This is not a new story. It has not gone away and it should not.
PFC LaVena Johnson was killed in Iraq in 2005. The Army ruled that she died by her own hand.
But in order to believe that, you would have to believe that she beat herself around the face and body.
You would have to believe that she broke her own nose.
You would have to believe that she set fire to herself.
You would have to believe that she douched with lye.
And you would have to believe then, and only then, that she shot herself in the head from behind and then, having shot herself in the head, threw her rifle across a cot.
But the crack investigators in the Army ruled it as suicide.
George Bush is so proud of himself because the invasion of Iraq closed the rape rooms that were run by Saddam's sons. When will he do something about the rapes being perpetrated by our soldiers and contractors upon our own citizens?
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Your last two posts show what happens when you stretch an all volunteer military to it's breaking point. They eased up on the rules for recruiters and now we have criminals going to Iraq because we need them to sustain our presence. Truly sad. They buried Pat Tillman's death from even his own family for godsake. Sick, evil people run our country...
I'm a seventeen year old girl and I am joining the army. They have not let up on letting people serve and if they have than it must have been ridiculously hard to join before. they are making me go through a background check for medical and criminal history. you have to have a lot of paper work done to prove you are a citizen. You cannot even have more than 2 kids to enlist! Yea crap happens to woman but what do you expect when woman are the minority? Also rape within the military is not as common as people like you make it seem. It hardly ever happens and you people should get a life and support our men and woman serving who are fighting for the freedom of speech that people like you abuse everyday.
Katrina,
Good luck. One of these days, though, you ought to do a little reading into what "freedom of speech" is all about. It is the freedom to say what is uncomfortable and what is disagreeable to the listener and to the government.
And sorry, while this may sound ageist of me, there is no 17 year old kid that I know of who has the grounds to tell me to "get a life." Telling someone to "get a life" is a dead-nuts certainty that the speaker has lost any pretense at carrying the argument.
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