So, is the CIVC going to sue the bombers and its group to pay for the damage?
She is a traitor, dishonoring the 911 victims and the Americans who freed Iraq. Patrick Leahy should also step down for assosciating with this terrorist supporter.
GOOD, I'll be glad when, if ever, all the death loving Saddam supporters are all DEAD.
American activist dies in Iraq blast. Ironies abound here: "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."
She was an American activist, of the type that was trying to show that American troops were causing terrible harm. In other words, negative PR to highlight the victims of 'war'.
The leftwing site Common Dreams notes of the young activist: "A onetime protégée of one of the world's most visible activists, Global Exchange's Medea Benjamin, Ruzicka was set on this course after 9/11 when she went to Afghanistan on a campaign to help those in the line of fire between U. S. troops and suspected Taliban strongholds. ..."
Her previous activism included disrupting speeches ... "... just two years ago I was dragged out of the World Affairs Council when President Bush was speaking. It was his first trip to California, and I'd bought a ticket to hear him speak. I made my sarong-type skirt into a banner, and when he started his address, I unfurled it and jumped on a table and started shouting, 'Stop the rate caps now!' The cops grabbed me and took me out."
She changes her style but not her mission since then:
It was between her post-war sojourns to Afghanistan and Iraq that Ruzicka split amicably from Global Exchange to start her own organization, CIVIC (www.civicworldwide.org). Though there is the ongoing worry over money, Ruzicka is getting better at finding grants, and she was given a boost when ABC's "Nightline" aired a piece on her work in Iraq.
There is something noble in the American spirit that makes us take risks and do what we think is needed to change things for the better.
But there is also something meddlesome, annoying, and arrogant about getting in the middle of a complex situation like a war zone, and doing freelance agitation and foreign policy; call it "ugly Americanism", call it "Jesse Jacksonism" or even "Jimmy Carterism".
Ruzicka's mission in Iraq was not to tally the victims of terrorism but to tally victims of 'war'. If you listen to the Leftists PR, war is a disembodied evil, disregarding the causes of it, the purposes, perpetrators, and complexities of it. This has been the cry of the 'peace' groups during the Cold War, ("peace" groups that were actually front groups for the Soviet Union). The Soviet Union is dead, the Cold War over, but the plea for 'peace' from the Leftists goes on, every time the U.S. is stirred by events to action.
Did this women ever, ever, prior to her death at the hands of terrorists, attend, organize or participate in a rally against terrorism? Or against Saddam Hussein's brutality?
I heard a radio news report in this today that made her sound like a saint. I nearly drove off the road in apoplexy!
Too bad it wasn't Jane Fonda.
An American traitor dies in a war zone. I guess everyone gets whats comin' to 'em. No tears should be wasted on this person.