Why did the IRAQI Woman at the SOTU seem so WELL NOURISHED?

[dhinojosa]

I can't believe that she was in Iraq, I bet she hasn't lived there in years.

One thing, is that there was trade embargo and the Iraqis were starving. She didn't look like she was starving, did she?

Then after the invasion, food was still hard to come by. Although there was more food coming in, no one's cup in Iraq overfloweth with Cheetos. So unless she receieved a large special ration of 15 Big Macs a day and ate everything in sight within the last year and half, I very much doubt that she has ever been living in Iraq.

[Luminous Animal]

1. Here she is...

http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/voices/voicese.htm

[Sandpiper]

2. That's easy

Like most of the Iraqis on the US payroll, she hadn't lived in Iraq for years.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Makes one wonder

I saw that and she looked really super happy..... It was a big show for their Lord and Savior. Should know by now people. Everything with BushCo are just photo-op's. Doy!

[Sandpiper]

12. Iraqis who didn't live in Iraq for Bush Junta I or Bush Junta II

Love the Bush family.

[DougieZero]

3. 1968

She left Iraq in 1968.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Safia+Taleb+Al-Souhail%22+1968&btnG=Search

[Patchuli]

4. I wonder if she's just happy

that * got Saddam who got HER daddy or if she really gives a damn
that * has caused the deaths of over 100,000 of her countrymen?

I guess being gone that long could desensitize you to your own people.
I knew she was a fake...

[Sandpiper]

15. She was all of 2 years old when her family left Iraq

I'm sure she has very deep "spiritual" connection with it though.

/sarcasm off

[dhinojosa]

5. So where was she when all those mortars going off?

This is disingenuous if ask me.

[sueh]

8. Here's another thing about this.

Didn't Bush quote from a letter she wrote that on the morning of the election she went and voted with her PARENTS? According to her bio her father was killed in Beirut. So, how true is this, anyway?

I hope the parents of the slain American soldier who were at the SOTU
find how just how cruelly they were exploited. I shed a few tears myself at that moment because their son did not have to die in Fallujah. No one should have had to lose a family member or friend in Iraq.

BTW, why wasn't Sue Neidermeyer (sorry, not 100% sure of her last name, but she was a mother who lost her son in Iraq and was arrested when she dared to ask Laura Bush at a campaign event why her son had to die) invited and given a place of honor at the speech? Why weren't ANY of the parents that lost sons and daughters who protest the war given a place of honor?

This whole things just makes me sick.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Good points

It is sick. And has he still not attended one funeral? After the election I saw Kerry at at least two.

[MnFats]

6. ooops. pls delete

[MnFats]

7. two things come to mind: Laura's smile couldn't be more fake....

.....and who's the impossibly fat guy ?(my screen name notwithstanding; I just liked the sound of it.)

[sueh]

9. One more thing.

I hope that woman stayed in Iraq long enough to go and thank all the innocent Iraqi families that had loved ones killed needlessly.

Sorry for the rant. I'm just so pissed!!

[sueh]

10. Laura had a few bongs before the speech

and the heavy man is the father of the slain American soldier * talked about.

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Wait a second.

bush said he read a letter from HER about hearing mortars going off the morning she voted. But she's been in the US since 1968????? Where the hell does she live in the US???

Wow, that was dishonest of him. Imagine!

[Connie_Corleone]

20. That was a letter from a different woman. n/t

[RafterMan]

16. The Iraqis weren't starving

The main reason people died during the sanctions is because the quality of medical care decreased.

[smurfygirl]

17. kicking it up

what a setup the * team pulled off last night.

[cthrumatrix]

18. time to expose "this lie " .... just like the reporter ...it's all fake!!!

[ebayfool]

19. Can't find anything that says she lived in U.S. - just Jordan.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031114-094724-7116r.htm
Looks to be another exile for *ush, father was a big shot & she's in line to take over his power spot.

/snip

Today, Ms. Souhail, 38, is a leading candidate to fill the slot left vacant when Aquila Al-Hashemi, one of only three female members of the Iraqi Governing Council, was assassinated.
As the daughter of a powerful tribal sheik, and a longtime human rights activist, Ms. Souhail is an increasingly influential voice in Iraqi politics.
Her father, Sheik Taleb Al-Souhail Al-Tamimi, led a million-member Central Iraqi tribe called the Bani Tamim. When he was killed, she inherited the political leadership of the tribe.
While her father lobbied Arab kings and presidents for support, Ms. Souhail would stay close to the Iraqi-Jordan border, handing messages to his supporters inside Iraq.