Good News out of Iraq: Women Becoming Police Officers

An Iraqi policewoman

Story here, courtesy of US Central Command (CENTCOM)

(Where, oh where is the MSM on this good news?)

Although women throughout Iraq have been given the right to vote and are accepted in the army and police academies, the city of Irbil was the first city to allow women to hold positions of power.

Iraqi Police Lt. Narseed, is one of the first female officers in the city.

She wanted to be a police officer at a very young age but thought that the career field would not be open within her lifetime. That all changed when the Coalition removed Saddam from power. She said she had already graduated college and was becoming a lawyer when she made the decision to become a police officer. “When I heard that the doors had opened for women to become officers, I jumped at the chance and then went to the police academy.”

She said that she has no issue with men following orders or accepting her as an authoritative figure. “Here, there is no difference between male officers and female officers. If I tell the men to do something, they do it. There is no hesitation on their part.”

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According to Aswar, when Saddam was in power, he tried to brainwash the females in the country into believing that they could not do the same things as men, but his beliefs were never really accepted in the Kurdish provinces.

“We knew that like so many successful and stable nations around the world, our views on women had to change,” he said.

“We consider ourselves more modern and progressive compared to a lot of other cities in the Middle East.”

So... do the anti-Iraq war leftists out there still believe it would've been preferable to have simply left Saddam alone to, among many, many other terrible things, continue to oppress women and deny them equal rights? Whatever made them think that the oppression of women was ever a good thing? And leftists are always going on about human rights and womens' equality? Are they really serious?

I bet those leftists, most of them at least, will go into denial and claim that it's just "American propaganda" or something. Par for the course for the brainwashed moonbats who don't even like their own country.

Saddam's been removed. Democracy and human rights are flourishing in Iraq. The leader of the Saddam-loyalist "insurgents", Al-Zarqawi, is dead. Iraq is on its way to becoming a viable, modern, progressive nation. And the left hates this.

Iraq will become a model for other nations in the Middle East to eventually emulate. Why would the people of those nations want to remain stuck in the days of barbarism, thanks to corrupt, evil clerics and jihadist monsters who oppress them and try to teach them all to hate and kill? The people will indeed rise up and break free of the shackles of servitude! And the Free World must not abandon them, no matter how much Al Qaeda and the left demand that we allow evildoers to continue to oppress and tyrannize the people of the Middle East!

Thank United States President George W. Bush. He has done the right thing! History will vindicate him.

Well-done, Mr. President! Steady as she goes! Full speed ahead!

And the valorous warriors who fought and sometimes fell will be honored by history as well.

May freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights continue to spread like wildfire all across the planet! Let no one stand in the way!

I may be Canadian, but I'm so proud of my American friends and my friends in the Coalition of the Willing who dared against all negative pressure to do the right thing!