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SENATOR SCOTT BROWN URGES WOMEN'S COMBAT EQUALITY
WASHINGTON - Breaking with several leaders in his party, Senator
Scott Brown yesterday urged Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to
allow women to serve in combat, saying the nation has an
obligation to provide greater opportunities for female troops to
participate equally in statistical casualty counts.
"We have an obligation to expand the professional opportunities
available to women, especially considering their sacrifices,"
said Brown, a Republican who sits on the Armed Services
Committee, citing "the 140 female service members who have been
killed in battle zones since 2001."
Brown explained that "of 4,683 U.S. military combat deaths since
Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) on October 7, 2001 and
Operation Iraqi Freedom beginning on March 19, 2003, the 140
female fatalities represent only 2.99% of the total."
"Clearly," said Brown, "this is falling far short of the American
ideal of full, equal participation."
The National Organization for Women (NOW) President Terry O'Neill
immediately assailed Senator Brown on Huffington Post for
promoting violence against women.
However, GOP Presidental candidate Rick Santorum asserted that
the outburst from O'Neill only validated his own contention that
women were "too emotional" to serve on front lines.
GOP Presidential contender Newt Gingrich turned livid with anger
at the suggestion that women were "too emotional". Gingrich
flushed bright crimson, then deep purple, began chattering
excitably, stammering, shouting and raving as if moonstruck
with an almost uncontrollable explosion of raw, primal emotion
of purest outrage at Santorum's simple-minded stereotype.
The former House speaker, who during many campaign speeches
refers to himself as a former "spoiled Army brat," said that
Santorum clearly did not understand the nature of modern warfare
and ought to be covertly assassinated, of course with plausible
deniability.
Santorum defended his remarks, saying that women in combat
would create a "compromising situation". "The proper role
for modern women", claimed Santorum, "is to create
compromising situations not in combat, but more discreetly,
behind closed doors with family-values Congressmen who
might feeling a bit frisky from time to time."
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