bush's abuse of women---

[BlancheSplanchnik]

Hello everyone; I used to be FizzFuzz, if anyone remembers :)
I got tombstoned--that was some years ago; I also quit DU around that time, since I was getting too upset with politics and needed to chill.

Anyway, I'm baaaaack---

Here's a reply I just posted to David Swanson's excellent thread on a suitable memorial for bush. I noted his inattention to women as damaged by the bush regime, and had to reply.

I wanted to post it for you all too:

Please recognize bush's abuse of women worldwide

This is an excellent record of the criminal's deeds, but you make no mention of bush's focused and sustained attack on women, as the major bone thrown to the rw christian base.

"He became the world leader in providing billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to Africa in the fight against AIDS/HIV."

The importance of crediting Bush for this, as for the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, is heightened by the ingratitude of Africans, who have widely denounced his requirement that most of the money go to promoting abstinence and fidelity, thus gaining a foothold in Africa for a new sort of religious bigotry while ensuring the ongoing viability of the fight against AIDS/HIV for many years to come. That's what Bush's father would have called the vision thing.

Bush's first act as pResident was to sign the global gag rule, resulting in death and or torture of millions of women (and their children) and girls worldwide.

He also spoke against human trafficking and then gave Saudi Arabia a pass on it, inspite of their large involvement.

Please, do not ignore women. What he did to women was and mostly continues to be ignored by most, except for "women's groups", and Obama himself.

If the treatment of women had been of critical importance to us as a people of justice and compassion, if the calls to action had been taken up as all his other abuses are, we would have discerned much sooner the evil of his administration.

As for the best monument, I like the chain link fenced off area idea. It symbolizes so many of his actions.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. here's the link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5016271#5029223

I forgot to include it