Jean Schmidt claiming that the Iraqi women have been

liberated..... good gawd woman... get a clue will ya??

http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGMDE14310320042004
Iraq: Violence against women increases sharply

Feature, 03/31/2004

The assassination attempt against the only female member in the Iraqi cabinet, Nisreen Mustafa al-Burwari, earlier this week, shows the urgent need for security in Iraq. The attack is the second directed at a female political leader -- in September 2003 'Aquila al-Hashimi was killed. She was one of only three female members in the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC).

Violence against women and girls has sharply increased in Iraq compared to the time before last year's war. After the war, there was a complete breakdown of law and order. Even though the situation has generally improved since those first months, the lack of security still remains a serious threat to the population. Many women and girls live under constant fear of being harassed, beaten, abducted, raped or murdered.

a hot douche with an antiseptic NOW!!! :wow:

Maybe that's just me being the big old liberal. Oddly (and hypocritically), I get a little snicker out of jokes about Cheney and Rumsfeld going to Gitmo and fighting over who gets the baddest boyfriend to protect them. But for some reason I draw the line at jokes about chemical rapes of women, even if it's about women who political viewpoints differ from mine.

Since they're so liberated, how about you go live with them? We'd be so pleased to see you so happy and free as they are.

Redstone

God, it makes me so mad that they get away with lying about everything. The pundits do it, the house does it and the administration does it. I doubt it will ever stop.

Schmidt is a liar. But then Congressmembers are permitted to lie by an official agreement among members. They are not held accountable for what they say on the floor.


http://www.houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/
Houzan Mahmoud is one of the leading figures of Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). She is a leading international voice against the oppression of Iraqi women both under the US/UK occupation and the growing influence of political Islamists. She has led numerous campaigns on behalf of women's and workers' rights in Iraq and has been a frequent contributor to The Independent and The Guardian, among other publications. Many of her articles have been translated into and published in French, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Farsi, English, Finish, Swedish and German. She has also been interviewed by CNN, NBC, Sky News, BBC World Service, the Asian and African press, and numerous European, North American and Australian media outlets. Houzan has recently co-founded an initiative to end the occupation of Iraq and present a secular, egalitarian alternative through the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC).

Equality in Iraq web site
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/

Maybe she thinks those women are expressing their new freedom.

Her or the people who voted her into office? :banghead:

What a dolt this woman is!

TC

a tall cool glass of "shut the fuck up"!

BAGHDAD -- On orders of the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, men in black have begun terrorizing women who do not conform to their rules, it was reported.

Following a sermon by Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, the head of Iraqi Al Qaeda, new rules were announced regarding women's behavior, The Sunday Times of London reported.

"Women cannot drive; women cannot go out after midday; women and men are not allowed to go out and walk together, they must walk separately," a local official announced.

Violations will be punished sternly by men in black, all Sunni Muslims - with punishments ranging from shaved heads to death. Women live in fear, while nothing is done to curb the ongoing terrorism, the newspaper said.

http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060605-064657-6386r

I just read some diatribe about how being a submissive Christian wife actually liberates you.

:wow: