Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Women War Mongers

Dear Fellow Commodity,

The women in combat question brought to mind the Virginia Slims cigarette slogan, of a few years back,”You've come a long way, baby.” And, in one case, it referred to a woman fighter pilot whose nickname was K C which stood for Killer Chick!
When the Secretary of Defense??? ruled that women could be in combat there was great enthusiam (but not from Code Pink). Much of the focus seemed to be on the “career” opportunities (A Career in Killing!)
A few years ago at the annual Mayday Parade down Bloomington Ave to Powderhorn Park , the late Myron Fossum , a Veterans For Peace member, carried a sign which read:
NO GAYS IN THE MILITARY,
NO STRAIGHTS IN THE MILITARY,
NO WOMEN IN COMBAT,
NO MEN IN COMBAT,
NO PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY,
NO MILITARY IN THE PEOPLE.
The sign got great cheers and applause.
Tom R. Dooley
St Paul MN

1 comment:

  1. Tom,
    You realize the Right is the most upset about this? By the way, Bradley Manning was gay. Thank god for gays in the military. Maybe the next Bradley Manning will be a female.

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