Will women to get vote Iraq?

[yelladawg]

Under the new Iraq government that is scheduled to take power June 30th, will women have the right to vote? Will bush insure this right?

[Skittles]

1. LOL

Bush doesn't give a shit about the rights of American women, let alone IRAQI WOMEN.

[bryant69]

2. Hard to say

It's easy enough to suggest that he just doesn't care; but it is one of the more obvious points of contrast between some societies in the middle east and our own. I suspect he would like to be able to say, "I am in favor of woman having the right to vote everywhere. I dont' know why my democratic friends are so upset that we have brought this essential right to Iraq?"

Of course that's a bogus question, but he'd like to be able to ask it anyway.

Bryant
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[mzmolly]

3. I believe they could vote under Saddam so I would hope they could under

Bush...

[havocmom]

5. Yep. And the women of Kuwait can't vote. Can Saudi woman vote?

How come we support regimes which oppress women and invade/liberate those who let them vote?

Perhaps Saddam was just trying to liberate Kuwaiti women (in addition to stopping the Kuwaitis from slant drilling in Iraq's oil field) back in 90?

[mzmolly]

7. Yeah! Excellent point!!!

:toast:

[rockymountaindem]

4. Why would we let women vote?

We made the same mistake here in Amurika and all's that did was embolden them durn libruls and get us a bunch of useless Predsidents like that communist FDR and pretty boy Kennedy. Why would we make the same mistake in Iraq that we made here in the US?

On th' other hand, it just might serve them Iraqis right for makin' us liberate them on account of they had dubya MD's.

Oh no! This isn't FreeRepublic! This is... <gasp> th' "other place". Help Help! I'm lost on the internet! I told them folks not to build the information super-highway on my property! That's it, I'm never payin' taxes ag'in.

Durn tootin, I tell you what..

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Yes

Straight from the Occupying Power's mouth:
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040310_constitution_barwari.html

Constitution Marks New Start for Iraqi Women, Minister Says
...
NGOs have been holding "discussion groups" with women around the country to generate interest in the democratic process and inform women of the importance of registering to vote, the minister for municipalities and public works said.

[veracity]

8. They had the right to vote!!!!

Iraqi women had totaly equalit under the law, and were the most liberated of all women in any Moslem nation. They were the only women with equal custody rights in divorce cases, and were only put in desperate straits after the embargo was set in motion. Hussein was a secular leader, who was very wary of the Shia, and kept them in tow...quite brutally, but for obvious reasons.

The women of Iraq are in dire danger of being set back generations. Most people have no clue... Here's an important perspective of the Bush assault on women in general, and Iraq women in particular.

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/george_w__bush_s_assault_on_wo.html

[yelladawg]

9. Women still do not vote in Kuwait

Ten years later in Kuwait, women still cannot vote.