Sure Victor, blame a Democratic president for the current and past Iraqi crises. Because that makes a LOT of sense.

Haven't read every reply, but you all do realize that there were tens and probably hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Refugees before OIF.
I'll check on the figures but I remember hundreds of Kurdish refugees traveling across Syria and trying to take refuge in Israel, the Kurds and Israelis generally have been on good terms. Unfortunately the Israelis couldn't let them in for some reason and the Syrians either turned them over to saddam or executed them from what I remember, its been awhile so I'm not really sure of the outcome.
I only remember it because the Kurds were very upset by Israel not taking them in.

The absence of the humility of truth is the begining of all evils.

So by pulling some of the troops out in Iraq, doesnt it seem kind of wrong?

If i was american, then I would want that to stop. But as in arab, it seems like America just went into Iraq, created mayhem and is totally clueless what to do to get the country back into track.

I see this as a cowardly act by america if this happens because they started it, but can't finish it. It has impacted peoples lives so much and look at what happens, Iraqi 13 and 14 year olds selling themselves just to get a living.

Saddam was bad, no doubt about it. But are things better now that saddam is gone? I don't really think so. More people are dying and for what? Nothing's being solved. weapons of mass destruction? No body found any still! so what is this war about? Bush messed up Iraq and for the first time of my life, I actually think he's doing the right thing by not removing the troops but i guess it won't be his decision any longer. Why should we let Iraqi's go through the pain when America started it in the first place?

You people really need to get your news from non-American sources. Then you will see what the rest of the world sees. The U.N is the body of control for one, not the U.S.A (thank God). All you Americans ever do is talk about who needs to disarm for us and who needs to listen to us......or what? It's the U.N that ok's it all, not Bush (again, thank God). If it were up to a great deal of us in Canada we would shut off your supply of oil from here (over 35 - 50 %). Then what.....your precious war machine would come ginding to a halt as would most of your major cities. You need to remember who is holding who by the balls. I apoplogize to the millions of decent reasonable, and kind Americans. I do not intend to include you in this, only the "loud mouthed" "do it my way" "listen to America or else" Americans.

I want to start out by saying I don't consider myself a Republican or Democrat, I consider myself an American. I always vote for who I beleave would do the best job. I didn't vote for Bush the first time around because I am from Texas and when he was the govener here, felt he was a silly man. I didn't vote for him the second time because I was offended by him trying to scare me into voting for him. It really boggles my mind how there are still people out there who defend him and his ways. Reading through these responses has also led me to beleave that I did the right thing in getting religion out of my life. Don't get me wrong, I beleave in God and Jesus but I have an open enough mind that see religion for what it is, a power ploy, the religion who has the most followers, in other words money, wins. Most people who beleave in some sort of religion, wheather it be Islam or Chritianity, are hypocryts, they don't really follow their religions. Such as these men who go to these clubs or the Christians who show no love or sympathy for these girls. It does seem funny to me that most Republicans are Christians and show so much hatred for people who don't side with them, so un Christian like, I don't beleave Jesus would agree with the way they treat other people, Jesus loved all, from lepars to prostitutes, sinners and saints. So called Christians and conservatives really need to read the New Testament to truely understand what it means to be Christian.
All that being said, let me remind all those who say Mr. Bush did the right thing in going to war with Iraq because intelligence showed they had WMD's. CIA opertives told Mr. Bush that they had prisoners that told them that Iraq had these weopons and that was all Mr. Bush heard, he stopped listening there. What he failed or refused to hear was that these same CIA opertives also told them that they felt these prisoners had no credibility and shouldn't be beleaved. They also did tell Mr. Bush that the people who attacked us on 9/11 were Saudis who trained with Al queda in Afghanistan, no Iraqis were involved. Truth be told, we have known since before the war that Iraq had no WMD's or were not involved in that fatefull day, but because we have been trained to beleave our goverement no matter what, we chose to ingore those facts also. Truth of the matter is the person and people involved in that horrible day were cornered in Afghnistan and Mr. Bush chose to ingore the generals who asked for more troops to get to him, and they got away. If he had listened then we would not be in this horrible mess we are in now. Our war on terror would have had a very important victory there, possibly crippling Osama Bin Ladins troops as they would have lost their cash cow. For whatever reason, oil or a base in the Middle East, Mr. Bush had planned to attack Iraq no matter what he was told. He will now continue his war, if he can, till the end of his term so that he can dump it on whatever Democratic President is elected because he knows that there is nothing he can do to make it better now. Republicans seem to be willing to give up those next 4 years so that they can assault this president and then win back the presidency after that, saying how this Democrat can't handle this war, which of course they will forget how it was a Republican who started this and how he lost all control over this.
It also angers me that the Democrats do not have the will to do what is right, impeach this man for lying. Isn't that why we had Clinton impeached? Of course, his lies did not lead to the deaths of over 3000 of our troops over there. Of course, anybody who says they want our troops home, doesn't support them, right? Well then, why don't these people who don't want our troops home and claim to support them so much, go to our goverment and tell them to give our troops the best equipment out to them? Their kelvar vests have been shown to not work as well as other vests out there, but they are the vests that we continue to supply them with. Where are all the Stryker vehicles that have been showe to work so well against the roadside bombs? They are not being made quickly enough. Seems to me these people who say we have to support our troops don't do the things neccessary to protect them. Supporting our troops should mean doing the things to protect them.
America is not the sole blame for these little girls, we have our part in it. Once again, if Mr. Bush had sent in those extra troops to capture Osama when our boys had him surrounded in Afghanistan, we would have gotten rid of the worst of the terroists, we wouldn't have gone into Iraq, have the terroists, who were not there before, go into Iraq to fight our troops and start killing Iraqi people which led to Iraqi people fleeing their own country into Syria and this sad life. Others are to blame, for sure, but we must accept our responsibility also.

Hey Richard when you was in there did you see Bill Clinton.

Right or wrong, we are already in it and lets find a way out of the mess we are in, stop pointing fingers and claiming who's at fault. For those of you that didn't like the President that is in office right now and didn't like what America is doing in Irag and around the world (let alone what they did and didn't do in USA) - you have the free liberty to leave this country (that many still will risk their lives to smuggle themself into here) and leave it for us that are still contend with what we got and willing to live in here.

What I can't get over is the guy that wrote this story. Did he just sit there and watch this and take pictures. How in the hell can you live with your self after watching that and not doing nothing but writing a story about it. Sounds like something Bill Clinton would do. Cowboys like Bush would of started a war over that.

Did you hear that Paris Hilton got sent to jail?

First off, let's not vilify a whole country (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait) or a religion (Islam) for the actions of a few horrible men. I am a Christian American who has lived in Saudi Arabia for the past year and see first hand that there are many good and decent Muslim men who would do anything to defend their daughter's virtue.

There are horribly perverted men in every country and of every religion. This story just happens to document the despicable practices in Syria. We are not immune from this sort of thing in the United States, doesn't anyone watch the evening news?

Secondly, the article reports a problem but most of you are missing the next logical step... Instead of complaining about the problem or assigning blame, use your energy to find a solution. How can we help?

We don't know really how reliable this article is; anyway, it is sad news if it is true. However, there are more sex victims, sex crime, porno, prostitution and child sex abuse in USA than any other part of the world. The fact is that twenty percent of young girls in the USA are sexually abused by their parents, step parents, friends or relative.
If this story is true, then these poor Iraqi girls are the victims of unjustified war that is provide by president Bush and his administration in search of the never found weapon of mass distraction or link previous Iraqi administration to al-qaida.
If the weak Syrian economy is not able to render enough work to its own citizen (20% unemployment), then there is no better chance for the poor two million Iraqis that run away from war activities in their country.
The best solution is to end this stupid, senseless endless war, bring troops homes, and let these five million Iraqis (two million in Syria alone) get back to their homes.

This recalls to mind my old poem, entitled "Jail"

There's no escape
From anal rape.

Maybe John Kerry will rescue them in his swift boat.

The war in Iraq was surely wrong,as the country did not have weapons of mass destruction. We rushed to war. I hated the war and was against it altogether. I think it is a shame that we, as a nation have gotten ourselves in such a mess as this war. The insurgants and al quida are a disgrace to the country .They do not want peace or are they ever going to seek peace. They are also to blame for these young children going into prostitution. This is also a disgrace for a muslim nation or any Muslim,Christin or any other religion that exploits children in this way.

If anybody did not read, Syria could barely provide enough jobs for its own citizens let alone Iraqi refugees.

Many of those refugees will "blame" the US because the US has caused a somewhat stable country (granted oppressed etc.) to a country in a civl war where civilians of the different denominations are attacked with great frequency. With a greatly weakened infastructure and the fighting has caused many to try to look elsewhere to live. Its not just living in many cases it will be about surviving for many of these refugees.

Sucks to be them

I think all you pinko left wing commies should think about this: Just think about all the beautiful Iraqi children who were burned to death or blown apart that WERE'NT molested! Praise Jesus! Praise Jesus!

ALL MUSLEMS AND CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE BURNED AT THE STAKE !

I wonder if Bill Clinton is in that night club with his cigar?

The war in Iraq was surely wrong,as the country did not have weapons of mass destruction. We rushed to war. I hated the war and was against it altogether. I think it is a shame that we, as a nation have gotten ourselves in such a mess as this war. The insurgants and al quida are a disgrace to the country of Iraq because they are too for all the acts of war . They also are to blame for all the people fleeing Iraq and for all the young children being forced into prostution. The peverted men who would go with little children need to be jailed or executed. What kind of religion or government would condone such abominations. I pray the Lord will make a swift judgement especially for the children

There are some bastered people who offended one particular religion than the offender of humanity like Great Satan George Bush, Dick Chenney, Rmsfeild, Arial Sharon....

Another terrible, tragic consequence of the war. To those who feel this is about blaming America - that's why you should have listened to the voices of those around the world who told our leaders NOT to invade Iraq. See, if you pro-war acolytes paid even the least bit of attention to international affairs, you'd know that child prostitution is a _frequent consequence_ of war - has NOTHING to do with religion or race. It happened (and continues to happen) as a result of conflict in Europe (the Balkans), Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Google the topic and you'll find TONS of articles that explain this correlation. Thus it is a DIRECT consequence of our invasion of Iraq, that displaced, young Iraqi girls are having their lives RUINED. And instead of taking responsibly for the destruction our actions have caused, some among us choose to blame the victims. This war will be a permanent stain on the soul of this nation. Let's pray for these children and most importantly, do what we can to help them

The american are hypnotized by Bush administration and made to believe what they are doing is for the protection of people...whereas the fact it they are fuelling the bad situation every where in the world just to mint money through oil and arms sale...i just wanna ask will all the world wealth will save Bush from going under earth in a casket at some time of his life and make him eternal...what will one do with all the money once he say goodbye to this life...fruit for thought!!!!!!!!

Americans shouldn't be so touchy or ready to argue everytime people mention US policy. If they would just take this and leave it as criticism people would stop antagonizing them. Right now the world is testing to see what the reaction is to competition from other parts of the world. Who cares? Who wants to be world police anyway? America doesn't want to rule the world do they? Let the reigns go!

Victor, Lenexa KS - thank you for your presidential history lesson.....but the article was about little girls being F@*#$ by older men. What do you think about that? Do you agree with this act or not?

Sleep well tonight thinking about who to blame. Dont bother trying to find out who to contact to see if there is anything you can do to help