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To: Elroy who wrote (252653)	9/25/2005 12:46:11 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572158

re: You're confusing rights on the books (and not enforced) with actual rights. No one could have sued Uday for sexual harassment and won (under Saddam). Huh? Women had equal rights under SH, they won't under the new constitution. Limited inheritance, no more western dress, the husbands right to beat his wife... all these things are the new Iraq. You are dreaming, not looking at what is actually happening. re: You're exaggerating up the Yazoo here. In Iran, the mullahs override any reform effort before it starts, and the power to do so is institutionalized in the basic Iranian law, so the reform effort is essentially nil. I don't know the specifics of the new Iraqi constitution, but I doubt the Iraqi mullahs have a veto over legislation they deem "unislamic". It's a big difference. Maybe you should pay more attention. Under the new Iraqi constitution, the "legislature" can't pass any laws that contradict Shari'a law... which is whatever the Mullahs say it is. A veto. They do say that the new Iraq will bow to "democratic principles", but they don't say what that means. It's Iran, no exaggeration. 4 days on a bus tour? It would take another Katrina to make me do that. John