good thing "freedom" is on the march- if it wasn't so sad it would be laughable

[citygirlsmom]

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501744.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501744.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>women losing rights in Iraq…guess “freedom” is relative…women don’t count</p>

[garland]

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“It’s become so bad that a woman who drives a car will be slaughtered, and a woman who doesn’t put a scarf on her hair will be slaughtered,” she said.</p>

<p>When classes ended in July, Shimirya and her husband, an engineer, sold their cars, locked up their large, modern-style house and headed to Dubai.</p>

<p>“I miss my home,” she said, speaking by phone from Dubai. “I miss my colleagues at work. I miss my neighbors. I miss my family. I miss the air in Iraq. There is nothing more beautiful than Iraq.”

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<p>That is very, very sad.</p>

[conyat]

<p>It’s awful. I will never understand why we send servicemen and woman to defend (even create!) situations where women’s lives are of so little value.</p>

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“Every day, it’s worse than the day before.”

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Nouri does not want to make herself a target at the all-girls’ high school where she teaches. So she wears long skirts and a head scarf to work. [More than 300 teachers and Education Ministry employees have been killed].

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[Tookie]

<p>Makes me sick. I saw an article awhile back that Afghani women are treated so badly by their husbands that they are dousing themselves with gasoline and setting themselves on fire. If that were me, I’d be lacing their dinner with arsenic; sorry that’s not nice but that’s the way I’d feel about it.</p>

[citygirlsmom]

<p>it is just horrid…and it is too often ignored… a few fingers with purple ink is supposed to prove democracy is there…hogwash</p>

<p>why is Condi stepping up …</p>

[Allmusic]

<p>Saddest part of all of this is that this is a situation we, as Americans, created. Women are much worse off now, than they were before the invasion. </p>

<p>Will Iraq ever return to a country where women can freely walk the streets, go to school, have an uncovered head, without fear of being kidnapped, raped or murdered.</p>

<p>It is just horrifying.</p>