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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I got the same exact message, VERBATIM on my freepmail from Perlstein.
Some of the trolls are using FRmail to avoid ZOTTING by the moderators.
I think maybe the hood ornament COULD have hit her on her way out.
:) LOL
It seems the prevailing view on this board is that the wisdom of the Iraq war is not debatable. If you oppose the war, you ipso facto support the ex-Hussein regime and all its tyrannical associations. Such logic is for children.
I'm a conservative Republican, having volunteered on 3 major Republican campaigns recently. I supported the war on the government's stated reason for going to war, to prevent Hussen's WMDs from passing into the hands of terrorists. Since the raison d'etre proved to be false or at best woefully exaggerated, I became opposed to the war. It does not follow that I long for a return of Hussein. I long for a return of 1500 dead soldiers, thousands of others seriously wounded, and 100s and billions of dollars down the drain to "establish democracy" and "human rights."
Color me silly for thinking most conservatives wouldn't support a war, suddenly framed as, for "democracy" and "human rights," even if the pretext might be blowing away thousands of potentially dangerous Arabs.
And now to the point. Who cares if the girl supported or opposed the war? It's a legitimate policy position. She was there to help maimed children, collateral damage, as a result of the bombings. This is laudable and honorable work. Even if you despise her and believe her, however irrationally, to be some hideous traitor, at least have the Christian decency not to defile the recently passed.
She wasn't there to 'help maimed children'.
She was there to hurt America and assist the terrorists.
This seems like your own inventive perspective of what she was doing. Do you really think that she took off for Iraq to aid "terrorists" and to hurt American soldiers? I think you're misinformed about the lengths to which sadists will go to satisfy themselves. There is plenty she could do to aid terrorists and harm American soldiers from the homeland.
Rather, the much more probable reason she was there was that she felt compelled to aid the "collateral damage" victims of our bombing campaigns. She could, I imagine, aid somewhat effectively in that respect. I'm not sure how effectively she could aid the "terrorist" cause in Iraq or harm Americans unless she was actively assisting the insurgency. Counting and comforting the maimed can hardly qualify.
You ARE speaking of "Marla Ruzicka" correct?
WHY don't you bother looking up things she said HERSELF.
YES, by her own admission she was there to try and disrupt the American war effort.
You obviously are either unaware of that, or PURPOSEFULLY being dishonest.
Considering your post and tone, I'd say it's the LATTER.
Crew, Meet "Legal Conservative".
He believes that Marla Ruzicka was in Iraq "for the children" (post 89).
Marla Ruzicka, the terrorist sympathiser who ended up dead due to her symptathies.
Naaaah
And you've got this ocean front property in Arizona.....
If you'll buy that I'll throw the Golden Gate in Free!
Don't get near an open flame. Methane is very flammable.
Yeah, I noted the extreme and distinct tinge of partially digested and composted flora material with that post especially.
I know automatically that a poster is lying whenever they say anything was done 'for the children', and I especially know they're suing the tired old handbook when they use lines like "As a lifelong republican.. I've voted for republicans BUT.."
We know the MO.
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