[GCFL-discuss] Support our troops!

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Good on you. I was wondering if any body would pick up on that. Sorry about
the spelling, but you knew what I meant. I have a lady from Pakistan working
for me and she is very educated, independent  and raising 3 children by
herself.

 Who indeed is inside that burkha, could well be a man

Yes we should support our troops, its the people in charge that I'm afraid
of.

Dave
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To: "Shirley Heit" <sdmheit at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Support our troops!


> Our troops deserve our support even when we are not certain of the wisdom
> of the mission they are being sent on. Their sacrifice is no less, our
> need to have someone serving in the armed forces is no less, and the
> troops, by definition, do not get to choose their mission. If they are
> enthusiastic about their mission, so much the better for them. If they
> come home disillusioned, nobody has more credibility to correct public
> understanding of what went wrong. (Vietnam Veterans Against the War did
> more to end the war than all the college students in the country
> combined).
>
> But I wonder who was really inside that burkha. Iraqi women do not wear
> burkhas. The most religiously observant seldom wear more than head
> scarves. They have for 30-50 years been the most educated women in the
> middle east, the most heavily involved in the work force, the most
> independent of male accompaniment and the most secular in their outlook.
> Even Iranian women do not wear burkhas -- they wear chadors. (Iran has a
> very different culture and language than Iraq -- even the Shia ayatollahs
> have a very different outlook). The burkha is specific to the Pashtun
> tribes of southern Afghanistan and neighboring parts of Pakistan. Also,
> most Iraqis living in the U.S. were enthusiastically supportive of
> military action to dump Hussein al-Takriti. I really wonder who was in
> that burkha?
>
> Siarlys
>
>
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