From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:29:01 PM UTC-6, Shawn Wilson wrote:   
   > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:05:43 AM UTC-7, Will in New Haven wrote:   
       
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   > > > It doesn't matter what the commander thinks is a good and useful idea.    
   We did, in fact, put women directly in harm's way for specific utilitarian   
   reasons in Iraq.    
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   > Snicker, pick ONE "it doesn't matter what the commander thinks" or "for   
   specific utilitarian reasons in Iraq".  Who do you think MADE those decisions,   
   hmmm?     
      
   Ultimately the politicians do.  If your reading comprehension is so pathetic   
   that you can't understand a series of events... military making military   
   decisions to put women on check-points and needing to do militarily *stupid*   
   stuff to conform to idiotic    
   *political* dictations of policy, that is not my problem, it's yours.    
       
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   > You directly contradicted yourself from one sentence to the next.   
      
   I portrayed a conflict of actions and policy, military purpose and political   
   panty-twisting.  Of course it was a contradiction.   
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   > >  We lost an entire busload of female soldiers in one attack... twenty-some   
   dead women all at once...  because while the *men* stayed overnight at the   
   checkpoints because it was *too dangerous* to return to the main base between   
   shifts, the *female*    
   soldiers couldn't remain out there bunked with the guys so they loaded them   
   all up on a bus every single day and drove them out and drove them back.  This   
   was not a *military* decision... it was pure politics and it got something   
   like 26 women killed.   
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   > Uh, no.  Now you are just on a rant.     
      
   If you are saying I'm lying about those deaths and the circumstance around   
   them you can take your DD214 and fuck yourself with it because you've outed   
   yourself as a brother-fucker.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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