Look at what is being done to women and girls in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq used to win awards from the UN for progress in their education. But that was before 2003.
If Yvette Cooper wants to crack down on extremism in general, and on extreme misogyny in particular, then she should start with the people who waged, supported, and continue to defend those wars, for nothing in the end in Afghanistan, and to make matters vastly worse in Iraq.
“Iraq used to win awards from the UN for progress in their education”
ReplyDeleteWhat an absurd statement. On balance, the war was wrong but Iraq before 2003 was a bloodstained dictatorship that had invaded two of its neighbours (Kuwait and Iran), attacked another (Israel), used weapons of mass destruction and committed genocide against several separate ethnic groups from the Kurds to the Ahwaris who were ethnically cleansed from their historic marsh homes.
The world is undoubtedly better off now Saddam’s gone even if it wasn’t the best way of doing it.
And there it is.
DeleteHe would have been dead by now, anyway.
People like you who make absurd statements about life being better under Saddam utterly discredit the whole antiwar movement.
ReplyDeleteHow was life for Kurdish or Ahwari women or indeed any women who weren’t in the bloodsoaked Bathist party?
I never said that. Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway were opposing him when you were selling him arms.
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