I heard about this on the radio news a little while ago---
and I know that I shouldn't feel any "different" that it is women instead of men Marines, and I really don't except that for so many to have been hit at once, is just awful...
From what I heard, they were on their way to relieve other women Marines at checkpoints, because they are at the checkpoints to search women that are going through the checkpoints...
This is yet again an example of the US "being thoughtful, and sensitive to Iraqi and Muslims feelings"---that seems to have cost us lives of troops...
Of course, DICK Durbin might lump them in with Nazis, also, because they were going to be mean and search people...
Do you think the bomber driving that car got an earful from Al-Jezzera about how a US Senator was compairing the US to murderous regeims before he was sent off on his mission?
This is so sad to lose five or six of our service people at once. We are trying our best over there to wage a just and proper military action within all the rules, even the ones the other side keeps making up.
The women Marines feared dead were there to search female Muslims and follow the Islamic rules on no contact between the sexes with someone not a relative or spouse. We do this to show how we are good and respectful of others. I know we try to be better than our enemies, but it's hard when the enemy sinks to such low and vile levels.
The enemy wants us to react with harsh measures to put us in a bad light. It is playing to the UN and leftist liberals here in the USA. The rest of us just have to gut it out and pray our service men and women come back safe. Also, tell a liberal to grow a spine when one says we need to wimp out of Iraq.
How do you "know" that?
Are you a man?
Are you western civilization man?
Why do you feel compelled to "apologize" for having feelings that your forefathers did their best to ingrain in you?