[rantblogger]

"The general lack of security has forced many women out of public life, and constitutes a major obstacle to the advancement of women's rights," Amnesty notes in its Iraq report.

The one exception was during the election when the world watched smiling Iraqi women walking to the polls, coming back with purple fingers pointed in victory.

Feminists have been immorally silent about treatment of their Arab and African sisters under sharia law.

[teenyelliott]

We can disagree with the president about the war. I do. But to not accept, much less praise, the results of Iraq's election smacks of stubborn myopia about the power of the human spirit and the lure of democracy.

How can you disagree with the war, Bush's "botched, no exit plan preemptive war" (and no doubt illegal), and yet praise the election? Iraqis would have never had the opportunity to vote if it were not for Bush's preemptive war. The hypocrisy is deafening.

The power of the human spirit? They had no problem with Hussein's 'love' of the Iraqi human spirit. Lure of Democracy? We were arrogant to assume that the Iraqi's want democracy, weren't we?