She left the house in a daze, she recalled, and walked to the nearest market to find someone who would pay her for sex.
She said: "I'm a nice-looking woman and it wasn't difficult to find a client. When we got to the bed I tried to run away . I just couldn't do it, but he hit and raped me. When he paid me afterwards, it was finished for me.
"When I came home with some food I had bought from that money and saw my children screaming of happiness, I discovered that honour is insignificant compared to the hunger of my children."
I host a daily public affairs radio show in San Francisco called Your Call. It airs from 11 am - noon PST on KALW 91.7 FM. I am also happy to report that I recently got a book deal with PoliPoint Press to write about my road trip through the heartland and the interviews I did with people about why they vote the way they do (or not). It's scheduled to be out in September.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Sex for survival in Baghdad
And the war mongers still wonder why we're "so angry":
By "war mongers", do you mean Hillary? In her speech today for The Veterans of Foreign Wars she said the new tactics are working.
ReplyDelete(And what's with the quotes around "so angry"?)
look in the mirror, jack.
ReplyDeleteAnd I suppose watching the latest Osama video was your way of looking in the mirror.
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