"Miss Iraq" had to retire her crown due to death threats

[realFedUp]

and other sundry Iraq items:

http://www.juancole.com/2006/04/3-us-troops-killed-muqtada-al-sadrs.html
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Shiites afraid of civil war are fleeing south.

The courageous and clear-sighted correspondent Patrick Cockburn tells it like it is in Iraq. Things are so bad that he has begun to question the survival of the country whole.

Saudi Arabia, like Egypt, is afraid of civil war in Iraq, and wants US troops to stay.

Insufficient medical supplies plague physicians in war-torn Anbar province.

Iraq elected a beauty queen "Miss Iraq" recently, but she has resigned because of death threats. She is from a Christian Armenian background, but the whole idea of beauty pageants is anathema to conservative Iraqis. They see a "Miss Iraq" as a brand of shame rather than something to be proud of.

[shain from kane]

1. Can we see a picture of her, wearing a fig leaf? n/t

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[YDogg]

4. Hardy, Har-Har.

[realFedUp]

6. oy

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Ok, what happens to S.A. if we leave?

[awoke_in_2003]

8. maybe a

large influx of refugees?

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. True.

[mike_c]

5. how can anyone reconcile these statements...?

1) "Iraq elected a beauty queen "Miss Iraq" recently...."

2) "...the whole idea of beauty pageants is anathema to conservative Iraqis."

This is really sloppy thinking, IMO. It's pretty obvious that the muslim Shi'a and Sunni's were unlikely to participate in any "Miss Iraq" pageant, so it's disingenous to suggest that "Iraq elected a beauty queen."

[realFedUp]

7. I'm wondering about priorities also...

internet cafes and beauty queens before electricity
and sewers get back to pre-invasion capacities.