POTUS: "We are not at war with Islam"

April 6, 2009

barry may not be, but I am.

And any self-respecting woman, who enjoys freedom and believes women's rights are human rights should be.

Woman in the Muslim world right now are being beaten, stoned, raped, killed, forced to marry, sold into slavery, disfigured for wanting a divorce or striving to be educated and their daughters' genitals are being sliced and hacked at because of the "holy men's" interpretation of Islam.

Women and children abused in every fashion imaginable without threat of prosecution.

Fathers, brothers and husbands allowed free reign over women and children - theirs or not.

Precious little girls sold to men 2-8 times their age to settle their cowardly fathers' debts.

Holy men sanctioning every evil bit of it, nullifying the legitimacy of Islam as a religion.

No religion sanctions the enslaving and ritual abuse of women and children.

Men do.

Do they not realize what it is saying about them? About their (lack of) morals and values? About their country and religion?

Do they not realize how it reflects on their ancestors when they are willing to sell, mutilate, disfigure and murder their own DNA?

And just how impotent are Muslim men that they need to own a woman in order to keep her? That they need to rape and destroy a young girl before her sexual organs have even matured?

Have they no idea what this says about their manhood - literally and figuratively?

In what type of savage civilization does a 10 y/o have to run away to ask for a divorce only to find out that she can only do so when she becomes an "adult" at 15 - long after she has been ruined by the pedophile she was given to like a common farm animal.

How blind do these savage nations think the world is?

We see what they are doing. We hear their cowardly justifications that it is "custom" and "religion". We watch as woman after woman and child after child are mutilated for the sake of "honor".

And they expect us to "honor" their "religion"? Their "holy men"?

How are we to respect the rest of the Arab world - including Turkey - who sit by and do nothing?

No, the President was not speaking for this American citizen. I am very much at war with Islam and will be until one Muslim country says to the world that the savagery sanctioned by Islam: female genital mutilation, child marriages, and honor killings is inhuman and needs to be stopped and needs to be punished.

It is the Koran that the human detonators quote before they blow their cowardly useless selves up. Allah is great! It's time to find my 7 virgins in Allah heaven! And that's because it is the only place they can find virgins - the rest of the young girls have had their virginity sold and torn apart by shriveled pedophiles.

Do the suicide bombers really believe what they are doing is going to make them a martyr? The only people who remember them are the families of the innocent victims - not their own people. Why would they? They were just another pawn, just another exploded mist of DNA used by cowards to further their own agenda.

And where is the oh so courageous leader of the human detonators and hate-filled indiscriminate killing machines?

Hiding in a cave like the savage caveman he is.

And the rest?

Hiding behind scarves - obscuring their identities - so proud of what they've allowed themselves to become.

If their mission is from Allah, then why don't they have the courage to show their faces?

Because inside they feel shame. They know what they are doing goes against the laws of Nature and that no good life can come from perpetrating evil.

It is a blessing once their hate-filled flesh explodes. They can no longer beat and abuse their mothers, sisters, wives, nieces, daughters or throw acid into the faces of innocent girls on their way to school.They can no longer recruit and brainwash more ignorant savages. They can no longer propagate evil.

It is a blessing their sperm is vaporized along with their empty soul. They can never create more hate-filled boys and precious little girls to be sold into "marriage".

Child marriages are nothing other than unholy unions consecrated by sanctioned rape. And night after night after night after night, defenseless little girls weighing less than 100lbs are allowed to be raped - their yet unripened and already mutilated genitals invaded over and over and over and over by impotent shameful pigs.

Yes. I am very much at war with Islam - just as I am against polygamy and "religious" cults in the US, who think it's ok for children to be raped by adults - including their parents - in the name of free love and "God's will".

But they live in a country where they can potentially escape. Where someone can hear their pleas for help and provide them shelter and care. Where someone finds what is happening to them reprehensible. Where their rapists and savagers can be held accountable in a court of law.

Not so for Muslim women.

And that is wrong.

There will be no justice in the Arab world until women are the judges. And I will be long dead before that happens.

Yes. I am at war with Islam - my weapons, my words. And it is because I don't live in a Muslim country that I can wield them for those who cannot.

Those of you who have been leaving comments in Arabic, why don't you use the Google translation page so we can all see what you are saying? As is you just get deleted and we learn nothing.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Womens's Rights are Human Rights"
Ranked #35 out of the top 100 speeches of the 21st Century

Female genital mutilation
While the Arab World Sits Silent
Child marriages go unabated in Arab World
Arab Carter on Human Rights - does not allow the marriage of 8 y/o girls and yet not a single Arab country demands it stop. They all signed it - therefore they are all violating it by not enforcing it.

By bowing, barry was saying this is ok

April 12, 2009

barry has yet to stand up for the oppressed women in the world. He said nothing in his Inauguration speeh, nothing in his pandering to the Arab media first presidential interview and nothing on his my name is Hussein I feel your pain tour of Turkey. He could tour a mosque but he didn’t have time to go to Normandy. That’s twice - on both tours of the cosmos barry has refused to honor the military. First he refused to visit the injured and maimed soldiers in the hospital at Landstuhl, which he lied about and tried to blame on the Pentagon. Howie Fineman who was there said he should have forgotten the media and just gone. And then his second trip he refused to go to Normandy. He didn’t want to upset Germany.

He is disgusting.

Go ahead. Have at me bots. I no longer care.

courtesy of uxaiz

And the bowing - yes bowing - it’s perfectly clear to anyone who is not obamerized, to anyone who is honest with themselves - was the final straw. He bowed to a pig who allows young girls to be sold into marriage - as young as 8 - knowing that their “husbands” are going to rape them night after night after night. He bowed to a savage who allows grown men to rip open and tear apart little girls’ hymens and vaginas that have not even matured.

And it doesn’t stop there - he bowed to a savage who sanctions the slicing off of innocent little girls’ genitalia.

That is savagery of the highest order.

And how do they justify their inhuman and inhumane acts? Islam. The Islam that barry is not at war with.

What type of father could bow to such a savage?

It could just as easily be Malia and Sasha. Both of then genitally mutilated and Malia even married. And Michelle would not be having been able to stop anything as the property of her husband.

I went into this in a post about “not being at war with Islam” that I just realized I haven’t posted yet.

This is what set me off this morning. A story that I had written about previously.

Saudi clerics deemed it legal for girls as young as 8 to be “married”. This particular 8 y/o girl was sold to a 47 y/o pig by her own pig of a father to settle his debt. Sold like a piece of meat by her own father. The mother has no rights and had no say in the matter as she is not the child’s legal guardian.

On December 24th, the judge, Sheikh Habib Al-Habib, refused to annul the “marriage”. But he made sure to ask the pig who “married” her to make a pledge to not consummate the marriage until she reaches puberty. Like that is realistic.

What age is considered puberty in Saudi Arabia and who decides it?

And when can she request a divorce? Once she reaches puberty, when she has already been ruined.

He upheld the ruling, which in effect means that it is legal for a 47 y/o man to rape an 8 y/o girl. And 8 y/o girl who was traded like an animal in 2008. And it doesn’t matter how long or how little he waits to rape her–there is no way an 8 y/o can “consent” to sex–she has been sold into slavery and had her childhood stolen by her own father.

And how long before she has her genitals sliced off - if she hasn’t already?

This is what barry said was ok when he bowed to the chief savage of a nation of savages. And by bowing he lowered himself to their subhuman level. He looked that little girl in the eye and said I bow to your great leader. I don’t care what happens to you. I don’t care enough to say anything or at least register my disdain. No, you don’t matter, little girl, because I want to rule the cosmos and I am willing to do whatever it takes, including betraying my nation and bowing to savages.

Anyone who doesn’t see it as such - I hope you don’t have daughters.

The horror of being mutilated in the name of Islam.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR/NY Times

Traditionally done using what ever is handy: razors, glass, regular knives, sharp pieces of rusty metal. It is done without anesthesia with female relatives holding the child down, chanting Praise Allah! Afterward ashes or whatever is handy is rubbed in to help prevent hemorrhage. Some girls live the rest of their lives in constant pain from just clothing touching the area. Others are left incontinent. Some have their vaginal openings opened for intercourse and then sewed shut. Some die. All are traumatized and all are left with a physical reminder of what Islam means to the men in their society - Saudi Arabia included.

November 2008: 60% of girls/women around Kirkuk, Iraq (Kurds) had undergone genital mutilation.

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barry irreparably disgraced the American People (video of bow)
Gibbs’ blatant lie about barry’s groveling
What needed to be in the Inaugural Address
barry’s interview with al Arabiya TV
As the Arab World sits silent
Child marriages continue unabated in the Arab World
Female genital mutilation

Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award Recipients

March 6, 2009

Anyone know that it's Women's History Month? Or that there is an International Women's Day? Or an International Women of Courage Award that "recognizes the courage and leadership shown as they struggle for social justice and human rights."

Here are this year's recipients.

The Secretary of State's 2009 International Women of Courage Awards

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Department of State announces the recipients of the third annual Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage. This is the only award within the Department of State that pays tribute to outstanding women leaders worldwide. It recognizes the courage and leadership shown as they struggle for social justice and human rights.

This year, the Secretary of State will pay tribute to honorees representing Afghanistan, Guatemala, Iraq, Malaysia, Niger, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. They are among over 80 exceptional women nominated by U.S. Embassies worldwide for their extraordinary work in advancing human rights.

The women will be in Washington from March 8 – 12 for a program of meetings with government officials, NGOs and the media. The Office of International Visitors is partnering with the Office of International Women’s Issues on this project.

The 2009 recipients of the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards are:

Ms. Wazhma Frogh (Afghanistan)
Wazhma Frogh is the Afghanistan Country Director for the NGO Global Rights and a dynamic leader in the fight against domestic violence, marital and child rape, and sexual abuse in Afghanistan.

Ms. Norma Cruz (Guatemala)
Norma Cruz is on the forefront of women who are fighting on behalf of victims of violence and sexual abuse. As director of the NGO Survivors Foundation, Ms. Cruz combats the widespread impunity that too often accompanies the endemic violence against women in Guatemala.

Ms. Suaad Allami (Iraq)
A prominent lawyer, Suaad Allami fights against the erosion of women's rights and defends the most disadvantaged. She founded the NGO Women for Progress and the Sadr City Women's Center, which offers free medical care, literacy education, vocational training, and legislative advocacy. She has accepted a Humphrey Fellowship from the State Department for academic year 2009-2010.

Ms. Ambiga Sreenevasan (Malaysia)
An accomplished lawyer who became President of the Malaysian Bar Council, Ambiga Sreenevasan masterfully uses the rule of law to advance human rights, the status of women, and religious tolerance. In the face of death threats and intimidation, Ms. Ambiga has emerged as a strong voice of tolerance and justice.

Ms. Hadizatou Mani (Niger)
Sold to a "master" at the age of 12 for the equivalent of $500, Hadizatou Mani persevered in gaining her freedom and helped pave the way for others trapped in similar circumstances to seek justice. Through her valiant efforts, persistence, and refusal to succumb to social pressure to abandon her case, she won a historic, precedent-setting decision in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice that condemned her enslavement.

Ms. Veronika Marchenko (Russia)
Veronika Marchenko is the head of the NGO Mother’s Right, and has demonstrated exceptional bravery and leadership in exposing the truth surrounding the disturbing peacetime deaths within the Russian armed forces. Ms. Marchenko has successfully sought justice on behalf of bereaved families of servicemen who died as a result of cruel and inhumane conditions.

Ms. Mutabar Tadjibayeva (Uzbekistan)
Imprisoned for criticizing her government's handling of events surrounding the 2005 violence in the city of Andijon, Mutabar Tadjibayeva refuses to be silenced. She has returned to human rights advocacy, and remains a fearless critic of human rights abuses.

Ms. Reem Al Numery (Yemen)
When she was 12, Reem Al Numery had her childhood cut short when she was forced to marry her 30-year -old cousin. She has emerged as a strong and brave voice on behalf of other girls facing a similar fate. Her courage has inspired a widespread drive against child marriages in Yemen.

Saudi King appoints first woman to his Cabinet

February 14, 2009

King Abdullah has appointed Noor Al-Fayez as Deputy Minister for Women's Education. It is the first time a woman has been appointed. But why is it "women's education"? Is there a deputy minister for men's education?

CNN: Jamal Khashoggi, editor-in-chief of Al-Watan Daily newspaper:

This is a huge step forward, in education, women's place in society.

Huge step remains to be seen.

How much direct influence on policy will she be have?

Will she be allowed to address the most pressing issue in the education and empowerment of Saudi women - the absolute abolishment of child marriages and female genital mutilation?

How much of the appointment had to do with Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton's appointment?

Guess again fellas.

Madame Secretary will not rest until women are no longer treated as reproductive chattel, until arranged and child marriages are outlawed, until little girls are afforded the same educational opportunities as boys and until "honor killings" and selective female infanticide is stopped.

She will not rest until women receive equal pay for equal work, until all women and children have access to healthcare.

She will not rest until all women are treated with respect and dignity in every society across the globe - starting in Saudi Arabia.

In other words, in her words, she will not rest until women's rights are human rights.

Here are her recent words of warning.

January 13, 2009 Senate Confirmation Hearing.

HILLARY CLINTON: ...it is heartbreaking beyond words that young girls are attacked on their way to school by Taliban sympathizers and members who do not want young women to be educated.

It's not complicated: They want to maintain an attitude that keeps women...unhealthy, unfed, uneducated. And this is something that results all too often in violence against these young women, both within their families and from the outside.

This is not culture.

This is not custom.

This is criminal.

And it will be my hope to persuade more governments, as I have attempted to do since I spoke at Beijing on these issues, thirteen and some years ago, that we cannot have a free, prosperous, peaceful, progressive world if women are treated in such a discriminatory and violent way.

So Mr Saudi King - one woman is a start. But a titular head to claim advancement while you allow children as young as 8 to be sold into "marriage" and while you sanction the mutilation, without anesthesia, of young girls' genital regions for the sole pleasure of your disgusting savages is not going to cut it.

A First Lady having "tea with Ambassadors" and a top diplomat fighting for women's rights are two very different things.

The most recognizable woman in the world - the woman with the most power on the world stage - is viewed by oppressed women in every country as their champion.

She is coming, and she will make a difference, whether you like it or not. You're women have had enough, as have all women throughout the Arab World.

The path to peace is held in their hands and wombs - not in their husbands', brothers' and sons' hate-filled souls and human detonator bodies.

She is coming, and she will make a difference, as long as barry's ignorance and ego and gyne envy doesn't get in her way.

First Lady Hillary's Rodham Clinton's Speech: "Women's Rights are Human Rights"

Beijing, China 1995 (text & video audio)

Named #35 of the Top 100 Speeches of the 21st Century

Imagine that. A tea-sipping woman delivered the 35th all time greatest speech in the 21st century, while the self-proclaimed supreme orator and second coming of Lincoln has done nothing with his words, except to try to destroy her with them. And after all his filthy empty words, he appoints as top diplomat a woman whose only foreign policy experience was mindlessly chatting over tea.

What does that tell you about his words? His judgment? His integrity and character?

Female genital mutilation

From TERRY FRIEDEN
CNN Justice Producer
Don't deport genital mutilation victim.
(emphasis added)

The U.S. attorney general is trying to prevent immigration authorities from sending a Muslim woman to her home country, where she was a victim of female genital mutilation. Attorney General Michael Mukasey ordered an immigration court to reconsider an African woman's case.

In a stinging order overriding federal immigration courts, Mukasey blasted a decision that said a 28-year-old citizen and native of Mali should be expelled "because her genitalia already had been mutilated [so] she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country."

*In the actual papers filed: "Nevertheless, nothing that the respondent had been subjected to the practice as a young girl and did 'not even recall' the experience, the Immigration Judge found that the respondent had neither proved past persecution nor satisfied the burden of establishing the legal grounds for the relief she sought."*

Subjected to? Practice? Aka torture and mutilation. Satisfied the burden? No basis fear future persecution? Who stopped the first one? And when they find out she sought asylum and brought the issue to light? And if it were a case of an amputated or partially amputated penis? Would they send him back because there would be no reason for further persecution?

The woman, a native of Mali, begged the court not to send her back to her Bambara tribe. The 28-year-old said if she returned and had a daughter, the child also would be subject to mutilation. The woman also said she faced forced marriage if she had to go home.

*In the actual papers filed, she stated that "if she were to return to Mali, she would be forced to marry her first cousin, and that she feared her 'father would hurt her mother' if she resisted 'her father's and her tribe's wishes' in respect to both 'the arranged marriage' and female genital mutilation."*

Do they engage in male genital mutilation anywhere?

Female genital mutilation is not necessarily a one-time event," Mukasey said. He noted that the board in a previous case had granted asylum in to one woman whose "vaginal opening was sewn shut approximately five times after being opened to allow for sexual intercourse and child birth."

So is that the threshold? Did she qualify because it happened "approximately" five times? And what examinations do these mutilated women have to undergo? Who performs them? Men or women? And who oversees that the women are not victimized once again?

The mutilators don't use anesthesia and rarely mutilate under sterile conditions to prevent infection. They hold the girls down and start cutting - the mother and females relatives restraining them. The clitoris has approximately 10,000 nerve endings as compared to the penis, which has approx 3000. The urethra (where the urine exits) is in close proximity to the clitoris and often gets damaged, resulting in life-long urinary difficulties and recurrent infections. The inner walls of the vagina can become scarred, causing any type of sexual activity to be extremely painful - or even walking or contact by clothing. Childbirth can be potentially lethal to both the mother and fetus because of birth canal scarring. The cervix, uterus and the rectum can all be damaged. These mutilations are not done by trained surgeons - they are most often done by the elders.What happens to the men who did it and the mother who stood by and allowed it?

He also concluded that the Board of Immigration Appeals was wrong to assume that the woman "must fear persecution in exactly the same form [namely, repeat female genital mutilation] to qualify for relief."

The woman to qualify for "relief" must "fear prosecutions in exactly the same form"? What woman wouldn't? And what caused the need for "relief" in the first place? As is it won't happen again? Who's going to stop it? Nobody did the first time.

Mukasey had been urged to look into the matter by angered members of Congress in the wake of the January decision.

"This recent action taken by the Board of Immigration Appeals is a step backward for the rights of women worldwide," declared Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, in a January letter.

"Female genital mutilation is a gross violation of a woman's human rights and has traditionally been grounds for the granting of an asylum claim," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, said in the letter.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, issued a statement applauding Mukasey's action, and declaring female genital mutilation a "barbaric practice widely regarded as a human rights abuse."

Leahy sound fmiliar? Barbaric practice? Widely regarded? Human rights abuse? It's far beyond human rights abuse and it should be regarded as so by everyone.

The Justice Department acknowledged it is extraordinarily rare for an attorney general to jump into a relatively low-level immigration case.

Relatively "low-level" immigration case? Would they say that if their son's penis was amputated? What does it take for a baseball player from Cuba to get asylum?

The immigration courts decide about 40,000 cases a year, and an attorney general has issued an opinion on a case only three times in the past three years.

Female genital mutilation is common in parts of Africa, Asia and in some Arab countries, according to the United Nations. The operation is viewed by some ethnic groups as a means to control a woman's sexuality and is sometimes a prerequisite for marriage or the right to inherit.

The procedure can cause tissue injury, severe infection and fever, among other complications. The U.N. has recorded cases in which hemorrhaging and infection lead to death.

And how many more doesn't the UN know about? How many more mutilations have taken place since the UN recorded those cases? And did the UN count the death of their souls?

Attorney General, Michael Mukasey can be reached at AskDOJ@usdoj.gov. He should be applauded for his efforts. I don't, as yet, know who the "Immigration Judge" was. Maybe Nancy Grace will.

See Senator Clinton speak in Beijing China: "Women's right are human rights."

child marriages continue unabated in the Arab world

childhood marriages continue unabated in the Arab world

Update 1: barry's comments on his illegal alien auntie

November 4, 2009

Ok boys and girls all together now...he had no idea hi auntie was here illegally. Even though he sponsored her trip over nine years ago.

barry obamanated on Katie Couric. His body language gave him away again. He blinks and then looks down to the right. What are the chances they will check his phone/email records? And if it were "Hillary" or Palin? How much press coverage has he gotten in the last week?

CBS video

BARRY: "If she is violating laws those laws have to be obeyed. We're a nation of laws. Obviously that doesn't lessen my concern for her, I haven't been able to be in touch with her. But, it, uh, I'm a strong believer you have to obey the law.

classic obamanating. IF she is...I'm a strong believer...laws have to be obeyed...haven't BEEN ABLE TO BE in touch with her...as in present tense.

Why hasn't he "been able to be in touch with her"? Is there anyone on this planet who says no to barry about anything? Where is she being held? Don't "allegedly" illegal aliens get one call? The truth is ain't no way he's going anywhere near her. He knew it was coming, which is why he's been saying how dirty it's gonna get and not to listen to it. The true genius of barry and his campaign is being overlooked.

AP story discusses the investigation into the leak -"Feds investigating leak about Obama's aunt" not barry himself and the fact that she was here and how much he knew. There's nothing in there about how he initially sponsored her nine years ago and his responsibility for her subsequent stay.

And if the article was about Palin? They'd be hacking into her email accounts. Oh yeah they already did and how much have you heard about David, son of barry backer Dem State Rep Micheal Kernell? And if it were a friend of a Palin child?

Here's the interesting part. The Feds already had the information and they did nothing about it. I don't even know how to take that. And the INS wants to send back a woman who has undergone genital mutilation because "her genitalia already had been mutilated [so] she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country."

AP: Information about Onyango’s case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release, just five days before the presidential election.

Where's the investigation into why nothing was done, why it wasn't uncovered during the "excessive vetting" of barry and how else she has been defrauding the government? Wonder if she's got a driver's license?

barry's illegal alien auntie
Update 1: barry's comments
Update 2: flees to Cleveland

Women in the military more likely to be raped than killed

January 14, 2009

While Kurdish women in Iraq are being held down and having their genitals mutilated without anesthesia, while young girls are being disfigured with acid for daring to go to school and while child marriages are sanctioned in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and throughout the Arab world, American woman continue to be killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But not all of them die.

Some come home broken, having had their bodies forcibly invaded and souls murdered. By rape. By their fellow countrymen.

Raped while they are defending our freedom.

Raped by their fellow soldiers, while others look the other way.

Raped by their superiors, who are supposed to protect them from harm.

Why the focus on "Don't ask, don't tell" and not on the epidemic of rape?

Rape cannot be blamed on war or explained away by conditions on the battlefield.

It's a heinous crime that has no cure or retribution. What gets stolen can never be given back or replaced. A hole remains that can never be healed.

Rape murders a woman's soul just as surely as a bullet.

Imagine you are a woman covering your buddy's back during the day only to be raped by him at night. Where could you go to seek help? Safety? Sanctuary?

Would you have the courage to speak up in a place where all you have are your fellow soldiers - many of whom know what is happening but do nothing to stop it?

Who could you tell? Would you think anyone would listen - let alone believe you?

And even if someone did - how would you get away from the immediate environment? From the rapist? From the shame?

I read this article, "Alarming Sex Assault Rate Found Among Vets" by CBS News national security correspondent DAVID MARTIN. It's more horrific than I imagined. But how can a man report on the full impact of rape in ways other than statistics?

He can't.

How many female soldiers feel safe enough to speak up (even after they've left the military)? And if they do, who treats them? A man?

MARTIN (highlight added):

Tuesday, researchers reported that an alarming number of female soldiers have sought treatment for sexual assault committed by fellow soldiers. A Veterans Administration study found that one in seven female veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care from the VA suffered sexual trauma - everything from harassment to rape.

Medical records of 125,000 war veterans, both men and women, showed 15 percent reported sexual trauma. That works out to nearly 2,600 veterans, almost all women. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, since the study covered only a fraction of the 870,000 veterans who have fought - and none still on active duty.

"I do feel that it is much higher than that, and if they could get the records of all the women that have returned that had been sexually assaulted, those afraid to come in, they would find that it's a lot higher," said Wanda Story.

Story, who was raped twice during her military service 20 years ago, now heads the United Female Veterans of America. She says the military has done a lot to improve the climate for women, but war makes it worse.

"They're out there, they're away from their families, they're away from their girlfriends, you know, their wives," she said. "They see an opportunity."

A recent survey by the Government Accountability Office of just 13 military bases found that 103 service members who say they've been sexually assaulted in the previous 12 months.Numbers like that produced this jaw-dropping statement by Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.:

"Women serving in the military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire in Iraq."

And women who suffer sexual trauma are more likely to develop medical and mental problems.

Studies show it ranks high - or higher - than combat as a cause of post-traumatic stress disorder.

And what is being done about it? What does she come home to? What does she say to her husband ? Her family? Her children? Her community?

Why should a woman, who volunteered to defend our freedom, come home with such shame when she did nothing but serve her country honorably?

Why should a man, who dishonored the Military Code of Ethics and broke the law while killing their fellow soldier's soul, come home to silence and face no punishment?

How many of you are right now thinking: It's their own fault...women shouldn't be allowed in the military...they're just faking it to get a free pass home...c'mon what do you expect guys to do?

Look inward and answer to your own conscience. Remember that rape is under reported in the regular population and much more so in the military. If moved, do something. Show some support in whatever way you can - if only being kind to the women you know.

Go to the United Female Veterans of America website. "Holding Aloft the Torch of Patriotism." They are a non-profit veterans organization founded in May 2006 "out of a necessity to bring women veterans together in a unified organization." Their dream?

That no veteran ever spends another day without a friend, a home, a family, a meal, a job, a healthy mind and body and a heartfelt thanks for their sacrifices for our country.

Is that too much to ask?

And why should they need to?