Iraqi girls as young as six forced into prostitution just to survive.

[Mugsy]

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Broadcast on Tuesday night's evening news:

A report by Richard Engle showing young Iraqi girls in Syria prostituting themselves to raise money to support their families; some of the girls quite obviously of kindergarten age. As the video points out, these are the children of well educated Iraqi's, but they are not allowed to work outside of Iraq, so they are soliciting their own children to raise money for food and rent.

There's a special place in the Eighth Circle of Hell for the likes of Bush & Cheney for causing this.

[whistle]

1. My my, only eight, I thought there were many circles in hell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Botticelli_ChartOfDantesHell.jpg#file

[Mugsy]

6. There are nine.

But Lucifer is in #9, and I fear that if Bush and Cheney were put there, they'd take over. :)

[YOY]

9. Maybe...according to Dante they might have to go there for betraying their masters

Judas, Brutus, and Cassius are there being chewed on by a three headed Satan. (One in each mouth.) He'd have to grow a few more heads for them but if we the people are truly their masters (not too sure they see it that way...). That's the center most part. The fourth zone of the 9th circle (Cocytus): Juddecca.



They would most likely end up in the 2nd zone of the 9th circle: Antenora. Meant for traitors of their country. Frozen in a lake of ice up to their chins and unable to bend their necks for all of eternity.

The eight circle (Malebolge) is for frauds. They're that too. The fifth of Malebolge is for fraudulent corrupt politicians. They're submerged in boiling tar/pitch. I'd prefer the 2nd in Malebolge for Bush supporters (Flaterers)...submerged in excrement.

I love Dante...Creepiest book I ever read.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. I commend you for your detail retention!

I read The Divine Comedy probably 25 years ago and i only remember a few specifics, like the 7 holy virtues (Faith, Hope, Charity, Juris, Prudence, Fortitude and Temperance) and that he (Dante) referred to Karma as the "Wind that blows in Purgatory" bringing back all the ill will you sowed in your lifetime.

Thanks for that little trip down literary memory lane!

[YOY]

25. It's my favorite classic (but not in a Seven (the Movie) way)!

n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

2. I wanna know who their customers are!

I'm not a really religious person, but I PRAY that none of their customers are US soldiers...............

[Courtesy Flush]

5. Looked like locals

Today they have sex with them. Tomorrow they cut off their head for their crimes.

[lala_rawraw]

13. local what?

where are the US troops? for christ sake... local monsters !!!

[Vilis Veritas]

3. Soul-less cretins.

There is no hell for those without souls.

They are the purveyors of Hell on Earth.

Words can not describe the horror adequately...and they only spent 2 minutes on it.

2 minutes in Hell.

It is hard to LOVE PEACE and watch that video.

Peace.

[coco77]

4. Why did he have to make an excuse for showing the clip...

Bush is a piece of shit, who has destroyed lives all over the world.

[Hulk]

7. I guess some Muslims can't wait for their 21 virgins in the afterlife?

This should be of no surprise to anyone. Is this the "good news from Iraq" that the propaganda network has been sniffling about? This, my good friends, is a very common and logical result of the "democracy" we have brought to these people. Child exploitation, slavery, rape and abuse. Thank you george, you ignorant evil making son of a bitch!

[ooglymoogly]

8. This hell should be placed squarely where it belongs

on the head of * co.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. There's not enough money on the planet for ...

...the U.S. to make proper reparations to Iraq for our war crimes -- our national soul is lost.

[Why Syzygy]

11. Paid for with

the blood of our children. Blood for oil ya know. Little children have blood too.
In case anyone hasn't noticed. Our planet is in bondage.

[lala_rawraw]

12. i cannot fathom

six year olds engaged in acts of sex... what kind of deranged sicko twisted criminal bastard would engage a six year old child and for what kind of purpose for god's sake? someone has to explain this to me... i cannot fathom it... who is buying these children?

[Mugsy]

14. Please K&R.

I'm not one to beg for votes, but more people need to see this video.

Please give it your vote so it's featured on the homepage. Thanks.

[helderheid]

17. Recommended. I am so sickend by this.

[YOY]

20. Already done

May the monsters who caused this be punished as much as the monsters who personally commit such vile acts upon these women in the afterlife....sometimes I really hope there is one and that it is a just one.

[BeliQueen]

15. I'm very sorry that this has happened

It's one of the consequences that goes unaccounted for when they draw up military strategy.

I doubt that they took refugee status and what it would do to the women who live as second-class objects in the minds of some of the people even in the best of circumstances.

It's a story that highlights the short-sighted vision of military "geniuses," and as an American I am ashamed.

[Dollface]

16. I guess I am a Bleeding Heart Liberal

and a mom. Just more collateral damage. I am in tears.

[alstephenson]

18. They replayed this on the Today Show this morning!

Most haunting is what the Baghdad refugee/prostitute says: "God punish those who stole Iraq's dignity". How sad, I'm so ashamed to be an American.

[FloridaJudy]

19. Completely sickening

Damn Bu$h and his festering crew of pustulant toadies. I really want to see the architects of this horror standing in chains in the Hague to be revealed as the criminal mercenaries they are.

[Redstone]

22. Damn, a TV network with guts. About time. Recommended, and thanks for posting it.

Redstone

[lefador]

23. There ya go, liberals focusing on the bad news...

The way the GOP sees it, these girls were going to have sex eventually, I mean what if they got an early start by at least 12 years. No big deal, in the big scheme of things... the important news is that those alleged rape rooms under Saddam are no longer operating. Why doesn't the media focus on that, eh?

I can't wait until the USA imposes yet another tin pot dictator on these people and hails it as a victory. I never understood why all those rednecks who could not point Iraq on a map felt such a duty to depose a dictator that was oppressing people who they themselves would naturally hate if they moved right next door: Brown and muslim... just what the average American redneck loves!

Anyhow, Kudos for the GOP. They got people to send their sons, so that their didn't have to fight a war that only serves to make them (the GOP elite) even richer. Not only that but they got the same idiots to work three jobs, give up their life savings and kids, and not only are they grateful they gave all this to their masters, but they are damn proud of it!

[Ron Green]

24. We're enabling child prostitution over there....

so we won't have it over here.

[slipslidingaway]

26. K&R :((( n/t

[Dangerman]

27. If this is "Iraqi Freedom"...

I'm a snake eater.

[DemReadingDU]

28. morning kick

[Mugsy]

29. Big Thanks.

Story too important to let drift off into the bit bucket.

[DemReadingDU]

30. Another kick