OK...They're back....Right after O'Connor dies, you couldn't find a Buker pic on the net.
Posted on 04/17/2005 5:10:12 PM PDT by jimbo123
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said Sunday.
Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.
Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to "mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is provided to those in need," according to the group's Web site.
Ruzicka's parents said Sunday they were notified of her death just hours after the explosion. U.S. Embassy officials publicly released Ruzicka's name Sunday.
"We've been very worried about her but we know better than to tell our children not to do anything. We were supportive and just reminded her to be careful," said her mother, Nancy Ruzicka, of Lakeport.
She said her daughter had left her a telephone message the night before her death that said, "Mom and dad, I love you. I'm OK."
"She cared about people and gave people her love and help," Nancy Ruzicka said. "I'll remember the love she spread around the world and the good ambassador that she was for her country."
Ruzicka got her start working for non-governmental organizations 10 years ago at the San Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange.
"It's a terrible tragedy and a tragic irony that somebody who devoted her life to helping the victims of war would herself become a victim of war," said Medea Benjamin, the group's director.
Too bad she didn;t sign up for the White House pizza delivery intern program 10 years ago, She might be alive today.
The irony is that there are now some 200 mass grave sites on record, containing over 300,000 bodies of Saddam's victims. Even the most outlandish hearsay estimates of Iraqi casualties, including soldiers and members of the "resistance" killed in combat, are an order of magnitude smaller.
I suspect we have killed fewer truly innocent Iraqi civilians, none of them deliberately, than Saddam did in a bad week.
-ccm
Well, just damn. I can't help you, I'm an idiot meathead when it comes to posting pics. I always looked forward to you post because you are so astute...but mostly for the pic....heh heh heh.
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It's against freeper rules for me to salute this woman when I protest groups like hers. Fowl gestures are not good protest etiquette. Keep in mind that this treasonous useful idiot supports groups that have attempted to kill my sons. Asking this mom to have respect for her is just asking too much.
I don't want to publicly gloat in the fact she slept with dogs and not only got fleas but finally got mailed to death. I will not shed tears or have respect her either.
I like that quote.
Me too. I'm trying to give Zarquon an honorable exit from the indefensible position he's taking.
But that's just me...a really nice guy.
More than likely she was trying to undermine the Bush war effort to free Iraq. Gloating is not in order but lets not sugarcoat the reality.
OK...They're back....Right after O'Connor dies, you couldn't find a Buker pic on the net.
I admit I've only had a few minutes to skim this thread, but apparently this woman worked for Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, and was a great admirer of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
Okay, I didn't know.
she wasn't a victim of war she was the victim of a terrorist.<<<<.....Bingo!.....A perfect example of the difference between a lib and a con!
" I think its disgracful that people are standing around here cheering her death because she was an anti-war humanitarian"
You are mistaken. We are not cheering her death. It was tragic. I do not respect her, however. Too bad she's dead and too bad she participated in traitorous activities.
The Pope wasn't working on compiling video "evidence" of American "atrocities" against Iraqi civilians to use as propaganda for leftist fundraising...
There is no way to honorably defend her death. She hated this country and everything about it. She played with matches and got burned. Good riddance to the idiot gene pool I would say.
He won't take it, the honorable way out I mean.
Tim McVeigh was an American. So was Benedict Arnold. The fact one is born an American does not confer dignity nor virtue upon them and their actions.
Terrible thing, that car bomb. But, she knew the carnage she was probably going to encounter. Her alliance with a dirtbag like Benjamin should have been her "sign". Too bad her poor choices led to her death.
She was not "anti-war"
She was a Commie and a Che-loving Terrorist partner/enabler/financier
She was also in Afghanistan - helping to kill one of my cousins in the US military
She succeeded - 3 died + a CIA agent
Note that Benjamin keeps out hot zones now
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