I blame George Bush. I demand a senate hearing to investigate if this is not what Bush planned all along when he piloted those planes in to the twin towers...Wow, it's kind of fun being a far left, blame Bush, nut job.

I might have to work on my spelling and punctuation but I think I could have a career at ABC News.

Bush & Cheney started all of this.

More blood on the hands of Bush/Cheney/Haliburton/Blackwater axis of corruption.

20,000 now detained in Iraq in violation of all norms of Western Civilization including Habeus Corpus and the U.S. Constitution.

Hundreds of thousand of innocent Iraqis killed. Millions of refugees.

Gee whiz, I wonder why Muslims hate us so much?

I opened the comments yesterday with a joke. I come back today and all the lemmings have fallen in line. I thought the left wing nut job line was "these people have been doing horrible things to each other for a thousand years plus. fighting sects and tribes. How can George Bush think we can impose democracy"? I guess nut jobs don't need to be rational in their arguments hence they can bring up Habeas Corpus and the U.S. Constitution as if either one is applicable in a war in a foreign land. And I can tell you, Muslims hate you "so much" because they see you as a permissive perverted society in support of Israel. That is why they hated you when Jimmy Carter yielded to their every whim and that is why they hate you when Bush does not. They will play the propaganda game with you and tell the enemy whatever will fuel dissent. Take Osama at his word. He told you why they hate you in 1997...and what would end their hatred: Israel gone, America to convert, America to hold all homosexual and adulterers accountable by the sword including Bill Clinton.

More likely to become suicide bombers, if you ask me.

I guess I was a bit broad in my post; sorry. Clarification - These specific refugees ARE an indirect result of US action there, but moreso directly a result of the civil chaos that the power-vacuum-fillers themselves have caused...

You guys making fun of this for your political standpoint is just plain and simple STUPID.
This is real and its really disturbing that this would be happening cant you people have some dignity instead of joking.
The government needs to find all these locations that do this and take the leader and put them on a firing line atleast then others that try doing it might actually think before doing it.

Why do defenders of this administration often feel the need to write derogatory and rhetorical comments any time this administration is criticized? Is it in following the lead of rubberstamping politicans and see-no-evil religious leaders and general supporters who have defended of the heinous actions taken by them, under the guise of fighting terrorism and protecting democracy?
Human trafficking is a serious matter and it has been made worse by the invasion of Iraq on the basis of lies, distortions and phony patriotism. In addition to trafficking these women have become virtually powerless under a government that administration officials put in power. Also, children can't get an education, one of the best health systems in the world has been dismantled, police death squads are torturing civilians, including youth, people have fled their homes and an extreme religion, that Bin Laden demands and supports, has been forced upon them. So, our soldiers are dying, our allies' soldiers are dying, Iraqis, including children, are dying and many lives have been ruined and all some can do is engage in hatred and complicity. There's no reason to call these victims "whores" or imply they would have become sex and domestic slaves if there hadn't been a war.
The sad thing is that you, who feel the need to make things worse and defend these self-serving and hateful actions are claiming to do so on the basis of of faith and/or Christianity and have, as others have done before you, turned religion into a hateful vehicle for your own selfish purposes, leading to injuries, death and destruction and hatred towards others who don't worship by hatred and division.

Sharon, your entire diatribe was a one sided expose on your views of the world.
Perhaps the answer to your question is found through introspection. No one in any of the preceding blurbs mention Christianity (that seems to be your oown hateism) nor do they call anyone a whore. But for you I'll use a little Christian metaphore. Sharon get the plank out of your eye before you worry about the speck in anothers eye. Your blurb was among the most biased, skewed and rhetorical I can see anywhere in this section. Others have opinions for the same reason you do. So ask your self your question. And you might want to take a look at your closed minded intolerent, bigoted view of people of faith.

As an American, I wish we would send some of those billions of bags of dollars to the Iraqi refugees, help countries like Syria and Jordan with the humanitarian costs and support NGOs in being there for these young women.

Are we that that insensitive to the obvious?

What are the candidates saying? Even to win the female vote in 2008?

As "Conan the barbarian" said in answer to the question "What is good in this life?" "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women". This mentality goes a long way to explaining US actions in Iraq and the lack of concern for women.
Usul

Is it so hard, Jay, that you or any other Bush supporter should own up to the fact that the war in Iraq has had some very negative consequences that deserve our attention? There is so much fallout from both these wars that put America and it's coalition partners squarely at fault. That's all this article is talking about. I find it disturbing that you're so willing to avoid faulting Bush by politicizing the issue.

By the way, I believe Habeus Corpus does in fact apply to those who currently reside in prisons on US soil, such as in Guatanano.

Usul...the funny thing is, most military experts and historians argue, that the exact opposite of your position is true. Had the U.S. not tried to be a kinder more compassionate invading force, had they razed cities and decimated entire populations, exacting summary executions while shooting looters on site... things would be entirely different now. Sad fact is, you either win a war or you try to prevent casualties. History shows time and time again if you care about your enemy you are doomed. War is brutal it is not kind. We have been, and the headlines of the day stand as evidence to the accuracy of my statement.

Stephan...First, legal experts disagree with you. Habeas Corpus is just one of many red herrings promulgated on line and in the media. Guatanamo is simply where we house prisoners of war. Prisoners of war are not constitutionally entitled to habeas corpus. You can make the argument that Lincoln was wrong when he suspended habeas corpus because the prisoners of war were U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens in Guatonamo are the exception, not the rule, so again... it is a red herring.

Second, why is the assumption made that I am a Bush supporter simply because I find a sad bit of humor in the fact that he is blamed for a world environment in the making for a hundred years. I am just a person whose Mother was an education liaison in the middle east under the Carter administration and I remember hearing that the whole world hates America back then. I've been on flights that were diverted due to us being Americans at the threat of hi-jacking. I've been helicopter-evacuated to safety under gun fire in Lebanon, I saw the mid easts brutal and objectifying treatment of women and non-muslims first hand 30 years ago.

With an awareness of history the blame Bush crowd appear delusional. They offer no solutions that are realistic and in fact fuel a fire that was raging out of control years before Bush was in the picture

Jay...well said. Americans, no matter the stripe, have at least one thing in common that frustrates and angers many in this world. It is Tolerance! It is our gift to be tolerant of almost everyone and everything. This is difficult for many of those who hate Americans, becasue sadly, it does not fit into their black and white world.

What I fail to understand is why the Iraqis are leaving Iraq.

It's a fact that most of the violence is in the Sunni Triangle. There's a whole lot of country outside of there.

It's also a fact that many Sunnis and Shia are moving to Kurd territory that is considered very safe and secure. That is Shia and Sunni who don't want to exterminate each other. And most of the christians in the country have moved there as well.

The point is, with so many options inside your country, why would you go to another country were you have no options or methods to take care of yourself?

They only care if the woman is Aruba girl, Paris Hilton or the woman who was murdered by Bobby Cutts Jr.