldn't quite grasp the fact that there are actually differences among the people in the region.
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    Image of exelizabeth exelizabeth
    12/02/08

    In reply to "Driving Means Someone Is Brave": Women Return To Iraqi Roads
    Oh, good. They're finally getting back to the levels of freedom they had before we went and brought freedom to them.


    And look, their pay gap is less than ours! (83 cents on the dollar. If I did the math right, that is. I'm just a girl).

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    12/02/08

    @exelizabeth: it's okay if it's wrong; math is pretty hard for girls
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/02/08

    In reply to "Driving Means Someone Is Brave": Women Return To Iraqi Roads
    This is kind of cool. I'm not too sure if it was Marx or Engels that kind of said it first (and at this point in my degree, I no longer care), but isn't the position of women within a society a good yardstick by which to measure that society's 'civilisation' or whatever? Well, I sure fucked that reference up, but this is a nice thing to hear about, nonetheless.
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