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From: sulak@ge-dab.ge.com (John Sulak)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: equal rights?
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Date: 15 Sep 90 04:45:04 GMT
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In article <9009062313.aa07955@ICS.UCI.EDU>, tittle@zola.ICS.UCI.EDU (Cindy Tittle) writes:
> While I agree that this is a senseless and barbaric practice to
> consider men's lives more expendable than women's please note that in
> this case, we hardly have a situation where the women in Iraq/Kuwait
> demanded that they be let free and the hell with the men.  It is the
> Iraqi government that is being backward and beknighted in their
> attitudes.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Iraqi government was simply
responding to President Bush's complaint that the Iraqis were "even
holding women and children" to paraphrase the President.  Remember,
President Bush invaded Panama because the Panamanian troops made an
American woman feel uncomfortable as she and other soldiers stormed a
barricade near Noreiga's residence.

[Don't get me wrong, I do not like the Iraqi government one bit and
the thought of nuclear weapons in their hands scares me.  I did like
Iraqi clever name for its foreign "guests": "Human Shield" because
they shield Iraqi government troops and citizens from US attack and in
response to the US's "Desert Shield" to shield the Saudi desert.]


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