[river rat]

It sounds like the NYT is celebrating....."a record".
I couldn't read the whole article, because I refuse to register with the NY Slimes.

Semper Fi

[nonliberal]

Welcome to equality.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Liberals demanded equal combat role for women, then when the inevitable occurs, they use their deaths as propaganda denigrating our military.

[Allegra]

Heard about this this morning.

Horrible.

Car bombs and IEDs are the terrorists' main tactics now.

[noodler]

Why should we be surprised? Women,children, the old,the wise the young.No discretion.Blowed away by seething undescibable evil.They hail this as courage.It will be put in their lap soon.

[Barnacle]

Iraq Bombing Kills 4 U.S. Women...

How is the Marines' gender relevant to this story?

Four Marines killed. That's the story. If the media is going to make gender part of the story, then do it evenhandedly. Imagine headlines to the affect, "Iraq Bombing Kills 4 U.S. Men"

Except perhaps in the most desperate of circumstances, no civilized civilization puts its women in combat.

[Cicero]

It's certainly typical. First they campaign for equal opportunities for women in combat, and then they blame Bush when women are killed.

It's the same with blacks. They whine and bitch when black re-enlistment drops (although not below the percentage of blacks in the population). Then out of the other sides of their mouths they whine and complain because blacks are being subjected to dangerous combat.

With privelege comes responsibility. You take the job, you take the risks.

[CBart95]

Messengers are usually exempt from reprisal for bringing bad news.
But this is the tawdry NYT.
Exemplary in their anti-American filth without exception.
This might as well be just another news outlet for AlJezeera.
To whom do we credit for such "faithful" coverage?
On the other hand constancy is considered a virtue.
Good job T_C.

[Logical me]

Sh@@heads NYT. We are at war. For a while, American deaths were on a decline. Watch now, it will inspire the terrorist to go back to killing our military since they got NYT coverage. Lets hope they just don't target women in the military. Damn the NYT. If people would just not buy the Times, we could complete the mission much sooner. In a sense, they are recruiting terrorist who love being in the news.

[ol' hoghead]

I hope Patsy Shroeder (ex. Colorado Rat congressweasel) is happy now that women are being killed in combat.

ol' hoghead

[Let's Roll]

A scenario or timeline I saw earlier indicated that these women marines were on their way to relieve other women at a checkpoint because of course they had to have women there to search the local women passing through.

This establishes an MO, a pattern - and IMO these women were deliberately targeted.