The MSM sure is careful to leave out that women POW’s get raped over and over as a matter of course in Muslim countries. Remember that story from Iran where girl dissidents being raped because your not supposed to execute virgins? (I hear there are 27 young women on ‘death row’ in Iran)
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/29/us/female-pow-is-abused-kindling-debate.html?pagewanted=1
Just understand the MSM is never going to make a big deal that women in combat are going to be brutalized if they’re captured.
“”DOTHAN, Ala., June 24— On a cold night during her weeklong captivity in Iraq in the Persian Gulf war, Maj. Rhonda Cornum was loaded into a pickup truck with another American prisoner of war, a young male sergeant, and taken from an underground bunker to a small prison. During the 30-minute drive, an Iraqi guard kissed her repeatedly, pulled a blanket over their heads so that they would not be seen, unzipped her flight suit and fondled her breasts.
Major Cornum, a 37-year-old flight surgeon and biochemist from upstate New York, had broken both arms, smashed her knee and had a bullet in her right shoulder as a result of the downing of her Army helicopter. She screamed in pain when the Iraqi tried to pull her flight suit down over her untreated and swollen arms. Before the ordeal was over, she told a Presidential commission on women in the military this month, she was “violated manually — vaginally and rectally.”
Major Cornum’s testimony stunned some of the members of the commission, which also learned in the hearing that Specialist Melissa Coleman, the other American female prisoner of war in Iraq, was the victim of “indecent assault.”
Their treatment has since become an issue in the debate over whether women in the military should be allowed into combat. Those who favor limiting the role of women have seized upon Major Cornum’s experience, saying it proves that women are more vulnerable than men in combat situations. None of the male prisoners, for instance, have reported that they were sexually abused during their captivity.
But other experts on P.O.W.’s and on military personnel say the disclosure illustrates much larger issues: that rape and sexual abuse are two of the many forms of mistreatment suffered by prisoners of war....””
But....but...but...we're the "barbarians" because some of our soldiers dared to put underwear on the heads of terrorists....grrrr! < /sarc >
Any combat our military is likely to see in the forseeable future will be with 3rd world tribal type combatants. Female POWs will be sexually assualted, beaten and possibly killed. This fact needs to be made very public, and a total reassessment on the role of females in the US military should be undertaken.
Male POWs aren’t exempt from torture and murder as mentioned earlier in this thread. What hasn’t been mentioned yet was several US POWs in DS-I were castrated before they were murdered. They were found to have been circumsized, and were assumed to be Jews.
The media would rather cover accusations that Halliburton employees raped Americans stationed in Iraq than ever discuss the mistreatment of captured American troop by Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, etc...