[Lael]

I forgot to ask. What do we know about this woman other than she served our country?

I am not totally opposed, and Squaw to me was always synonamous with "married Indian Woman", as opposed to an Indian "Maiden". But then, I studied the Algonquin in Elementary School, and as pointed out, it is an Algonquin term. I really am ignorant of any secondary meetings.

Squaw is certainly easier to pronounce than that girl's name.

Let us comply with the rules and wait the five years. My intuitive sense is that Lori AND Jessica inflicted the vast bulk of Iraqi casualties with single shot, deliberately aimed fire, as opposed to the "spray and pray" technique employed by the rest.

If that is actually the case, and it is corroborated over said 5 year period, then I would have no objection, even though I, being ignorant of "secondary meanings" have never employed "Squaw" as a slur.

[Kenton]

I know a Lakota woman who gets very upset over the word, claiming that it's an epithet similar to the word... ummmm... well, it's that acronym created from the first letters of the phrase "Can't Understand Normal Thinking"...

[chiller]

The Gov's a Dem. They can ignore rules whenever convenient.