Drawing moral equivalence between Americans in Iraq and the brutal oppression of the Taliban and Saddam really has me wondering about the calibration of your moral compass.
Step back, clear your mind and think about things a little abstractly, there's some shades of gray between the black and white of the text. You know exactly what I meant, so try not to twist it around like those dirty liberal news media types would.
where my sisters and daughters were forbidden to be seen in public or to learn to read,
The thread is about Iraq, stick with it. If you believe you are, learn some facts. We'll get there in a moment...
Those who are opposing the US and our allies in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ever notice how the world and a significate portion of the US didn't stand up and howl when the US forces invaded Afghanistan?
Because while its still abhorrent to someone who believes in peace, at least the Taliban really did do all those horrible things with real, honest-to-God terrorists and al Queda and bin Laden and all of that.
I don't like that it had to be done, but I understand Afghanistan far better than Iraq. Don't confuse the point, don't throw up the smoke screen and don't twist words. Again, this thread is about Iraq.
Why do you think they're trying so hard to disrupt the vote? A vote, especially a vote where women are allowed to cast ballots, is like sunlight to those vampires.
AAAAH yes, here we are! You don't know anything about Iraq except what you've chosen to pay attention to, do you? It took me 1 web search and about 30 seconds to turn this page up:
http://courses.washington.edu/com361/Iraq/religion/women_iraq.html
Let's take a look, shall we?
Iraqi women traditionally have enjoyed more rights, even under the Saddam regime, than women in the surrounding Arab countries. Now with the possibility of a Muslim conservative regime gaining power, Iraqi women are worried that their hard-won rights will be taken away.
Wow!
In 1970, under Saddam’s secular Baath party, the constitution declared all women and men equal under the law, according to a BBC article on March 31, 2003.
Hmm.. Wait a second.. This makes no sense, I mean, those Ay-raabs hate the ladies, right?
Labor shortages during the ’70s and ’80s caused the government to hire more women.
YEah, in the salt mines, right?!?
uring the Iraq-Iran War in the 1980s and the 1991 Gulf War, women held many of the jobs left by male soldiers. Many of the soldiers did not come back, making women-headed families more common in Iraq, according to an online Women’s E-news article.
Oh. But.. well, they still can't be seen on the streets, right, except in those burkas!
During that peak time of women’s rights, some women walked down the streets in mini-skirts,
That's a progressive burka, eh?
Look, I've proven my point, but not all of them. Go ahead, read that article and you'll find all sorts of things about honor killing women, how rights were scaled back, and all of that. (Edited to add
It wasn't a place where I'd want to be a woman, at least not a western woman. I'm sure it could be horrible, and I'm sure as times went on and more and more people turned to their faith, and Islam is the predominate faith, it was awfully brutal for women.(Done editing, somehow this doesn't seem right, either, but its the best I'll do til TFL hires on a editor to clean up my copy)
It could be a terrible place, and it was run by someone that even this dirty liberal peacenik can only describe as a dictator, but on the other hand when you compare Iraq to its fellow countries you find that you had a surprisingly open-minded, advanced, and liberal (that's the good liberal, my Trotskite readers, not the capital L style hippies) towards its population.
Realize, Iraq is going to be a dictatiorship. It always will be. It can never be anything but. That's what happens when someone from an "advanced" country believes they know what's best and artificially binds a group of highly divergent tribes and religious people together.
