Iraqi Women and Girls Disappearing for Sexploitation

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 8:48 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 20:48

In an article in this weeks addition of Time magazine, there was a story that focused on the amount of women and girls as young as 14 disappearing in Iraq. Many are being kidnapped and sold to either men in neighboring countries or are shipped to brothels. Obviously this is unbelievably disturbing, but whats more disturbing is the amount of women being kidnapped and forced into the sex trade by their captors. Since the fall of Saddam in 2003, there are an estimated 2,000 missing women and girls from Iraq. Accompanying the story is one about a young girl and her own accounts of how she was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, and than eventually being sold to a man from the U.A.E. for a reported $10,000. Read More

Iraqi's on the Move: The Refugees

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Friday April 14, 2006 · 6:34 PM PDT

2006/04/14 · 18:34

Amid the rising sectarian violence, thousands of Iraqi's are fleeing their homes to get to safer areas of Iraq. According to Cnn.com:

As the attacks continue, Iraqis are fleeing their homes.

In the past two weeks alone, the number of Iraqis leaving for safer parts of the country has more than doubled to 65,000, the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration said Thursday.

A ministry spokesman said there were 30,000 internal refugees estimated on March 30. The ministry put the number of families on the move at 10,991.

Most of the refugees are women and children, said an Iraq Red Crescent Society official.

"We are very concerned about communicable diseases in the camps that have formed, like cholera and typhoid," the official said. "This exponential increase of refugees is quite disturbing."

The refugee situation and bloodshed come amid a deadlock by Iraqi leaders over the formation of a national unity government, a step the United States considers necessary before its troops can begin to pull out.
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'Saddam's WMD's in Syria'-Supposedly

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 5:15 PM PST

2006/03/22 · 17:15

Well, once again Jon Stewart and the Daily Show show 'fake-news' that is actually newsworthy. Last night, his guest was an Iraqi General under Saddam and is currently a National Securtiy Advisor to Iraq. His name is Gen. Georges Sada. He was on the show to hawk his new book called "Saddam's Secrets". During his interview, Jon asked him if he was aware of any WMD's during his tenure under Saddam. He stated that, "Saddam hid all of his WMD's in Syria," right before the coalition invasion in 2003. He stated that he personally knows that Saddam hid all of his WMD's, which he admitted were mostly materials to try to create WMD's, in Syria because the pilots who flew them told him so. He also said that he predicts within the coming months, we will all be given this information about the existence of WMD's in Syria that Saddam put there before the Iraqi Invasion. Read More

How Bush Is Trying To Gain In The Polls

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 7:25 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 19:25

Wow how surprising it is to see the President take an active interest in the Gulf Coast. It seems oh so convienent that he decides to visit the area when his new poll numbers came back as less than favorable. With all the talk of the Iraq situation and its almost inevitable civil war to the federal budget and it's less than generous amounts to causes that actually matter such as Medicaid and food stamps. It's difficult to take his rhetoric seriously since we have already heard it before. It seems all too coincidence that he is now trying to get an extra 5.4 billion to help the homeowners re-build their houses yet the most devastated areas in New Orleans are still being cleaned up. This whole charade of nonsense is so transparent that it evokes outrage instead of images of a strong leader. Read More

LOOMING: IRAQI CIVIL WAR

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 4:57 PM PST

2006/03/08 · 16:57

"The insurgency is in its last throws." It's hard to know if the Vice-President truly believed that or if he was just trying once again to assuage the American people about our role in the Iraqi insurgency as well as the possibility of all out civil war. Well many months later we have an answer, it was the first one. The fact that we are still unable to basically give the Iraqi people what they really want which is security goes to show how once again this administration failed to have any foresight about the insurgency and the subsequent civil war. Read More

HOW WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NSA SPYING ISSUE

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 7:11 PM PST

2006/03/07 · 19:11

I WAS QUITE SURPRISED TO FIND THAT MY OWN SENATOR WAS LEADING THE CHARGE ON THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TIED TO NSA SPYING PROBE. HEATHER WILSON(R-NM) WAS IN THE FOREFRONT OF REQUESTING AND GETTING THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO DECIDE WHETHER THIS ADMINISTRATION ACTED LEGALLY OR NOT. BUT IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE TIMING OF THE INQUIRY CAME AT A TIME WHEN THE ISSUE OF THE NSA SPYING SCANDAL WAS NOT CONSIDERED BY MOST AN IMPORTANT ENOUGH ISSUE TO REALLY GET INVOLVED. IT'S DIFFICULT TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THE WHOLE UP-ROAR CAUSED BY CONGRESS WAS DONE PURELY FOR POLITICAL REASONS OR DID THEY HONESTLY HAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN MIND? ONE CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ITS THE LATTER. Read More

GEORGE CLOONEY: HOLLYWOOD'S MARTYR

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Monday March 06, 2006 · 6:13 PM PST

2006/03/06 · 18:13

Well it seems as though even the notion that Hollywood is out of touch with the rest of the nation brings about a verbal lashing from once-distingshed actor George Clooney. When the ever-funnyman Jon Stewart made a quip about how the nay-sayers state that Hollywood is out of touch with the general public, he so pointedly tongue-in-cheek deemed that they were wrong and that Hollywood is far from being disenchanted as to our current state of affairs. Read More

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