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Mainstream media ignores negative news to aid Bush administration
by Brian Richards
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/04/05 — In the words of Gomer Pyle-Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. Just Google the name [Safia Taleb al-Suhail] for news and you will discover that very few members, if any, of the so-called mainstream media consider this lady’s most recent quote newsworthy and frankly, that’s newsworthy to me.
You may recall her-she was the Iraqi woman George W. Bush exploited during his most recent State of the Union address-the daughter of a man who it was claimed was murdered by Saddam Hussein and who was used as a ’prop’ during the president’s performance when, sitting up there in the balcony with First Lady Laura Bush, she embraced the mother of an American soldier killed in the illegal war in Iraq.
Well, al-Suhail has been speaking again but this time she’s not too happy. Recently she said: "When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve rights and the position of women," she said. "But look what has happened-we have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It’s a big disappointment."
According to al-Suhail, the United States sold out Iraqi women in a quest to have a constitution approved by Iraq’s National Assembly according to their timetable.
"We have received news that we were not backed by our friends, including the Americans," she said. "They left the Islamists to come to an agreement with the Kurds."
The draft constitution allows religious sects to run Iraq’s family courts, which will probably leave decisions about divorce, inheritance and other issues important to women in the hands of Islamic clerics. "This will lead to creating religious courts," al-Suhail said. "But we should be giving priority to the law."
Now, why isn’t that news?
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5 September 2005, 08:12
America sold out American women’s rights a long time ago. The Equal Rights Ammendment was defeated by the Reaganites and the Republicans. These Taliban politicians do not want women in this country to have equal rights with men. Women still make only 71cents to every dollar that men make here. Only a few women hold senate seats or seats in congress. Few women hold top management jobs in the corporations that rule the country, etc. Women have only had the vote here for less than 75years. American "Christian" churches teach that women are not worthy of top positions with the churches, and American t.v. still reinforces the sterotypes that women are only fit to clean house and do dumb dumb work.
5 September 2005, 23:03
What could be expected? A islamic state could never been avoided at the first place. The alternative is a Bath party driven central government.
The same thing happens in Afghanistan. The U.S. Government does not enforce human rights why should the care about women rights!