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I actually have a burkha, one of the blue Afghani-style ones, received as a gift after doing some troop support. It is the most dehumanizing and oppressive thing you can imagine. It gave me the most incredible feeling of outrage - I wanted to kill all the Taliban with baseball bats, because shooting them would be too quick. I'm really happy to have it as a reminder of what our soldiers freed them from.

THANK YOU so very much for helping the troops...you are truly an Angel and you are most likely making far more of a positive difference in the war effort than you may admit..May God Bless you and may you have a beautiful, long and carefree life.
Re "I wanted to kill all the Taliban with baseball bats, because shooting them would be too quick." I can hardly imagine how the Afghani women must feel...they had to wear those things their entire lives. Many probably never knew any different and so they didn't feel your understandable outrage, but now that they have been freed I'm guessing that they feel much as you do, if not even angrier, as they have been deprived of education and most of the rest of Life that the rest of us all take for granted.
Re "I'm really happy to have it as a reminder of what our soldiers freed them from." What a magnificently poignant and touching sentiment.
If you can bring yourself to put it on for just a moment and have your picture taken in it, posting that picture as well as your feelings about it on your Free Republic page would be a wonderful thing to do that many would find inspiring.

It just looks like a blue sack with feet. I do have pictures - I brought it in to work and had a co-worker shoot a couple against the whitewall. The IT director came out of his office and was utterly floored (good for an extra giggle, he doesn't get that way often). I don't know how to put pictures on my homepage. Don't I have to sign up for Photobucket or something?