The Raped Whores of Iraq: No Voice, No Hope!
"After 5 years of war, there is finally one story on CNN about the prostituting of Iraqi women. "On Deadly Ground: The Women of Iraq" aired this last weekend (March 15 and 16) and in one short,very short segment, reporter Arwa Damon interviewed a prostituted being, a woman selling herself to feed her children. The story was shallow and woefully inadequate and made me wonder why, after years of reporting from Iraq, Ms. Damon has just now decided to pay attention to this, scant as that attention is. And why did she have to begin her report with that ragged untruth: prostitution is the oldest profession. An ugly idea bandied everywhere with not an ounce of accuracy in it. (Procuring and pimping are the oldest professions.)The prostitute interviewed said, "I cannot imagine anyone would do this except to sur-vive." And she said that women did not have to do this before 2003, and the invasion of her country. Both great revelations? Things we do not already know? Perhaps we really don?t know these things althou
