From Suburban Guerrilla
Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women’s latrine after dark.
Just to be clear, we’re talking about women in the US Army choosing to risk death to avoid being assaulted or raped by their brothers-in-arms. Somehow I missed this aspect of the Army’s guiding ethos.