"Since when does freedom/democracy" = lesser womens rights???

[cthrumatrix]

I would love to see the bush spin on this...

Freedom/democracy are the mantra...nobody can look at this as positive.



People in America: mothers, fathers, sons and daughters dying so

that women in another country can have "lesser rights" than

before?????

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. The glass ceiling is alive and well in this country....

Guess that is part of the freedom and democracy they are bringing to Iraq.

[prodigal_green]

2. Why not?

They're doing everything they can to restrict rights here. Why should client states/colonies be any different?

[cthrumatrix]

3. Let's have Connie answer this question .... the $64,000 question

her head would spin off.

[TomClash]

4. ""Since when does freedom/democracy" = lesser womens rights???"

When your friends need oil.

[Boomer]

5. And what makes it worse is....

We're not talking fewer Iraqi women's rights than they wanted.

It's fewer rights THAN THEY HAD UNDER SADDAM!

I go ballistic every time I hear pundits/politicians/journalists refer to the condition of Iraqi women as if they are interchangeable with the condition of women under the Taliban.

Before the war we started, Iraqi women were among the most liberated in the Middle East, getting college educations and holding professional jobs. Now they can't leave their homes for fear of being kidnapped, raped, held for ransom, sold into slavery.

Way to go USA.

[etherealtruth]

8. Exactly ...

We are talking about 1/2 of the Iraqi population (women), facing the possibility of being denied BASIC HUMAN rights. Bush's idea of "bringing" democracy.

I have began hoping there is a hell----- I would feel some satisfaction in Bush roasting in a hell's fiery bowels.

[cthrumatrix]

10. Bab's must be very proud of her son tonight...she can't worry

her pretty little head about right vs wrong.

[Solly Mack]

6. Since Bush started defining democracy

there ought to be limits to freedom, ya know.

[cthrumatrix]

7. I am sooo curious to see how they spin this shit....

[Solly Mack]

9. I'm waiting on that one myself

After all their hate spewed at Muslims...how are they going to like an Islamic theocratic Iraq?

I doubt the right wing religious scary people will care if women have less rights....even after they used that as an argument (Bush is freeing women)

[The2ndWheel]

11. Since each day became

opposite day? Freedom is Slavery? Because we were a "democracy" for 150 years before women were given the right to vote? Because Zappa was right?

[Eloriel]

12. You could read DU every day and see that there are MANY who

are willing to sell women's rights out, gay rights, etc., for expediency's sake -- right here in the good ole USA.

Every DU male (and too many women), might check their own attitudes on women's rights, including abortion.

[marmar]

13. The only thing BushCo was interested in liberating...

was what's under the ground in Iraq. They could sincerely give less than a damn about women's rights or freedom or whatever. Clearly, they haven't learned any lessons from European colonialism. It's a disaster waiting to happen.