Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs US Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"

DemocracyNow.org - Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, is interviewed on Democracy Now! about the impact of the nearly nine-year long U.S. occupation, particularly on Iraqi women. "The Iraqi cities are now much more destroyed than they were five years ago," Mohammed says. "At the same time, we have turned to a society of 99 percent poor and 1 percent rich due to the policies that were imposed in Iraq." Moahmmed decries the repression of Iraqi protesters that joined the Arab Spring in a February 25th action. "The women are the biggest losers in all of this. We went to the Iraqi squares, we demonstrated, but got oppressed in ways that are new to Iraqi people. Anti-riot police of the American style was something that we witnessed there ... This is not a democratic country."

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[tonysanthedarkstar]

@kryz24v This is economic war. Capitalism? More like Imperialism. Of course the US is a capitalist country but there's more.

[xivashanti]

It`s all aboult the true, oil , war, capitalism

[ElJefer]

@prufenful Sure, a lot of these words overlap. Basically, they're systems that use state coercion to benefit the few.

[prufenful]

@ElJefer These are meaningless words. You could also call it an oligarchy.

[ElJefer]

@prufenful snore+ because of the unsubstantial answer

[prufenful]

@ElJefer snore

[ElJefer]

@xivashanti Capitalism is an economic system unrelated to foreign policy. Socialist countries attack other countries for profit too

[ElJefer]

@tonysanthedarkstar The US is more of a corporatocracy

[abualfuz]

When I asked her to approve some of what she said in this interview, she went silent!!!!

[dichroic101]

@missbutter81 WAKE UP! Pull your head out your ass... this isn't propaganda! Get to know your history pal - it's what happened.

[missbutter81]

@mazzin62 Wow, you've just posted 3 posts of mainstream propaganda BS. I wonder how much they're paying you to spew this nonsense?