Posted on 07/07/2009 4:06:26 AM PDT by darkness78
Just imagine how this would have been spun if this had happened on Mitt’s watch....
Just another leftist article trashing America’s efforts in Iraq. It doesn’t evev bother addressing the fact that we are locked in a battle with Islamic militants who aren’t exactly known for their strong advocacy of women’s right. Do these people seriously believe that Iraqi women would be better off if we suddenly pulled out and left the country in the hands of the Islamonazis?
Yes, that is what they believe. This organization has some sort of relationship to George Soros or one of his foundations. They are mentally ill!
Of course not, it would probably be worse.
The article, may leflist, but at least well documented (which is too rarely the case here) is just pointing out that the women situation in Iraq was better before 2003.
No need to get upset about it.
At the same time we know the unemployment rate, in general has declined as the oil and other industries have recovered from the Saddam years.
Most likely the whole piece is Leftwingtard propaganda.
The acceptance of fundamentalist religion probably aided the statistics. People seem to forget that the Communists and Marxists had a lot attraction for the Iraqi population prior to Saddam because those groups were anti-imperialist (the British foisted a Hashemite king upon Iraqis after the First World War; his son was assassinated). As Arab societies went, countries like Iraq and Lebanon were considered pretty modern at one time and therefore women played a greater role.
Not only women, but also Christians have suffered under Islamic “Democracy”. Muslims are incapable of governing themselves - or anyone else - fairly. They have a socio-political mindset totally alien to modern westerners. Our “experiment” in Iraq will ultimately fail, as will our “experiment” in Afghanistan.
As long as Muslim are Muslims and they follow traditional Islamic Teachings - and I see NO chance of that happening currently - they either create an oppressive Theocracy or a military dictatorship. From the perspective of non-Muslims and women, LESS persecution actually occurs under a military dictatorship.
I said it before and say it again - REMOVING Saddam was wise. Trying to “nation-build” with American dollars and lives was just another manifestation of the Bush Regime's failure to connect with reality. And Obama is doing the same thing in Afghanistan.
MEANWHILE, the country with the BEST prospects for a successful democracy - Iran - continues to suffer under the iron hand of the mullahs while they work on nuclear bombs,
Bush should have used Iraq and Afghanistan as staging areas to attack the Mullahs and support Iranian dissenters, and then pulled out of the area entirely once the Mullahs were toppled from power.
Yeah all those rape rooms and people being imprisoned on a whim, their wives and daughters raped to coerce confessions, whole families including babies being shot and shoved into mass graves...yeah women were much better off under Saddam /rolls eyes
MEANWHILE, the country with the BEST prospects for a successful democracy - Iran -
Agreed.
Persians are totally different from Arabs.
Yeah, Saddam treated women so well...
True. And yet saying that would be racist in an all-ethnic-culture-is-identical-studies class.
It's MSM press bias. An example:
For instance a cop kills a black criminal in the hood and black "community leaders" and half the reporters in the city flood the zone. One criminal - one death. Big press coverage - lots of outrage.
Second case: black gangs kill 8 innocent blacks in the same neighborhood - community leaders absent - press coverage almost nonexistent.
And what's the difference? The press hates cops - the "one" death allows them to express their hatred for cops who are NOT liberal and don't share their values.
Same with Iraqi women - they are a tool for the press to hit the American military. When our "conservative" American military is out of Iraq the press won't give a flip what happens to those women - or their children - or any Iraqi citizen.
The only time the press cares about people of any country is when they can use those people as an excuse to condemn a Conservatives.
Have you noticed how all that talk about Darfur has disappeared? That's because Darfur was a stick to hit Bush with - now that a liberal's in office those people are history.
We all know that without influence from the west, Muslim cultures idolize their women. /sarc
Hello..polygamy is allowed under sharia law and I am certain many Iraqi Muslims had multiple wives long before the US invasion. I also seriously doubt in a primarily Muslim country that women working outside the home ever constituted 40% of the work force
“because we don’t know what % of men are unemployed”
“Yeah all those rape rooms and people being imprisoned on a whim, their wives and daughters raped to coerce confessions, whole families including babies being shot and shoved into mass graves...yeah women were much better off under Saddam /rolls eyes”
Are you talking about the pathetic Powel’s speech in front of the UN trying to sell this war?
Drawings and cartoons are not enough to make proofs. Saddam was a brutal dictator, eveybody agrees (as well as Pinochet or Castro)! But for your raping rooms and babies mass graves you may need to be more consistent...with some links for example...
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