Laura promised to help Afghan. women. now she is going to Africa to help those women

[donsu]

heads up! women of the world. Laura is all talk.

witness this:

Atrocities: 1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Earning $16/Month And Often Forced To Beg or Prostitute Themselves


The following report from IRIN tells the ghastly truth of what it is like for women in the aftermath of decades of militarism in Afghanistan:

“There over 1.5 million widows out of an estimated 26.6 million people in Afghanistan, according to Beyond 9/11, a US-based nonprofit group that provides direct financial support to Afghan widows and their children. Some 50,000-70,000 widows live in Kabul alone, it says.

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“The average age of an Afghan widow is just 35 years, and 94 percent of them are unable to read and write,” Deborah Zalesne, a board member of the Beyond 9/11 and a law professor at the City University of New York, told IRIN.

“About 90 percent of Afghan widows have children, and the average widow has more than four,” Zalesne added.
To survive many Afghan widows weave carpets, do tailoring, beg or even engage in prostitution.
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the most oppressed people on earth are women


Laura is selfish

[Journeyman]

1. I thought she was going to help gang bangers? . . .

Least, that's what George said back in 2005. . .

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2005/laura-bush-tackles-gang-issue.html

http://democracyformo.com/d/node/513

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4492617

http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/169.htm

(the last is a hilarious take on the whole scam. . . )

[Cleita]

2. Smoke and mirrors.

She's no more interested in women's issues than Nancy was interested in drug addiction. It's all a PR stunt to make those two otherwise useless First Ladies look like they are involved in doing something other than occupying the divan in front of the TV set watching soap operas in the family quarters with a pitcher of martinis to keep them company.

[NOLALady]

3. Will she extend that to help American women?

Has she not looked at the number of women with children in this country who live below the poverty line?

[malaise]

4. I'm guessing that the women in Africa suspect

that Pickles needs more help than all of them.

[donsu]

5. I'm sure you are right

nt