Down the River Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.37 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 68.98.145.15 From: "David Bier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Yahoo-Profile: bafsllc Sender: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list [email protected]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [email protected] List-Id: <osint.yahoogroups.com> Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:31:58 -0000 Subject: [osint] Reply-To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
"When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big disappointment." "Souhail said the United States, a crucial backstage player keen for a deal that meets U.S.-backed deadlines, had let the Shi'ite Islamists and Kurds in government do as they wish. "We have received news that we were not backed by our friends including the Americans. They left the Islamists to come to an agreement with the Kurds," she said. A good opportunity to see just who has been betrayed by Bush43.=20 Souhail in six months has gone from being idolized by Bush43 and hugged by Laura to betrayed by Bush...along with millions of other Iraqi women who will now be essentially slaves in their own nation.=20 By law agreed to and supported by Bush43's ambassador to Iraq. Check out the photo of Souhail...it might be the last time you will ever be permitted to view her face. What more can you expect from a chickenhawk warrior for Iraqi democracy and freedom? An islamist nation welded to a creed that dictates death to infidels. US! Down the river indeed...without a paddle and being fitted for a chador. David Bier http://billmon.org/archives/002105.html Down the River Secular Iraqis said on Wednesday a proposed new constitution left no room for doubt about the Islamist path the country was heading down two years after a U.S.-led invasion was supposed to produce greater freedoms . . . The draft says Islam is the official religion of the state and there can be no law that contradicts the "fixed principles of its rulings." . . . Language guaranteeing "rights and freedoms" is subordinate to the primary position given to Islam, opponents say. Reuters Iraq secularists denounce "Islamist" constitution=20 (http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=3DtopNews&storyID= =3D2005-08-24T144832Z_01_SCH449958_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-SECULARISTS-C-COL.XM= L) August 24, 2005 "When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big disappointment." Safia Taleb al-Souhail Iraq's ambassador to Egypt Reuters interview (http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=3DtopNews&storyID= =3D2005-08-24T144832Z_01_SCH449958_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-SECULARISTS-C-COL.XM= L) August 24, 2005 ______________________ There was an emotional moment during Wednesday's State of the Union address when the mother of a 25-year-old Marine killed in Iraq, Janet Norwood, embraced an Iraqi voter, Safia Taleb al-Souhail. They were among the guests invited to sit with the president's wife Laura Bush for the annual address. Voice of America Iraqi Voter and Marine's Mother Embrace During State of the Union (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-03-voa11.cfm) February 3, 2005 As lawmakers stood and cheered, al-Souhail, holding back tears, flashed a "V" sign and showed her voting finger, too. CNN Bush pushes his agenda (http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/sotu.main/) February 3, 2005 victory.jpg (http://billmon.org/archives/victory.jpg) "One of Iraq's leading democracy and human rights advocates is Safia Taleb al-Souhail . . . Three days ago in Baghdad, Safia was finally able to vote for the leaders of her country -- and we are honored that she is with us tonight." George W. Bush State of the Union Address (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-11.html) February 2, 2005 There was a cheap metaphor to be had in the remarkable moment when Safia al-Souhail, who had just voted in the Iraqi elections, and Janet Norwood, whose U.S. Marine son was killed in Iraq, embraced during the President's State of the Union speech last week . . . Why is it cheap to see it as a metaphor? Because nothing should detract from the emotional truth of the moment, the magnitude of Norwood's loss, the exhilaration of al-Souhail's ballot . . . It is a moment for solemn appreciation of the Iraqi achievement=97however it may turn out=97and for hope. Joe Klein The Incredible Shrinking Democrats (http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1025086,00.html) February 6, 2005 hug.jpg (http://billmon.org/archives/hug.jpg) When Norwood started to pull back, the chain from her son's dog tags, which she had been holding, became entangled in al-Souhail's accoutrements. The women had to disentangle themselves on live television, the awkwardness lending the moment an unrehearsed charm. It was, by any measure, magic. Washington Post The Moment That America Embraced (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62311-2005Feb3.html) February 4, 2005 ______________________ Souhail said the United States, a crucial backstage player keen for a deal that meets U.S.-backed deadlines, had let the Shi'ite Islamists and Kurds in government do as they wish. "We have received news that we were not backed by our friends including the Americans. They left the Islamists to come to an agreement with the Kurds," she said. Reuters Iraq secularists denounce "Islamist" constitution (http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=3DtopNews&storyID= =3D2005-08-24T144832Z_01_SCH449958_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-SECULARISTS-C-COL.XM= L) August 24, 2005 fingers.jpg http://billmon.org/archives/fingers.jpg Posted by billmon at August 24, 2005 12:13 PM=20 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->=20 Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~->=20 -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-o= [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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