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ebonlockThe women of Iraq are free, free I tells ya...only except they aren't, so much:
via Pandagon's link to the NYTimes:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 - A working draft of Iraq's new constitution would cede a strong role to Islamic law and could sharply curb women's rights, particularly in personal matters like divorce and family inheritance.
The document's writers are also debating whether to drop or phase out a measure enshrined in the interim constitution, co-written last year by the Americans, requiring that women make up at least a quarter of the parliament.
The draft of a chapter of the new constitution obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday guarantees equal rights for women as long as those rights do not "violate Shariah," or Koranic law....
One of the critical passages is in Article 14 of the chapter, a sweeping measure that would require court cases dealing with matters like marriage, divorce and inheritance to be judged according to the law practiced by the family's sect or religion.
So women are now free-er to have babies and obey men while men are free-er to do everything else. Right, got it. Somehow I didn't think this grand excursion into democratizing the world was meant to pull up short at a full blown theocracy, but as a damn evil liberal I haven't exactly been on the mailing list. I'm actually looking forward to hearing the GOP talking points spin this one. Should be entertaining.
Oh and if you're still following the Plame case you'll love this, page one, baby!
A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials.
Plame -- who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo -- is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document, which was written on June 10, 2003, by an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), according to a source who described the memo to The Washington Post.
The paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.
Anyone reading that paragraph should have been aware that it contained secret information, though that designation was not specifically attached to Plame's name and did not describe her status as covert, the sources said.
Veee-ry interesting. I can almost hear the calliope-like chimes of the spin machine tinkling to life as I type this...
via Pandagon's link to the NYTimes:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 - A working draft of Iraq's new constitution would cede a strong role to Islamic law and could sharply curb women's rights, particularly in personal matters like divorce and family inheritance.
The document's writers are also debating whether to drop or phase out a measure enshrined in the interim constitution, co-written last year by the Americans, requiring that women make up at least a quarter of the parliament.
The draft of a chapter of the new constitution obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday guarantees equal rights for women as long as those rights do not "violate Shariah," or Koranic law....
One of the critical passages is in Article 14 of the chapter, a sweeping measure that would require court cases dealing with matters like marriage, divorce and inheritance to be judged according to the law practiced by the family's sect or religion.
So women are now free-er to have babies and obey men while men are free-er to do everything else. Right, got it. Somehow I didn't think this grand excursion into democratizing the world was meant to pull up short at a full blown theocracy, but as a damn evil liberal I haven't exactly been on the mailing list. I'm actually looking forward to hearing the GOP talking points spin this one. Should be entertaining.
Oh and if you're still following the Plame case you'll love this, page one, baby!
A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials.
Plame -- who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo -- is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document, which was written on June 10, 2003, by an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), according to a source who described the memo to The Washington Post.
The paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.
Anyone reading that paragraph should have been aware that it contained secret information, though that designation was not specifically attached to Plame's name and did not describe her status as covert, the sources said.
Veee-ry interesting. I can almost hear the calliope-like chimes of the spin machine tinkling to life as I type this...
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Date: 2005-07-21 06:12 pm (UTC)Maybe Iraq is a sort of testing ground for us--learning our lessons there on making a better theocracy here.
I do find it interesting that in the Middle East, democracy requires quotas and a 25% presence in the parliamentary body of women, but here in the US... not so much.