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2011-09-19 Iraq

Study: Invasion led to spike in Iraq widows

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 At four per Muslin, so what?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-09-19 00:52|| 2011-09-19 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Are they counting Saddam's wives as "widows"?

Posted by American Delight 2011-09-19 01:26|| http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/ 2011-09-19 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Muslin, dear Jim? While it certainly is true that that modest unbleached cotton fabric has fallen from public esteem since the industrial revolution, still it scarcely seems fair to attribute death and destruction to it. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2011-09-19 09:43|| 2011-09-19 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget that this figure counts widows from all causes, including auto accidents, disease, murder (by bandits etc.) ... and simple old age.

Just looking at the actuarial tables for a country like Iraq, you'd expect about 15% of all married women to have been widowed in the last 7 years. This doesn't count the 4 wives thing (the later wives would tend to be aquired when the husband is older and therefore more likely to be widows).

It is true a widow's lot in the Arab world is pretty grim since remarriage is usually not an option. And many widows have turned to crime and prositution to support themselves. After the Iran-Iraq war many East European pimps set up shop in Iraq to aquire young Iraqi widows.

I.e. this situation is not new.

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-09-19 11:42|| 2011-09-19 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Her husband was killed in a Storied Baghdad kaboom in 2009 as he was heading to work.

So the total also includes those killed by their own.

Although that's still the fault of the US, I guess...

Posted by Bobby 2011-09-19 12:26|| 2011-09-19 12:26|| Front Page Top

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