Iraq Fighting Underscores Power Struggle

It's a fetus and it's off-topic

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well, a) that's irrelevant and b) partial birth abortion is normally used on dead fetuses which otherwise would have to be carried to term and delivered at risk to the mother's health. Nobody does them for birth control, and if you outlawed it you'd force people like a couple I know and love to carry a dead fetus to term. Get out of the kool aid bucket, Jack. The right is wrong about everything about abortion.

Well, you can vote for Huckabee then.

Oh, that's right...

We can agree the White House has subverted our democracy, enriched their pals and manipulated the media.
This suffices to seize power, to loot the country and to leave town before the yokels sense the scam and send the posse.
Accusing them of more than this misses the mark. The Bushies are not smart enough to ruin the nation so completely.
The State Department sold US nuclear secrets to the highest bidders, but this program dates back to at least 1996.
The CIA has murdered at least six millions civilians since 1950 [not counting victims in Iraq]. They wrote the book on how to make enemies and to terrify friends.
The White House never intended to ruin the economy. Why would thieves prompt a bank to go bust before the heist was complete?
The US military has been a joke since it last won in 1945.

Indeed they are.... those who can think have been greatly out numbered today...

And some more of their "rights" 6

Torture. The Iraqi Government routinely tortures and kills female dissidents and the female relatives of Iraqi oppositionists and defectors. Victims include Safiyah Hassan, the mother of two Iraqi defectors, who was killed after publicly criticizing the Iraqi Government for killing her sons after their return to Iraq. Women in Saddam's jails are subjected to the following forms of torture: brutal beatings, systematic rape, electrical shocks, and branding. (U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2001, March 2002; U.S. Department of State, Iraq: A Population Silenced, December 2002)



Murder. In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)

Really so you have been there?

And here is all those rights womwn enjoyed in Iraq under Saddam, keep drinking the Kool-aid 7. Iraq under Saddam, if you are a woman, you could face:

Beheading. Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of "Fedayeen Saddam," the paramilitary organization led by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son, have beheaded in public more than 200 women throughout the country, dumping their severed heads at their families' doorsteps. Many families have been required to display the victim's head on their outside fences for several days. These barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any proper judicial procedures and many of the victims were not engaged in prostitution, but were targeted for political reasons. For example, Najat Mohammad Haydar, an obstetrician in Baghdad, was beheaded after criticizing the corruption within health services. (Amnesty International Report, Iraq: Systematic Torture of Political Prisoners, August 2001; Iraqi Women's League in Damascus, Syria)

Rape. The Iraqi Government uses rape and sexual assault of women to achieve the following goals: to extract information and forced confessions from detained family members; to intimidate Iraqi oppositionists by sending videotapes showing the rape of female family members; and to blackmail Iraqi men into future cooperation with the regime. Some Iraqi authorities even carry personnel cards identifying their official "activity" as the "violation of women's honor." (U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2001, March 2002; Iraq Research and Documentation Project, Harvard University)

There were 39murders in the city of Detroit in January, I guess we should close the police department because they are a failure.

Your analogy is highly flawed. It's like saying our schools are a failure because the occasional whack job goes in and shoots people.

couch2000: The grand dragon just called. He wants you to come by the KKK meeting and pick up that load of sheets for the laundry. Oh, and he asked if you'd also stop and pick up a jug of purple koolaid for the hodown at the Shady Pine trailor park community center tonight.

"...just trying to Help."

It's OK. Just let it go. Simply be sanguine in knowing you will be one of the 30% voting for McCain.

Not off topic or anything, Couch Potato!