Seriously? Do you actually believe the things your write? I love how people can comment as if they know the truth...as if they really know the Bushes and what they are trying to do for this country. Mrs. Bush was in the Middle East to highlight a very important partnership to help combat breast cancer. Her trip is to be commended not critized by someone who doesn't know Mrs. Bush or was with her on the trip.

Why don't you take a look at how Mrs. Bush responded to your type of critizism. Maybe you will be enlightened.

Q Of course, Mrs. Bush, with a higher profile almost inevitably comes criticism. And some conservatives in this country are upset with you -- and we have a picture up there on the screen --

MRS. BUSH: Oh, you've got to be kidding.

Q -- putting on a scarf given to you --

MRS. BUSH: Oh, really?

Q -- by a Saudi doctor. And let me put up a blast, if you will, from The Weekly Standard: "That she would oblige her hosts by wearing a shmata," which is Yiddish for a scarf, "on her head is a tacit endorsement of Islam's subjugation of women."

MRS. BUSH: Well, I did not see it that way at all. In fact, I'd had the meeting with them totally uncovered. I mean, you saw other photographs, obviously.

Q Right.

MRS. BUSH: And they saw this as giving me a gift from their culture. And it was the scarf with the pink ribbons and the pink edging on it, the breast cancer scarf, that I put on.

I will say that I told them that I had always felt like they were closed to me, that I wouldn't be able to reach them because of the way they're covered, and one of the women said to me -- she said, "You know, I may be all dressed in black, but I am transparent."

And what they were saying to me is they want to reach out. They want American women to know what they're like. And these women do not see covering as some sort of subjugation of women, this group of women that I was with.

That's their culture. That's their tradition. That's a religious choice of theirs.

Now, I did meet, on the other hand, in Kuwait, where women just got the vote in 2005, with a group of women activists, several of them who had run for office the first parliamentary election after women got the vote -- didn't win, any of them, but they made the first step, certainly, by getting in the political process.

And in that meeting, very few women were covered. And they don't feel like they have to be. But you know, I think we all have these stereotypes of each other, Americans and Arabs, and it's a really good thing to be able to break those stereotypes down and get to know each other.

Here in NY I've been representing a rape victim and the system has put her in prison.

I'll give you a hint: the knife-point rapist was a police informant. He was backed by the police, the prosecutors and the courts all the way.

At least the Saudi courts admit what they are doing. Here the courts just pretend nobody said anything about a rape, and the media ignores the story.

The politics are different. The result is the same. We have no standing to go calling the Saudis backward in my view.

Maybe she was KIDNAPPED by the guy who raped her........
God forbid she should cry out about it!
This is some of the most ass backward crap I have ever seen....
As far as Ol' Lady Bush wearing the damn thing--thats a blessing LOL. (jk)
I personally would have liked her NOT too.
Seriously now folks, the only reason the men make the women wear these things is out of sheer jealousy and fear.
They too will learn not to mess with women like this, that is if their manhood can handle it.