I think at this point, even she can't argue that. She may be learning the hard way though.
Posted on 04/17/2005 5:10:12 PM PDT by jimbo123
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said Sunday.
Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.
Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to "mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is provided to those in need," according to the group's Web site.
Ruzicka's parents said Sunday they were notified of her death just hours after the explosion. U.S. Embassy officials publicly released Ruzicka's name Sunday.
"We've been very worried about her but we know better than to tell our children not to do anything. We were supportive and just reminded her to be careful," said her mother, Nancy Ruzicka, of Lakeport.
She said her daughter had left her a telephone message the night before her death that said, "Mom and dad, I love you. I'm OK."
"She cared about people and gave people her love and help," Nancy Ruzicka said. "I'll remember the love she spread around the world and the good ambassador that she was for her country."
Ruzicka got her start working for non-governmental organizations 10 years ago at the San Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange.
"It's a terrible tragedy and a tragic irony that somebody who devoted her life to helping the victims of war would herself become a victim of war," said Medea Benjamin, the group's director.
You mean she was literally "hoisted on her own petard"?
Go forth, Medea, and make the world a better place.
No she's probably perched on the edge on Hell's Abyss arguing wiht God that He doesn't really exist.
From a post at #176 link:
"This dichotomy is mirrored in Afghan attitudes toward the United States. Most are tremendously grateful for America's role in ousting the Taliban. Indeed, Marla Ruzicka, who came to Afghanistan on behalf of Global Exchange, the activist group, to organize families victimized by the US bombing to demand compensation from Washington, told me that she was encountering a problem: People were so pleased with the results of the bombing that many were reluctant to protest it too vocally."
"Send not to know for whom the troll smells; he smells for thee."
heh
The sole purpose of her mission was to embarrass the US in the eyes of the world. Incidentally, she may have given some paltry aid and comfort to the "victims" she so diligently sought.
If i'd know this obnoxious bint in real life, she'd have gone to Allah with my handprint across her face and my shoeprint across her skinny ass.
She was seeking Lancet type information for propaganda.
She wasn't providing any services to people.
I think at this point, even she can't argue that. She may be learning the hard way though.
I'd bet $50 that she personally knew the suicide bomber.
I'm sure you would grieve her if you had known her.
It's human nature to grieve for flawed people, even our enemies, because we're all flawed in some way.>>>>
Yeah and OBL is flawed too, shall I grieve for him too ?
Well said.
Wonder if that screwup canceled out his 72 virgins date? So very glad he missed our guys.
I smell a commie symp/liberal troll.
I just don't know enough about what she was doing. When a person dies, however, who is ostensibly helping other people, it is a good idea to say a prayer for them and their families. Bulldozer girl was another story. I cut her no slack.
For what purpose? For propoganda to be used by Code Pink in attacking America.
Treason.
Hard to "rest in peace" when you're roasting in hell.
I'll save my heart and sympathy for those who deserve it. To someone looking to stab this country in the back like she did, I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
She stood for everything wrong in this country. The leftist liberals can kiss my Red, White and Blue...
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