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To: Elroy who wrote (278973)	3/9/2006 4:45:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572161

In fact, Iraq like Iran had some of the best educated women in the ME.....that's changing now esp. in the Shia areas of Iraq My understanding was that Iraq experienced tremendous brain drain under Saddam. When he took power in '80 or whenever it was Iraq's economy was the equal of Spain's economy. Then everyone who could (the educated, wealthy, and skilled) left. I think you are confusing Iraq with Iran. Saddam came to power in the late 1960s although he didn't become president until 1979. Very few people were allowed to flee. It was Iranians who left Iran when the Shah got deposed in 1979. Many of them fled to CA.....Los Angeles. At the beginning of the 1990s, Iraq still had a sizeable middle class that was well educated. It was the economic sanctions placed on the country by the UN, coupled with Saddam siphoning off the money for his palaces, that destroyed Iraq's middle class. news.bbc.co.uk And I haven't been to any Shia areas of Iraq, and neither have you, so frankly your assessment of the situation for women today in Iraq really doesn't carry that much weight. Sorry, but we don't experience yet the same level of censorship that you do. There have been several news accounts describing how conditions have changed for Iraqi women particularly among the Shia. In fact, one of those accounts was written by the Iraqi journalist who was assassinated recently. The people of Iraq today are able to make whatever environment for women that they want to make. The coalition is not limiting Iraqi women's rights, so if some group is, then the people of Iraq should either deal with that group, or take the consequences. I never said the coalition was restricting women in Iraq. Most of the changes are occurring in the part of Iraq that is Shia. It's the Shiites who are placing the restrictions in accordance with their version of the Sharia.