Iraqi women no better off post-Saddam - Amnesty

[Blue to the bone]

In a report entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders, and sexual abuse -- including by U.S. forces.

Washington promised that the overthrow of Saddam would free the Iraqi people from years of oppression and set them on the road to democracy. But Amnesty said post-war insecurity had left women at risk of violence and curtailed their freedoms.

"The lawlessness and increased killings, abductions and rapes that followed the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein have restricted women's freedom of movement and their ability to go to school or to work," Amnesty said.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005022113450002453854&dt=20050221134500&w=RTR&coview=

[Damien]

1. But "W" stands for women

right? right?

Didn't B*** say we were liberating women in Iraq? Wasn't that one of the (everchanging) reasons to invade?

[bif]

2. Dupe

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1254721