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...cruel actions of Iraqis in Fallujah exceeded every limit. As a Sunni Iraqi living in exile, I want to apologize for the crimes my compatriots have committed. Nevertheless, people should try to understand what led them to do such an awful thing. Did the foreign soldiers treat the local population as equal human beings? Definitely not. Is the occupation considered desirable by the majority of Iraqis? Presumably not. Have the circumstances under which the people live improved since the removal of Saddam Hussein and the military invasion? Not at all. Those are only a few of the reasons...
...administration and a right-wing Congress have been working since their election to undermine the right to choose. Using tactics that, though technically legal, are underhanded at best, the president and his pals in Congress are slowly succeeding at doing what they couldn’t through open debate: limit women’s access to reproductive healthcare and lay the groundwork for overturning Roe v. Wade...
While the initial proposal called for a hard cap, the move that passed at Monday’s faculty meeting was amended to call for an “expectation” of 35 percent A’s rather than the originally-proposed “limit...
...None of these things has yet been achieved, of course, and the result may be simply to limit the significance of whatever transpires on June 30. The violence had once been portrayed as the darkness-before-dawn spike to be expected before the hand-over starts Iraq's bright post-Saddam future; now nobody is expecting that the fighting will die down after a new government is installed. And running through the "to-do" list, it's not hard...
...sure, those values are conservative and often fundamentalist. His followers espouse the Islamization of Iraqi society and would limit the long-held freedoms of women in Iraq. But Sistani may yet rewrite the book on political Islam in Iraq, Iran and much of the Islamic world. --By HASSAN FATTAH, editor of the Iraqi weekly Iraq Today