turn to prostitution to provide for their families because so many men have been killed

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyWuVkHfBJaH1kXTSwyETc6Xx9SgD91DVFIG0

Report: Women and children refugees suffer in Iraq
By KIM GAMEL – 4 days ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Women and children have been hit especially hard in Iraq's refugee crisis, often forced to beg and in some cases turn to prostitution to provide for their families because so many men have been killed, a report said Friday.

A biannual regional survey by the International Organization for Migration paints a bleak picture of Iraq's estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people, or IDPs. They often face eviction threats and insufficient access to food, clean water and health care despite recent security gains, the report said.

But women and children who have been forced to flee their homes are particularly vulnerable because the men in the family have often been killed or abandoned them in a conservative Islamic society that generally doesn't value women in the workplace.

Women make up about half of the displaced population, surpassing the number of men in some provinces, including Baghdad. But they face difficulties finding employment and often are isolated because of their gender, it said.

Displaced children, meanwhile, have suffered from malnutrition and skin diseases due to a lack of clean water and sanitation, the report said. They also frequently lack access to education because they must work or beg on the streets instead of going to school.

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Unfettered capitalism at work......

FU NEO-CONS!!!!

[SergeyDovlatov]

2. FU congress critters who voted for the war and keep voting for the funding n/t

[NNN0LHI]

8. Why do you think Bush would pull the troops out of Iraq if they cut funding?

Or would he just leave them there to keep dying as he has for over five years now?

Don

[SergeyDovlatov]

9. How vietnam war ended? By cutting the funding

http://hnn.us/articles/31400.html

Charles Rangel (D-NY), who is set to chair the Ways and Means Committee should the Democrats win the majority, precociously answered, “You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?” Fellow member of the Out of Iraq caucus, Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) has stated that “Personally I wouldn’t spend another dime on the war,” and notes that Congress helped force an end to the Vietnam War by refusing to pay for it.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congendswar.htm

Drawing the Purse Strings to End Wars
Since 1970, the United States Congress considered 21 bills intended to restrict or totally cut off funding for U.S. military operations on foreign soil. Of those 21 bills, five were actually enacted, drawing the curtain on further military combat operations in Indochina (Vietnam War), and Somalia in 1993.

In some cases, the funding cutoffs were absolute and applied to specific military operations, like combat. In other cases, continued spending was allowed for limited military purposes, including combat related to the safe withdrawal of U.S. troops and civilians. In a few instances, the funding cutoff was contingent upon certain conditions or events taking place, such as the negotiation of a cease-fire or the release of U.S. prisoners of war.

In November of 1993, Congress passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act prohibiting the obligation of additional funds for U.S. military operations in Somalia after March 31, 1994. The amendment carried four conditions under which additional funding could be allowed after the cutoff date: 1.) The money was requested by President George W. Bush, Sr. and approved by Congress. 2.) The money was necessary to protect U.S. civilians. 3.) The money was needed for U.S. combat forces under the command and control of U.S. commanders. 4.) In the event President Bush, Sr. had decided to intensify efforts to have the U.N. deploy additional troops to Somalia to take over ongoing military efforts.

There seem to be three common threads to wars that are eventually ended by the U.S. Congress. First, a majority of the public wants the war ended. Second, the President of the United States believes the war can ultimately be won. And third, Congress ends up having to cut off further funding for the war to end it.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Aren't you leaving out a couple of major details?

Congress limited funding for troops in Vietnam in the fall of 1974 for the upcoming fiscal year from a proposed 1.26 billion dollars (by Ford) to 700 million dollars.

Nixon had signed the Paris Peace Accords with North Vietnam in January 1973.

Don

[SergeyDovlatov]

17. You are right. I did not check the dates.

[patrice]

3. "Pro-Life" in action --> Prostitution = More babies!

I live in a "Pro-Life" hotbed, where the first last and only political thought many people have is, "Is s/he 'Pro-Life'". These are the folks that helped * make murderers out of this WHOLE country, so I've been wondering how their policies have anything to do with what is happening in Iraq. Now I know.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

7. The so-called "pro-life" movement has caused untold death and misery around the globe

They do the most damage by refusing comprehensive family planning and health education to countries that really need it. Think abstinence-only is a disaster in US public schools? Think about what it's doing in AIDS-ravaged Africa.

[patrice]

18. Plus they've vetoed appropriations that funded things like programs to combat drug-resistant TB

because there were family planning programs, either domestic or foreign, in the same budget.

[Cleita]

4. Just exactly whom are we fighting in Iraq?

Saddam and his government are gone. Supposedly we are occupying the country. It seems to me under those circumstances there should be no gun fighting. If we were occupying the country with some planning behind it, it seems that people should be rebuilding and not perpetrating guerilla warfare on our troops. It makes no sense to me and I'm not buying the argument that everyone against us is Al Queda, who are mostly Arabs who are not Iraqis and they would stick out like a sore thumb in Iraq. So whom are we fighting and why? Can President Bush give us a straight answer?

[YOY]

5. He sure does! It's the either "The Terrists" or "Al Kaida"!

Says one or the other every time.

[NNN0LHI]

6. I would say if we could just find out what Bush is having done with all the bodies...

...would be a great accomplishment.

Don

[dysfunctional press]

10. soylent green will solve the coming world food shortages...

nt.

[Cleita]

11. Mass graves like in Cambodia no doubt.

One of these days they will come to light and I hope this whole administration is in the Hague when that happens being tried for war crimes.

[madokie]

19. Don I would say Crematories is where the answer lies

If there's anything this crew has learned, that would be to leave as little evidence as is humanly possible.

[riverdeep]

13. The Bush administration only cares about women BEFORE a war.

One of the emotional manipulators for favorable public opinion. Once the war starts, fuck 'em.

[OwnedByFerrets]

14. For money, of course.....

as monkeyboy says, Money Trumps Peace.:mad:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Yet more shades of Viet Nam

How do you say "Me love you long time" in Arabic?

:grr:

[Xenotime]

16. I'm willing to bet the US is the biggest customers