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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 10:35 AM
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JUST WHAT IS THE MILITARY DOING TO OUR CHILDREN
Edited on Sun Jan-20-08 11:02 AM by YEBBA
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/49448
THE RAPE OF IRAQ AND OTHER SEXUAL MATTERS
Suki Falconberg
Suki Falconberg is an ex-prostitute who fights against the sexual enslavement of women. She is also a passionate animal-rights activist. Her novel, Tender Bodies and Whore Stories, an erotic fantasy with a satiric edge set in the world of military prostitution, will be available in mid-February 2008. Please e-mail the author about how to order it.

Suki's e-mail: mermaiden488@yahoo.com.

By Suki Falconberg Ph.D.
January 17, 2008
I just e-mailed the following paragraph to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Refugees International, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and two women journalists at CBS news, Katie Couric and Lara Logan (foreign correspondent in Iraq):

I would like to know more about the sexual assault on women in Iraq: rapes by American and coalition forces; rapes by the Iraqi police and military; rapes by Iraqi civilian men; rapes of women and girls detained in prisons; gang rapes; women forced into starvation prostitution—either for the occupying forces or for Iraqis; the increase of brothels in Baghdad and Basra as a result of the occupation; the trafficking of women and girls into prostitution by criminal gangs, either within Iraq or in surrounding countries; the way families are forced to sell daughters for survival; any ´survival sex´ women and girls are engaged in due to desperation; ´survival sex´ forced upon the refugee population (2 million in Iraq--2 million in surrounding countries); the trafficking, by U.S. military contractors, of Filipina and Chinese girls into brothels in the Green Zone; the role of the U.S. Military Police in the pimping of Iraqi women and girls; the physical and psychological state of the prostituted Iraqi girls trafficked into the Green Zone for paid rape; the rape of female military personnel by their own men—and anything else you may have seen going on in Iraq.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 10:44 AM
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1. I have a feeling that the military is just one cog in the wheel of
this problem. Sex sells, and slavery is cheap. Those two mantras are at the base of corporate greed. It is all about money. The solution is to find ways to create income that do not embrace the mantra that "money trumps peace".
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 10:47 AM
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2. Answer: killing them. Lots of others too from other countries they're "protecting" and "liberating"
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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 10:47 AM
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3. THE GREEN ZONE ??????????????????????
IT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT
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