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Monday, January 12, 2004
RAPE ROOMS?
External link: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/dec/17iraq.htm
Bush keeps going on about how the Iraqi military had "rape rooms." What's a rape room? Don't get me wrong-- I am totally against rape, okay? And I don't mean to be in any way dismissive or disrespectful toward anybody who's been raped, whether or not that happened in a rape room. But I just don't understand what a rape room is supposed to be. Is it just any room where a rape occurs? Is it any room that is specifically dedicated to the purpose of raping people in that particular room? Or is it a special room with special features (such as soundproofing, for example) that make it especially suited to the task of raping someone?
More to the point, is "rape room" a real term, or is it a term that the Bush administration just made up to justify invading Iraq? I'm not saying that nobody in Iraq ever raped anybody-- I'm sure that they did, and I'm sure that it sometimes happened in some room or other. But what is a "rape room" exactly? I can't find anything about it on the Internet, except for quotes from Bush, other people with the same question I have, and (from what I can tell from reading the little google description) lots and lots of pornographers selling rape-fetish pornography.
link to this item: http://www.creamy.com/blog/2004/01/rape-rooms.html
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