"..gangsters who graduated from Baghdad streets with hate in their hearts"

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--iraqiwomenssummi0327mar27,0,1255771.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

Women's summit provides glimpses of challenges of life during war

NEW YORK -- One spoke of pregnant women afraid to leave hospitals in Iraq for fear of being killed. Another described how children do not invite friends to birthday parties because the streets in Iraq are so dangerous, no one would dare come.

The accounts of life in a country ravaged by violence came from Iraqi women on the first day of a two-day summit to raise awareness of the war's consequences and develop recommendations for peace.

"Merely to go out and buy bread is an adventure, a huge risk," Iraq's ambassador to the U.N., Samir Sumaidaie, said in his opening remarks. "You go out of the house and aren't sure if you're going to come back."

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Judge Zakia Hakki told of the plight of orphans largely left abandoned in a Baghdad orphanage after the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003. She was concerned that those children, and others whose parents have been killed, could become criminals or recruits for the insurgency.

"They will be gangsters who graduated from Baghdad streets with hate in their hearts," Hakki said.

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1. Maybe some of the antichoice freepers

will be moved to adopt some of the poor orphans. Freepers and all other antichoice people.