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The Ministry of Interior in Iraq has ordered that all the policewomen in Iraq turn in their weapons for redistribution to men or face a withdrawal of their pay. Iraqi police officers, you’ll no doubt recall, are subject to intimidation, harassment, kidnapping and execution regardless of their gender. The women were recruited by the U.S. because of cultural mores that prohibit male officers from searching female suspects and to assist in increasing the reporting of violence against women. All officers are allowed to take their weapons home because of the danger in being a police officer in Iraq except, now, the female officers won’t be able to have any because they’re girls. But, obviously, the male officers will just protect them from violence, the way they already protect all the other women in the country so well. [LA Times]
sexism still sucks
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KBR is hoping they can do the same for their remaining female contractors. We wouldn't want anyone getting shot in the midst of an attempted rape, would we?
Wow, we really improved those people's lives. And look at all those painted schools!
@SeaSalt: Very good point. It is much safer for both the victim and the rapist. If guns are outlawed then only guy outlaws will have guns...or something.
When we finally leave that country, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been lost, billions of $ wasted, and for what?
This is the Bush legacy.
One more sign that not every country wants to be just like Amerika.
@Truculent: That's right, we wants our wimmins to have guns. Wait, no we don't. We just want them to be able to reload for us.
What:
Wouldn't it be ironic if they decided to not sell us oil.
@weazel: Then Uncle Dick will just shoot them in the face until they open the spigot. No worries.
Silly girls. Don't you know that guns are substitutes for penises? Y'all need to protect yourselves with some kind of more gender appropriate weapon. A bear trap maybe?
@Hotsauce: In the old Westerns, the women were always in charge of the ammo. I think the Iraqi guys are having a problem with the whole gun symbolism, things shooting out of the front of a tube. You know where I'm going here.
If you want some really great insight into why those guys act that way, read "The Siege of Mecca" by Yaroslav Trofimov. Obviously, W and Dickhead never read it because if they had, we wouldn't be hung up in the sandbox like we are
They still have their bullet proof burkhas!
C'MON PEOPLE!!! It is "I" fukkin "RAQ"!!! Its not as if they couldnt borrow one of their kids spare AK-47's or something!!!
The way the Bushies think the Iraqis are still gonna be our friends after we pull out is so cute. Or nauseating. One of those.
@mbillips: For Iraqis, read "Iraqi government." Obv, most Iraqis are not all that thrilled with us at the mo.
I don't think it so much the Muslim part as the conservative part that gets scared of the idea of giving phallic-replacements to women.
@AngryBlakGuy: AK47 is the tool/ don't make me act the motherfucking fool...
That's okay. It's easier to remove a penis from his owner with a knife than a gun.
I'd vote for Jeb Bush to overturn this Iraqi government of misogynist asses. Where do I sign the ballot access petition, already?!?
Perhaps the policewomen can bash the evil-doers over the head with a Qur-an.
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