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.
" Oh, but she's a Commie slut and we're all glad we're dead, so never mind..... right?"
Hey! Moron! Speak for yourself. Do not put words in my mouth. I wrote no such thing and I find your accusation both tasteless and disgusting. Please stop communicating with me. Thank you.
That's rediculous! All she was doing was putting Christ's words into action. Can you tell me which Iraqi children he would deny food or medical care? Did Christ not admonish ALL of us to help those in need, even those who may have been our enemies? Iraqi children are not the enemy, the terrorists are, and they killed her because she was helpjng people and in turn, making them look bad. You need to rethink your position on Christianity if you consider yourself one!
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I never said you were stupid.
Oh, but she's a Commie slut and we're all glad we're dead, so never mind..... right?
I'm glad I'm not dead, and I'm not glad that she's dead...I don't know if she was a commie slut, and I don't really care either way. She's dead and I'm not. I'm not a commie slut either. Just sluttish at certain times....
FReegards,
FMCDH(BITS)
What kind of car did the terrorists use? Was it Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, Yugo?
Will her parents and sympathizers sue the car company?
A door to door activist in a land where all the terrorists haven't been weeded out yet?
I guess ideals and brain cells don't always run in pairs.
May she RIP.
What you meant was that we were glad she was dead. I'll have to figure out how to ploink a DUmmie Troll on FR.
Welcome to FR... Troll
Nice catch, sm. Looks like she got one figure right.
Now, could you link me to your source for the claim that the rich and middle class are the exclusive or even the chief beneficiaries of social security, medicare and federal educational assistance?
And after you do that, will you let me know their ratio (on average) of taxes paid to benefits received -- as compared to the corresponding ratio for the poor?
Not according to the news reports I've been reading. According to them, her car got between a military convoy and the terrorists who were attacking that convoy. IOW, she was not a target, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"...she died better than most."
Reality check: The humanitarian efforts America has made to assist Iraqi civilians dwarf anything she or her fellow travelers have done. They are the ones who demanded that we leave Saddam alone. They were the ones who were content to let the Iraqi people continue to live with the torture chambers, the rape rooms, the arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, the mass executions and all the rest.
If our elected officials took the war and their own oaths to protect the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic, as seriously as they should, they would have hung this traitor before the terrorists ever got a shot at her.
Woodrow Wilson threw Eugene Debs, a former presidential candidate, in prison just for demonstrating for peace negotiations with Germany during World War I. No court overturned his imprisonment.
Eugene Debs. Former presidential candidate. Jailed. For demonstrating. Debs demonstrated. This traitorous b*tch did a lot more than that.
Traitors like Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy et al should be in prison at the very least. If we were serious about this war, they would swing from the end of a rope...
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