Iraqi refugees turn to sex trade in Syria

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent Sun Dec 30, 10:33 PM ET

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A score of young Iraqi women in tight, shimmering gowns shuffle across the nightclub dance floor under the hungry eyes of Gulf Arabs at nearby tables.

The band blasts out Iraqi songs into the early hours as the watching youths join the dancing or summon girls to sit with them -- there is little pretence about what gets transacted at this neon-lit nightspot half an hour's drive north of Damascus.

The dancers, some in their early teens, do not want to talk, but one said she had no other way to support her family. "My father was killed in Baghdad and our money is finished," muttered the dark-haired girl in a black and silver dress.

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR calls it "survival sex," a desperate way to cope for Iraqi refugees whose savings have run out since they escaped the violence at home.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Very sad - men who pay for female company in this manner are parasites

Just another consequence of Bush's war. Over 2 million people displaced and forced into desperate situations to survive.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Young Iraqi women? Tight shimmering gowns?

I'm outta here....

Gosh - I wasn't expecting that!


Alot of German women turned to prostitution in the aftermyth of WWII

Do you think it would have been better to allow Hitler to continue with the third Reich or am I'm being unfair?

Well if we're going to discuss "what if's" it would have been better to never enact the Treaty of Versailles and therefore Hitler would have never come to power.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

The enforcement of the treaty of Versailles against Germany was insisted by the French because they were forced to repay the war loans they made with the US - maybe that Pres. Bush's fault too?

No it was Woodrow Wilson's fault for entering the war - otherwise it would have turned into a stalemate and a negotiated stalemate.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

When politicians are writing up war resolutions -- which means, when politicians are resolved to the cause of war -- I'd like to see a realistic version. Something that shows that they know what they're getting people into, rather than a bunch of empty rhetoric about freedom and good vs. evil.

Something like:

"We resolve to take their land and their lives. We resolve to slaughter their children. We resolve to bring tragedy and suffering upon millions of human beings who have little, if anything, to do with this conflict. We resolve to bring them famine and disease. We resolve to destroy their homes and businesses, lives and careers, hope and future. We resolve to reduce the survivors to struggling animals selling their bodies and souls."

Thinking that wouldn't go over so well in the press, though. So mostly we're gonna hear about how we'll be greeted as liberators.

We all know that when we go to war we turn teenagers into prostitutes. But nobody ever talks about that. Makes the whole exercise silly, in addition to tragic.

No - not neccessarily - the British Naval blockade of Germany was starving the Hun into submission.

Why do you Americans always think that you are the sole reason that wars are won?


Did you know Woodrow Wilson was an anogram of Gorge W. Bush? ----- OK that's not true!