| U.S. President George W. Bushhas marked International Women's Week by paying tribute to women reformers -- but one of those he cited is really a man.
"Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday. The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he". "Definitely male," said Alistair Hodgett, spokesman for the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, whose representatives tried to see Jahmi in prison during a recent visit to Libya. |
And that's aside from the hypocrisy point.
| "The advance of women's rights and the advance of liberty are ultimately inseparable," the president said. "We stand with courageous reformers." |
Unless they're in favor of a woman's right to choose abortion, that is.
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