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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:38 PM
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bush* told our soldiers today in Germany "that Iraqi women are voting and
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going to school and are now better off then they have ever been in 50 years under Saddam"....bush* is a total nitwit and LIAR!

Iraqi women always had the vote (even if only one name on the ballot), and women have always gone to school and university.There were women in Saddams upper government and women professors and business women.

bush* put an end to all of that. because now it is far to dangerous and the theoycrats are have won the election and women will soon be under the veil!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0222-08.htm
Amnesty: Iraqi Women No Better Off Post-Saddam
by Jeremy Lovell

LONDON -- Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, women there are no better off than under the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

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entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders, and sexual abuse -- including by U.S. forces.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

"Women have been subjected to sexual threats by members of the U.S.-led forces and some women detained by U.S. forces have been sexually abused, possibly raped," it added.


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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:47 PM
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1. Bush pulls the women card whenever he can!!
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:49 PM
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2. "better off they they have ever been "
R-i-i-i-i-ght. Tell that to the score of women kidnapped, filmed and beheaded while still alive. There he goes again, rewriting history.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 02:53 PM
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4. They could sort of make this claim in Afghanistan
Maybe he got them screwed up? Or he is just a moron. I guess those both might be true.

Bryant
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:14 PM
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6. HOW MANY IRAQI WOMEN HAVE HAD THEIR HUSBANDS, CHILDREN, AND OTHER LOVED
ONES KILLED BY BUSH'S BOMBS IN EXCHANGE FOR WHAT, FOR A VOTE?????????

BUSH IS A USER WHO IS EXPLOITING AND RAPING THE WOMEN OF IRAQ FOR HIS
OWN PROPAGANDA USE.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:43 PM
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11. Gannon questions only..............please.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:49 PM
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12. Check out Riverbend's point of view on how good things are
for women in the new Iraq.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
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