[LuisBasco]

I'm happy that Jessica is going to be returned to her family.

I can't help wondering, however, how many of the eleven corpses were murdered by Iraqis to intimidate young Jessica.

Women in combat zones and American values seem to me to be a contradiction. I have believed all of my life that any nation placing their women in combat roles isn't worth defending. I realize that there are many who are far more comfortable than myself in beefing up the combat troops with female soldiers.

How effective would our military be with a 50-50 split?

[tracer]

It may well be that she was abused in an attempt to loosen the tongues of her male comrades-in-arms, who, as mechanics, probably had little tactical information to give up and accordingly were murdered. Our culture conditions men to be protective of women....