"Unlike the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women before the U.S. invasion had many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Over 50% of Iraqi doctors were women. Iraqi women were allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They were allowed to drive. Iraqi women could even freely criticize men. In addition Iraqi women had the right to work and control their own funds. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive U.S. backed governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where women have no rights what-so-ever."

Oh yes, the right to be raped by Saddam's sons, to be mass murdered for the crime of being Shiite, to be gassed for the crime of being Kurdish - no wonder women all over the world were lining up to emigrate to Iraq. Oh, they weren't?

To blame the trafficking of women on capitalism is completely ludicrous. The evil behind such monstrous trade is driven by pure greed which unfortunately exists in virtually every society.

Kudos to any gov't that is taking any steps to limit this abhorrent trade. What's been done up to this point is nowhere near enough.