Women soldiers being raped more than killed by enemy fire »
Posted by: Aidenag 4 months, 3 weeks ago339 Comments Report this Story
In today 's LA Times, Rep. Jane Harman sheds light on the staggering number of sexual assaults within the military, stating, "Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."
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Aidenag4 months, 3 weeks ago
That it is, and it really makes ya wonder just who the enemy is for Women in the military, the enemy? or their fellow soldiers?
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UnusualSuspect4 months, 3 weeks ago
The idea that it's more likely being attacked and raped by fellow soldiers in your own or other units than being attacked, raped, or killed by Iraqis is just amazing to me.
As a male, I am ashamed of my brothers overseas who have committed these crimes. I would strongly urge these women to pursue charges against these cowards, to the fullest extent of the law!
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Blackacereturn4 months, 2 weeks ago
There is seemingly no end to the mess that this war has created! Why is it that we are now hearing about this horrid behavior? Once again the left wing media has sought to protect the right of this country by keeping this under raps! Now one have to wonder is all the other things we hear about our solders are true! I am not Against our solders I think they are remarkable under the conditions they are put in but this just cant happen, it's another black eye to our nation as a world leader. They should weed out these criminals and string them up by the NUTS TILL DEAD! These ladies have more to worry about than weather or not our own solders are going to rape them.
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raats66624 months, 2 weeks ago
Although I disagree with the statement (Unlike these honorable patriots they would like to be protrayed as, most of the military is small town morons, the lowest no skilled idiots, without the abilty or maturity to get into college) to have the number of recruits needed to man this illegal war the standards have been lowered. There are people (certainly NOT the majority) who ARE currently serving who would NOT have been permitted entry into the military a few years ago.
Although these numbers are staggering and shameful, I wonder if more isn't done to these criminal for the same reason that some of these people are in the military in the first place....'we need the live bodies'. Perhaps they aren't prosecuting these men because they need them to fight just like they need the people they are recruiting.
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Mdiar4 months, 2 weeks ago
Also, contrary to what midleft said about "small town morons" I believe a large amount of the army used to be part of gangs and thus a large amount of that still are. Its not because they come from small towns its due to the fact that the standards have been lowered to such a degree, as you said.
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Blackacereturn4 months, 2 weeks ago
I can care less if they need them to fight, the women there are fighting and being killed too, your comments are out of line...I think midleft got it correctly. We may not want to admit this but it is what it is, they are scumbags and not prosecuting them is the same as saying it's ok to rape these ladies. To hell with those who think this is correct or justifies it in anyway...let's see how they would feel if it was their sister, Mother or wife. We should send the Bush Girls there and see how fast this would become a bleeping crime.
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eyesopen4 months, 2 weeks ago
are you stupid or what?? do you think that being raised in a small town makes you a moron?? if so must be your parents were both from small towns,,because its obvious you are not only a moron but a fu#king arrogant fool..the only things you get from living in a city is, being crammed into spaces like sardines in a can, rampid crime and corruption, over charged for everything and taxes up the as#,,,boy are you a genius for chosing that life over the life of a small town,,,,you my friend are a douchebag..
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disraeli4 months, 2 weeks ago
I rather doubt that anyone sensible would consider the subject matter of this piece to be suitable April fools material.
On that note, although today is indeed April 1, the piece was dated yesterday March 31.
This op-ed, rather than expose the "rampant hypocrisy in the lefts 'we support the troops'" lead to your comment. Which, comprised as it is of the clutching at straws approach that typifies the cloistered narrow thinking of some on the right, exposes something quite different and hopefully not rampant.
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DoseASpinoza4 months, 3 weeks ago
And let's not forget that in not prosecuting these offenders, the military is making an active choice to cut sex offenders loose on our home society.
But it's nothing new: my uncle is a pedophile and after committing an offense in Japan in the 60s, he was given a sexual misconduct discharge from the Navy and nobody was warned that he was out assaulting children. I have no idea how many he assaulted since then. All I could do is warn authorities where he lives now to watch out for him.
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DropkickaLib4 months, 3 weeks ago
That's pretty bad to get a Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge). He must have done something heinous.
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globalwarmer4 months, 2 weeks ago
The soldiers are the property of the government until discharged. The victims may have better success at prosecution till then but I don't know that.
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HannibalBarca4 months, 3 weeks ago
As crude as this sounds it is bound to happen when women are introduced into what was a male orientated area.
Does anyone remember 10-15 years ago when women rights allowed women reporters to enter into a male locker room after a hard fought struggle by the male team? Total crap is what happened.
Am I a chauvinist when I believe there are places women should not be, no, just common sense can see what I see.
I work on the oil rigs and until 5 years ago, women were not there, now they are starting to get into the work force and good for them, but at the same time they are bringing in a factor that was never there before, sexuality, and some males can't handle it, some females flaunt it and what you have is a cluster f*&k till it gets sorted, if ever.
Women have every right a man has, but regardless of sex, there are places where they should not be together.
Imagine a man wanting to interview the winning womans volleyball team in their locker room,,,,yeah right
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earthlingerer4 months, 3 weeks ago
No, this is clearly a problem in a stupid society of criminals. Americans lock up more of their own than any other country, and with good reason.
Although many other countries (Canada, Israel, Germany, Russia, and Sweden) have women in the military, even in combat. These countries don't have the same problems as the US.
Some US servicewomen have even stated that racially segregated military units would eliminate more than 80% of these rapes and assaults.
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Seth_Cohen4 months, 2 weeks ago
Disagree with you. I think americans lock up more of their own partly because of the barbaric drug laws in this country, where we lock up a lot of people for non-violent crimes that don't hurt anybody.
Second, I think one general problem with the military right now is that they've had to lower their recruiting standards so much that now they're just bringing in uneducated thugs. This was a false war created on false pretenses by the neo-con extremists, and any well-informed person would think twice about joining the military to do these extremists' bidding. So what we're left with is a bunch of unqualified thugs joining the military.
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