Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Female Soldiers are Dying in Secrecy

I love Nancy Grace, God knows I do, but her nightly tribute to fallen soldiers is terribly filtered, censored or downright purposely lacking all of the information. To date there have been 4326 soldiers who've been killed in the war known as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and 804 lost in "Operation Enduring Freedom" according the the Washington Post. But have you ever noticed that the tributes are all of male soldiers? When I was deployed to Persian Gulf War I, there were just as many women as there were men. The military occupation "Infantryman or 11B" are only available to men in the US Army and women are not allowed in this MOS. However, women are right there along side of these infantryman when they are deployed, in another capacity or job description. Naturally, if "Sara Supply Specialist Lee" is riding shotgun to "Sgt. John Infantryman Doe" while he's driving in the HumVee and an RPG hits the vehicle, both will be blown to bits. I'm not trying to start a debate of equal rights for women in the military. That is not my point at all. My point is that the military is keeping quiet the fact that women are dying right along with the men. The reason for the hush is because Americans as well as the rest of the world would have a far greater outcry against this unending war than we already do. If you remember, Pvt. Jessica Lynch was captured and was a POW. Everybody was mad that the Iraqi's would take one of our precious female soldiers and treat them in that manner. We later found out that the Army used Pvt. Lynch and that incident as propaganda to get Americans to support the war efforts along with trumped up accusations of WMD's and false allegations of Iraq violating the Geneva Convention treaty by torturing those missing POW's. Not to mention the fact that this girl was actually no hero at all. Her gun jammed and she never fired even one shot. So the propaganda ploy backfired on the Army when the American people became aware. So what do they do now? The exact opposite and "forget" to mention any female casualties at all. When will they get the point that Americans are not IDIOTS?!

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