Those are two tough issues and they really go to the heart of what that country's going to be like, ... If the new Iraq is going to go into the 21st century at all sensibly and begin to make a difference in terms of the Muslim world, they're going to have to face that women's rights issue and they're going to have to get it right ... they can't go on treating them like second- or third-class citizens.
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