Female captive first since Pentagon altered rule.

Washington Times ^ | March 25, 2003 | Joyce Howard Price

[bonesmccoy]

One of the five U.S. soldiers captured by Iraqi forces and questioned on Iraqi television is the first female POW since the Clinton administration's military leaders repealed a rule barring servicewomen from positions with a high risk of encountering enemy fire or capture.

[bonesmccoy]

How's it feel Bill? You lead our nation's women into being forward deployed and displayed in this disgraceful manner.

My utter contempt for your Presidency will be passed to the next two generations and hopefully more.

I, and other Freepers, will insure that your legacy is doomed.

We will not forget what you have done to this nation's women.

Let's republish what the reporter wrote above:

The Pentagon was swayed by feminists

This nation does not need to put our daughters at risk of sexual assault.

This nation does not need to put our women at such risk because REAL MEN can stand up and fight for our nation.

It is high time for the real men to seize power in our local, state, and national politic.

Our nation's future mothers should not feel such threat. A nation that sends her women to fight the battles of men is doomed.

We are not weak.

I am insulted that this Clinton Administration was permitted to make this change. And, I am appalled that the Republican Congress was so weak as to permit it.

GOP GET OFF YOUR duff and fix these problems!

MR. PRESIDENT- GET OUR GIRLS OUT OF IRAQ!

[Maedhros]

Breaking, eh?

[JeepInMazar]

I wouldn't blame Clinton totaly for this. American political correct culture bears a lot of the blame.

[stands2reason]

bttt

[bonesmccoy]

Darn straight it is.

[usmcobra]

I didn't realize that Clinton was president during the first Gulf War.

[merrin]

Dammit, Jim, he's a doctor, not a...posting-in-the-right-category-guy.

[ALS]

Women in harm's way. BAD IDEA!

[CheneyChick]

ROFL!

[bonesmccoy]

1994 = Clinton
Clinton first election = 1992

[bonesmccoy]

In 1994, the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Les Aspin, discarded the "Risk Rule" and authorized women to serve in any post other than in frontline infantry, special-operations forces, or armor or artillery units.

Comment?

[Servant of the Nine]

This story already over a hundred posts long Here

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[HairOfTheDog]

How's it feel Bill? You lead our nation's women into being forward deployed and displayed in this disgraceful manner.

Please don't do this, she was a soldier. No more, or less than the brave men also held captive or killed in recent days. They chose a path that brought pride and honor and came with risks. They are human beings and Americans. Not political grist for the mill.

[freedom9]

I don't think women should be in combat either except in an instance of dire need.
Israel, being a small nation encompassed by countries that seek it's destruction is an exception.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Old news. Actual title: Female captive first since Pentagon altered rule

[Illbay]

How the heck is the actions of a President out of office more than two years "breaking news?"

[Illbay]

Oh, and prepare to have a bunch of gender-feminists jump your case for DARING to say that women shouldn't be in combat.

Yes, even here.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yes. Breaking.

Clinton's crap is ALWAYS breaking news. Maybe not in the technical term....but doggone it, this is ridiculous. I'm AGAINST women in the military, unless it's a desk job, or something NOT in any area where she might be compromised like this.

[Dr Warmoose]

The Pentagon was swayed by feminists

Proof positive that the military leadership is not worthy or competent. If the military can do stupid and self destructive things because a few clipped haired mean faced feminazis scared them into such changes, imagine what other forces routinely manipulate the leadership into other stupid and self destructive policies.

We may have great hardware and munitions, but the military is run by morons, communists, and those who cower in fear of enraged women.

[usmcobra]

First Lt. Vernice Armour of Memphis, Tenn., heads back to the hangar after performing an engine wash on her AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter Sunday, March 16, 2003, at an air base in the Gulf region. Last year, Armour, a pilot with the HMLA 169 out of Camp Pendelton, Calif., became the first African-American female Cobra piolot in the U.S. Marine Corps. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Personally I don't have a problem with women in combat.

and if it's that old nasty spectre of they could be raped,
the Iraqis swing both ways.