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To: hocndoc
You can be skeptical and wary without becoming disdainful of women who do not look like you believe that they should or who have jobs of which you disapprove.

It's not my place to approve or disapprove, nor am I disdainful. I'm surveying the charges with an eye to the situation and (again) mindful of the age of the victim. Survey the numbers of 20 something military females in the zone of combat and see how many of them have suffered similar fates. Then, look at the early stages of the war. Not even our female POWs were raped. Kelly Lynch wasn't. I'll bet the Iraqi males have an even more misogynistic view of women than you seem to feel that I hold. The situation is what it is. I make no apologies for my views.

147 posted on 12/10/2007 3:07:04 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier

That’s because soldiers, even Iraqi ones, can be held legally accountable to their respective military justice systems. These mercenaries can do whatever they want and evidently receive corporate protection.


148 posted on 12/10/2007 3:14:27 PM PST by Deathmonger
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To: ExSoldier

Of course, we aren’t talking about the military, with its discipline.

Perhaps you’re unaware of how disdainful your supposition about “consensual until the tips were too small,” and the implication that most women aren’t raped, so she must be lying and at fault.

Even if your experiences do make you think so poorly of women, in this case there is an honorable man as a witness, “Toothbrush Poe.”


184 posted on 12/10/2007 6:55:03 PM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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