[rickmichaels]

As far as I'm concerned, Clinton has blood on his hands.

[muawiyah]

http://www.americal.org/awards/achv-svc.htm reports on the exact standards required for ALL American military awards.

The text here concerning the Bronze Star differs from that referenced in the lead article for this thread.

[Humidston]

>>and complaining about her former bosses to Diane Sawyer on national television.<<

I had not heard about this. Did anyone see her complain about former bosses?

That asked, I really must say today's young women want to be removed from that pedestal we've enjoyed for centuries. Pity.

[PhiKapMom]

IMHO women do not belong in ground combat roles period! The guys don't need to be worrying about protecting women when bullets are flying or when they are captured!

[Air Assault]

Do women belong in combat situations or not?

No.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Sgt. Shawna Edmondson and Master Sgt. Lisa Marie Girman are two women who were kicking butt and taking names, but they're facing discipline for alegedly roughing up Baath Party officials and Syrian terrorists.

[Spruce]

My first born child's birthday was september 11. Her 16th birthday was 2001. My daughter has the transcripts, SAT scores, and ACT scores to go to any college. She chose to serve her country.

Wild horses could not have stopped her from making her choice. She is well aware of the added consequences of being a female warrior. And we are all safer for her decision.

[LibKill]

Do we want another Jessica Lynch?

The feminazis do. They LOVE Pvt Lynch, in an unnatural way.

Any FReeper who supports the (thoroughly discredited) myth of Jessica is a Clintoonite.

At the very best, she got her medals through incompetence.

Sorry, Feminazis, but women have two places in war. The honorable place in war for women is the Florence Nightingale model.

The other place is as 'camp followers' or 'ladies of easy virtue'.

If the feminazis don't like this (and they won't) I laugh at them and remind them that the physical strength of a full-grown woman is, on average, equivalent to the strength of a twelve-year-old boy, or a sixty-year-old man.

Those are the facts, screech as hard as you want. I am not listening.

[Endeavor]

I don't think women belong in combat, with the exception being as pilots. Some have said that even as pilots of fighter jets, that women do not have the neck strength to withstand the necessary quick turns one needs when evading a missle strike. I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, then women shouldn't pilot fighter jets.

I'm a woman and understand the desire of my fellow women to want to play a role in defending our country. But after a lot of thought, I believe that women in combat are a tremendous liability.

[Tax-chick]

I don't think women should be in combat, or exposed to it. Not because SOME are not capable, but because of the disruption to the effective functioning of the military.

I risk my life having children, and my sanity bringing them up. Men risk their lives to keep me safe while I'm doing it. (Thanks, guys!) I think it's fair.

[Mr. Mojo]

Do women belong in combat situations or not?

For the last time, no. ....A thousand times no. And frankly, only utterly decadent cultures even consider this question.

[Last Dakotan]

I vote no.

[Coleus]

I don't think President Bush has changed any of Clintons left-wing policies in the military.

[resistmuch]

We live in a country that thinks women should be warriors, marriage can be an arrangement between people of the same sex, abortion is something like getting rid of a wart, and God knows what else. In my lifetime, I've seen the lunatics take over the asylum.

I can't believe we think our "system" is a model for the world. We try to convince the Islamic world to emulate us, and they recoil with horror at our decadence. Are they wrong?

[Salvey]

...this country needs to have a talk -- an honest, no holds barred, to-heck-with-brain-numbing-political correctness, talk with itself. Do women belong in combat situations or not?

We also must have a similar talk concerning race in this country.

[bagman]

No, to paraphase that noted military analyst, Popeye, "Womens in combat is bad luck."

[HitmanLV]

Do we want another Jessica Lynch?

I'm not sure I want the old Jessica Lynch.

[leadpenny]

"Do we want another Jessica Lynch?"

I didn't want the first one.

Allow me to rephrase that; I didn't want the media and the NOW nags pushing the myth of Jessica Lynch in my face.

[Terp]

After forcing myself to read Jessica Lynch's book I've come to the conclusion that this country needs to have a talk -- an honest, no holds barred, to-heck-with-brain-numbing-political correctness, talk with itself. Do women belong in combat situations or not?

This is a no brainer. No discussion required!

[johnb838]

HEre I go weighing in on this again.

1) Lori got a mountain named after her.

2) Shoshana dropped the ball on New Years Eve in NYC. I hope she's getting financial help, she certainly needs it.

2a) Television will always focus on the photogenic.

3) Jessica is far from rich and she, as you know, is still severely disabled.

4) I don't think she likes the "fame" at all, I think she's quite shy. I think she is emotionally unsuited to play the lightning rod role that has been thrust upon her.

5) I heard the lawyer (Odeh?) say that they are indeed planning to meet as soon as it is possible without the media in attendance.

6) I think she is a hero only in the sense that they all are -- they went and did their jobs in difficult circumstances. I don't know if she "deserved" the Bronze Star or not but she didn't put in for it herself. Probably wishes she hadn't gotten it now.

7)I think it is right to be angry at the situation itself without blaming this kid that got caught in the middle of it.

8) LEt us remember is was the FEMINAZIs, the MILITARY/AMERICA HATERS, and the CLINTONIANS that brought us to this point.

To answer your question, no, I don't think we are emotionally at a point where we can accept our youg women being brutalized in combat. It is just too hard on everyone's morale. And it always will be, I hope.