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CSPAN American Perspectives August 15, 2010



being arrested or killed by the former regime, it was the women in our society that had to raise the families. there were the breadwinners. there were the ones raising their homes and building society. kurdish women are very strong. there are strong-willed. they are opinionated. that makes them very effective. i think we need to do more as a culture, as a society, to allow women to integrate more into politics. we have now 30% of our parliament made up of women. but i would like to see a day where the woman does not get a seat in parliament because of quotas, that they get there based on their own courage, their own competence, their own ability. i am confident in many kurdish women i know who are in politics and civil society. they are making their voices heard. that is not to say there are not issues. we have many cultural issues that are not acceptable to the modern woman in kurdistan. i think the strength of our civil society and the women s organizations gives me h ....

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CSPAN American Perspectives August 15, 2010



spell in the nation s history. here is the president. good afternoon, everybody. it is a privilege to be here in panama city beach with the men and women of the united states coast guard. i wanted to come here personally and express my gratitude to you for the effort that you ve waged in response to the bp oil spill. and i know michelle wanted to do the same, so we re looking forward to having a chance to shake hands with you and thank you personally for this great work that you ve been doing day in, day out. michelle, just last month, was down in mississippi, where she met folks from the coast guard about the spill, and she had the chance to christen the new cutter the stratton. the coast guard was the first on the scene, immediately launching a search-and-rescue operation for the missing. and you were the first to recognize that we were potentially looking at a massive spill even before the rig collapsed and the oil began to leak from the seafloor. and a day and a ....

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