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03-20-2008, 02:11 PM
t's not just Bush - but it's the gutless Arabs and Muslims who are
actively working with a foreign imperialist power in a Crusade
against Islam...

"An estimated 50,000 prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the
1.2 million Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush invaded..."

"...Bush later admitted, "See in my line of work you got to keep
repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink
in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

According to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity, top
Bush Administration officials told at least 935 lies about Iraq on
532 separate occasions. These included 259 lies by Bush, 254 lies by
Secretary of State Colin Powell, 109 lies by Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, 109 lies by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, 56 lies by
National Security Advisor Condi Rice, and 48 lies by Vice President
Cheney."

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How Many Child Prostitutes Is Bush Responsible For?


By Bob Fertik, Democrats.com (http://democrats.com/). Posted March 18, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79770/

George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as
50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are
among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's
invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the U.K. Independent.

Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave
of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million
Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN.

Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced
into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the
Women's Will Association.

"70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in
Damascus today are Iraqis," 23-year-old Abeer told the New York
Times. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families.
If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only
work available."

According to the Times, "inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to
make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier
countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half
of the cars had Saudi license plates."

Driving women and girls into prostitution violates numerous human
rights agreements, including the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.
George Bush himself denounced sex trafficking at the United Nations
in 2003.

Bush's invasion of a country that posed no threat to the U.S. was
illegal under both U.S. and international law, according to legal
experts. Bush has been convicted of war crimes by citizen tribunals
around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Istanbul.
Just las week, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro Vermont voted to
indict and arrest Bush and Cheney.

In 2002 and 2003, Bush led a propaganda campaign to defraud Congress,
the American people, and key allies into believing Iraq was a threat.
Bush claimed Iraq had stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear
weapons to use against the U.S., and was sharing them with Al Qaeda.

Speaking near Rochester NY, Bush later admitted, "See in my line of
work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again
for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

According to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity, top
Bush Administration officials told at least 935 lies about Iraq on
532 separate occasions. These included 259 lies by Bush, 254 lies by
Secretary of State Colin Powell, 109 lies by Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, 109 lies by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, 56 lies by
National Security Advisor Condi Rice, and 48 lies by Vice President
Cheney.

The lies about Iraqi WMD's were manufactured by the White House Iraq
Group (WHIG), which included the most senior White House staff: White
House Chief of Staff Andy Card, Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, Karen
Hughes, Mary Matalin, Jim Wilkinson, Nick Calio, Michael Gerson, and
Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.

After the invasion, 1,400 experts in the Iraq Survey Group scoured
Iraq for WMD's but found none. Charles Duelfer wrote the ISG's final
report in September 2004 and concluded Iraq ended its WMD program in
1991.

This publicly confirmed what the CIA had privately known since 1995,
when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Gen. Hussein Kamel, defected to
Jordan and told the CIA he had personally overseen the complete
destruction of Iraq's WMD after 1991 Gulf War.

In May 2005, the Times of London published the "Downing Street Memo "
which revealed Bush's pre-war intelligence was a deliberate fraud,
according to Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain's MI6 spy agency,
who met with George Tenet in July 2002. "The intelligence and facts
were being fixed around the policy" of invading Iraq, Dearlove told a
secret meeting of Tony Blair's war cabinet on July 23, 2002, eight
months before Bush invaded Iraq.

This publication of the "Downing Street Memo" led to widespread calls
for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. John Conyers and other
Democrats held preliminary impeachment hearings in the basement of
the Capitol on June 16, 2005. In 2006, Conyers published his
explosive findings in "George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution:
The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture,
Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying."

In 2007, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced three Articles of
Impeachment against Dick Cheney for his role in the Iraq War lies.
Kucinich's bill, H.Res. 333, has 26 co-sponsors.

The bill was debated on the House floor last November the House voted
251-162 to refer it to the Judiciary Committee for further action,
rather than kill the bill. (The bill was renamed to H.Res. 799.)

Last December, Rep. Robert Wexler and two other members of the House
Judiciary Committee urged Conyers to begin hearings on the
impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Wexler posted an online
petition and collected over 230,000 signatures.

Rep. Kucinich ran for President in 2007 and his calls for impeachment
were enthusiastically received by voters. Last week, Kucinich fended
off a primary challenge in his Congressional district and is expected
to introduce the first Articles of Impeachment against George Bush.

The latest polls by Newsweek and AP-Ipsos put Bush's approval rating
at 30%, a record low. His disapproval rating is over 60%, a record
high, and suggests more Americans now favor Bush's impeachment than
in earlier polls which showed strong support for impeachment.