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Press Briefing 07/26/06 (Topic: Iraqi Human Rights)
— Thursday, July 27, 2006 —

Q The stance of many human rights groups is that what's happening with women now is, in fact, worse than what was happening under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

MR. SNOW: Again, I redirect to them. I have a feeling -- the Prime Minister also made the point that Iraq has moved to a point of elections and not mass graves. We can argue this both ways, I suppose, but I think a situation where people are being dumped into mass graves by a regime that used murder as simply a way of clearing up what it saw as political difficulties is far different than one that tries to deal with its political difficulties by appealing to the needs and desires of the people.

Q Even if you can't control the people?

MR. SNOW: I don't think the purpose of a government is to control the people, it's to respond to their will.

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