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So. There you have it!

Are the insurgents’ snipers now so good that they can kill repeatedly with ricochet shots?

“Any woman who prefers to be addressed with a male title is someone I cannot handle.”

Wordsmith – question – Why?? I’ve been a draftsman before and see absolutely nothing wrong with being labeled as such. It’s a description of an occupation, not who the person is.

Way late to this. In that particular instance, maybe. I’ve also referred to draftsman as draftors.

Congressman is NOT about an occupation. It’s about using a male ‘pronoun’ to describe, in this case, a woman. It’s offensive and incorrect.

You can look at her district here:

http://blackburn.house.gov/…

…then click on the various links to see virtually all the towns and communities in Tennessee District 07.

Cross reference that with a list of casualties by state, provided by DOD:

http://icasualties.org/…

The list I come up with shows the following soldiers from Blackburn’s District have lost their lives in Iraq since the war began:

(Name of community in parentheses)

(Bon Aqua)
Rowe, Roger Dale
Sergeant
09-Jul-2003

(Bon Aqua)
Bohannon, Jeremy S.
Private
05-Aug-2007

(Clarksville)
Torres, Richard
2nd Lieutenant
06-Oct-2003

(Clarksville)
Winkler III, Harry A.
Private 1st Class
12-Nov-2006

(Clarksville)
Cerrone, Michael A.
1st Lieutenant
12-Nov-2006

(Finger)
Adkins, Dustin M.
Sergeant
04-Dec-2006

(Germantown)
Stern, Andrew K.
1st Lieutenant
16-Sep-2004

(Germantown)
Secher, Robert M.
Captain
08-Oct-2006

If I’ve overlooked a name, perhaps someone with a more thorough knowledge of that part of Tennessee can correct my list, and my apologies to the friends and family of the deceased.

In any case, Private Bohannon is apparently the only soldier from Blackburn’s district killed this year in Iraq.

In the full interview “Congressman” Blackburn repeats several times about how close she is to the families of the soldiers, how “sensitive” she is to “working with” them, and stays in close contact by email, etc.

Yet she doesn’t even know the name of the *only* soldier from her district to be killed in action in 2007 (an 18 year old boy who died only seven or eight weeks ago)! Or even where he was from, or anything about him.

Shame on her.

Thanks to David Shuster I bet she damn sure has all eight of those names on her desk now! She ought to have them burned into her memory for as long as she continues to support this bloody debacle.