Feminist-Leaning Military Panel Targeted

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Feminist-Leaning Military Panel Targeted
By Bob Kellogg, correspondent
As America steps up its War on Terrorism, what role will women play in our armed forces?
Concerned Women for America and the Center for Military Readiness are urging the Bush administration to do away with a military advisory committee that has some radical ideas on that subject.
Army Lt. Col. James Casalla explained the function of the little-known Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services — more commonly known as DACOWITS.
"Members from DACOWITS volunteer their time to meet with service members around the world at various times to hear what their concerns might be and then to make recommendations and provide advice," Casalla said.
Wendy Wright, spokeswoman for Concerned Women for America, said DACOWITS has unlimited access to military policy makers and has a feminist agenda.
"The military has one purpose — to win wars," Wright said. "Gender politics has no place when we are dealing with something as serious as war."

Story found here (http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0019522.html)

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I doubt Bush/Rumsfeld will do away with DACOWITS. Feminism has become entrenched in the media, the Congress, and even the Pentagon itself, to such an extent that this would be a major struggle. Bush would undoubtedly be smeared by the media as anti-woman, sexist, and hypocritical(given that the media has determined one of our war aims to be more equality for women in Muslim countries).

Instead, we can expect some of the more loony feminists to demand opening the infantry, Green Berets, Rangers, Delta Force, SEALs, etc., to "qualified women,"
since these units, showcased on TV for the past few months, are embarrassingly(to them)male.

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dubeaux... I had never heard of DACOWITS... sounds like a concentration camp. CWA & Center for Military Readiness are reputible organizations...I am glad they are having input into this.
From the article:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR> Though DACOWITS was established in the 1950s, Elaine Donnelly, of the Center for Military Readiness, said the strong feminist platform only came about recently.

"Something has to be done about the social engineering policies put in place under Bill Clinton, including the incremental steps to get women into combat units that used to be all male," Donnelly said.

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I was listening to a local radio show, and the woman who was being interviewed said there is a training co. in Washington state readying women for combat.
If nonsence like this doesn't get stopped, we're going to get stomped.
She also said that they definately dummy down the requirements so woman can meet them.
Guys, this is getting seriously dangerous.