THE WOMEN OF IRAQ

There was a CNN Special Investigation Unit on this weekend about the women of Iraq. In this special they met Iraqi women they were different age, background and even what side they are supporting. The first women was from Sadr City Iraq where she is homeless because of her husbands death. She says she should of went and lived with her family however, she couldn't because they told her to live there she had to give up her 2 kids. Any normal mom would say no and that is what she did. So now she is living in a abandoned building. All the woman has is God and the Mehdi Army. The Army comes and visits her a couple times a week and gives her money and rations. There are over 2 million people that are displaced in Iraq.

The next place that they go is where women work in the oldest profession known. PROSTITUTION. She says that this is the only way that her kids will be able to eat. What a sad sitution that you would have to sell your body to get money. It works different then in the United States and other countries in the world. Its very settle approach. A simple way to explain it is they go to the market, they get a phone call and right away if you are friendly they know you do this kinda of work. They go to certin buildings or homes. This comes with big risk because if they are caught by Iraqi security forces they will be killed. She thinks what if my husband finds out? Even though I don't do it every day of the week, it's like I'm a thief. You do it because you can get away with it. The same scenario. I think about it and I say God willing, let me rid myself of this before he finds out. I don't imagine that a woman who has what she needed to survive would do this. Impossible. We were not born into this to know such things. Until the fall of 2003, after that, until the circumstance forced us. Now when you show her the money, she goes after him, in all honesty because she has to.

They don't have to anything they don't want to. There is a women who is from Canada who helps Iraqi women. She is part of the ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN'S FREEDOM IN IRAQ
and her name is YANAR MOHAMMED. She talks to CNN and tells them while cooking breakfest that they should celebrate that they got electricity that day. When she and 2 other women started this organization the thing that brought us together was that we are progressive women who believe that freedoms of women can happen only under secular situations. And we thought of ourselves as the avant- garde women of the society and we started it from there. They feel that the only hope is in the youth. And that's why we are holding an event where we bring youth from so-called Sunni and Shiite areas and we just let them improvise poetry. They are a watchgroup that is making sure that women of Iraq are getting freedoms that they deserve.

However, in this CNN special they neglated to talk about the good signs that are coming out of Iraq for women. The bias moveon.org media doesn't want you to know that 25% of all the people in the Iraqi parliment are women. When before the US invaded they didn't have any women in politics. “I would like to run for parliament,” says a young female City Council member from Mosul. “I would like to be involved in politics, but I fear it would be too dangerous.” Many of Iraq’s well-educated women remain scared, which means that a great human resource in Iraq cannot reach its full potential until the security situation improves. When members of the US congress asked a a delgation of Iraqi women what they thought of the US invading Iraq their response was "what took you so long"? I knew that they wanted us to invade to help them.

In conclusion I would like the troops to be out of there as soon as possible. We all know that we cannot leave because if we do there will be chaos.

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed072804a.cfm
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/15/siu.01.html
http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/HL793.cfm