{"id":3019,"date":"2006-09-30T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/why-are-we-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T20:45:27","slug":"why-are-we-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/why-are-we-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are We in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to know what we are doing in Iraq, at least a partial answer to your question is provided by Editor & Publisher<\/em>, a recent edition of which\u00c2\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude for pictures with their M-16s and other military equipment, authorities said. A local newspaper reported that it had a disc containing 232 of the photos, which they did not publish, and do not plan to publish, E&P has learned.”<\/font><\/p>\n

The women face court martial, or maybe just a reprimand, but the legions of political correctness are already going to the barricades for them, although we have yet to hear from the Support Our Troops brigade. E&P reports:<\/font><\/p>\n

“Marsha Weinstein, former executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Women, said that it would be hypocritical to punish women involved when there is a ‘long history of male soldiers posting pin-ups in their lockers’ and of the U.S. military flying in female sex symbols to entertain mostly male troops. ‘I don’t think these women should be court-martialed,’ she told the Courier-Journal.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Hey, wait, what about those Marines who were discharged<\/a> for having secret lives as gay porn stars? Why should these Kentucky\u00c2\u00a0gals get a free pass? Aside from that, however, one has to wonder: How in heck<\/a> did these ladies<\/a> have the time and opportunity to shuck off their clothes and let it all hang out? After all, with our armed forces stretched<\/a> to the breaking point, and so busy building schools, helping little old Iraqi ladies cross the street, and teaching the Iraqi people the ABCs of Democracy 101, you’d think they’d be otherwise occupied. <\/font>

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If you want to know what we are doing in Iraq, at least a partial answer to your question is provided by Editor & Publisher, a recent edition of which\u00c2\u00a0reports: “U.S. Army officials are taking a close look at whether women in a Kentucky National Guard unit posed nude for pictures with their M-16s and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}