Posted on 10/21/2004 9:28:48 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Female soldiers eyed for combat; Army seeks end of 1994 ban...
I like to think I am fairly progressive when it comes to the role of women in society; but women DO NOT belong in combat.
BIG mistake.
Sounds like more Kennedy/Lockhart/lurch/Clinton/Rangel leaks again.
Fire the Secretary of the Army
Call me old-fashioned, but women don't belong in combat. And as unpopular as this sentiment may be in this "modern age," I don't think they belong in the military either.
I suppose I'll get flamed for that, but what the hell. I call 'em the way I see 'em.
Kerry's October Surprise...George Bush will draft your daughters into a wrong war at the wrong place and the wrong time and force her to privatize her social security and ban her from VA medical benefits. While forcing her to keep her unborn child and banning her lesbian wedding.
We're doomed!
I don't want to see our daughters fighting on the front lines--they get into too many dangerous situations as it is, and I think their presence in a co-ed situation is extremely bad for morale and discipline. But you have to admit that the Muslim men would be even more anguished and humiliated at the idea of being destroyed by our little girls, whom they despise!
They wanted equal rights.
Let them fight.
This sounds like a bad idea to me.
Yep! You got it.
I wish all conservatives would stop and think about the logic of some of the stories that are being spread and who has the most to gain from them. Yes, even by Drudge.
Hasn't this already caused enough problems? I believe women can serve their country well and honorably - but they should NOT be in the front as combat soldiers. IMHO it seems like another attmept to have a more sensitive war machine.
Well if Drudge says it it must be true!
The person in charge of Abu Ghraib wqas a woman and so is the person in charge of the Reserve unit that recently mutinied.
It is probably just a coincidence.
Bad Idea.......women were not created as men. From what I have seen (Aerovac Sys) from injuries that have occured in combat. Women's survival rate are not as good as a males. I also don't believe that the male counter parts want to deal with females in combat situations.
Exactly. Too close to election to listen to that now.
Ha ha, the liberal feminists who insist that women can do everything men can do now get to prove it.
Nice going--way to advance the cause of women.
I hope this is just some sort of political ploy by the Kerry camp. If it's true it's the most outrageous thing I've ever heard in my life. If we start breeding our girls to be sent to the slaughter then what will there be left in this country worth fighting for? Haven't all of our previous warriors gone overseas to fight to PROTECT our women and children back home? This is truly insane.
It is probably just a coincidence
Yeah, it's also the same coincidence that all the pregnant soldiers that have to redeploy back to the USA (leaving a slot empty in their platoon, which makes it harder on all the other troops), are all female too.
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