From: "Phil Payne" 

> Mark recently reposted a long list of URLs I produced here long ago.  Of
> course you can pretend you never saw it, but YOU, at the time I posted it
> originally, said it would take you time to look them over and that was
> your last comment on said list.

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/wrd/iraq-women.htm

"The primary legal underpinning of women's equality is contained in
the Iraqi Provisional Constitution, which was drafted by the Ba'ath party
in 1970. Article 19 declares all citizens equal before the law regardless
of sex, blood, language, social origin, or religion. In January 1971, Iraq
also ratified the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which provide
equal protection under international law to all."

Hmmm.  "All citizens equal before the law".  Only Arab country to
have such a clause in its consitution.

Only one to acknowledge international law, too.  Seven years before the USA.

No wonder Bin Laden wanted you to destroy it.  He succeeded, too.  No more
secular threat to Shia law.

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