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Article: Fascism in Iraq. (women's rights)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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In his article, "Imperialism and the Gulf War" (MR, April 1991), Tom Mayer makes the following statement:
In order to make Saddam Hussein a suitable target for unlimited violence, all positive achievements of his government are ignored. We hear almost nothing about the growth of literacy in Iraq, the increased availability of housing, women's rights, religious freedom, improved transportation facilities, lack of government corruption, or the fact that Iraq invests far more of its oil revenues internally than other Arab states of the Persian Gulf. We hear very little about several reasonable-sounding Iraqi proposals seeking to avoid war. And the U.S. left, ...