Yup, that's what we call protection of... assets.

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there was also a bill for the prostitutes. that we paid.

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Of drugging female contractors and allowing male contractors enraged and on steroids to rape them so they can relieve their urges when it turns out they don't get to kill anyone.

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begin? The United States has become the gun-bearing whore of greed and oligarchy of the world - shame.

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To treat the venerial diseases which the skanky whores of Kuwait spread to the contractors. Be interesting to know the nationality of the prostitutes - my first guess would be Egyptian.

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There has not been a war yet where prostitution was not supported by the upper ranks for the troops. As far as generals are concerned it keeps moral up and the hords of young boys at least partially relieved from their stressful duties.
Why would men who have chosen to kill other humans for a living care if hookers are transported around on taxpayer dollars?
I certainly do not support the spreading of venerial disease but this issue is just one of thousands that follow the barbaric choices of war hungry humans.

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transporting whores (aren't they "contractors" by definition?) around on our nickel seems a bit trite, in spite of the fact that one of those contractors may have bit the bullet because of it. The contractors are whores too, ya' know! What is the difference?

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Prostitutes used to follow the armies before the mechanized age.

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I do not mean to promote prostitution but it kind of offends me to see criticism of the prostitutes by so many Americans. Legal prostitution is reasonably safe and the women are clean and quite knowledgeable of safe sex practices. We have always had prostitution around the military and anyone who has ever served in the armed forces knows it. In some parts of the world, our military hospitals have tested, treated and educated prostitutes to protect the troops from VD. We have even operated massage parlors on military bases. I remember the so called "steam and cream on Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was just a block from the NCO Club and near most of the dorms. The base hospital tested the girls from the off base clubs too and gave them a so to speak "VD Card" which was their clean bill of health. We did this same kind of procedure in Vietnam to protect our troops from VD. I'm not old enough to speak for earlier wars but I'm quite sure that we've only gotten better at the practice through the ages. Knowledge of such things might offend the values of many Americans, but the consequences of not acting is in fact far worse than the way things are done. The difference in Iraq is the large number of mercenaries commonly called contractors to make them sound more noble. The principle is the same.

There will always be someone claiming that a death or other incident occurred as a result of resources being used for such immoral purpose instead of protecting someone on a mission but I don't accept the correlation. We aren’t such an impoverished society that the steam and cream was the only source of bathing or that the only safe transportation in Iraq was taken by the pimps. AlterNet readers are a very well educated, and in a positive way you are an elite group of people. No amount of education or understanding of right and wrong will substitute for having first hand experience. Just because we don’t have to sell our bodies to make a buck doesn’t mean that we should feel holier than those who do desperate things. It doesn’t mean that we should call them a “skank” etc. either.

Where sex is suppressed, sex related crimes increase. Our military women and women contractors need to feel safe from sexual attacks. Too many times the female soldier becomes a willing sex partner because peer pressure forces her to submit. Women who don’t go along are alienated and harassed until their life becomes so miserable that they seek company - sexual company. I could tell you many stories but my identity on here isn’t protected and others would know the specifics by name if I did. I had troops working for me who felt compelled to have sex with senior enlisted and officers as a means of protecting themselves. No attempt on my part ever prevented these things from happening and I promise you that I tried very hard to make every women feel that she had self-worth and respect in the work place.

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