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American activist dies in Iraq blast (code pink alert!)
MSNBC ^
| 4/17/2005
| AP
Posted on 04/18/2005 6:45:00 AM PDT by minus_273
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who led an effort to help those ravaged by violence in Iraq fell victim to the war herself when a car bomb killed her and two other people, 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, of Lakeport, founded CIVIC in 2003 and was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid money from the federal government for distribution in Iraq.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: codepink; hateamericafilth; hatingamerica; hippie; iraq; ruzicka
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this is a 2 page article and it doesnt mention that she is code pink who was in bagdad with saddam before the war until the last 2 paragraphs. It instead makes this anti war b#$%# looks like a hero.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:45:02 AM PDT
by
minus_273
To: minus_273
wow. If anyone's looking for a good example of what irony is...
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:46:10 AM PDT
by
mike182d
("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
To: minus_273
You mess with the bull and you get the horn.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:46:33 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: minus_273
"Weve been very worried about her but we know better than to tell our children not to do anything," said her mother, Nancy Ruzicka.Hmmmmm . . . .
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:49:09 AM PDT
by
naturalized
(Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking.)
To: minus_273
I am sure that if she had survived she would have blamed US forces for the attack.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:49:56 AM PDT
by
Sthitch
To: minus_273
Don't let the hood ornament hit you on the way out.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:51:39 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
To: minus_273
Was she fulfilling her role as a "human shield"?
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:52:24 AM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
To: minus_273
Again and again they say that she was helping innocent Iraqi victims of war.
Yet she was nothing but a slimy pollster doing the work of the insurgents.
To quote the Ramones:
I'm glad to see you
Go go go go goodybye
I'm glad to see you
Go go go go goodybye . . .
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:52:42 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: minus_273
Looks like Libs are getting another dose of reality.
Securing $$ millions? Libs must have deep pockets to waste all that money...Oh, the humanity!
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:52:56 AM PDT
by
add925
(The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
To: minus_273
its not nice to speak ill of the dead, calling them traitors for giving aid and comfort to the enemy and undermining our national security.....
......so I wont.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:53:10 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society "( Robert Heinlien).)
To: minus_273
I guess if Marla Ruzicka's side had prevailed, Saddam Hussein would still be in power and none of this car bombing unpleasantness by ''insurgents'' would be happening.
To: Mister Baredog
To: minus_273
To: minus_273
was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid money from the federal government for distribution in Iraq. I wonder if anybody investigates who gets grant money and I wonder who the money went to in Iraq.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:58:35 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(Ahhh, the internet.)
To: Piquaboy
This story was covered by hundreds of posts yesterday. Yes she was a "bleeding heart liberal", but it seems that her bleeding heart was in the right place.
Let's don't be like the schmucks at DU. She may have been confused, but it appears she did what she did out of love and she paid the ultimate price.
God bless her and her family.
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:58:47 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(Alone with everyone else.)
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: Soliton
I was stating a fact! No matter who you are you don't go into a battle zone without the chance of being hurt.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:08:04 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: minus_273
GUARANTEE !! The neocommunist,anti-Americans will suggest that this was the work of the CIA.
My bet, of course, is that she was so concerned about the decrease in US casualties that she misread the insurgents' orders of the day and forgat to avoid a place where she knew a blast would take place.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:09:17 AM PDT
by
Tacis
( SEAL THE FRIGGEN BORDER!!!)
To: Little Bill
The girl died doing something she believed in Even if you disagree, your comment is dispicable.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:10:25 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(Alone with everyone else.)
To: Little Bill
That is mean don't think after all she just died. Her actions right or wrong did help many needy people. I have respect for her since she was trying to help people in need unlike many who do nothing. She took the risk and paid the ultimate price. God bless her.
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