Anti-Fem Org. Founded By Lynne Cheney Picked To Teach Iraqi Women Politics

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Group to Train Iraqi Women ($10 Million Grant)
Jim Lobe
OneWorld US
Tue., Oct. 5, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct 5 (OneWorld) The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S. group part of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political participation and democracy.

>>>>>The organization was founded in 1991 by a number of prominent right-wing Republican women to act as a counterpoint to what they called the “radical feminism” of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a grassroots group with about 500,000 subscribing members nationwide.

Among the founders were Lynne Cheney, the spouse of Vice President Dick Cheney and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Labor Secretary Elaine Chao; Kate O’Beirne, Washington editor of the right-wing “National Review” and a former senior vice president at the Heritage Foundation; and Midge Decter, the former co-chair with Donald Rumsfeld of the Committee for the Free World and one of the founders of neo-conservatism along with her spouse, former “Commentary” editor, Norman Podhoretz.

>>>>>“Talk about an inside deal, the IWF represents a small group of right-wing wheeler-dealers inside the (Washington) beltway,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.

More:
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/95420/1/

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1. Ain't corruption grand? nt

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2. Will they teach the Iraqi women to be A-holes?

Nevermind. I guess it's rhetorical.

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3. AAR just talked about this story with Atrios.

He covered this on his blog spot.