Off all the Middle Eastern Muslim nations Iraq is, or rather was, the most progressive when it came to women's rights, even though by comparison women are treated brutally compared to western nations. That being said women in Iraq had more rights than any other Arab country, in the 1950's Iraq was the first Arab country to have a female minister in the government. Under Saddam Hussein's rule the Iraq constitution stated that at least one quarter of the government should be made up of women, women were allowed to seek employment, own property, seek divorce and were even allowed one year's maternity leave. While Iraq was progressive in some ways for a time, it still had a long ways to go. Honor killings are still commonplace in Iraq, which is where a husband is allowed to murder his wife for acts seen as disrespectful, like adultery, in some places a husband can even legally kill his wife for things like trying to read or leave the house alone or without wearing head and face coverings, this occurs most commonly in territory controlled by the Taliban. Female genital mutilation, while not being as common as in other Muslim countries, still occurs in Iraq, this involves the removal of the external female genitals (clitoris & labia) when a girl reaches puberty under the false and barbaric belief that it will prevent women from desiring sex, sexual drive and desire comes from the brain, all this does is reduce the amount of physical pleasure a woman experiences from sex; in addition a number of girls die from this practice due to massive infection. While Iraq had been making progress in women's rights much of that progress was lost following the removal of Saddam Hussein from office and his execution. Since that time a new government has formed, a much more traditional Muslim government that has stripped away almost all of the women's rights laws that had been previously in place and given authority that is normally reserved for the government to religious leaders.
The footage of President Clinton watching Saddam Hussein make a statement on TV appears to be media footage of the President watching Saddam's response to the June 27, 1993 cruise missile attack the United States carried out against Iraqi Intelligence headquarters. The attack was retaliation for an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush by the Iraqi government. In April of that year former President Bush was visiting Kuwait on a goodwill mission to see how the country was fairing following the Iraqi invasion of 1990, which started the First Gulf War. During his visit both the CIA and Kuwait intelligence picked up chatter about a possible plot to assassinate President Bush while he was in country, further investigation revealed an elaborate plot by Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government to use a powerful bomb attached to the car President Bush was riding in to kill him as revenge for Bush's role in Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War; thankfully the Iraqi operatives involved were captured before the assassination attempt could be carried out. Upon learning of the assassination attempt against his predecessor, President Clinton ordered an immediate and through investigation to find out for certain who was behind this plot, by June there was conclusive evidence the men who had attempted to place the bomb were Iraqi Intelligence agents and were acting on orders from Hussein. So in retaliation for attempting to assassinate a former President of the United States, and as warning to anyone who would attempt it in the future, President Clinton ordered that the headquarters for Iraqi Intelligence be destroyed via a cruise missile attack. Between 1 and 2 AM, local time, on June 26, 1993 two U.S. Navy warships: the U.S.S. Peterson (DD-969), a Spruance-class destroyer in the Red Sea and the U.S.S. Chancellorsville (CG-62), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf fired a total of 23 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles that targeted a series of buildings in Bagdad that made up Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters completely leveling the entire complex. It is unknown how many Iraqi Intelligence operatives were killed, in his statement Saddam Hussein claimed that 9 civilians were killed, dozens injured and three civilian homes were destroyed by the missile attack, but independent investigations into the aftermath of the attack did not confirm this fact. Considering the precision nature of the missile strike it is unlikely, although still possible, that civilians were killed by it.
Commander Lindsey says, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets." "Whatever Lola Wants" is a popular song, sometimes rendered as "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets". The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the 1955 musical play Damn Yankees. The song is sung to Joe Hardy by Lola, the Devil's assistant, a part originated by Gwen Verdon, who reprised the role in the film. The saying was inspired by Lola Montez, an Irish-born "Spanish dancer" and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who later became a San Francisco Gold Rush vamp.