Better than jeans or a burka...and better than Dowd.
Posted on 08/14/2005 5:04:34 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
...Bush has done so much for women. Not at home, of course.
Women in jeans in America may have their rights eroded by an administration where faith trumps science, but women in burkas? Bush can't talk enough about how important their rights are.
And in the administration's diplomacy-free foreign policy, five of its top spokesmen on the Muslim world are women: Condi Rice; Laura Bush; Liz Cheney, No. 2 in the Near East bureau of the State Department and head of the Middle East democracy project; Karen Hughes, the new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy; and her deputy, Dina Powell.
W. thinks so highly of Hughes, his longtime Texas political nanny, spinner, speechwriter and ghostwriter, that he put his Lima Green Bean, as he called her when she prodded him about the environment, in charge of the critical effort to salvage America's horrendous image in the Islamic world, even though what she knows about Islam could fit in a lima green bean. Why get any Muslims involved in reaching out to Muslims? That would be so matchy.
The real role for the newly minted ambassador hasn't been defined yet, but so far it looks as if Hughes's first priority will be to take her spinning skills, honed for W. in 2000 and 2004, to improve his image, and his policies' image, on a global scale.
Just as she retooled Bush as "a reformer with results" and a "compassionate conservative," Hughes plans to inundate Muslims with the four E's: "engagement, exchanges, education and empowerment."
...Thursday, when Bush came out of his Crawford ranch with Rice, he once again justified the war in Iraq by talking about the treatment of women.
The way to defeat our enemies' "hateful ideology," he said, is to offer an ideology "that says to young girls....
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Please check this for me
A waste of electrons.
A Burka is what Dowd needs.
Ahem. C Z-J photo?
I bet C Z-J looks better in a burqa than Maureen Dowd could look in any conceivable outfit.
Under the Bush Administration, Catherine Zeta-Jones still has her right to Michael Douglas. ;-)
All is right with the world, the bitter bitch is back.
I just get all warm and fuzzy thinking about her.
(sarc)
Bleah. Sux to be you, Mo, old and bitter. You and Molly Ivins will have a lot to talk about together at the Old Columnist's Home.
Not sure what you're asking me to do....
Better than jeans or a burka...and better than Dowd.
Well, yeah, MoDo, it's called freedom. If we dictated to them how they should live, that's called, like, dictatorship, and you'd be shrieking that Bush is an new Hitler...not that you'd need the excuse.
Bush has done so much for women. Not at home, of course.
What the heck does that mean? Another tired feminist whine about some public-funded handout?
Mo, face it, women are free to do what they choose with their lives in this country, the old feminist oppression crap simply doesn't work anymore. You're as free as any many to crawl back into your bottle.
any many = any man
They have no moral standing at all!
The woman is a bottomless pit full of bile and venom. It's very good not to be her.
The most painless way for Muslim men to prove that they have not abandoned Arab culture and adopted Western ways is to tighten the burka.
Someone needs to tighten a burka around this heffer.
Nah, Mo needs a man.
Whoa! That Catherine Zeta-Jones is a mousy, homely little thing, isn't she? How could Michael Douglas like a girl like that? She's ugly!
(By the way...I'm being sarcastic!)
So what the hell do they Bush can do about women being put into burkhas? This is a cultural thing and it isn't going away because Bush or we in the west say it must. Muslims have to change within their own society, the women have to go home to their husbands, fathers and other male realtives. If it comes down to not wering a burka and being beaten or killed the women will wear burkas.
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