Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Let's see, what doesn't get much press.... Just for starters, 1/2 the population of the country can now do something they've never been allowed to do ever before - vote.


Voting in Iraq? This is the first I've heard of it! Why hasn't the media covered this? Viss1 sure has egg on his face now.
If this is just for starters, you must have some really good stuff that you are not telling us.

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
How many little girls in Iraq were ever priveledged to get an education. Now all have hope that they may learn to read, write, and take part in governing their nation.


Iraq was probably the most progressive middle eastern country as far as women's issues are concerned(which means they were still pretty backward). Sadam even had a woman in his cabinet.

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Really now, are you f'n kidding me?


No, I'm not.

Dueling Duratecs '95 SE V6 MTX 0 Mods '04 Mazda6 S Wagon '03 Kawasaki Z1000 But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche