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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Congressional total* ban on women in combat? Party-line vote in committee? WTF? Some guy in your party talking about "our mothers and daughters" -- yeah, mothers and daughters who have volunteered.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nse_bill_women
*I think there is grandfathering
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I read a
soldier's blog while she was in Iraq, and she saw some combat. (She's home now. I think she was there for a year, and I started reading her shortly after she got there.)
At any rate, she's been saying for quite a while now that it's impossible to pull women out of combat areas because there is no front line in a war like Iraq. At any moment any place in the country could become a battlefield. Inadequately preparing women for the possibility of combat puts our soldiers at risk in situations like that, and with recruiting down for the thrid (?) month in a row, it seems patently ridiculous to pull women out because they may be put into a combat situation.
Word of warning, ginmar is quite a militant feminist,* no pun intended, so her views on the subject (among others) may be extreme.
I think that the ambush she faced last year was in early April. It was pretty horrific to read about, and I think she's since locked the relevant post due to concerns about security, but you can sort of get an idea
here of one woman's life in a combat zone last year.
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Not to mention a feminist militant. -- T.S.
