[exDemMom]

Working in a hospital, is hardly combat, they don't have anything in common at all.

Now you reveal that you were pushing a political agenda when you started with your sill claim.

I fail to understand how a simple statement of fact constitutes "pushing a political agenda." The fact is that 143 women have died on deployment during the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, many of them as a direct consequence of enemy action. Women *do* work in combat zones and have always been present in and near combat zones.

As I said before, there is no reason to think that women are less able than men to withstand the psychological pressures of combat. However, we tend to be small and not very muscular; we would have difficulty with the physical aspects of combat roles.

[ansel12]

How you switched from our discussion on your silly hospital claim to suddenly now about female military personnel in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, is interesting to see.

If you wanted to push liberal politics about females in the military, why didn’t you just say so?

If you don’t then why change the subject?