an interesting thought (or two) on our troops in iraq

i don't know much about the culture of iraq and fundamentalist muslims but i DO know that having sex outside of marriage ESPECIALLY for a woman is something that she can be put to death over. are there prostitutes in iraq? there sure were in germany, japan, vietnam, korea and elsewhere american troops were present in great numbers. are our troops keeping it in their pants? HIGHLY unlikely as a matter of fact, i'd say IMPOSSIBLE.

The Sex Lives and Sexual Frustrations of US troops in Iraq


An Ocean of Ignorance
by Stephen Soldz
http://www.opednews.com/
Well over a hundred thousand American men and women, most younger than 30, spend a year or more at a time in a foreign country where they are almost totally isolated from the indigenous population. Are all these troops really chaste for those long periods, as called for my military regulations? What is going on sexually among US troops in Iraq is one of the great untold and unknown stories of the Iraqi occupation. As I have followed the course of this war, I have paid careful attention to any glimmers on information available. Having read perhaps 30,000-50,000 articles on Iraq, I've seen at most a couple dozen mentions of anything related to sex, other than the systematic sexual abuse and sometime rape of detainees at Abu Graib and the other US prisons. Of course, military regulations ban sex out of marriage, but these regulation have about as great a chance of being obeyed as the US has of obtaining the “total victory” that the President is always promising. ................