Saudi Arabia: For women, votes are keys to the kingdom
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are in fact the only three Arab countries without suffrage for women. All three are close U.S. allies, and yet the Bush administration, which made much of women's participation in Afghanistan's recent elections, is strangely quiet on women's rights and suffrage in these Gulf countries. The silence is particularly ironic considering that Iraq was the first Arab country to give women the vote, in 1948
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Once again, as with the point noted in the last post, the Bush administration is revealed as the hypocrites they are. And, I heard somewhere that Iraq was the most westernized of the middle east nations in terms of womens' rights, etc. But the Saudi's are Bush's business partners...
...and George blew Osama when they were teenagers.
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