it's tough to be a girl

[donsu]

http://counterpunch.com/


A Question of When Not If
Why Baghdad Will Explode Again


A teenage boy was arrested recently for the attempted rape of a girl of his own age in a school in west Baghdad. Under interrogation, he admitted that he had chosen this particular girl as his victim "because I knew she was a Sunni and nobody would protect her."

The boy turned out to be mistaken in his belief that he was beyond the law, mainly because the girl's uncle was a senior officer in the army. But his words explain why Iraq's Sunni minority feel so vulnerable since they lost power to the Shia majority when Saddam Hussein was overthrown five years ago.
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don't know what the rest of the article says. I stopped reading here.

things. we are only things, to many men and boys who learn from men.

I will stand up for the girl and kick the boy and his male family in the nuts. hard.

[Deep13]

1. I could never love a "thing."

I wish I could make people wake up.:-(

[Ezlivin]

2. Hell, it's tough to be a full-grown American woman serving in Iraq

As the recent spate of whistleblowers can attest, being armed, in the armed services and surrounded by fellow countrymen is no protection whatsoever from rape and physical abuse.

[donsu]

3. true

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