I hope Laura Bush is paying attention to this: last week 17
schoolgirls were suspended from their school in eastern Saudi Arabia
for the heinous crime of uncovering their faces on a school bus.
The girls were caught during a surprise inspection.
As expatriates they're probably lucky to get away with a suspension,
as opposed to being suspended from the rafters - I mean, it's not as
if the Saudis are particularly well known for their excellent
treatment of schoolgirls.
Still, despite being the home country of Osama bin Laden and most of
the 9/11 hijackers, the Saudis are still our great allies.
So we should probably ignore this kind of behavior and instead give
them a big round of applause for all the support they've given us
while we invaded Iraq, which, as you know, was not about weapons of
mass destruction at all, but was instead about freeing the Iraqi
people from the tyrannical dictates of their leaders.
Hey, wait a minute...
From The Democratic Underground
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Harry
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