Isn't it a form of poetic justice that a "Connecticut Yankee in King Reagan's Court", the crown price of the Christian right.....sponsored by conservative American Christians and the American Petroleum Industry, would preside over the creation of the two newest "Islamic Republics" on this planet, bought and paid for with the lives and limbs of duped young American soldiers ?
Frank Rich's column in the NY Times today, titled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html">Someone tell the president the war is over</a> . could just as appropriately be titled, <b>Someone tell Bush that his presidency is over</b>
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A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll - a match for the 32 percent that approved L.B.J.'s handling of Vietnam in early March 1968. (The two presidents' overall approval ratings have also converged: 41 percent for Johnson then, 42 percent for Bush now.) On March 31, 1968, as L.B.J.'s ratings plummeted further, he announced he wouldn't seek re-election, commencing our long extrication from that quagmire.
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The damage to conservative Christian's perception of Bush, with regard to the loss of women's rights under "Bush style" democracy", about to transpire in Iraq and Afghanistan, is partially mitigated by their own extremist, Biblical interpretation of the inferior status of women..........
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4144760.stm
Last Updated: Sunday, 14 August 2005,
Election hopes of Afghan women
By Tom Coghlan in Qalat, Zabul province
....But while the women advocate change, Ms Pekai in particular is adamant there should be strict limits.
"We live in an Islamic society," she says. "We want our rights, but only according to the rules and regulations of Sharia law."
"I agree for instance that a woman should be escorted by a male relative when she goes out."
She explains how a Western aid agency recently offered her election training in Germany.
"I asked them who will come as my legal guardian and they said 'you don't need a legal guardian in Germany'.
"I said in that case I didn't want to go. They were very surprised."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines
August 14, 2005
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Deal Is Elusive in Iraqi Talks
............Shiite officials also claim to have secured a controversial concession that critics say will threaten the rights of Iraqi women.
Shiite negotiator Baha Araji, reached via cellphone during a mid-negotiation cigarette break, said that personal status issues such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance would be subject to the religious authorities of each respective faith.
The clause, if it remains, would probably provoke a fierce reaction from women's rights activists, who maintain that their rights will be compromised if subjected to purely religious law..............
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http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/pswomen.asp
While Scripture teaches that a woman's role is not identical to that of men in every respect, and that pastoral leadership is assigned to men, it also teaches that women are equal in value to men.
http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp
XVIII. The Family
.....A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. (Ephesians 5: 22-23)
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My observations are that women who fall under the influence of the Koran or the Bible are subjected to humiliating affronts to their sensibilities and are relegated to second class status, with their political power and civil rights compromised.
Religious extremism, at the hands of president Bush or a shiite mullah, compromises the rights and the influence of women.
Look around you....the favored issues for "discussion" here at TFP politics are "Right to Life vs. Right to Choose" (Schiavo, full term abortion, etc.) "Gun Rights", Flag "waving", "wearing, "burning"......in short....<b>Guns, God, Patriotism via symbols</b>. Politicians are aware of this.
Where are the politically conscious women who object to subserviance at the hands of the bible, the koran, or at the hand of our misguided and incompetent puppet, our "Connecticut Yankee"?
We Americans all live a step away from martial law, we traded our freedom and rights for soothing platitudes of Bible thumping, conservative charlatans, who are spreading their fundamentalism worldwide, as they "democratize" at gunpoint!