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"Gestures of hope for Iraqi women" - Media Benjamin (global exchange)

Women in Iraq and the United States have a lot in common. Both list safety as a top concern, and both are worried about the increasing violence and militarization of their societies. Both see jobs and health care as top priorities, and both feel uncertain about their economic security. Both are grossly underrepresented in the halls of power.

But all these issues -- security, economic well-being and government representation -- are much starker for Iraqis than for their U.S. counterparts. That's why, on International Women's Day, it's good to take a moment to do something positive for Iraqi women.

( Here are a few ideas: )

Death is wearing her red dancing shoes.

Four more US soldiers died today as a result of Iraqi roadside bombs.
The first was killed this morning in Baqouba. Two others were wounded in the attack.
Later, two GIs were killed and one wounded in Habbaniyah.
Another soldier died from wounds suffered from an earlier bomb attack.

And Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinian soldiers "gunman" in W. Bank.

I'd stop reading this awful news and live while I still can, but dammit, its happening to our brothers and sisters
and we are connected to them. If we do not help, the same will assuredly someday happen to us, again.

Hell, it is happening to us. Witness Spain, ~200 dead, 1,300 wounded, or thereabouts.
A Primer on the ETA.

Not sure who did this, ETA, al-Qaida, or whoever, but its is an unjust and horrific crime.


Update: Curiously, there are 911 days between 09/11/2001 and 03/10/2004. Coincidence?
It doesn't really matter if it was ETA or AL-Qaidea. Human beings did this, and in that way, we did it.