You are a joke. You are spouting the same line we heard about Afghanistan--under the Russians. How wonderful everyone had it. All the rights they enjoyed.
You're not fooling anybody. Saddam EMBRACED Islam. He DID AWAY with all of the "on paper" rights that the women and others in Iraq had (never in fact) enjoyed.
Women could vote? Run for office? LOL. You really believe that actually happened in any meaningful fashion?
What any of this has to do with the subject of this thread is beyond me. But apparently the word went out, and the idea is to talk about anything besides Cindy Sheehan's outrageous remarks.
Yeah, sure he did. Like Stalin embraced the Church and Russian patriotism after his buddy Adolf threatened his regime.
Saddam Hussein tried to survive, that is all. If you believe in his religious commitment you are very easily fooled.
Perhaps you could educate yourself on the matter. Women did have far greater rights there than a number of ME countries that we call "friends." And if Islamic Law is made part of the new constitution, they will have far less.