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jwhop
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posted September 14, 2006 07:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, that statement is sure to make the Senatorial candidate from Virginia a very popular fellow.

Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 3:19 p.m. EDT
Va. Candidate Webb: 'Women Can't Fight'

Five female Naval Academy graduates criticized Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb, a decorated veteran and former secretary of the Navy, for a 1979 magazine article in which he objected to women serving in combat.

The women, who attended the academy in the late 1970s and early '80s, said Wednesday that the column in Washingtonian magazine emboldened male midshipmen to humiliate them. Some of the men even wore "Jim Webb Fan Club" T-shirts.

"I was devastated to be told by a war hero that the academy should be shut down rather than accept me and that my very presence was responsible for the degradation of the military," said Jennifer Brooks, a 1982 graduate now retired after 20 years in the Navy.

The women spoke at a news conference organized and paid for by Webb's Republican opponent, Sen. George Allen, in a race that polls show is about even.

The women said Webb's article, "Women Can't Fight," made almost intolerable the already edgy relationship between male midshipmen and female midshipmen, first admitted to military service academies in 1976.

Excerpts from the article, in large bold print, hung against a black drape behind a podium theatrically lit for a camera crew of the Republican media firm producing Allen's campaign ads.

In the article, Webb describes the horror of combat in Vietnam for the Marine infantry company he commanded and explains why he believes it was no place for a woman. He wrote that he had never met a woman, including those at the academy who would become Navy officers, "whom I would trust to provide those men with combat leadership."

The article also described an academy residence hall that housed 4,000 men and 300 women as "a horny woman's dream."

"There was no way, ... no method to getting away from the intense, almost palpable resentment," Brooks said. "It was unbelievably demoralizing to be painted as a pampered sl*t who was just taking up classroom space and predestined to endanger the lives of the brave young men around me."

In a statement released by Webb's campaign, he said he did not anticipate the widespread reaction to his article, "and to the extent that my writing subjected women at the Academy or the active Armed Forces to undue hardship, I remain profoundly sorry."

Webb said in the statement he wrote the article "during a time of great emotional debate over a wide array of social issues in this country, and the tone of this article was no exception." He said he is "completely comfortable" with women's roles in today's military.

One of the women, 1982 graduate Linda Postenreider, said she spoke to Webb by phone on Tuesday night.

"He seemed willing to consider an apology or at least an acknowledgment to the brigade, especially those who served in the classes of '80 through '89, for his article that caused such grief and destruction," said Postenreider, who now lives in California and is a registered Democrat.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/14/152235.shtml?s=po

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salome
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posted September 14, 2006 07:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
dude obviously didnt know Pidaua....

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jwhop
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posted September 14, 2006 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Obviously, he didn't and doesn't...but I'm glad I do.

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posted September 20, 2006 01:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for D for Defiant     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Enraging. Absolutely enraging.

This Jim Webb...does he have a f**king brain? Is he f**king blind or what?

Or he just can't stand the idea that women can compete with men, can survive on their own, or can fight too- with or without their male counterparts?

Think about Israel. I am ashamed to admit that I am not familiar with the history and the situations about the Middle East, and I am not implying that I am in favor of either the Israelists or the Palestinians or other Muslims- I am merely giving an example. According to what I have heard, both men and women have to join the military and fight in combat situations for their country. WOMEN CAN'T FIGHT?!

I'm ethnic-Chinese. Even in ancient China, there were more than one Chinese woman who were lengendary warriors.

The majority, I emphasize that not all, but the majority, of men- think women can't fight in battles because they don't want us women to. Not because we cannot.

The majority of men also believe the scientific evidence cr*p that on the staticstical level, men outperform women when it comes to intelligence, which is also nonsense to me, because most men still dominate many arenas of the society, of the world in general, most of the men accomplish more than women...not because women's intelligence is lesser when comparing that of men's. But because in so many fashions, men have been restricting, limiting, restraining women and preventing women from achieving higher levels of education, employment, and accomplishment. What's worse, a good deal of women have come to believe in what most men want us to believe in, are content, "happy" about being not what we ourselves truly can be, but what most men want us women to be- the ideal misconceived image of women and of femininity in the mind of men.

Women can't fight?! People like Jim Webb, probably among them even some are women- but particularly men like him- I cannot describe my rage over this intolerable ignorance and discrimination. We women should one day prove to individuals like Jim Webb that they are wrong, and as wrong as they could be!

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May not be able to get back to you...appreciate your say nevertheless...D

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posted September 20, 2006 01:42 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
D for Defiant

Nope doesn't look like he has a brain when it comes to women and fighting.

Hasn't he ever had a wife? Hasnt' he been fortunate to have a daughter? Doesn't seem like it.

He is ignorant...got a sick and twisted mind too.

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sue g
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posted September 20, 2006 07:37 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can you imagine Mr Jim Webb going through 20 hours of labour....haha.....it would kill him....

We all know women are the stronger sex.....any woman who has almost lost her life in childbirth is proof of that.

Women have enormous amounts of "fight" in them....we have to, to survive.....

Weak men always tend to oppose the stronger sex dont they?

Its called low self esteem....and they normally have huge women issues...

Uuughhh!!!

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