Iraqi Children Being Forced To Scavenge and Sold Into Brothels- And They Call It Democracy

[Jcrowley]

Iraqi children: Picking garbage, killed dismantling ordnance, or sold into brothels

1. Maysan: A Teenager and Two Children Die Scavenging For Copper
Five people were killed today by exploding ordinance from previous wars in two separate incidents.

In the first incident in West Amarah three brothers Hussein Sabri Matanch (Aged 18) and Rafael Qasim (Aged 12) and Jasim (Aged 9) were trying to dismantle a mortar shell to get at the copper inside it so that they could sell it to scrap dealers. Here’s how eyewitnesses to their deaths describe what happened:

“they were trying to dismantle a mortar shell to get at the copper to sell it to scrap dealers when it exploded in their hands and they died on the spot”



2. Iraqi children picking garbage
iraqi_children Every time I’ve been to Iraq since the Americans invaded I’ve seen something I never saw before - children scavenging in garbage dumps for food. I get reports like this every week from Iraq, sometimes I get several reports a day. Most often they come from the border provinces. Erdla and myself have written here and published photographs like the one you see now time and time and again.

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3. Iraqi children sold into paedophile brothels

There is now a thriving trade of children being kidnapped, sold, and exported to paedophile brothels. My last few trips I’ve seen something that I’ve never ever ever seen before in Iraq. Children with the tell-tale red rash around their mouths. That’s not even the worst of it.


http://www.correntewire.com/iraqi_children_picking_garbage_killed_dismantling_ordnance_or_sold_into_brothels





Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology

North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

[bobbolink]

1. There are no words to express my shame and disgust!

:mad: :cry:

Why isn't there an emoticon for shame???

Yes, Virginia, there are some things we need to feel shame about.

Now, WHY ISN'T THIS IN THE FRIGGIN' "LIBRAL MEDIA"???????

[Strelnikov_]

2. Pretty much sums it up . .

5. A Letter to Americans

Dear Average Ordinary John and Jane Doe American Citizens

I hope you like your new flag. I hope you enjoy your unearned sense of entitlement as you squander your inheritance of freedom and wealth. The inheritance earned for you by preceding generations who really did love their country, who really did have something to be proud of, who really did value freedom, and who really did want to see it spread. They made many mistakes but at root their intentions were benevolent and they were prepared to sacrifice and die to bring their benevolent intentions to fruition.

I hope you like your new flag. You wiped your arse with the old one right after you guzzled the “your takeout meal.” (Genesis 25:31)

Hussein Sabri Matanch (Aged 18) and his brothers Rafael Qasim (Aged 12) and Jasim (Aged 9) lived lives of misery and starvation so that you could enjoy your sense of superiority. Their deaths today are on your country’s hands.

I hope you’re fucking proud of yourselves. Have a nice day.

Yours sincerely,

markfromireland

[Jcrowley]

4. The Telltale Red Rash

I know I’ll get queries on this so I’ll forestall and just lift from the a question asked by reader “r” on “Guides”

Q:Could you please explain without leaving any doubt what you mean by the ‘tell-tale red rash’? (Please put the question down to my rather sheltered upbringing. A few horrid thoughts did cross my mind but I’d rather know for sure what you meant.)

A: It’s the dead give away sign that they’re glue sniffing r. The context to this is that it’s now very easy and very cheap to get narcotics and or a mix of prescription medicines on the street. Narcotics are flooding into Iraq a country in which they were previously almost completely unknown - that’s thanks to the monumental fuckup in Afghanistan. If those kids can’t afford the astoundingly cheap drugs they turn to glue. I can’t blame them their lives are hell.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. "Narcotics are flooding into Iraq, a country in which they were previously

almost completely unknown".

I remember seeing accounts on the Internet several years ago stating that only a couple of months after Saddam was toppled that drugs began streaming into Iraq. To those conservatives who complain that there's no good news about Iraq, I have the feeling we don't even know the full picture about the bad news. Child prostitution, child starvation on the streets, child drug abuse and the flooding of all kinds of drugs into Iraq paints a pretty sad picture that will be a part of George Bush's legacy forever.

[nam78_two]

3. K&R

This is so tragic.....
Great post btw.

[Zhade]

5. K/R

END THE FUCKING WAR!

[seemslikeadream]

6. Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.


Listen here to King's speech

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm



Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war.


As that noble bard of yesterday, James Russell Lowell, eloquently stated:

Once to every man and nation comes a moment to decide,

In the strife of Truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side;

Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight,

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis truth alone is strong

Though her portions be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.



And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace.

If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

[TahitiNut]

7. Welcome to a war zone ... utter insanity and appalling corruption.

A war zone attracts the lowest bottom-feeders from thousands of miles around ... like flies to shit. There has never been a war (or invasion and occupation) where this wasn't so. Furthermore, you can't tell from the color of their hats or the color of their skins. That's the bullshit simplistic propaganda we're fed in movies that make the "bad guys" APPEAR like "bad guys" (trading on our prejudices) and make the "good guys" APPEAR like "good guys" (usually like the people in the audience).

From the time the first shot was fired, the bottom-feeders were licking their chops to figure ways to profit and exploit the insanity.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I am speechless

That doesn't happen very often.

Don

[bobbolink]

9. Let's have some more K&Rs here, folks....sickening, but needs attention!

Back to the top with ye!

[malaise]

11. The new Rome will collapse

Democracy my ass.

[Sapphire Blue]

12. From the UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)...

UNHCR launches new US$60 million appeal for Iraq operations | 1 out of 8 Iraqis now displaced: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire%20Blue/135

[undergroundpanther]

13. I wish

there was a way to catch and could kill every pedophile and psychopath on Earth.Just kill them off they want to rape kids than kill them. They want to rob other nations and abuse power KIll them,As for Bush I hate bush. Pigs psychopaths should be left in the gutter dying,I hate the sickness pedophiles and psychopaths perpetuate in humanity.HATE IT. It is evil and it comes from THEM. I wish there was a judgment day where These evil bullies would pay..for the things they do in secret and the harm they cause others.

[Jcrowley]

14. Children 'starving' in new Iraq

Children 'starving' in new Iraq
Iraqi children play on an old anti-aircraft gun in the grounds of the former headquarters of the Iraq air force in Baghdad
More and more children in Iraq do not have enough food to eat
Increasing numbers of children in Iraq do not have enough food to eat and more than a quarter are chronically undernourished, a UN report says.

Malnutrition rates in children under five have almost doubled since the US-led invasion - to nearly 8% by the end of last year, it says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4395525.stm

[Hissyspit]

15. Unleash the dogs of war and let them feed on our children. n/t

[Time for change]

16. Wow!

If our corporate news media would report thing kind of stuff, that would put some real restraint on Bush/Cheney's imperial designs.

[BeFree]

17. If America only knew?

Well, what would America be thinking? That war is somehow different this time?

America should know better, she should know that war is hell, especially for the children. The media shouldn't have to remind America, she should know it and should act with that knowledge.

But then, America doesn't want to face reality, does she?

[seemslikeadream]

18. A Time to Break Silence

[Karenina]

24. Check out the kind of disturbance

that baby has learned to sleep through.

[Time for change]

19. Americans need a wake up call

And it is the responsibility of our national news media to provide some assistance in that direction.

[BeFree]

20. No doubt

America needs to be reminded of the effect of its collective action upon the innocent children of Iraq, mainly because it has turned a blind eye.

She really needs to be smacked up side the head with daily pictures of the children who are victims of the invasion and occupation. Indeed.

[bobbolink]

23. "How many deaths will it take til they know, that too many people have died?"

That song, back in my misspent youth, gave me hope.

Now I'm old enough to realize that humans rarely learn from what went before.

:cry:

[Beaverhausen]

21. Love Bruce Cockburn

He is one of the few writing songs protesting this fiasco.

Of course, the song you quoted is over 10 years old. Bruce rocks!

[Joanne98]

22. It's not Democracy it's "Free Market FREEDOM"...

This happens everywhere the "Free Market" lands it's ugly head.

[Jcrowley]

25. Kick

for the hidden reality