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I have no problem with women in combat if they choose to be there and they are capable. What I worry about is that this might become a precedent for the draft of all young women. Not all people belong in combat, not even men. Perhaps there should be tests that should be spelled out. Maybe there already are and I am not aware of them.

I know that I would have been a nervous wreck and gotten myself and who knows how many others killed if I had been sent to Vietnam. Not that I don't think I'm capable of killing. There is no doubt in my mind that I could and would if the need arose, but not trekking 40 miles hauling 100 pounds of equipment. Now if you asked me to push a button sending a drone into a terrorist camp, no problem. Nuke those MF's. Or if you sent me into an enemy territory and asked me to poison their water supply, hey, no problem. And if someone breaks into my house and attacks me and mine, I have no problem blowing them away. But doing what my father and grandfather did in WWI and WWII, I wouldn't have been able to do. I've heard the stories over and over, and I know that I couldn't have survived what they did.

Thank God I am well beyond the draft age. Sadly, my daughter is not. I don't even want to THINK about her having to endure war. As long as there is a voluntary military, I have no problem with females in the front lines. But if there are not caveats written into this law prohibiting the wholesale use of females in the military, I have a big problem with it.
Posted by pookah]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:22:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
You KNEW he was bought and paid for by the Kochs, but based his merit soley on his money. On the other hand, his opponent was ridiculed for doing just the opposite. He did NOT want to owe anyone any favors in D.C.

It was clearly evident before Cotton was elected that he "moved" to Arkansas to gain a political office. Tom Cotton is the definition of a carpetbagger and you, the media, helped him into Congress.

So once again, shame on the blind people who voted for this man and shame on the media who encouraged his Koch support. The fourth district of Arkansas will never have their voices heard.
Posted by averyknowles01]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:09:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
Also rather odd is Tom Cotton's political acumen. Why, if he's so smart, has he chosen to board a sinking ship? I'm thinking he has missed all the postmortems about his party. His insensitivity to women and storm victims might win a Congressional district in Arkansas, but if he has grander ambitions, he just sank like the Titanic.

"Romney's loss forced the GOP to recognize that its support is built on a shrinking base of aging, ethnically monolithic, and geographically isolated voters --"

Another way of putting it is "old, white, southerners".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/r…

Will the GOTeaparty rise, zombie-like, from the dead?
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:46:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ArkansasGirl]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:26:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:29:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:59:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
Oh, that can't be right, hee's a male getting special privilege!
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:56:20 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-serial-date.h…

Were women flying all of these aircraft?

BTW, John McCain crashed five airplanes before he was shot down: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-chec…
Posted by Arkie]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:23:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
The problem comes and when politicians want to make a point (political grandstanding) and relax the standards and/or pass people who shouldn't be passed. An example might be LT. Kara Hultgreen, who was passed for political reasons and ended up killing herself when she crashed her F-14 into the ocean.
Posted by BlackWhiteGray]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:52:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Razorblade]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:38:00 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:07:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
He's not one of us and should NOT be representing any part of Arkansas in Washington.

Wow! It's like deja vu all over again.
Posted by HolyGuano]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:23:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
As opposed to, you know, strength.
Posted by Silverback66]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:21:40 -0600 Arkansas Times
One of the most dangerous things on the battlefield is a preconceived notion. It will get you or your mates killed before the thought "Ooops" even finishes crossing your mind.
Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:13:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
We are different than those in the penis brigade, but that doesn't mean that we're all the same. And some of us like adrenalin and danger and weapons and WINNING. Cotton and the rest of his ilk need to get over it.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:59:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Razorblade]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:45:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://5newsonline.com/2013/01/07/rep-tom-…
Posted by ironfortified]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:39:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
I still wish the voters in the 4th Congressional District hadn't picked that Cotton.
Posted by RYD]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:30:51 -0600 Arkansas Times During the GW Bush administration, Karl Rove was overhead laughing about the religious right, how they were just suckers to be manipulated. Think about it. Two full terms as president, and GW never once tried to get abortion outlawed, or Christian prayer mandated in public schools. You're bring played for a sucker, man.
Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:23:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:10:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Coolbreeze 101]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:58:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
A helicopter pilot in my unit in Korea stated that women could not be pilots because they lacked the upper body strength to control the aircraft if the hydraulic system was damaged. I asked him what the standard for upper body strength was for being accepted into pilot training. There was none. He, himself, had never been tested to see if he met this "critical" standard.
Posted by Arkie]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:12:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
Conservative Arkansan voters 1) support Israel's military unconditionally and 2) do not think women should be in combat. Therefore Tom Cotton adopts those positions without a care in the world that they are logically in conflict with one another.

Tom Cotton: The poster child for modern conservatism. No brains, just a good name, lots of camo clothing, and the deep desire to do what he is told without thinking about it.

I wish I lived close to where Bill Buckley is buried, because I could heat my home from the friction of his spinning in the grave.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:10:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Think Tom will bend down so I can grab his ears, or will I have to take a stepladder?

(I'm not sure which is harder for me to believe -- that the man can be such an uncaring troglodyte, or that people in the Fourth elected him.)
Posted by Doigotta]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:07:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
Anytime someone says "women can't", you can stop listening because anything else they say is BS. Because most women aren't physically capable (just as most men aren't) is not justification for saying that no women can serve in the infantry.

During my 22 year career, I had a secondary mission to serve as an infantryman. This was despite, at the end of my career, being 44 years old with back and knee injuries that would have prevented me from carrying 25 lbs any distance.
Posted by Arkie]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:03:24 -0600 Arkansas Times