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Topic: Afghan bombing helped shape
Panetta´s views on women in war |
Afghan bombing helped shape
Panetta´s views on women in war
Reuters, by Phil Stewart *
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/25/2013 1:34:39 AM
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| Washington - Three years before he lifted the U.S. military´s ban on females in front-line combat, Leon Panetta grew acutely aware that women in senior positions were already risking - and losing - their lives when a would-be informant blew himself up at a CIA base in Afghanistan. Panetta was CIA director at the time of the December 2009 attack in Khost, Afghanistan, and two women -- including one who headed the CIA base -- were among the seven Americans killed. (Snip) More than 150 women have died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, and nearly 1,000 have been wounded.
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* [w/ Additional reporting by Steve Holland and David Alexander].
Panetta, who must have given this classified info to the producers of "Zero Dark Thirty." It was one of the few major stories in the otherwise boring movie. I have never heard of the female count before of deaths in the Middle East, but, sadly, it would be nice to know how many are from suicide. Like all things dRATS and War, they fix their numbers to fit their needs. RIP, however the men and women died for our Country.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe, 1/25/2013 2:36:25 AM (No. 9137937)
Good thinking Panetta - Women are already dying for our country, the obvious solution is to make sure that more of them die. Rest assured that every single one that is captured will also be raped. That is how we achieve equality so everyone feels good,
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/25/2013 3:22:35 AM (No. 9137946)
Starship Troopers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
daddy, 1/25/2013 3:42:15 AM (No. 9137947)
Call me skeptical but I don´t believe a word of this story. Whatever Panetta´s says is his personal belief is irrelevant. He is doing what he is told to do by his superiors, period. Nothing more, nothing less. Just like John Kerry told us today: "I WILL IMPLEMENT ´PRESIDENT OBAMA´S VISION FOR THE WORLD".
All the rest of this story is fluff and nonsense.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
steelbreeze, 1/25/2013 5:39:55 AM (No. 9137981)
Quick somebody tell these libs that yes there are physical differences between men and women.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 1/25/2013 8:24:56 AM (No. 9138185)
Like Hillary Clinton´s incredible and insulting "What difference, at this point, does it really make?" Panetta´s rationalization for sending women into combat is irrational and self-contradictory. So is Marine General Dempsey´s conclusion that because he saw a female turret gunner it is time to change the policy on women in combat.
These people are talking literal nonsense. What they are saying does not make sense. Their logic doesn´t work. It is embarrassing.
This is something new. It is possible because the lap dog media decline to analyze, criticize, or advertise such unprecedented rubbish so long as it advances their ideological agenda. We have reached a new stage in the dumbing down of America when top officials can say ridiculous, incoherent, meaningless things and get away with it for political reasons.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
richardvan, 1/25/2013 8:53:21 AM (No. 9138260)
Panetta has never served in combat , any branch of th military or Boy Scouts.
But he is an expewrt on women.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
coldborezero, 1/25/2013 10:23:40 AM (No. 9138504)
#5: Obama´s boy, General Martin Dempsey, Potomac Prince, is most certainly NOT a Marine!
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