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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (45445)	5/7/2004 8:03:00 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Feminist sequel "The feminist cultural assumption justifying women in combat is that violence against women in war and violence done by women during warfare are costs society must accept in order for 'equality' to advance. Conservatives were shouted down when they warned that placing women in combat would not only expose them to abuse but could turn them into abusers. "The same champions of feminism who dismissed these arguments out of hand now profess great shock at the images of women roughing up male prisoners at Abu Ghraib. ... "The image of that female guard, smoking away as she joins gleefully in the disgraceful melee like one of the guys, is a cultural outgrowth of a feminist culture which encourages female barbarians. GI Janes are kicking around patriarchal Muslims in Iraq? This is Eleanor Smeal's vision come to life. Had Thelma and Louise gone off to Iraq — and sexually humiliated some of Saddam Hussein's soldiers as payback for abuse to Jessica Lynch a few cities back — the radical feminists could make a sequel." — George Neumayr, writing on "Thelma and Louise in Iraq," Wednesday in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (45445)	5/7/2004 8:11:34 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

Iranian Gas Attack Victims Vow to Take U.S. to Court TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian victims of chemical attacks said Tuesday they would take the United States to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for supplying the weapons that scarred them, the official IRNA news agency said. Iran's Society of Victims of Weapons of Mass Destruction demanded compensation from Washington and U.S. firms, saying they supplied poison gases to Saddam Hussein's Iraq during his 1980-1988 war against the Islamic Republic. The war killed hundreds of thousands on both sides and Iran has thousands of invalids disabled in chemical attacks. "The U.S. government issued over 780 licenses allowing American companies to export sensitive weapon components," the group said in a letter delivered to the Swiss Embassy, which covers U.S. interests in Tehran. An Iranian court last week said the United States should pay $600 million in compensation to survivors of attacks on the town of Sardasht which borders Iraq. © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. reuters.com