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Was Saddam Hussein a feminist?
Jewish World Review ^
| March 2004
| Nat Hentoff
Posted on 03/30/2004 10:06:50 PM PST by jwalburg
In a February speech in Washington, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, often regarded as an eventual Oval Office candidate, voiced her concern about "some of the pullbacks in the rights" she said were given to Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein. Not even Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has attacked President Bush for engaging in a "senseless war in Iraq," has gone so far as to praise Hussein as a supporter of women's rights.
Hillary Clinton did try to qualify her softening of the dictator's horrific image by noting that these women's rights were "on paper." However, she went on to give substance to the rights on paper: "They went to school; they participated in the professions; they participated in government and in business; as long as they stayed out of his way, they had considerable freedom of movement."
John Burns who reported for The New York Times from Iraq before, during the war, and now wrote of a paramilitary group once led by Hussein's oldest (since forcibly deceased) son, Uday: "Masked and clad in black, (the men) make the women kneel in busy city squares, along crowded sidewalks, or in neighborhood plots, then behead them with swords." The women's crime, said their families, was having criticized Uday's benevolent father.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clinton; feminist; hillary; iraqiwomen; johnburns; nathentoff; saddam; torture
Just in case Hillary tries to pull something, we should remember this.
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:06:50 PM PST
by
jwalburg
To: jwalburg
Put that foot back in that big mouth
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:10:25 PM PST
by
GeronL
(www.armorforcongress.com..... put a FReeper in Congress)
To: jwalburg
Saddam Hussein!? Saddam Hussein treats objects like they were women!
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:17:46 PM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(I could never vote for a guy with a chin like that.)
To: jwalburg
Masked and clad in black, (the men) make the women kneel in busy city squares, along crowded sidewalks, or in neighborhood plots, then behead them with swords." While that is somewhat troubling, on the upside Saddam did support abortion rights.
To: jwalburg
***Hillary Clinton did try to qualify her softening of the dictator's horrific image by noting that these women's rights were "on paper." ***
This is the cruxt of the whole liberal argument. Intention, not substance, is what they look at. If the intention is good (in their eyes, of course), regardless of the outcome, it is to be applauded.
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:18:06 PM PST
by
irishtenor
(Taglines for sale - please inquire within.)
To: rogueleader
That must be it! Lol
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:23:44 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(Mr. Kerry, why did you remain in VVAW after the assassination plot meeting?)
To: jwalburg
What a stupid, stupid woman!
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:25:51 PM PST
by
Humidston
(You heard it here - BUSH/RICE - 2004)
To: Humidston
NO. She's the "smartest woman in the world." Tell that to the wife who opened her door to find her husband's body chopped up in a box on her doorstep in Iraq.
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posted on
03/30/2004 10:27:58 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(Mr. Kerry, why did you remain in VVAW after the assassination plot meeting?)
To: jwalburg
My kind and gentle husband can turn into a raving lunatic when Hillary Clinton's name is said out loud. His reaction to her name is almost funny and I can't wait to share this story with him.
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posted on
03/31/2004 3:43:37 AM PST
by
Arpege92
(Ketchup and coffee is like Kerry and the truth....neither go well together. - rickmichaels)
To: jwalburg
He did murder babies "for the good of the people" (or for vanity, convenience, the pursuit of pleasure).
8 THE CRUELEST COVER-UP ~ Tales of Saddam's Brutality
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posted on
03/31/2004 6:52:32 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(TF160 was about terror.Delta was about terror.The Seals were about Terror!- xzins w/TF160-Reagan yrs)
To: jwalburg
In a February speech in Washington, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, often regarded as an eventual Oval Office candidate, voiced her concern about "some of the pullbacks in the rights" she said were given to Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein.
Two words RAPE ROOMS!
Can Hillary really be this stupid?
No answer required.
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posted on
03/31/2004 7:57:04 AM PST
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: Mia T
Ping
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posted on
03/31/2004 7:58:30 AM PST
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: Valin
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posted on
03/31/2004 8:21:55 AM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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