Bush praises man in speech on women's rights

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040313/od_uk_nm/oukoe_bush_women_1

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has marked International Women's Week by paying tribute to women reformers -- but one of those he cited is really a man.


"Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday.


The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he".
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All told, the president made references to more than a dozen other women ranging from his wife, first lady Laura Bush, to last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran. He also mentioned four men including Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who were both present.


"The advance of women's rights and the advance of liberty are ultimately inseparable," the president said. "We stand with courageous reformers."
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punk! smirk is a punk!

[Malva Zebrina]

1. what in insult to women who win Nobel prizes

naming Laura in the same speech. I bet she was tittering and all aglow, all day, knowing that her sponging and leeching off of her rich husband as well as the tax payers of the US and not giving us a damn thing back, has earned her a place beside real women.

[Hamlette]

2. The goof on the name was not the strangest part. . .

It's a mistake anyone can make and you can't blame a husband for mentioning his wife (even if she is a geek) but, Powell and Wolfowitz as "women reformers"??? Get out.

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U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has marked International Women's Week by paying tribute to women reformers

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All told, the president made references to more than a dozen other women ranging from his wife, first lady Laura Bush, to last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran. He also mentioned four men including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who were both present.