War forces Iraqi women into prostitution

[decode reality]

Yes, it's a CNN report but the situation is real. Just under 4 minutes.

Prostitution in Iraq - YouTube

[elpressiedente]

it always was about rape piligaging and plunder

only stupid dumbed down sheeple think its for Dumbocracy, freedumb and new world order way

[elpressiedente]

fuck that link has been blocked in my country...

the internet thought police strike again

the Wizzards of OZ strike again

typical fucking labour party dogma

[octopusrex]

Blocked by CNN in Mexico for copyright issues.

Great. CNN now BLOCKS the news.

[decode reality]

Blocked by CNN in Mexico for copyright issues.

Great. CNN now BLOCKS the news.

As they always did - the mask is off!
The link actually works from my computer. Weren't you able to view it?

[93krystalmoons]

I'm in the united states of AmeriKKKa and it said it was blocked :mad:

[octopusrex]

As they always did - the mask is off!
The link actually works from my computer. Weren't you able to view it?

Trying to open from a couple of cafe nets in Mexico City and no luck.:mad:

[himitsunomiko]

Yeah I cant watch it either... in US.

Craziness Censoring the news....

[bss731]

I don't mean to sound igorant, but how is viewing a video from another country copyright infringement?

[decode reality]

That's the strangest thing. :confused:
I first saw the video on the following site: http://www.equalityiniraq.com

Here is another link, featuring an interview on the same topic:

http://www.equalityiniraq.com/articles/114-iraqi-women-forced-into-sexual-slavery

[jimprofit]

>>War forces Iraqui women into prostitution
>>forces Iraqui women into prostitution
>>implying women aren't prostitutes already

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wKcGKKLZ_wKaVM:http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4579/implying.png&t=1

[boots]

That's the strangest thing. :confused:
I first saw the video on the following site: http://www.equalityiniraq.com

Here is another link, featuring an interview on the same topic:

http://www.equalityiniraq.com/articles/114-iraqi-women-forced-into-sexual-slavery


Works for me.

Try this.

http://www.equalityiniraq.com/articles/119-sex-slave-girls-face-cruel-justice-in-iraq?6dcb5c0485db6830947a0e9cf1d291b1=901930362b9f 6688a0ab7ee61d8d9dd9

[decode reality]

>>War forces Iraqui women into prostitution
>>forces Iraqui women into prostitution
>>implying women aren't prostitutes already

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wKcGKKLZ_wKaVM:http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4579/implying.png&t=1

The women on the video weren't prostitutes before becoming war widows, this is the point being made by the video and the article I shared in my prior post.

[eurofighter]

bloody imperialist Americans forcing women to fornicate. No wonder America is so hated in the 3rd world, they invade countries, kill people, and use evils drugs and prostitution to make peoples lives even worser. Pure evil.

[luciferhorus]

Yes well so much for the "liberation" of Iraq from the evil "Saddam" guy. I never liked Saddam, he was a rather ruthless tyrant with a propensity for torturing and murdering his own people, but this was never a problem for his US allies until he turned against America.

The "liberation" of Iraq was much more about the liberation of Iraq's oil reserves and the privatisation of all government industries and services which were sold off to Western Capitalists; the Iraqi people on the whole, apart from a few Iraqi political and economic elites certainly have not been "liberated" in the economic sense; on the contrary.

Since there is simply no welfare state in Iraq, few means of employment and almost a third of all children suffer from chronic malnutrition, unfortunately the women of Iraq, many of whom are war widows from three major conflicts are faced with few other options than prostitution.

Joining the Armed Forces is a great temptation to many of Britain's impoverished youth, whose main motivation for joining appears to be only financial. Upon leaving the various Armed Services very few individuals find themselves with professional qualifications which have any value in the civillian economy.

For every death of a US or American soldier in their Imperial colonies in Iraq and Afghanistan about 10 times that number are injured, and about 20% of them have serious spinal or brain injuries.



Further one needs to consider the long term effects of their exposure to depleted uranium and other toxic substances which has affected around 40% of the US veterans of the first Gulf War.

"Approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with enduring chronic multi-symptom illness, a condition with serious consequences.

Exposure to toxic chemicals is the currently believed to be the cause of the illness." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome

Essentially the current war is simply producing a class of ex soldiers much like the American Vietnam veterans, many of whom similarly found themselves rather abandoned by Capitalist society in the aftermath of war, many of whom will require medical care for the rest of their lives.

Unfortunately the increasing unemployment statistics for school leavers and even graduates mean that for many of the youth, particularly the less well educated, it is a choice between a life on benefits, a life working at minimum wage or joining the army.

The current economic recession, government cutbacks and redundancies are part of the problem created in the derivates market where the UK government may have to pay up to $800 billion to pay for the gambling debts of leading financial institutions. It is a matter of cutting government spending to ensure the super rich remain rich and can continue to gamble with their new influx of government money.

The Captalist elites generally do not send their sons to the army, they are more likley to be found on the playfields of Eton or in the financial institutions of the City of London. It is the Capitalist elites who benefit most from the current imperialist wars, but it is our governments who pay the bill for such wars and who will be saddled with endless veterans who face a life of unemployment and illness.

Since the military elites have a habit of carrying out false flag terrorist attacks on their own populations and then blaming their most useful enemies, frankly it would not require too much effort to create the conditions for a "military draft" of unemployed youth, and I would be entirely unsurprised; the future of our military state is quite likely to be increasing militarisation.

Lux

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The following is taken from: http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

"For your quick reading, I've listed key statistics about the Iraq War and occupation, taken primarily from data analyzed by various think tanks, including The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, and from mainstream media sources. Data is presented as of August 23, 2010, except as indicated.

U.S. SPENDING IN IRAQ

Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through Sept 2010.

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.

Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)

Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings

Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported - $1.4 billion

Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items - $20 billion

Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion

U.S. 2009 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $7.3 billion as of Oct 2009

U.S. 2008 Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion

U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008)

Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)

TROOPS IN IRAQ

Troops in Iraq - Total 49,700 U.S. troops as of August 23, 2010.

U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,420 US troops; 98% male. 91% non-officers; 82% active duty, 11% National Guard; 74% Caucasian, 9% African-American, 11% Latino. 19% killed by non-hostile causes. 54% of US casualties were under 25 years old. 72% were from the US Army

Non-U.S. Troop Casualties - Total 316, with 179 from the UK

US Troops Wounded - 31,926, 20% of which are serious brain or spinal injuries. (Total excludes psychological injuries.)

US Troops with Serious Mental Health Problems - 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home

US Military Helicopters Downed in Iraq - 75 total, at least 36 by enemy fire

IRAQI TROOPS, CIVILIANS & OTHERS IN IRAQ

Private Contractors in Iraq, Working in Support of US Army Troops - More than 180,000 in August 2007, per The Nation/LA Times.

Journalists killed - 141, 94 by murder and 47 by acts of war

Journalists killed by US Forces - 14

Iraqi Police and Soldiers Killed - 9,654

Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated - A UN issued report dated Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties have been significantly under-reported. Casualties are reported at 50,000 to over 100,000, but may be much higher. Some informed estimates place Iraqi civilian casualities at over 600,000.

Iraqi Insurgents Killed, Roughly Estimated - 55,000

Non-Iraqi Contractors and Civilian Workers Killed - 571

Non-Iraqi Kidnapped - 306, including 57 killed, 147 released, 4 escaped, 6 rescued and 89 status unknown.

Daily Insurgent Attacks, Feb 2004 - 14

Daily Insurgent Attacks, July 2005 - 70

Daily Insurgent Attacks, May 2007 - 163

Estimated Insurgency Strength, Nov 2003 - 15,000

Estimated Insurgency Strength, Oct 2006 - 20,000 - 30,000

Estimated Insurgency Strength, June 2007 - 70,000

QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORS

Iraqis Displaced Inside Iraq, by Iraq War, as of May 2007 - 2,255,000

Iraqi Refugees in Syria & Jordan - 2.1 million to 2.25 million

Iraqi Unemployment Rate - 27 to 60%, where curfew not in effect

Consumer Price Inflation in 2006 - 50%

Iraqi Children Suffering from Chronic Malnutrition - 28% in June 2007 (Per CNN.com, July 30, 2007)

Percent of professionals who have left Iraq since 2003 - 40%

Iraqi Physicians Before 2003 Invasion - 34,000

Iraqi Physicians Who Have Left Iraq Since 2005 Invasion - 12,000

Iraqi Physicians Murdered Since 2003 Invasion - 2,000

Average Daily Hours Iraqi Homes Have Electricity - 1 to 2 hours, per Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (Per Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2007)

Average Daily Hours Iraqi Homes Have Electricity - 10.9 in May 2007

Average Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Have Electricity - 5.6 in May 2007

Pre-War Daily Hours Baghdad Homes Have Electricity - 16 to 24

Number of Iraqi Homes Connected to Sewer Systems - 37%

Iraqis without access to adequate water supplies - 70% (Per CNN.com, July 30, 2007)

Water Treatment Plants Rehabilitated - 22%

RESULTS OF POLL Taken in Iraq in August 2005 by the British Ministry of Defense (Source: Brookings Institute)

Iraqis "strongly opposed to presence of coalition troops - 82%

Iraqis who believe Coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security - less than 1%

Iraqis who feel less ecure because of the occupation - 67%

Iraqis who do not have confidence in multi-national forces - 72%

[guuna]

fuck that link has been blocked in my country...

the internet thought police strike again

the Wizzards of OZ strike again

typical fucking labour party dogma

Gillard the lizard and her ministry of Truth strike again.

[octopusrex]

Yes well so much for the "liberation" of Iraq from the evil "Saddam" guy. I never liked Saddam, he was a rather ruthless tyrant with a propensity for torturing and murdering his own people, but this was never a problem for his US allies until he turned against America.

The "liberation" of Iraq was much more about the liberation of Iraq's oil reserves and the privatisation of all government industries and services which were sold off to Western Capitalists; the Iraqi people on the whole, apart from a few Iraqi political and economic elites certainly have not been "liberated" in the economic sense; on the contrary.

Since there is simply no welfare state in Iraq, few means of employment and almost a third of all children suffer from chronic malnutrition, unfortunately the women of Iraq, many of whom are war widows from three major conflicts are faced with few other options than prostitution.

As usual, Lucy my friend, right on target.

[decode reality]

Yes well so much for the "liberation" of Iraq from the evil "Saddam" guy. I never liked Saddam, he was a rather ruthless tyrant with a propensity for torturing and murdering his own people, but this was never a problem for his US allies until he turned against America.

The "liberation" of Iraq was much more about the liberation of Iraq's oil reserves and the privatisation of all government industries and services which were sold off to Western Capitalists; the Iraqi people on the whole, apart from a few Iraqi political and economic elites certainly have not been "liberated" in the economic sense; on the contrary.

Since there is simply no welfare state in Iraq, few means of employment and almost a third of all children suffer from chronic malnutrition, unfortunately the women of Iraq, many of whom are war widows from three major conflicts are faced with few other options than prostitution.

Thanks for the post and the list of statistics, Lux.

An eye opening article from April 2010, by journalist/activist Houzan Mahmoud of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, 'Do Iraq's Women Miss Saddam?':

Women no longer have many of the civil rights they were afforded under Saddam Hussein's regime. Sharia law has been written into Iraq's constitution, women have been barred from certain aspects of public life in many parts of the country, women's freedom of movement has been severely curtailed, sex trafficking, prostitution, abductions and assassinations of women have all risen and women in government no longer get a year of maternity leave - that has been cut to six months.

While one would hardly go so far as to describe those times as 'the good ole' days', for many women Iraq under Saddam Hussein had its perks.

"In general women were living much better off under Saddam," Yanar Mohammed, a women's rights advocate with the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq told The Media Line. "The Iraq that I grew up in was a very modern Iraq and we had basic human rights."

http://houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/2010/04/do-iraqs-women-miss-saddam.html

[eternal_spirit]

Islamic law allows temporary bride contracts where money is exchanged for sexual services (which is used as semantics but is really legalised prostitution).

INTERVIEW: RIZGAR HAMAWANDI
Saddam tried to wipe Kurdish people from the face of the earth. The people in Kurdistan are so happy because of the liberation and because now they can live in peace and free.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128213

They said the same about Germans and Jews, which one of the two do you believe?

Many believe Germany deserved to be attacked...

[leemo]

The women on the video weren't prostitutes before becoming war widows, this is the point being made by the video and the article I shared in my prior post.

Says who, CNN? Whatever...!

If you were to ask any number of Iraqis at random whether they prefer things as they are or would rather return to SH days, I suspect most would be unable to respond until they recover from choking with laughter! What do you think, or is it a given that the Americans must be bad because they're Americans?

[decode reality]

Says who, CNN? Whatever...!

If you were to ask any number of Iraqis at random whether they prefer things as they are or would rather return to SH days, I suspect most would be unable to respond until they recover from choking with laughter! What do you think, or is it a given that the Americans must be bad because they're Americans?

I've sat and spoken with Houzan Mahmoud, who is a Kurdish Iraqi activist. One or two of my links on the thread are from her blog. My conversations with her verify everything I've posted. By the way, she doesn't work for CNN either but it doesn't matter. The CNN story in the link is true, you'll be surprised to know (and quite possibly 'disappointed' too)

[leemo]

I've sat and spoken with Houzan Mahmoud, who is a Kurdish Iraqi activist. One or two of my links on the thread are from her blog. My conversations with her verify everything I've posted. By the way, she doesn't work for CNN either but it doesn't matter. The CNN story in the link is true, you'll be surprised to know (and quite possibly 'disappointed' too)

Why should your Kurdish 'activist' be any more credible than the Iraqis and Syrians I have had personal dealings with over the past years, many of whom have been directly affected by events stemming from 911, and every one of whom are driven by personal experiences rather than highbrow ideology? If you or your 'activist' friend are so smug about life that you can afford to measure success and failure by the number of new prostitutes on the street at any given time, that's your problem not mine.

If you need to get off on disappointment, here are mine to date...that the US will go down as the first country in history to enter a war they could not possibly win since not only did they not know the enemy but absolutely refused to identify it. Then that they did so under the foolish pretext of imposing democracy in places where it is neither wanted nor could ever survive, and to compound it all that they have surrendered in advance. And if those are not disappointing enough, here's the crusher - that when the US finally leave those arenas, the nation's leaders will be no closer to knowing their enemy than they were when they entered. Go chew on that!

So if you and or your 'activist' friend hope that the US will fail, I assure you they will and that both Iraq and Afghanistan will be torn apart when the 'nasty' Americans leave.

[corsair]

bloody imperialist Americans forcing women to fornicate. No wonder America is so hated in the 3rd world, they invade countries, kill people, and use evils drugs and prostitution to make peoples lives even worser. Pure evil.

I see you still have a thorn in your backside about America having to save your sorry asses from facism in the 1940's. It's good to see you haven't forgotten about it.

As for Iraqi women being forced into prostitution, I can't watch the video from work, but it should be noted that German women faced a similar plight after the Nazi surrender in WWII. Sadly, it's not like this kind of thing is at all unique to the current conflict in the Middle East.

Thanks for the post and the list of statistics, Lux.

While one would hardly go so far as to describe those times as 'the good ole' days', for many women Iraq under Saddam Hussein had its perks.

No doubt. I am sure they miss the 'rape rooms' in Saddam's palace, for sure.

[bss731]

I see you still have a thorn in your backside about America having to save your sorry asses from facism in the 1940's. It's good to see you haven't forgotten about it.

Maybe you might want to look up who funded Hitler. Prescott Bush, W. Bush's granddaddy, had much to do with it. IBM, Ford, General Motors. Now why would americans fund the enemy we were fighting?