Posted on 05/03/2006 7:51:45 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Some radical feminists and anti-war liberals have very short memories. It's just three years after Saddam Hussein's ouster and some would have us believe the tyrant was in fact a protector of women's rights in Iraq. That Iraq under Saddam actually had progressive, pro-women policies that are now being "rolled back" thanks to the Bush administration.
A recent report by "Global Exchange" and "Code Pink" entitled "Iraqi Women Under Siege" concluded that "the occupation of Iraq has not resulted in greater equality and freedom for women" than they had under Saddam Hussein.
Much of the anti-war propagandists' defense of Saddam as a champion of women's rights rests on his willingness to allow women to vote (for him), drive cars, own property, get an education and work. What they choose to ignore, however, is the systematic rapes, torture, beheadings, honor killings, forced fertility programs, and declining literacy rates that also characterized Saddam's regime. A few examples can only begin to illustrate the cruelty and suffering endured by thousands of Iraqi women.
One torture technique favored by Saddam's henchman and his sons involved raping a detainee's mother or sister in front of him until he talked. In Saddam's torture chambers women, when not tortured and raped, spent years in dark jails. If lucky, their suckling children were allowed to be with them. In most cases, however, these children were considered a nuisance to be disposed of; mass graves currently being uncovered contain many corpses of children buried alive with their mothers.
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it is amazing that the headline needs to be stated
....also known as Landfill leachate, Natch!
The Left never met an enemy of America that they didn't like. If Hitler was still around, they would be telling us how awful we are for picking on him. After all, he was the victim of an abusive father. They pretend to be humanists,but their hatred of America rules their hearts and souls.
The liberals are trying to rehabilitate Saddam -- pretty soon, he'll be depicted as the victim, and President Bush the villain -- oh, wait, they are already doing it.
I like this part:
"The revisionist history offered by those opposed to the Bush administration--whether it comes from bad judgment, a lack of information or a desire for political advantage--has grave consequences. A brutal dictator who tortures his own people cannot be a champion of women's rights. To pretend otherwise is to dishonor the memory of the thousands of innocent Iraqi women who died in a senseless brutal reign of terror. It also does a grave disservice to the men and women of this country who died or were injured to liberate Iraq."
I do wish she would have drawn a contrast with Cindy Sheehan. 500,000 mothers in Iraq lost their sons in the Iran Iraq war with military service terms that were hardly as voluntary or reasonable as Casey Sheehan's.
Some radical feminists (Marxists) are even excusing the Taliban so nothing is surprising.
Ping to Khamas Questioners! (also spelled Khammas or Khammunist)
Saddam isn't a feminist. But he is a girly man.
Just post-natal abortion - nothing to see here. Move along!
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