Quotes of the Day
Monday, Feb. 23, 2009
If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated and they don't know about budgeting. 
- MAZIN AL-SHIHAN,
- director of a city agency in Baghdad, on his plan to pay men to marry Iraqi war widows so there will be "a person in charge of her and her children for the rest of their lives"
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