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To: Kentucky
This is a straw man argument. Rightly or wrongly, women chose to be in the military. With new evidence, future women may choose differently. Although PC-ness may taint the coverage, I haven't heard of many situations where the presence of women -- in and of itself -- posed a major risk to the mission. (The Abu Ghraib hijinks were not caused by the presence of women. The accompanying intramural sex is another story.)

Men -- and women! -- die all the time. We don't keep women out of automobiles because they might die in a car crash. We don't necessarily keep women out of the military because they might be killed.

It's the Democrats who are raising the spectre of a draft again, even though neither the voters nor the military wants it. With a draft, the Dims think, it will be easier to get people upset about a war that only the Dims oppose.

12 posted on 05/31/2004 10:35:13 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Of course, you realize this means war! -- Bugs Bunny, borrowing from Groucho Marx)
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