by Sureya Sayadi, 4/19/06, CommonDreams.org
When Hillary Clinton was at Brown University on April 8 giving a speech
on ‘Women Leaders,’ I accepted an invitation from students to join
their protest. Why would I, a Kurdish woman, protest Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton is a great supporter of the war in Iraq, and like many
others in the U.S. government, has used the suffering of the Kurdish
people to prove the moral righteousness of the occupation. But Clinton,
like Bush, is really using the Kurds to justify her own political ends,
and refuses to address our real problems(lack of adequate services,
corruption, continued human rights abuses in the region, and the fact
that our refugees cannot yet return home. And all of these problems are
exacerbated by the violence raging throughout the rest of Iraq that is
due, in large part, to the presence of US troops. [read more]