BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two gay men were killed in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a local official said on Saturday, and police said they had found the bodies of four more after clerics urged a crackdown on a perceived spread of homosexuality.Actually, since just about 100% of enlistees today get shipped right out to Iraq after bootcamp, a better slogan for the gay crowd would be "Don't Enlist, Don't go."
Homosexuality is prohibited almost everywhere in the Middle East, but conditions have become especially dangerous for gays and lesbians in Iraq since the rise of religious militias after U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein six years ago.
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, For Damn Sure
The Army's present "Don't ask don't tell" policy for soldiers is a really, really good idea, particularly in Iraq:
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I may be missing something, but the gay men killed were Iraqi. The don't ask don't tell policy is irrelevent to your story. The story is about Iraqi gays, not Americans serving in Iraq.
Further, despite homosexuality being forbidden, it is widely practiced throughout the Arab world. This is expecially true in Egypt and Iraq. Though Arab men will deny being homos, their practice seems more along the lines of "taking whatever they can get", being just as happy to have a woman as a man. The gay men expect to marry a woman and have children. It is a cultural requirement even if they think women are gross.
For the record, Iraqi women ARE gross. If they don't get married by 15, they go bad very quickly.
Actually, just about 100% of basic training graduates (I will include all of their initial training as "boot camp") report to their permanent units, wherever in the world they might be. Most of them are in the USA. Many more are in countries that are not Iraq. The few who don't go to their units are shipped home having washed out for one reason or another. Without a doubt, some of those units are in Iraq and those new soldiers catch up with them there (after a few more weeks of processing, training, equipment issues, leaves, and awaiting transportation arrangements). So it would be very rare for any new soldier to go to Iraq right out of basic.
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