A Bowl of Stupid

If things weren’t go bad enough, predictably, it turns out that the United States’ so-called “liberation” of Iraqi women has made them less free than they were under the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussain, with abduction, rape, and “honor” killings now a daily reality. 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.

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. I have no glib comments in response to this story. Just absolute disgust of the Bush Administration and the others that have caused this to happen, and allow it to continue on a daily basis unfettered.

Read the entire story at AlterNet.