They make us blond nordic types feel frumpy...

I read on a Kurd blog sometime around the series of national elections in Iraq that in some parts of Kurdistan women outnumbered men by something like three to two because Saddam had killed so very many of the men. The point of pointing that out was that the vast majority of those voting would be (or could be) women.

h/t Instapundit, of course. I should be keeping an eye on Gateway Pundit myself, but there you go.

So check out what the Kurdish women are up to lately.

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Ymarsakar said…

And this is why our enemies, both foreign and domestic, wish us to fail in Iraq. To run away ashamed of ever trying to better our own lives or anyone else's. Because we have more useful and loyal allies than we ever did in 2000. And that is just a fact.

No amount of money can buy the loyalty to freedom and prosperity. Not from Britain, not from France, not from Australia, and not from Turkey. Our allies have to want to fight for liberty, they have to want to slaughter dictators and drink their blood. In the Kurds, we have a natural ally. That is if the Democrats don't gain control of the United States.

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