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Dean: Women in Iraq were better off under Saddam
Washington Times ^ | August 15, 2005

Posted on 08/15/2005 5:09:16 AM PDT by Grig

Dean's latest Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman who was the hero of his party's anti-war wing before his gaffe-prone 2004 presidential candidacy crashed and burned in Iowa, still doesn't think the Iraqis are better off with dictator Saddam Hussein out of power and in prison. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" yesterday, the fiery former Vermont governor said, "It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq." Mr. Dean was the guy who said right after Saddam was found hiding in a "spider hole" that his capture by U.S. troops "has not made America safer," a statement ridiculed and condemned by most of his Democratic rivals at the time. In a brief statement yesterday, the Republican National Committee said, "Dean's wild assertion that Iraqi women would be better off living under Saddam Hussein than democracy is not only counterproductive to meaningful debate, it demeans the hard work of American servicemen and women serving in Iraq."

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KEYWORDS: chairmandean; dean; howarddean; idiot; iraqiwomen; putsomeiceonit; rape; scream
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We can officially lable Dean as pro-rape now. I guess he things the ladies really liked those trips to the rape rooms.
1 posted on 08/15/2005 5:09:17 AM PDT by Grig
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To: Grig

What is it with Dean?

Every time he opens his mouth, if it isn't a scream coming out it's a foot going in


2 posted on 08/15/2005 5:12:01 AM PDT by Wild_Bill_8881 (If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS)
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To: Grig

Hey, good enough for Clinton....

Where's Howard's wife anyway?


3 posted on 08/15/2005 5:12:13 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: prairiebreeze

Dean once again shows his ignorance -- revisionist history on display once again.


4 posted on 08/15/2005 5:13:20 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Grig

Well, those rape rooms kept the women from being mugged...


5 posted on 08/15/2005 5:14:48 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Grig

It's about time for someone to write a book on Howard, this guy is a real wacko.


6 posted on 08/15/2005 5:15:01 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: AliVeritas

Drugs are really taking effect on this creep!


7 posted on 08/15/2005 5:15:24 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Grig

Does anybody have the statement from Kerry when he was debating Dean during the primaries where he listed all the reasons for going to war with Iraq and ended up saying anybody that doesn't think the world is safer without Sadam doesn't have the qualifications to be president ?


8 posted on 08/15/2005 5:15:26 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Grig

He needs a drug test.

Where is he getting his information? OMG!


9 posted on 08/15/2005 5:15:30 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: Grig
What the...???? That has to be the dumbest thing to ever come out of his mouth!


10 posted on 08/15/2005 5:15:32 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: TheForceOfOne
Heres the jacket cover.


11 posted on 08/15/2005 5:17:07 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Grig
If you raping women in front of their husband is being better...well alrighty there Dean...

My pet project
12 posted on 08/15/2005 5:17:27 AM PDT by smith288 (Peace at all cost makes for tyranny free of charge...)
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To: Grig
Dean: Women in Iraq were better off under Saddam,

Words escape me. This statement is so totally asinine it goes beyond description.

13 posted on 08/15/2005 5:18:04 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Grig

Howard Dean al Tikriti, Saddam Hussein al Tikriti's second cousin.


14 posted on 08/15/2005 5:18:10 AM PDT by Dubya's fan
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To: Grig

"It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq."

Really? Dr. Dean is truly an ignorant anal orifice. A stupid one at that.


15 posted on 08/15/2005 5:18:50 AM PDT by Virginia Queen (Virginia Queen)
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To: Peach

The left's fear (or is it hope?) is that Iraq will become a Sharia based country like Saudi Arabia or, more likely, Iran. Sadaam and his boys tortured women, but at least on paper, women had more legal rights than in other Muslim countries, and apparently did sometimes occupy higher social roles in business, science, and even the military. The rationale is that it's all relative, that Sadaam was bad, that what may come will be even worse for women.


16 posted on 08/15/2005 5:20:47 AM PDT by Stirner
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To: darkwing104
That has to be the dumbest thing to ever come out of his mouth!

Thats the thing about him. Just when you think he can't say something more stupid, he out does himself. Not sure what more proof a voter would need to understand where the Democrats stand on National Security.

17 posted on 08/15/2005 5:20:53 AM PDT by IamConservative (The true character of a man is revealed in what he does when no one is looking.)
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To: TheForceOfOne

How about Felos?


18 posted on 08/15/2005 5:24:11 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: uncbob

I'll try to get it.


19 posted on 08/15/2005 5:24:39 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Grig


"We can officially lable Dean as pro-rape now. I guess he things the ladies really liked those trips to the rape rooms."

And Dr. Dean will be waiting at the door as the women leave telling them: "We hope you won't need or want an abortion, but should you so choose here's a voucher for a discounted procedure. Have a nice day."


20 posted on 08/15/2005 5:25:12 AM PDT by Hornet19 (Libs...Huh..Yeah!...What are they good for..Absolutely Nothing. (apologies to Edwin Starr))
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To: Grig

...biggest wish: That this SOB POS would go to Iraq and seek "understanding," Afghanistan just as his dead brother went to Southeast Asia during the "Peace and Love" era; on second thought, check that, may the Dems be forever hung with this albatross around their RAT necks!


21 posted on 08/15/2005 5:25:16 AM PDT by meandog (FOR LURKING DUers)
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To: Grig

Well, how interesting that the DNC's official position is support of rape, murder, dismemberment, beheading of Iraqi women as opposed to relative freedom.

Yep, the Democrats prove once again that they're for the "little guy." (/s)


22 posted on 08/15/2005 5:26:20 AM PDT by alnick
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To: Grig
While the rape rooms were good, I think the being-fed-into-woodchippers-feet-first thing was really the best.

And we dared to take that away from Iraqi women. The shame!

23 posted on 08/15/2005 5:26:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: Peach

I wonder if the SeeBS showhost challenged him, agreed, or let it slide?

Nonetheless, Dr. Dizzy Dean is the best thing to happen to conservatives in decades, LOL!


24 posted on 08/15/2005 5:27:03 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (We are grateful to our fine military. God bless them and their families.)
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To: Grig

Oh yeah, I am sure the women of Iraq loved those rape rooms.


25 posted on 08/15/2005 5:27:12 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: Grig

The favored group and tribes did allow their women quite a lot during the Saddam reign of terror.
They were much freer than Muslim women in many other countries.

Dean is so stupid to suggest that all Iraqi women in general, including the Shia and the Kurds and any non-compliant Sunni as well, would have received similar treatment.

Exactly the opposite was true for the majority of women, because the favored Sunni were a minority and the favored tribes were a minority within that minority. They became the face of Iraqi women to the outside world, however stupid that was.

The rest of the women were subject to the torture chambers, the rape rooms and the mass graves. Not to mention Uday Hussein.


26 posted on 08/15/2005 5:28:03 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: bill1952
Appropriate to say the least! lol
27 posted on 08/15/2005 5:28:28 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: Stirner
The left's fear (or is it hope?) is that Iraq will become a Sharia based country like Saudi Arabia or, more likely, Iran. Sadaam and his boys tortured women, but at least on paper, women had more legal rights than in other Muslim countries, and apparently did sometimes occupy higher social roles in business, science, and even the military. The rationale is that it's all relative, that Sadaam was bad, that what may come will be even worse for women.

That's a rational point, but that is an argument for our further occupation, until we can ensure a secular government.

So either Dean wants us to stay and ensure that form of government, or he is a hypocrite.

28 posted on 08/15/2005 5:29:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: Grig

Go Howard go. When buried in dirt, he just keeps digging.
Either that or he may be off his meds.


29 posted on 08/15/2005 5:29:31 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (The Democrat party is the official party of the Morlocks.)
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To: uncbob

No, but I have this: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6570.htm

Still looking...


30 posted on 08/15/2005 5:30:08 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Grig

Ecially those found in mass graves shot point blank in the head alonh with their children. This man is ultimate scum.


31 posted on 08/15/2005 5:31:01 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Grig
I was distressed when McAwful's tenure as grand poobah of the DNC passed. He was so disastrous for the Dems that I often wondered if he were a plant on the RNC payroll.

I was afraid that someone competent would take his place and give the Dems a chance at winning back the House or Senate. Now, I think Dean will be just as good for our side as McAwful.
32 posted on 08/15/2005 5:31:50 AM PDT by Skooz ("Political Correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism" - Michelle Malkin)
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To: AliVeritas
I was thinking that someone like Rush who has a complete library of sound bites on everything could easily pump out a book on old Howie.

Felos? sure, but I don't know a lot about him. I'm still learning politics everyday here on FR but I have so much more to learn.
33 posted on 08/15/2005 5:32:30 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: All

Sorry all, should've posted it for everyone...a lovely metamorphosis...I will send it to DU to remind them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6570.htm


34 posted on 08/15/2005 5:34:28 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Grig
"Dean's wild assertion that Iraqi women would be better off living under Saddam Hussein than democracy is not only counter productive to meaningful debate, it demeans the hard work of American men and women serving in Iraq."

Yawn....zzzzzz......

The RNC will never get any awards for snappy answers to wild assertions and lies by leading Dems. I make it a point to study RNC rebuttals. Seems they are written by a guy named William Jennings Bryan perched on a stool in the nether recesses of the building, scratching away with feather pen and foolscap.

As evinced by this thread, freepers should be hired to compose answers to crazies like Dean because freeper wit and stilletos would actually create some attention from the public and in the media.

Leni

35 posted on 08/15/2005 5:35:36 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Grig
"Women in Iraq were better off under Saddam"

The only way we will know for sure is to ask the women who were under Saddam while they were being raped is if they thought they were better off. Most likely the answer would be, "No I wasn't better off under Saddam, amd if I had a choice I would have preferred Saddam better off."

36 posted on 08/15/2005 5:40:02 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: txrangerette
The rest of the women were subject to the torture chambers, the rape rooms and the mass graves. Not to mention Uday Hussein.

My husband, during his first deployment to Iraq, got a private tour of one of Uday's former palaces that had been converted into a Army base of operations. The palace had been occupied very early by the Army (the higher-ups), and so had never been looted...meaning that this palace was complete with gilded doors and crystal chandeliers, and hundreds of $3,000 bottles of chardonnay. My hubby reports that walked into a room which contained boxes full of stereos, and asked the officer giving the tour what was their purpose. Apparently, the stereos were consolation prizes for the women that were forced to satisfy the lustful urges of Uday...and all of his friends.

I guess Dr. Dean things that a stereo is good payment for having been gang-raped.

37 posted on 08/15/2005 5:41:50 AM PDT by The Phantom FReeper (So? People in Hell want ice water.)
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To: Lazamataz

"An argument for our further occupation, until we can ensure a secular government."

I think that what Arab countries need more than anything else is separation of church and state, but almost no Arabs are ready to accept that. If we stay until they are ready (and maybe we should) it will probably be a long time. That raises the question of whether we have the political will to do so. Sadly, we probably won't have that political will until we are struck again hard.


38 posted on 08/15/2005 5:43:08 AM PDT by Stirner
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To: MinuteGal
As evinced by this thread, freepers should be hired to compose answers to crazies

FReeper wit has been free for all to see for a few years now :)...all anyone has to do is actually use it! (don't ask me why they don't....more often, that is)

39 posted on 08/15/2005 5:44:59 AM PDT by 1john2 3and4
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To: Grig

Dean is one of the best things that has ever happened to the GOP! Every time this idiot opens his mouth the 'Rats lose more votes.


40 posted on 08/15/2005 5:45:08 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: TheForceOfOne

George Felos is the wonderful right-to-die lawyer of the Euthanasia Society. He was counsel to Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, who was starved to death.

He has the demonic gift of looking into the eyes of communicative and non-communicative people and their souls speak to him...and tell him they want to die.

I was wondering if his gift, if used, could tell us something about Howard.


41 posted on 08/15/2005 5:46:24 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Stirner
Sadly, we probably won't have that political will until we are struck again hard.

And even then. Remember, the Barking Moonbat left would dismantle America outright in a heartbeat. They want America -- the Great World Oppressor -- to be defeated.

42 posted on 08/15/2005 5:46:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: All

So did no one view the video I posted at #34?

I thought we were family.


43 posted on 08/15/2005 5:47:26 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: AliVeritas

Not at work I won't. In fact, I need to get focused on my work!!!


44 posted on 08/15/2005 5:48:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: MinuteGal

But who besides Hannity, Levin, Rush or Fox (who makes me wonder lately), would get it out. I have a list of media emailers on my list, it hard out there in MSLM.


45 posted on 08/15/2005 5:48:59 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Grig
I hate to write this but he's right. After 2 billion dollars and 1800 dead soldiers, the Iraqi's want to impose Sharia law in the land which means stoning people to death for adultery. Also, Christians will be persecuted.

We should have left when we found no WMDs and captured Saddam. Instead we are fighting for the Iraqi people so they can have an Islamic Theocracy.
46 posted on 08/15/2005 6:09:44 AM PDT by jackieaxe (English speaking, law abiding, taxpaying citizen)
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To: Skooz
I was distressed when McAwful's tenure as grand poobah of the DNC passed. He was so disastrous for the Dems that I often wondered if he were a plant on the RNC payroll.

I was afraid that someone competent would take his place and give the Dems a chance at winning back the House or Senate. Now, I think Dean will be just as good for our side as McAwful.

I agree with you. Every time I think he can't say anything goofier than what he's already said, he does.

47 posted on 08/15/2005 6:19:15 AM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: AliVeritas
Where's Howard's wife anyway?


48 posted on 08/15/2005 6:24:05 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("If not us, who? And if not now, when? - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Grig

I love this guy


49 posted on 08/15/2005 6:25:20 AM PDT by slowhand520
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To: EBH

He needs a psychiatric evaluation.


50 posted on 08/15/2005 6:25:51 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Boycotting movies since 1988)
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