Posted on 06/24/2005 11:49:22 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A suicide car bomber slammed into a U.S. military convoy in Fallujah, killing two Marines, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. Three Marines and a sailor were missing after the attack.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports that five female Marines are said to be dead, according to officials. They are members of a supply unit who were being driven into Fallujah to assist in searching local women for hidden weapons when their vehicle, which was equipped with armor, was struck by the bomber.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said another 13 Marines were wounded in the Thursday night attack and said some women were among the casualties.
The car bomber targeted troops assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, an earlier military statement said. Fallujah, the Anbar province town 40 miles west of Baghdad, was the scene of a large-scale campaign in November by U.S. troops to rout militants.
An earlier report also had said six Marines were killed.
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They may have no business there but there is no other choice....especially after several months of recruiting shortfalls.
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?
One can only hope none were mothers ... or grandmothers for that matter.
Those are a bit to the south of where we are now...
Sorry, but it does. It is just the way many of us were raised. Chivalry sort of...in addition to despising those who promote lower or reduced standards to accomodate social engineering amongst those who fight wars.
The Violence Against Women Act is coning up for billions in re-authorization funds, and males are excluded from the benefits. There is no Violence Against Male Act in America today and it shows (glaringly). VAWA routinely blames all males, yes, "all males" for violence. Isn't it ironic how America, through VAWA, blames "all males" for violence, but has historically, and still (by law), sends almost exclusively males to frontline combat?
Where is Martha Burke trying to level this playing field? Clearly, in Iraq women are getting closer and closer to the front lines, and we see the results. As I said in the opening all life is precious, but in America it appears that men's lives are treated as of lesser value than women's. Why? In a nation where women have had approximately 30,000,000,000 abortions in 30 years, women certainly aren't all that critical in keeping our population numbers up.
In America today we have a strong gender feminist movement, primarily Democrats, that works hard to promote women as being able to do anything a man can do. In the conservative camp, traditional minded women still cling to more traditonal roles of wife and Mother with all the accompanying male chivalry that goes with it. What we wind up with in our society (especially among many younger females) is an odd mix of the more liberated rights and expectations, accompanied by many of the old chivalrous priveleges and courtesies. Women's lives are in a stressful state of flux (change) in America today. Men are stressed out more than ever, trying to figure out the proper way to behave towards women in this climate of "morphing" female gender roles. Women and men struggle to understand what is the normal role for their lives.
If you don't like the more liberal aspects of what's happening than you can blame the tens of thousands of women's studies classes on our college campuses who have been advocating for all these liberal changes for women. They reside in the Liberal Sciences Departments. That's the source, along with the over 270 women's commission that John F. Kennedy laid the ground work for. The 1st women's commission came about during his administration. Currently, there are virtually no men's commission or men's studies programs anywhere in America.
Here is one site you will find advocating for more exposure of women in combat, Combat Ban (of womnen) Wrong Move, NOW President Says, May 12, 2005 Can you guess from looking around their web site which of the two main parties they are most closely associated with? Do you see anything about gender bigoted VAWA there?
...and here are two conservative women's sites where you will find other (differing) viewpoints:
#1 Mailbag: Those Abu Ghraib Women . Lynn Cheney was one of the founding members of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF).
#2 Turning Women Into Cannon Fodder. The Concerned Women for America CWA is a Christian based women's group. I belong to both the CWA and the IWF, but am a man. I hope I haven't angered too many poeple with this frank assessment of the "confusing gender climate" in America today. Again, lastly, all human life is precious in God's eyes, and thereby mine. Sincerely, R.
Not to mention Afghanistan.
Uncle Remus' Tar Baby comes to mind.
Not for the Marines!!!!
I agree!!!!!!
The Israeli's manage it quite effectively, with conscription. It would be interesting to see how much they accomodate Islamic sensibilities when it comes to areas like this.
How does this make you feel durbin? Are you happy now?
Yes, and if we ever go to a draft, the gals should be called up equal to their current slice (%).
PS:My philosophy is expressed in my tag line, as if you couldn't guess
Why not call them up according to their current ability percentage, that is of total available personnel?
Patience. Patience.
They're in the last throes of defeat.
Lead has there been any updates....are there still missing troops?
The truth is that Nazi Germany was a very chivalrous culture towards German women, albeit horrifically inhumane in many, many other ways to others. Not only were women excluded from "all" combat roles, they were even excluded from working in the war factories. After the war the Nazis concluded that women would have been a major asset working in the war factories.
Nazi Germany very actively promoted Motherhood, and even gave a medal to woman having over a certain number of children. They also had very nice birthing centers for women to go and have their "Arian children."
Of course the Nazis used captured slave labor in their factories, and we are all familiar with the many, many other atrocities of the Nazi regime. Likewise, many women and children were killed in Germany, because the stubborn resistance of the failing Nazi regime brought the horrors of war to the German homeland and the civilian population.
Isn't it ironic how Democrat Dick Durbin calls others Nazis, yet his party is primarily responsible for one of biggest holocausts (abortion) in the history of the world, and right here in America.
IMHO, Carl Rove was far to kind in his assessment of what I see, that can only accurately be described as Nazi-crats.
What ever works. There just needs to be a benchmark for the numbers of women drafted if and when that time comes.
Don't know. I've got C-SPAN on and haven't looked for my remote in a while.
Heard anything about this journalist being arrested at the scene?
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