women in iraq are less free thanks to bush. yes or no?

Answer 1

Less free. The radical and fundamentalist Islamic elements have asserted power in areas that were previously secular. “Honor killings" are on the rise and women who have worn western clothing all their lives are now being terrorized. The reactionary elements have become dominant in many areas.

Answer 2

No one is really free in iraq, car/market/neighborhood bombings are sadly becoming the norm, intolerance/aggression between sunni and shia are at a all time high. Not just women are having a hard time, everyone is.
The only hope I see for women is once the US leave, Iraq will hopefully be more secular providing more opportunites for women than its neighbors.

Answer 3

Its both yes and no...they still have to subject to Islam's ruling on women but Bush placed the less extreme group on that issue in power...

Answer 4

I think that depends on what you consider free.

I consider myself free (as a woman) when I am able to rear my child in a land where he will not have two choices: Join a jihad or die as an infidel (unless he is from the wealthy ruling class, of course--then my rights as a woman include being a brood mare). I think the President is trying to give women better options for their children than what terrorism gives them.

I consider myself free (as a woman) when I can produce value for myself outside of my dependence on the whims of a man. I think the President is trying to give that to Iraqi women, and we already know what radical Islam gives them.

I consider myself free upon death, as a woman, if I die trying to live free.

Answer 5

N O, The women in Iraq and Afghanistan are a
whole lot more free than they were under Saddam and the Taliban!!

Answer 6

You mean are they less likely to get their family dragged off in the middle of the night never to be seen or heard from again? yes they are. Any problems with women's rights in Iraq are all due to the Muslims in control.

Answer 7

Iraqi Women's Bodies Are Battlefields for War Vendettas
By Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women.

The United States' so-called "liberation" of Iraqi women has made them less free than they were under the Baathist regime, with abduction, rape, and "honor" killings now a daily reality.

The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) recently issued a frightening report documenting the growing practice of public executions of women by Shia Militia. One of the report's more grisly accounts was a story of a young woman dragged by a wire wound around her neck to a close-by football field and then hung to the goal post. They pierced her body with bullets. Her brother came running trying to defend his sister. He was also shot and killed. Sunni extremists are no better: OWFI members estimate that no less than 30 women are executed monthly for honor related reasons.

Almost four years into the Bush Administration's ill fated adventure in Iraq, Iraqi women are worse off than they were under the Baathist regime in a country where, for decades, the freedoms and rights enjoyed by Iraqi women were the envy of women in most other countries of the Middle East.

Before the U.S. invasion, Iraqi women had high levels of education. Their strong and independent women's movement had successfully forced Saddam's government to pass the groundbreaking 1959 Family Law Act which ensured equal rights in matters of personal law. Iraqi women could inherit land and property; they had equal rights to divorce and custody of their children; they were protected from domestic violence within the marriage. In other words, they had achieved real gains in the struggle for equality between women and men. Iraqi women, like all Iraqis, certainly suffered from the political repression and lack of freedom, but the secular -- albeit brutal -- Baathist regime protected women from the religious extremism that denies freedom to a majority of women in the Arab world.

Answer 8

They're freer in the political sense, but they live in a much more dangerous place. I wouldn't even go outside if I lived there...

Answer 9

Less free than what?

Answer 10

you have bds man its been like that for ages so don't claim stuff that you don't know anything about plus I think women have more rights there than you know.