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Posted on 12/01/2001 7:01:26 PM PST by Dubya_gal
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ASHINGTON - The call from Andrea Ball, Laura Bush's chief of staff, was urgent: Could 12 Afghan women, in Washington for a leadership workshop, dash over to the White House to meet with her?
Melanne Verveer, head of an international women's leadership group and Hillary Rodham Clinton's top staff member when her husband was president, was happy to oblige. She hurried the women out of a session on communication skills and led them to the mansion.
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Women do and women vote in the USA.
Women do and women vote in the USA.
They shouldn't. Care about what goes on in Afghanistan with women, that is. Although the voting thing...I've noticed women tend to be natural socialists and gungrabbers, so if they were disfranchised we might still have a Republic today.
Laura Bush is just as we all have gotten to know her.
As much as you would like to portray her as blinkered by her husband, that idea is neither true nor believable.
Beautifully said. I'd add having access to medical care--and not to die in childbirth at a rate which is probably near the world's top deaths in childbirth per thousand.
My point is it isn't the purpose of the Government of the United States to promote basic human rights in OTHER countries. They're not covered by the Consitution. Americans shouldn't be taxed, and their soldier's lives put at risk, defending non-Americans outside America. We ain't the UN. Not that there should be a UN...I believe in sovereignty and national independence and staying out of other countries' wars and internal affairs.
Medical care! Now you want to put Afghanistan on welfare too? Do you support socialized medicine here at home in America as well?
Just my opinion of course.
So you're saying you think our forefathers, who designed the Constitution and this Republic, intended for the federal government to tax the American people in order to give that money to people in Afghanistan (or other non-Americans) for health care, or that American soldiers should go to these countries to make sure they don't mistreat their women with their religion? Somehow, I don't believe a word you say.
Larry, don't bother engaging this creep. wild's a disrupter. Don't waste the energy on someone's who's probably going to be banned in the very near future.
Kim Gandy, president of the National Organizaton for Women... questioned the Bush administration's commitment to ensuring that Afghan women have a role in a post-Taliban government.
It seems to me that that NOW gang IS trying to get too radical. The Afghan society is not at the same level as the US society. With the exception of some neanderthals, America has grown into accepting the concept of women being equal to men. The Afghan culture is NOT at the same level, and trying to force them to buy into our standards before they are ready to accept them will cause nothing but problems.
I get such a kick out of the reporters who think this tragedy developed the Bush's, like it really took terrorist killing in our homeland 5000 + people. The liberal media will never realize it is because of their character that both Laura and George Bush are the leaders they are and have met the need of their country. The Bush's actions are just what I expect of them.
This reporter makes it sound as if The Whitehouse begged for the Afghan women to attend. I don't believe that for a minute.
I left this post after the 2nd reply - I'm very glad I came back - thank you for posting the pictures. Love them!
I thought that liberals were disruptors...that's actually what I thought you were, coming in and spouting off about medical care and percentages of who has access to medical care and the like. Sounds pretty liberal to me. And, as your post implies, if you are in the "majority" on FR, or are influential with the powers that be and thus I'll be banned, well, what can I say?
If you're right, then let me make my case to you. No, I'm not a disruptor. I'm not some liberal poser. I believe in the Constitution and in limited government. I believe in putting America first. I believe in resisting socialism and leftism wherever I find it, and that includes internationalism and feminism (especially when they're combined). I'm 24 and have voted Republican since I registered to vote at 18. And you're telling me FR ain't my home? I ask you to recalculate your decision in light of these new facts I present to you.
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