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Maybe she thought that the Iraqi soldiers were babaric just because their leader is or that she risked being raped.
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Well whether in Iraqi hands or not - the fact that she's in uniform means that she has a very high chance of being raped anyway:
"More than 67,000 women veterans, or as much as 29 percent of those served at Veterans Affairs clinics in recent years, say they experienced sexual assault in the military" and in 1996 *alone* the
"Defense Department surveyed women in the military about their experiences in the previous 12 months, and found that 9 percent of women in the Marines, 8 percent of women in the Army, 6 percent of women in the Navy and 4 percent of women in the Air Force had experienced a rape or an attempted rape that year."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15542
Given the risks, it seems to me that every woman should get a silver star just for completing each year of service...