Hillary: Iraqi Women Better Off Under Saddam

NewsMax ^ | 2/27/04 | Limbacher

[stanz]

A real pissant.
Is this how she hopes to garner the women's vote in '08?

[cyncooper]

Thanks for the heads up on where it's at in the transcript.

I am reading the whole thing and I'm on page eight where she falsely implies we don't have a framework in mind of what type of governance should be implemented.

Bush and Bremer have both been very clear on it, and it is not the ascendance of theologic rulers.

Will keep reading...

[EGPWS]

While ignoring reports about the brutal dictator's rape rooms and other forms of persecution that were routine for women under his regime, Sen. Clinton insisted: "On paper, women had rights."

Hey, who's to argue with the "smartest woman in the world"?

That profound statement in itself is proof enough of Hitlery's deserving of such a title. Don't ya' think?

[Just mythoughts]

Hillry is talking to the minority of Iraq. Saddams wives..... i.e. Saddam the most recent Stalin reincarnation

[hattend]

I love how she says we are now "in a rush" to turn over the reigns of power to Iraquis. This after she and her fellow Dems were pounding Bush about getting out of the country ("it's a quagmire" comes to mind)

"I have argued for combining a turnover of the political reigns being done in a more timely and thoughtful way."

What a lying whore.

[DollyCali]

Hitlery : Idiot of Decade!

Thanks for posting the article again showing what a genius she is.

[VeniVidiVici]

No more would we be allowed to teach in Kurdish.

Ah, well there is your answer. She is a Kurd, which is a lower life form to the Baathists and Democrats.

Ranking just below Jews and White Western Europeans, the Kurds deserve what Sadaam gave them. Just ask any Democrat.

[FR_addict]

"Page 19."

Thanks. For some reason the "find" wasn't working on this document.

I didn't feel like reading all of what Hillary had to say. Have you found the rest of what the NewMax article says?

[hattend]

It's spread thoughout the whole document. NewsMax did seem to attribute some quotes out of context.

Hillary still sucks.

[sweetjane]

"If the Shi'ite majority *do* end up getting a government based on Islamic law, women in Iraq *will* end up in a terrible fix. They will be living under Iranian conditions or worse. Our occupation czar is putting off an election as long as he can for that very reason. He knows that if one were held tomorrow, the shi'ite fundamentalists would have sha'ria law next week, and then it's back to the good old 8th century."

This is so true. What Iraq needs is a secular government, and it's not likely to get it with the Shi'ites. I've been reading some books like "The Bookseller of Kabul" and "Reading Lolita in Tehran," and they put a human face on what women have to live with in Afghanistan, Iran, and the other countries that have sha'ria law.

But I would never go so far to say that Iraq would be better off under Saddam.

[the invisib1e hand]

i'm no fan of the clintons, but it's newsmax. better to read the transcripts for context.

[Paul C. Jesup]

PLEASE! OH PLEASE TELL ME WE GOT THIS COMMENT ON TAPE!!

[sweetjane]

I don't think valkyrieanne was saying women in Iraq were better off under Saddam. I think the point is that women in Iraq will not be well off under the Shi'ites if they come to power because the Shi'ites will likely institute sha'ria law, where women lose all or most rights and are forced to wear the veil.

[NYC GOP Chick]

While ignoring reports about the brutal dictator's rape rooms and other forms of persecution that were routine for women under his regime, Sen. Clinton insisted: "On paper, women had rights."

You see, *that's* what matters to these ivory tower, head-up-their-asses leftists -- what's "on paper." During the Rodham-Clinton presidency, what mattered most was getting some psychopath dictator (be it Kim Jong-il or yassir arafart) to sign some silly paper, agreeing to something they'd never honor. Just like Neville Chamberlain frantically waving that piece of paper and shrieking about "Peace in our time!"

[Calpernia]

Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life.

Then Enemy from Within Ping!

[Calpernia]

Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life.

Then Enemy from Within Ping!

[firebrand]

Thanks, Hillary! You are giving us plenty of ammunition for future freeps!

[Born Conservative]

[cyncooper]

She says this administration pursued a "unilateral" approach even before 9/11.

She says before going into Iraq they were "dismissive" of the UN, but now turns to them for help.

She cites Kosovo and Nato as examples of how to do it the right way as opposed to the Bush administration's handling of Iraq, and claims "we're" seen as liberators not occupiers there, implying the reverse in Iraq.

Then she says it. After laying out the premise of "even before 9/11", she says (obviously referring to her "husband's" administration):

Cooperative international efforts did help prevent terrorist attacks before 9/11: prevented terrorists from blowing up airliners; attacking major targets during the millenium and I think there are other examples that all of you know that we could point to.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like she's back to blaming President Bush for 9/11.

[cyncooper]

I understood exactly what she said.