The connection between Iraq and women's rights?

Still don't believe the War Against Iraq and Terrorism are about freedom?

Well, just ask the women in Iraq and Afghanistan that are risking their lives to fight for women's rights what they think about freedom. Ask them why they are dying and why they are willing to die just for speaking about women's rights.

"What UNIFEM is seeing on the ground — in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia — is that public space for women in these situations is shrinking," Heyzer said Thursday. "Women are becoming assassination targets when they dare defend women's rights in public decision-making." (more)

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