Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
A populace armed to their boot straps with weapons. Large, foreign companies stealing national resources. Gays killed on the streets. Competing factions trying to implement their idea of a perfect theocracy.
Sounds like Bush is shaping Iraq to be his image of America. Now, what to do about those thousands of teenage prostitutes?
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/08/06/0806iraqgays.html
Sounds like Bush is shaping Iraq to be his image of America. Now, what to do about those thousands of teenage prostitutes?
AGHDAD, Iraq Samir Shaba sits in a restaurant, nervously describing gay life in Iraq. He speaks in a low voice, occasionally glancing over his shoulder.
Before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the heavyset, clean-shaven man says he frequented the city's gay blogs, online chat rooms and dance clubs, where he wore flashy tight clothes, his hair long and loose to his shoulders.
After the invasion, he and other gays and lesbians were driven underground by sectarian violence and religious extremists. Shaba, 25, started wearing baseball caps and baggy T-shirts, stopped visiting clubs and chat rooms, packed his flashy clothes away. But he said he couldn't bear to cut his hair.
"I cannot change everything immediately," he said, fingering his black ponytail. "I suffered because I didn't cut it."
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/08/06/0806iraqgays.html