Four women killed in combat - four possible mothers of the next Einstein

Four possible mothers of the next great scientist or great statesman of the world. Four possible mothers of the next great president of our times. Dead. Snuffed out in the prime of their youth. Snuffed out by the lies of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the other criminals of this Administration. How do they explain it?

cost!

the bush twins. And Ann Coulter. And Michelle Malkin.

that sounds way too close to an anti-abortion argument I've heard.

I agree about the waste of young lives.

I remember that potential-Einstein-snuffed-out argument being used against reproductive rights.

It's all in how you look at it.

At first I was thinking, "how dare you only view these women in terms of their reproductive potential." But now I get it. :toast:

something about the potential einstein theory freaks me out.

too.

every death is equally as greivous. man, woman, soldier, civilian, american or iraqi.

These women are (were) soldiers. They are (were) JUST as capable as men in the role of a solider. Their deaths are just as tragic as every other soldier who died over this lie

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And Every Iraqi Man Woman and Child

possibly the next Bush-like War Criminal. And then I stopped. No, probably not. They're not from the elite class, now are they? No, they're serving in the military in Iraq.

So, even if one of these women had survived and given birth to a giggling sociopath, he couldn't have been like Bush. However, you can argue that he (or she) could have turned into any other sort of tyrant.

This is why the "human potential" argument is pretty much pointless. It could go either way.

The fact is, these deaths are a tragedy regardless of who they may have birthed later on. A tragedy and a crime of epic proportions.

But, it is simple arguments like this that tie up the right-wing in knots. It is hoped that the other persuasion may read this and think...of the other argument and see that both arguments are either pointless or they are equal?

Cripes, this whole bloody thing is bordering on misandry, IMO.

All you ladies who wanted "equal rights", now is the time to step up to the plate like these women did!

I do not oppose women in combat and I believe that women should be required to register for the draft as long as men are required to register.

However, I think that it is important to recognize that women do not have equal rights in this society or in the military. Women in the military still face some restrictions. For example, a service woman or a female dependent of a service person cannot receive an abortion at a military hospital.

Ironically, one of the reasons that the Equal Rights Amendment did not pass was that fear such an amendment would allow women to fight in combat positions.

....war

That having been said, I agree that it's not a good idea to send women into combat with men, as we have seen thus far.

Are you arguing that these marines would still be alive if they were men? If so, please explain. So far, I have seen no evidence that women cannot handle combat as well as male soldiers. Indeed, rules excluding women from combat positions only denies them the same benefits as male soldiers. It does nothing to protect them from harm.

I take your point...I do...the hypocrisy of this administration is staggering...

Those women were more,so much more... It's their lost potential I mourn....not some eggs'

And we can all rest assured that Bush Inc doesn't give a damn either way.

on edit: and just to be clear...I don't mourn sperm either.

But that might be the only way to get their side to look at the emptiness and futility of their "war"...Look at what we are losing...

since they do claim to value a fetus...and I'm sure it is a consideration for some

protect an egg for it to only be born a female in a society where far too many don't value women for themselves

And in the end, it is the dead who are the lucky ones, off in to the
light while we have to suffer here on earth with tyrants and assholes.

A child can reincarnate with any mother. Human life is environemnt
much more than genetics, and to rely too much on the physical DNA body
is to play in to the conservative view... and their pro-life irony.

Death does not care. For all the tears, the end is without passion or
regret. Brave warriors have fallen in every generation and gained
high births in another life... and the wheel of life turns and turns.
Some people are always enslaved, some are always at leasure, and all
die and are reborn. The way is off the wheel, not by dying, but by
meeting death *now* without dying. As the only fact in life, to
wait until too late to explore it is to miss such a gifted doorway to
knowledge.

... blah blah... tell me about it kentuck... it sucks... that assholes
kill lovely beings... and yet, the universe is perfect.

My heart cannot stand it.

The entire tyranny of greed, corporate wars and cynical twists on
sincerity wear so thin that i feel empty when presented with a few more
needless deaths. It is beyond sad, yet death is final and for those
departed, not regrettable. It was their choice to be there, and
we honour the dead by taking down bush and stretching his scrawny neck
from teh gallows... anything else is a disservice to the honour of
this great nation.

It will all come soon enough.. and in the mean time, many will die.

Sorry its heavy, kentuck, my heart can't stand it either.

Why is it that when a young woman is killed, people mourn what they won't be giving birth to rather than the potential these women themselves had?

What if none of these four even wanted kids?

As a person with a fully operational uterus, I look forward to the day when I am finally valued for me, not what I might give birth to.

of the post. It is a facetious attempt to draw a comparison between the right-wing argument on abortion and the insanity of this war that is based on lies and that they are supporting at the same time... It is a very incongruous proposition, I will admit.

And this is one of the reasons I have become a pacifist.

But tonight I'm not in the mood to go there. It's tragic for every soldier and innocent Iraqi who has died in this war.

My mood is because I just read the profile of one of the dead female Marines. She was the mother of an 18 Year old son - and I hope he does not become Bush cannon fodder in honor of his mother. She's only 10 years younger than me - 42. She was a cook - but they put her in a truck to do guard duty cause they needed her to frisk Iraqi women. She was on her third friggin' tour - hadn't she already done her duty? Where are the Iraqi women troops to do this duty?

A Naval Reservist from Centralia, Regina Clark, was among those killed in a bloody attack June 23 in Iraq.

Her mother, Melitta Fountain, said the military was her daughter's passion. Petty Officer 1st Class Clark worked as a mess cook in the Navy, serving three tours of duty.

"I really didn't want her to go this time," said Fountain, "I figured once was enough."

Clark, 42, and her mother spoke to each other Thursday, they talked about getting care packages in the mail. But just hours after their conversation, Clark was killed by a suicide car bomber.



http://www.komotv.com/stories/37629.htm

Here's a male soldier who left behind two kids and a pregnant wife. From Iraq Coalition Casualities.

AP: Miss. soldier killed in Iraq blast mourned at Moss Point service
Sgt. Terrance Lee knew there was a chance he would never return from Iraq, but the young soldier put his country above his own life, and left behind a pregnant wife and two young sons. Lee, 25, of Moss Point was killed in action on June 11.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

And when they talk about missing in this Marine car bombing case it means there is not much of a body left. Imagine being a parent, spouse or child and knowing that. My mom kept that news to herself about her brother who died in a WWII bomber training accident. She didn't want her parents to know the Army Air Corp had sent back basically an empty coffin.

Funny how it works both ways, isn't it.