American activist dies in Iraq blast (code pink alert!)

MSNBC ^ | 4/17/2005 | AP

[minus_273]

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who led an effort to help those ravaged by violence in Iraq fell victim to the war herself when a car bomb killed her and two other people, 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, of Lakeport, founded CIVIC in 2003 and was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid money from the federal government for distribution in Iraq.

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this is a 2 page article and it doesnt mention that she is code pink who was in bagdad with saddam before the war until the last 2 paragraphs. It instead makes this anti war b#$%# looks like a hero.

[mike182d]

wow. If anyone's looking for a good example of what irony is...

[Piquaboy]

You mess with the bull and you get the horn.

[naturalized]

"We’ve been very worried about her but we know better than to tell our children not to do anything," said her mother, Nancy Ruzicka.

Hmmmmm . . . .

[Sthitch]

I am sure that if she had survived she would have blamed US forces for the attack.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

Don't let the hood ornament hit you on the way out.

[Mister Baredog]

Was she fulfilling her role as a "human shield"?

[wideawake]

Again and again they say that she was helping innocent Iraqi victims of war.

Yet she was nothing but a slimy pollster doing the work of the insurgents.

To quote the Ramones:

I'm glad to see you
Go go go go goodybye
I'm glad to see you
Go go go go goodybye . . .

[add925]

Looks like Libs are getting another dose of reality.

Securing $$ millions? Libs must have deep pockets to waste all that money...Oh, the humanity!

[Vaquero]

its not nice to speak ill of the dead, calling them traitors for giving aid and comfort to the enemy and undermining our national security.....

......so I wont.

[Menehune56]

I guess if Marla Ruzicka's side had prevailed, Saddam Hussein would still be in power and none of this car bombing unpleasantness by ''insurgents'' would be happening.

[Orange1998]

Seems she was a very determined girl. link with Pic.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1230-08.htm

[Reaganesque]

[rabidralph]

was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid money from the federal government for distribution in Iraq.

I wonder if anybody investigates who gets grant money and I wonder who the money went to in Iraq.

[Soliton]

This story was covered by hundreds of posts yesterday. Yes she was a "bleeding heart liberal", but it seems that her bleeding heart was in the right place.

Let's don't be like the schmucks at DU. She may have been confused, but it appears she did what she did out of love and she paid the ultimate price.

God bless her and her family.

[Piquaboy]

I was stating a fact! No matter who you are you don't go into a battle zone without the chance of being hurt.

[Tacis]

GUARANTEE !! The neocommunist,anti-Americans will suggest that this was the work of the CIA.

My bet, of course, is that she was so concerned about the decrease in US casualties that she misread the insurgents' orders of the day and forgat to avoid a place where she knew a blast would take place.

[Soliton]

The girl died doing something she believed in Even if you disagree, your comment is dispicable.

[Orange1998]

That is mean don't think after all she just died. Her actions right or wrong did help many needy people. I have respect for her since she was trying to help people in need unlike many who do nothing. She took the risk and paid the ultimate price. God bless her.

[Kenton]

Things like this just go to prove that God has a really ironic sense of humor, sometimes... and it's OK to laugh, that's why he did it.

[wideawake]

she did what she did out of love

What she did was undermine our war effort and help put our troops in evengreater danger.

Her exit from the scene is a blessing for those of us who have loved ones in Iraq who are doing the real humanitarian work - soldiering.

There are plenty of people in Iraq who are not conducting polls for Code Pink, or getting themselves profiled in Vanity f***ing Fair, or interrupting Secretary Rumsfeld in front of the cameras to grandstand, or getting the vile Senator Leahy, when he visited Baghdad, to hire them as his aide in Washington.

They are actually feeding the sick, nursing the wounded, teaching the ignorant. And you'll never see them in a featured Yahoo story.

[farmguy]

This is a case of "friendly fire"

[wideawake]

The girl died doing something she believed in

Reinhardt Heydrich died doing something he believed in, too.

Should we honor his memory?

[dmz]

Ahh, the obligatory "leftists are ugly" comment. Such originality.

[Soliton]

I am a male heterosexual conservative who wouldn't do Anne Coulter with 7 condoms and many bags on both of our heads (I prefer ladies from the TV food network).

The whole subject of looks is below the level of acceptable political discussion. Post your picture, or stop talking about looks.

[Bigh4u2]

""I decided not to take a position on the war but to try to do the right humanitarian thing,'"

Yeah. Right.

She didn't take a position on the war when she founded the " Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict."

Yeah. NO position at all.

[Soliton]

Risk something for your beliefs and I will take you seriously.

[L98Fiero]

"She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country."

n+1

[Orange1998]

Let see if the moderator has heart and remove his post. If they don't I will be disappointed.

[wideawake]

Risk something for your beliefs and I will take you seriously.

LOL!

In other words, my post was over your head.

[KevinDavis]

I know I shouldn't but:

[Soliton]

Orange 1998,

I like to think that conservatives are different. I like to believe that we value truth, honor, and sacrifice.

It is dissapointing that people who call themselves conservative don't investigate facts and can't understand honor, and don't appreciate sacrifice.

They remind me of Democrats.

[iopscusa]

She did help? Who? How did she help....I have serious doubts that she helped anyone but herself and her puppet masters. Reminds me of that group of creepy 9/11 Widows. Who did they help, if not only themselves...got any answers Orange?

[Orange1998]

WHAT? Reinhard has no similarity to the girl.

[Soliton]

Your position suggests that there are no innocent victims in war. Think about it. If she was sincere, she deserves our respect. If she was a propagandist, forget her. Google her statements and decide.

[subterfuge]

" I am a male heterosexual conservative who wouldn't do Anne Coulter with 7 condoms and many bags on both of our heads (I prefer ladies from the TV food network). "

What the hey?

[Soliton]

This was in response to "liberals are ugly"

[wideawake]

WHAT? Reinhard has no similarity to the girl.

They both had immoral beliefs, they both died in the service of those beliefs.

Heydrich's beliefs were much more evil than hers, of course.

She was interested in propping up Saddam Hussein's regime and providing propaganda support to the insurgents.

He was a guy who actually did Hitler's dirty work, so there is a difference of degree.

[Bigh4u2]

"Google her statements and decide."

Where do you think I got the quote from? Thin air?

Tell me. Why would she need to 'poll' people in Iraq on the number of 'innocent' victims?

What's the purpose?

If not to embarrass the U.S. government?

[Orange1998]

American Tax Dollars were given to her group so that she can help the people. President Bush has always said he is not against the people of Iraq only the regime.

[Polyxene]

Rachel Corrie Syndrome

[Orange1998]

"He was a guy who actually did Hitler's dirty work, so there is a difference of degree."

You are heading down a slippery slope.

[wideawake]

What slippery slope is that?

This woman aided and abetted America's enemies - she wanted Saddam Hussein kept in power!

What is so difficult for her boosters here to understand?

[Little Bill]

Ruzicka, then 25, had already forged a reputation in leftist circles. She once had disrupted a speech on AIDS by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Another time, she was hauled off by police after she ripped off a sarong -- which inside had a protest statement -- during a speech by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

A Friend?

[guitfiddlist]

She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.

So what does THAT mean? Is this really "helping" the people? I suspect it's more like:

"Hello. I'm here to see if any innocent people in this house were murdered by our insane President who bombed Iraqi civilians just to get more oil for Halliburton."

"We have a child who was badly injured in a fight between Americans and some people in our neighborhood, and he needs medi-"

"Hey, this is GREAT! Issam, get in here, get some pictures of this kid. Now, where did this happen? When and where did the Americans attack the freedom fighters?"

[Vaquero]

"(I prefer ladies from the TV food network). ". There is no woman there personally for me....the wife watches it and I offen comment on their personna's....One I cant stand is Rachael Ray....she looks ok but I cant stand her voice and her manner in general.....and there is one who has a huge head on a pencil neck and tiny body...strange....

[dhs12345]

"....door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country."

Where was she when Saddam was in power???!!!!

These liberal goof-balls that only try to find fault with the U.S. and are silent when the real atrocities are happening.

Makes me think she and people like her are political versus truly trying to help the Iraqi people. She is using the Iraqi people to further her hate America agenda. If only groups like hers had protested Saddam before the war, there might have not been any war at all.

[Bigh4u2]

From her own mouth.

"Our goal was never to get every name, but to draw attention to the dire need there."