Our freedom-loving friends the Saudis....

The Brat King keeps reminding us that freedom is a wonderful thing, and that because of our freedom-spreading efforts, Afghan women and Iraqi women are getting to vote. I wonder when we're going to spread some of that wonderful freedom to the women of Saudi Arabia.

Women will not be able to participate in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections because authorities in the strictly segregated country did not have enough time to prepare for both sexes to run and vote, the head of the elections committee said Tuesday.

Prince Mansour also could not say whether women would be allowed to take part in the next round of municipal elections in 2009, stressing that would be up to the committee planning those polls.

  Salon article

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway