Another American female soldier dies in Iraq

[Erika]

Amanda Pinson, 21. At www.icasualties.org

Yet it appears Sharia law will rule the country making women only chattel as it does in Afghanistan. Our women die for their women to become chattel. Irony, indeed.

[Divine Discontent]

1. that's sad n/t

[blonndee]

2. Funny how Iraqi women have it WORSE now, isn't it? Our

men and women die, and people are WORSE off.

[Erika]

4. Yes, Hussein ruled by secular law

and women held important posts in government and society.

This is now gone. Yet our young women are losing their lives to place women as chattel under Sharia laws.

[Erika]

7. The Afghani women are even worse off

Only Kabul offers some relief to them. W spreading freedom. In essence, he's enabling corrupt administrations to rule the people. Much like the GOP enabling Hussein.

[The Traveler]

3. Irony is sometimes grotesque.

This is one of those times. Damn the men who lead us into this disgrace.

[upi402]

5. Iraq was the Garden of Eden setting wasn't it?

Satan loves BushCo

[Erika]

6. Yes, The Tigress Euphrates rivers

The birthplace, Biblically, of civilization.

[Swamp Rat]

12. Now it is the 'Graveyard of Civilisation'

:(

[upi402]

14. The bithplace of hell n earth

Thanks W, you gigling killer.

[Odin2005]

13. Yes, Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization.

I was horrified when I heard that museums were looted and that we, IIRC, were using Babylon as a military base. :grr:

[hopeisaplace]

8. So beyond sad...I dedicate this very sad poem I wrote

(don't know if she had kids..but it's for all moms and children)
...inspired by a true event...child kept calling his mom's cell
phone just to hear her voice. Gut wrenching pain.

HIS MOMMY DIED TODAY

His heart is crying, he's so very young,
He doesn't know what a dagger looks like
yet he feels one deep inside his stomach
He cries, his mommy died today,
Please answer your cell phone mommy

His breaths are taken between heaving sobs
He's never seen a raging fire,
yet he feels one consuming his spirit
Please answer your cell phone mommy

He's her baby, he needs to hear her everyday
He keeps calling her cell phone number
for that promise made in her voice,
the voice he needs to hear,
Believing the truth as spoken,
that she's just stepped out for a minute,
and she'll call right back

If he could trade all eleven of his birthday wishes for one
he would ask that just this call be answered,
so he could hear:
"Hi son, love ya so much sweetie, I'll be home shortly",
but his mommy died today,
So he goes to bed tonight, grasping her cell phone,
as it rests,as she did, on his pillow,
he gazes at the voice trapped inside
knowing it to be the last hug his mommy will give him
Her precious little boy curls up and cries out for her,
only her



edit: typo

[Erika]

9. How sad and beautiful

The irony is our women are losing their lives only to see ME women become chattel.

[hopeisaplace]

11. It is so sad isn't it, all of it, so many suffer needlessly

and the feeling of helplessness sometimes, is all-consuming isn't it.



Edit: Oh and thanks for reading and the compliment :)

[Greyhound]

10. This makes it easy to understand the desire to believe in a hell. n/t