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Sending the women to save the suits
Washington Times ^ | Friday, March 28, 2003 | Wesley Pruden

Posted on 03/27/2003 11:52:45 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

What can you say about the men in a society that sends women to fight its wars?

The temptation is to call them cowards. That might be too harsh (or it might not be). Whatever and whoever they are, they ought to feel shame and mortification when they look upon the photographs of Shoshana Johnson, a 30-year-old single mother of a 2-year-old daughter, languishing in an Iraqi prison. We can only hope that what is probably happening to her, at the hands of men who are taught by their degraded culture and abased religion to regard women as throwaway vessels of their perversions, is not happening to her.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feminism; iraqifreedom; jessicalynch; kias; militarymothers; pows; shoshanajohnson; wesleypruden; womenincombat
Friday, March 28, 2003

Quote of the Day by Yankee

1 posted on 03/27/2003 11:52:45 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: wardaddy
One on OUR side. :-)
2 posted on 03/27/2003 11:59:46 PM PST by nopardons
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To: rdb3; Z in Oregon; countrydummy
Why is it the men's fault that women want to fight?
3 posted on 03/28/2003 12:01:36 AM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: AntiJen
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5 posted on 03/28/2003 12:04:08 AM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: JohnHuang2
Men can coarsen and toughen women for the battlefield, making them accomplished killers. But what kind of sorry excuse for a man would want to do that to the bearers of his children?

I didn't want women in the military.  Well, they are there.  They fought for it.  They volunteered for it.  They are there.

It makes me furious when writers lament the poor children who will never see their mothers again, then hastily add in "oh yes and of course their fathers too".  Millions of men have paid the ultimate price for this nation to exist.  A hell of a lot of children lost a parent long before it meant something.  Most of the men who paid the ulimate penalty were of the white northern European variety who's contributions to this nation have been demoted to just above that of Jack the Ripper.  Not only does the loss of their lives mean next to nothing to certain people, I have to ask myself if their proginy are receiving their bang for the buck, for the price their parent has paid.

Here we see how blatant men are discounted next to women in war, but just about everywhere else we see 67% of Americans completely ignored, no special status attached to their lives, since northern Europeans are equated with "evily" successful beyond any chance of being a wholesome righteous individual.

Yes, what sorry excuse for a man would stoop to blaming men for women attaining a goal they set for themselves, then persued until they attained it?

The writer addresses the precise number one reason why I didn't want to see women in the military.  For several decades I was assured I didn't know what I was talking about.  Okay, I didn't and we have finally attained perfection.  And now I'm to blame for that too.

Yakov Smirnov was right.  "What a country!"

6 posted on 03/28/2003 12:20:14 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
Have you ever seen some of the males the writer is talking about? Effeminite types that shouldn't go within arms length of a uniform, much less a weapon.
7 posted on 03/28/2003 4:20:49 AM PST by jjm2111
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To: JohnHuang2
Pruden hits another one out of the park.

Pruden is the man.

8 posted on 03/28/2003 4:42:40 AM PST by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: JohnHuang2; nopardons
Thanks for a sanity over this issue alert.
9 posted on 03/28/2003 9:35:34 AM PST by wardaddy (G-d speed our fighters!)
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To: jjm2111
What I think you are missing, is that the policy makers didn't drive this. The radical feminist movement drove this. If they would have gone to court, women would have been introduced into the military by court order. This therefore is not a problem with the suits, it's a problem with the skirts.

For me that last sentence said it all. Here it is: Men can coarsen and toughen women for the battlefield, making them accomplished killers. But what kind of sorry excuse for a man would want to do that to the bearers of his children?

This didn't say men in suits fella, it included you and I right in there with the suits. "How could any of us allow this?" Well I didn't allow it. I had no choice in it and this writer is simply wrong on this and several other issues raised in the article.

10 posted on 03/28/2003 10:33:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
The majority in both houses in Congress are men in suits!!
11 posted on 04/01/2003 12:28:50 PM PST by victim soul
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To: victim soul
That is true, but they were only reacting to the loudest power base on their doorstep. That was NOW and other radical feminist orgs. Once again, the suits didn't drive this.

Let me ask this question. Do you think the suits would have driven this agenda without the radical feminist organizations pushing them to? I believe the answer to that is clear.

12 posted on 04/01/2003 12:56:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: JohnHuang2
bttt
13 posted on 07/23/2003 4:07:58 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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