44 Comments

• 1. js  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am

  82% of americans think Iran is still working on a nuke program.

• 2. js  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:36 am

  HIllarys revenge….refusing to drop out.

• 3. neocon  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am

  61% of Iranians want to wear blue jeans and drive chevrolets.

• 4. LNC  |  April 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am

  The remaining primaries won’t give her enough delegates to surpass Obama, but if she continues to win in the remaining states, she will close the gap a bit, which will make her arguments to the superdelegates carry more weight.

  Also, if she wins the remaining contests, she could make the case that Obama has lost his momentum/charm/whatever given recent circumstances, and if those things had been known in the beginning, he wouldn’t have come anywhere close to where he is now.

• 5. Canadian Observer  |  April 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am

  3. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
  61% of Iranians want to wear blue jeans and drive chevrolets.

  ——————————-

  I have learned from Iranian friends who have just returned from their birthplace that you might be right, Neocon.

  However, I don’t think the innocent citizens of Iran would welcome the death and destruction that the Iraqi people have suffered and continue to suffer since the
  American ‘liberation’.

• 6. LiberalNitemare  |  April 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am

  I like the way CO uses scare qoutes around the word “liberation”. Its a nice way to seem like your saying ’something’, while actually saying nothing at all.

  I wish more liberals would adopt it.

  Back to the point, do you think that since Iran has helped to ‘kill american soldiers’ and ‘interfered with the sovereignty of Iraq’, do you think that any sort of action is warrented?

  Personally, I believe that in the case of Iran the best possible resolution is to make Iraq the most succesful democracy that it can be.

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• 9. bagni  |  April 27th, 2008 at 11:38 am

  markran
  the light speed junkies have said it before and will say it one more time
  don’t attack iran
  first…it will destroy the u.s. economy
  second…why not just make a lower cost commitment and do a weekly airdrop of 50,000 plasma screen tv’s, cellphones, crackberries, wii’s, laptops, etc. for three straight years
  make all these devices work for free
  and beam in everything from 3’s company to mtv to fox news
  you’ll get your democracy after that
  but is america patient enough?
  come to think of it…there’s no way…..

• 10. neocon  |  April 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am

  CO never has anything of substance to say. Only contrary viewpoints that highlight his disdain for anything American. He is highly predictable.

  You would think that after centuries of civilization, ME countries would be leaps and bounds ahead of the young US. But, due to rife tyrannical corruption and incompetence, they continue to live in abject poverty and oppression. And these are the countries our resident liberals champion. Speaks volumes about their self respect and confidence. Doesn’t it?

• 11. Diana Powe  |  April 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  On another thread, Mark made the claim that there is “no shared sense of American values in the Democratic party.” As I said there, before it was deleted as not being deemed sufficiently on-topic in answering his own evidence-free assertion, that there are any number of what we can only assume are Republican values because they are the behavior of the Republican President, his administration and many Republicans in Congress. Values such as:

  - Invading and occupying countries that have not attacked the United States
  - Sanctioning and choreographing the use of torture at the highest levels of the Executive Branch
  - Lying to Congress
  - Undermining the respect for the rule of law in the United States by turning the Justice Department into a political arm of the White House
  - Sending innocent persons to other countries knowing they will be tortured
  - Condoning a President who uses what used to be the king-like authority (prior to the Magna Carta) of imprisoning American citizens incommunicado, without charges and without access to the legal system
  - Lying to the American public about conducting surveillance on their electronic communications without the legally-required warrants
  - Voting against providing health care to children
  - Sending American soldiers into harm’s way and then giving them short-shrift on their return in their housing, medical care and educational benefits

  Those are some of the apparently “shared American values” that most Republicans think are just fine (as evidenced by actual conduct rather than the mouthing of words) and which no decent Democrat would want to have anything to do with.

• 12. Diana Powe  |  April 27th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

  From the angry father of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier, some ugly, ugly truth about how a Republican Administration actually conducts itself while saying that they support the troops.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vYZFU1Dew

• 13. js  |  April 27th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

  tell us something DP….IRL…Are you Cindy Sheehan?…for sure….the basic radicalization of everything is there….the omission of facts…the perversion of the truth…the delusion of a conspiracy against you….did anyone else notice this?

• 14. neocon  |  April 27th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

  Diana,

  Just to conter your first three:

  1. Somalia, Sudan and Kosovo
  2. Clinton initiated the practice of rendition
  3. Nearly everyone in the Clinton admin lied about something at some point

  when you first started posting here you had a slight modicum of objectivity, you have spiraled downwards since. Your masters must be proud

• 15. Diana Powe  |  April 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

  neocon,

  Did I write a defense of any military actions in Somalia, Sudan or Kosovo? No.

  Did I write a defense of rendition under any administration? No.

  Did I write a defense of lying to Congress by any official of any administration at any time? No.

  Regardless of your mindless redirect to “blah-blah Clinton blah-blah”, if conduct is illegal or immoral it’s illegal or immoral for everyone. I thought Republicans supposedly believed in individual responsibility. I guess not. Thanks for the information, “It’s okay for Republicans to commit illegal and immoral acts as long as we can say a Democrat did once, too.”

• 16. Bill Eischeidt  |  April 27th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

  And Diana the rules applying to everyone is what the political right wing in your country find fault with.

  Let’s not be satisfied with going back to Clinton let’s look at the failings of Reagan.

  El Salvador and Nicaragua
  Arms for hostages–Iran/Contra
  Nearly everyone in the reagan administration lied to Congress and the right wing calls them heores.

  Sandy Berger and Oliver North should both be in Guantanamo Bay sharing a cell. That’s where I’m drawing the line at equal justice.

• 17. neocon  |  April 27th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  Diana,

  You missed the point entirely. You claimed in post #11 that “no decent democrat would subscribe to such egregious values”, I pointed out three of such “shared values” of Bill Clinton, the last Democrat standard bearer.

  So when did the DNC adopt these new, higher standard shared values? And are they stand alone values or simply those that are contrary to the GOP?

• 18. neocon  |  April 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  Bill,

  What fine country are you from sir?

• 19. Bill Eischeidt  |  April 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  Born in New Mexico now an ex pat on Isle of Man.

• 20. Bill Burnett  |  April 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  View on politics like religious beliefs become rigid in the brain. This means that the politics of ‘issues’ may be less significant than which party you belong to, no matter how the news media presents things. I have a tiny three question survey about the rigidity of beliefs open at;
  http://www.wburnettllc.com/ThoughtExperiment.htm please contribute.

• 21. Christian Wright  |  April 27th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

  Republicans are not a political party, they are a criminal enterprise. The WOT is just a money laundering scheme to raid the treasury and award other Republican with no-bid cost-plus contracts.

  The failure of the Bush Administration to help the victims of Katrina was passive genocide.

  The sub-prime mortgage lending fiasco could have been stopped by Greenspan and Bush years ago, they received plenty of warning, and prevented individual states from protecting their citizens from predatory lending.

  The list of crimes goes on.

• 22. Diana Powe  |  April 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

  neocon,

  Mark demonstrated his hatred of the Democratic Party by making the sweeping statement there is “no shared sense of American values in the Democratic party”. By extension, Republicans have a “shared sense of American values”. How do you tell what people value? By what they do. I have provided examples of what some Republicans have done since January 20, 2001 and what other Republicans have either turned a blind eye to or actively supported. Ergo, those are some things that the Republican Party must think are American values. I disagree and further assert that no decent Democrat (or decent Republican) would defend these acts.

• 23. Diana Powe  |  April 27th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

  neocon,

  If your question is whether or not there are or have been rogues and villains in the Democratic Party, the answer, obviously, is “yes” just as there are rogues and villains in the Republican Party. If a Democrat is corrupt or venal then we need to run them off. However, many of the acts I cited are, as John Dean’s book title puts it, “worse than Watergate.”

• 24. Danish Artist  |  April 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

  C Wright,

  Who were the “victims” of Katrina and passive genocide?

  I await you unintelligent and uniformed answer.

• 25. Bill Eischeidt  |  April 27th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  Then Danish Artist I think you shouldn’t get an answer since you’ve passed judgment already.

• 26. Danish Artist  |  April 27th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

  Butt out Bill.

  With words like “passive genocide”, it shows that reality does not match his (and most likely your) liberal fantasy.

  PLUS, I WAS THERE, I KNOW PEOPLE WHO WERE IN AREAS HARDER HIT THAN NEW ORLEANS.

• 27. Christian Wright  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

  Danish Artist

  Republican knew the poor in New Orleans voted in a Democratic block, so they let them drown. Then they made a video to make fun of them.

  Here is a video by a conservative group that explains exactly who the victims of Katrina are.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi73GfqLjbQ

  Please not the complete lack of sympathy.

• 28. Timothy Horrigan  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

  Although we haven’t heard much about this of late, Iran’s army is officially still considered a “terrorist oragnization” (by us Americans… and does it matter what anyone else calls them? Of course not!) This is more than just a derogatory label… it affects the rules of engagement on Iraq. If for whatever reason, our forces bump up against some other neighboring power’s forces, we are supposed to respect the other nation’s sovereignty by leaving when asked by not attacking unless we are attacked first. But if our forces encounter terrorists in the field, we can just go ahead and attack them. That means that Iran’s army isn’t (as far as we are allowed) to defend their own homeland’s security in the same way as Saudi Arabia’s, Jordan’s, Kuwait’s Turkey’s, etc. That also means we (ostensibly) don’t HAVE to obey the Geneva Conventions when dealing with captured Iranians (although we will do so if we feel like it, just ’cause we’re so kind and gentle.)

• 29. sam  |  April 27th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

  Timothy Horrigan,

  you are not serious are you? If Iran’s army is considered a terrorist organization and allows you to ignore the Geneva Convention, then Iran will do the same. When they capture some pretty ole marines, they will just torture the hell out of them, and then kill them in public to show you that you fucked with the wrong country this time around.

  hahaha..bring it on, i can’t wait personally.

• 30. Freedom1  |  April 27th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

  Bawer: An Anatomy of Surrender

  (Via Lgf), “Bruce Bawer has an excellent piece at City Journal on “creeping sharia,” the cultural and legal front of the global jihad—and it isn’t only happening in Europe: An Anatomy of Surrender.

  Motivated by fear and multiculturalism, too many Westerners are acquiescing to creeping sharia.

  Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission. Over the centuries, this jihad has taken a variety of forms. Two centuries ago, for instance, Muslim pirates from North Africa captured ships and enslaved their crews, leading the U.S. to fight the Barbary Wars of 1801–05 and 1815. In recent decades, the jihadists’ weapon of choice has usually been the terrorist’s bomb; the use of planes as missiles on 9/11 was a variant of this method.

  What has not been widely recognized is that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie introduced a new kind of jihad. Instead of assaulting Western ships or buildings, Kho meini took aim at a fundamental Western freedom: freedom of speech. In recent years, other Islamists have joined this crusade, seeking to undermine Western societies’ basic liberties and extend sharia within those societies.

  The cultural jihadists have enjoyed disturbing success.

• 31. Freedom1  |  April 27th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  CANADA: Bell: A Home-Grown ‘Champion of Islam’

  (Via Lgf), “Stewart Bell has a scary piece about the increasing numbers of young Canadian Muslims indoctrinated into extremism, focusing on one especially nasty Home-grown ‘champion of Islam’. - National Post

  (National Post): TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.

  From his apartment in Toronto, Mr. Khan has been posting messages on the Internet calling Osama bin Laden a “hero” and “champion of Islam.” The 23-year-old fundamentalist’s online logo combines the black Taliban flag and the outline of an AK-47 above the “Support Our Troops” slogan.

  Between sips of iced coffee at Tim Hortons, Mr. Khan explained that he is a supporter of the Taliban, as well as other armed Islamic groups.

  “ ‘Support our Troops’ means supporting the mujahideen [Muslim soldiers of God] who are fighting for their freedom and rights against illegal occupation in many, many places over the world like Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine and Somalia,” he said later in an e-mail.

  Views like these are becoming increasingly common in Western countries, Canada included, and they are worrying to governments concerned about radicalism and violence. Mr. Khan is an Islamist, not a terrorist, but what most disturbs moderate Muslims are his harsh comments about those who do not subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs.

  In his online postings, Mr. Khan calls Tarek Fatah, Irshad Manji and other moderates “apostates,” and says that under Islamic law, the punishment for apostasy is death. The same goes for those who insult Islam.

  “Behead her!!! And make a nice video and post it on YouTube,” he writes about one “Islam basher.” As for “Jews who support Zionism and Israel … since they are killing Palestinians … killing them is not bad … they deserve to die.”

  “Where are people like Naeem Muhammad Khan learning this Dark Ages hatred? Where else? In the mosques.” - Lgf

  (National Post): “In recent times, hundreds of Islamic radicals have settled in Canada,” said Tahir Gora, a Pakistan-born writer who has been tackling the issue in his Hamilton Spectator columns.

  “They are spreading hatred and extremism in the guise of freedom of expression. On the other hand, they put death penalties to those dissidents who challenge the traditional medieval way of Islam.”

  Mr. Gora heads the Canada Safety Think Tank, which monitors what he calls the growing Islamist radicalization in the country. He wants Ottawa to take the issue more seriously and believes police should lay hate-crimes charges against extremists who pronounce death sentences on moderates like himself.

• 32. Freedom1  |  April 27th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

  Black & White on the Grey Matters 2 (War)

  This guy is amazing! :)

• 33. Danish Artist  |  April 28th, 2008 at 6:38 am

  C Wright,

  They let them drown? Because they are democrats? Oh, please you worthless loser! Show me your proof, rather than an insensitive, but mostly true video! Video by a conservative group? I did not see any evidence of it being a conservative group? Proof?

  Ok. Using your illogic the PERSON who let them drown was RAY NAGIN, another democrat! His responsibility was to follow the evacuation plan on the books!! Did he? NO! NO! NO!

  He was worried about being sued by the hotel industry - the only industry in New Orleans since the democrat machine taxed the others out. It was his responsibility to get the people out. Once he called for an evacuation late Saturday/early Sunday it was too late. Then he opened up the dome, had buses pick up the citizens, which was not too clear on where the pick up points were and brought them to the dome.

  That video is partially true, while some points have been exaggerated and generalized. But those in New Orleans that suffered were those who depend upon government for everything! Their dependence on New Orleans government to take care of them was their downfall. It’s unfortunate but true! Most of those people are incapable of taking care of themselves. Sorry, but the truth hurts!

  The looters were mostly looting because of opportunity. Some looted for food and water. Others looted for profit. Harsh, but the truth.

  Afterwards, most of the NOPD left! Abandoned their posts and civil responsibility. Why? Because most were not trained to handle that situation because of political appointment. Some couldn’t handle it and some lacked the intellectual fortitude. Remember those “officers” looting Walmart?

  So, C wright, shoe me your “proof” of you stupid claims or just shut the f*ck up. Your a complete imbecile and another hate monger like the “Reverends” Al and Wright.

  Wright? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm………………….

• 34. Christian Wright  |  April 28th, 2008 at 7:51 am

  Watch the proof yourself in Spike Lee’s movie, “When the Levees Broke.”

• 35. neocon  |  April 28th, 2008 at 9:07 am

  I love Chrisitians resources: Spike Lee and YouTube

  LMAO

• 36. Danish Artist  |  April 28th, 2008 at 10:12 am

  Spike Lee?!?!?

  LMFAO!!!!

  I might as well watch Michael Moore on health care!

  Pssssstttttt…..wright, I know of several Republican communities that were hard hit by Katrina and were worse off aftwards than those bitching at the convention center. I know of Republicans who unfortunately drowed as well. Meanwhile those “Republicans” did something about their predicament, rathing than waiting around with their hands out. Lost, without having a clue as to what to do. Just waiting for big brother or nanny to come to their rescue.

  Also, the levee’s breaking was not the fault of Republicans! The levee’s broke for several reasons - inadequate protection, corrpupt liberal politicians who appointed the head of the levee board, corruption in New Orleans.

  The levees were inadequate when they were first built. When a federal proposal to strengthen them and raise them to 18 ft was stopped by who - ENVIRONMENTALISTS!

  The liberal utopia of complete liberal rule in New Orleans is the main problem for levees in New Orleans. That was the darling political appointed position to get from the mayor of New Orleans. Many of these appointees resigned for corruption.

  The feds were always wanted a full accounting to the monies that were allocated for maintaining and somewhat improving the levees. New Orleans in its liberal induced financial problems used some of those funds elsewhere. The result, the levees did not get the attention that was needed and several shortcuts were used, like a concrete wall, instead of an earthened dam. Those concrete walls were the big ones that collapsed because of inefficient anchoring into the bed rock because that would have cost too much.

  So Wright, before you spew your liberal hatred, get all the facts and stop relying on sensationalists for them. They are looking for a quick buck from the conspiracy crowd and you fools fall for it time and again.

• 37. Danish Artist  |  April 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am

  Wait……

  I did see Spike Lee’s movie. It was a fair coverage of the ENTIRE FLOODED AREA rather than what the media focused on.

  I remember that it was not Spike Lee who made the claim that “Republicans hated black people and let them drown”. It was one of the celebrities in the commercial breaks used to raise money who said that.

  Wow wright, you are even uniformed about the so called references you use. Careful, Spike Lee might take legal action for spreading untruthful rumors about his work.

  I see your rich white Republican hatred clouds your judgement. Thankfully, your daughter is getting a prime education from a private CATHOLIC school which will cancel out your influence.

• 38. Diana Powe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am

  Dude, where’s my arms contract:
  

  General Mortensen acknowledged that the Army had not reviewed AEY’s relationships and said the question of vetting was now being reviewed. “If there is a seam in our process, then clearly we need to take a look at it,” he said.

  An examination of AEY’s activities by The New York Times, first reported last month, found that the company had shipped to Afghanistan tens of millions of decades-old Chinese cartridges that had been repackaged in flimsy cardboard.

  The purchases included classes of ammunition that NATO and the State Department have determined to be outdated and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.

  The ammunition had not been tested for reliability under well-established military standards, the Army and the export agency that sold most of it said.

  Mr. Diveroli was under a felony charge of possession of a forged driver’s license when the contract was awarded. He later conducted business with a shell company in Cyprus and two international arms dealers on the federal watch list. He was also recorded in a phone conversation that suggested corruption in arms purchases in Albania.
  —–
  The low-price assumptions, the industry officials said, appeared to be what had led Mr. Diveroli to Albania, where the government sold its munitions for as little as 2.2 cents a round, a price that strongly suggested their age and poor condition.

  Ed Grasso, president of Sellier & Bellot USA, which has provided new Czech ammunition to Afghanistan, said new rifle cartridges of the types AEY bought typically cost 20 cents to 30 cents a round.

  By early this year, Mr. Diveroli seemed to be desperately searching for munitions, three dealers said. He turned up in Las Vegas in February at the SHOT show, which calls itself the world’s largest firearms exhibition.

  He went booth to booth, seeking suppliers to fill the Army’s orders, including those for shoulder-fired rockets, they said. “He was looking to buy RPG-7 rounds, and let me tell you, he wanted to pay $30 for these things,” one dealer said. “You can’t get that item for that price, not if you’re buying quality.”

  A round for an RPG-7, the dealer said, typically costs $60 to $85.

  He added, “He would just come in and give us a list of stuff that he was trying to shop, and at prices no one would touch.”
  _____________
  Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/world/27ammo.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=washington

  Awarding an arms contract potentially worth $298 million to a company run by a 22-year-old who’d been arrested with a fake driver license. Isn’t that just super special.

• 39. Diana Powe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 11:16 am

  The Straight Talk Express rolls over into a dry gulch in Nevada:
  

  After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.
  —–
  But as the convention continued into the evening, chairman Bob Beers said the party’s contract for the hall at the Peppermill Resort Casino had expired and the event would be rescheduled.

  “Due to a rules change that left us on an overtime basis, we will recess the convention until a date that we are going to announce next week,” Beers told a shocked crowd, which stood silent for a few seconds before erupting in boos.
  __________
  Source: http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080427/NEWS/804270360/1321

• 40. Joe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am

  Not that there is anything illegal, but what do you call it when you have a policy to not do something yet you do it anyway?

  McCain campaign violates own travel policy
  Republican John McCain’s campaign appears to have violated its own stated policy of not using the aircraft of companies with lobbying interests in Washington for campaign travel, according to a Boston Globe review.
  The practice is legal, and the campaign of McCain, long an advocate of campaign finance reform, has changed its policy over the past year on use of private planes - from banning such corporate-jet travel to allowing limited use. McCain is the only remaining candidate who has flown on corporate jets during the campaign. Neither of the Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, uses private jets, and both have flown on commercial charter flights since the outset of the campaign.
  The New York Times reported today that over a seven-month period beginning last summer, McCain’s cash-short campaign used a corporate jet owned by a company headed by his wife, Cindy McCain, according to public records. For five of those months, the plane was used almost exclusively for campaign-related purposes, those records show. (My comment – And you people all laugh at and ridicule John Kerry for marrying into money and using that money during his campaign in 2004!!!)
  Because that exemption remains, McCain’s campaign was able to use his wife’s corporate plane like a charter jet while paying first-class rates, several campaign finance experts said. Several of those experts, however, added that his campaign’s actions, while keeping with the letter of law, did not reflect its spirit.
  Source here

• 41. Diana Powe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 11:40 am

  Oh! Oh! I know this one! It’s called rank hypocrisy!

• 42. Joe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am

  Ding ding ding… we have a winner.

• 43. Joe  |  April 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  What??? “Presumptuous? Not transferable?
  Is this guy really a Republican?

  But but but…. Wright is a racist so Obama must be too…. right?

  Dammit… this Huckabee must have been duped by the mean MSM into saying such foolishness!

  (CNN) – Mike Huckabee, a former contender for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, said it would be “a little bit presumptuous to ever assume” that a congregant agrees with everything a pastor says.

  “Influential? Sure. Necessarily transferable? Usually not,” Huckabee told a reporter while speaking with the press aboard Sen. John McCain’s campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express.

• 44. Christian Wright  |  April 30th, 2008 at 6:55 am

  Boy am I glad this is an open thread so I won’t be deleted for being off topic.

  The heros you guys worship in Iraq and Afghanistan are raping and murdering US women and getting away with it because the Army is covering it up.

  94 US military women in the military have died in Iraq or during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). 12 US Civilian women have been killed in OIF. 13 US military women have been killed in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). 12 US Civilian women have been killed in Afghanistan.

  Of the 94 US military women who died in Iraq or in OIF, the military says 36 died from non-combat related injuries, which included vehicle accidents, illness, death by “natural causes,” and self-inflicted gunshot wounds, or suicide. The military has declared the deaths of the Navy women in Bahrain that were killed by a third sailor, as homicides. 5 deaths have been labeled as suicides, but 15 more deaths occurred under extremely suspicious circumstances.

  8 women soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas (six from the Fourth Infantry Division and two from the 1st Armored Cavalry Division) have died of “non-combat related injuries” on the same base, Camp Taji, and three were raped before their deaths. Two were raped immediately before their deaths and another raped prior to arriving in Iraq. Two military women have died of suspicious “non-combat related injuries” on Balad base, and one was raped before she died. Four deaths have been classified as “suicides.”

  Just think how many Iraqi women and girls must be getting raped. No wonder they hate us for their freedom.