A Purple Finger is NO Guarantee of Freedom

"When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big disappointment."

Who's the speaker? None other than Safia Souhail, now Iraq's ambassador to Egypt -- who back on Feb. 2 served as a poignant, living prop for Bush's State of the Union speech. After thrusting her purple-stained finger in the air, Souhail embraced the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.