[Vision2020] stroke inducing editorial: real reason behind Iraq prison
abuse is WOMEN!
Carl Westberg
carlwestberg846@hotmail.com
Thu, 20 May 2004 08:06:53 -0700
Wow, what a thought. Cal Thomas marrying Anne Coulter. They would have to
be forbidden to have children. Shades of "The Omen."
Carl Westberg Jr.
>From: "Art Deco aka W. Fox" <deco@moscow.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] stroke inducing editorial: real reason behind
>Iraq prison abuse is WOMEN!
>Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:11:24 -0700
>
>Debbie, et al,
>
>Sounds like Dave Bischel is a hot potential recruit for the CCC. What
>about it
>Dougie?
>
>[What else would you expect from Cal Thomas? He should adopt/marry Anne
>Coulter
>and/or Kathleen Parker.]
>
>Wayne
>
>Art Deco (Wayne Fox)
>deco@moscow.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Debbie Gray" <dgray@uidaho.edu>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:22 PM
>Subject: [Vision2020] stroke inducing editorial: real reason behind Iraq
>prison
>abuse is WOMEN!
>
>
>| THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN IRAQ
>| By Cal Thomas
>|
>| Tribune Media Services
>|
>| What was the cause of the loss of unit cohesion and breakdown of
>| discipline at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq?
>|
>| Dave Bischel, a National Guardsman with the 870th Military Police unit
>who
>| returned home last month from duty at the prison, was quoted in last
>| Friday's (5/14) New York Post: "There were lots of affairs. There was all
>| kinds of adultery and alcoholism and all kinds of crap going on."
>|
>| When I was in the Army in the mid-1960s, I never saw or even heard of
>| anything approaching this. I did hear of one sergeant in my unit who was
>| court-martialed and reduced in rank for having an extramarital affair.
>| Adultery was taken more seriously then by military and civilian culture.
>| Discipline and a sense that one was representing the country were
>| instilled from the first day of basic training until discharge.
>|
>| The one dirty little secret that no one appears interested in discussing
>| as a contributing factor to the whorehouse behavior at Abu Ghraib is coed
>| basic training and what it has done to upset order and discipline.
>|
>| Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba observed in his report on the breakdown at Abu
>| Ghraib prison that military police soldiers were weak in basic
>operational
>| skills. Is that because 10 years ago, for political reasons, politicians
>| and feminist activists within the ranks established coed basic training
>to
>| promote the fiction that men and women are the same and putting young
>| women in close quarters with young men would somehow not trigger natural
>| biological urges?
>|
>| The fallacy of that thinking began to show up less than two years after
>| the coed policy was implemented. Sex scandals were reported at Aberdeen
>| Proving Ground in Maryland and at basic training facilities around the
>| country.
>|
>| Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, R-Kan., headed an independent advisory
>| committee in 1997 that studied coed basic training. The committee
>| unanimously found that bundling men and women together in such situations
>| "is resulting in less discipline, less unit cohesion and more distraction
>| from training programs." A year later, the House passed legislation to
>end
>| coed basic training, but the Senate called for a congressional commission
>| instead. Key findings of the 1999 commission escaped notice, but in 2002
>| an Army briefing concluded that gender-integrated basic training was "not
>| efficient," and "effective" only in sociological terms. Should sociology
>| be a concern of people who are supposed to know how to fight wars?
>|
>| Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, has
>| noted: "Social experiments - particularly the unrealistic theory that men
>| and women are interchangeable in all roles and military missions - have
>| failed the test of Abu Ghraib. 'Equal opportunity abusers' are not
>| typical, but the debased activities of a few Americans reveal what can
>| happen when uniformed soldiers - lacking a firm grounding in legal, moral
>| and ethical values - wield unsupervised power over other human beings."
>|
>| Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski says she was ignorant about the abuse behavior
>| and sexual misconduct allegedly practiced by the MPs under her command.
>| Why? Did she not know the right questions to ask, or was it a matter of
>| "see no evil" because of the sexual politics involved?
>|
>| >From the "don't ask, don't tell" policy pertaining to homosexuals in the
>| military, to the politically correct assignment of women at the most
>| sensitive levels, politicians, military and civilian commanders pretend
>| that the powerful sex drive can be controlled and made irrelevant in the
>| pursuit of military objectives. On ABC's "Nightline" last Friday, several
>| women said they had been raped by fellow soldiers. They said the Army has
>| not properly investigated their claims.
>|
>| The military has tried to desensitize men through a program called
>| Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) so that any enemy could
>| not exploit a captives' heightened concern about female colleagues being
>| physically and sexually abused. In 1992, SERE trainers said the entire
>| nation would have to be conditioned to accept combat violence against
>| women.
>|
>| Congress and the Pentagon need to do something about coed basic training
>| and the assignment of women to certain jobs that put them and what should
>| be the military's primary goals at risk. If they do, they are likely to
>| find a connection between the disciplinary breakdown at the jail of ill
>| repute in Iraq and the sexual politics of people who think the military
>is
>| just one more sociological playground which can be changed into something
>| it isn't.
>|
>| (Cal Thomas hosts "After Hours" on Fox News Channel Saturdays at 11 p.m.
>| ET. Direct all MAIL for Cal Thomas to: Tribune Media Services, 435 N.
>| Michigan Ave., Suite 1500, Chicago, Ill. 60611. Readers may also leave
>| e-mail at www.calthomas.com.)
>|
>| (c) 2004 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
>|
>| As Madeline Kahn as Mrs White in the movie 'Clue' said: "Flames! flames!
>| FLAMES!!... on the side of my face... breathing... breathless... heaving
>| breaths...heaving breath..."
>|
>| Debbie
>| mind now boggled
>|
>| %^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%
>| Debbie Gray dgray@uidaho.edu http://www.uidaho.edu/~dgray/
>| We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to
>| have the life that is waiting for us." --Joseph Campbell
>| %^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%^%
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