Newt Gingrich, a thrice-married champion of family values who was fooling around with his current wife while married to his prior one, has decided to whack former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum regarding combat. What makes this amusing are that while Gingrich boasts of his upbringing as an "Army brat," he never spent a day in the military and - in fact - received student deferments from the Vietnam War. But when it comes to the current Army he's too old to serve in , Gingrich has some pretty strong words for Santorum:
“The fact is, if you're serving in uniform in Iraq or Afghanistan, or any place in modern warfare, you are in combat. Whatever your technical assignment, whether you’re a truck driver or you’re working with logistics or a military police person, you’re in combat,” Gingrich said after touring the World Ag Expo. “And I think that Rick completely misunderstands the nature of modern warfare by his comments.”
Sounds good, right? Newt is taking up for the women here. Oops, unfortunately, he's not exactly got all that good a memory, either. In 1995, Gingrich said the following:
While teaching a history class at Reinhardt College in Georgia in early January, Gingrich explained why women are unfit for combat duty, saying: “If combat means being in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and they don’t have upper body strength.” Men, on the other hand, “are basically little piglets; you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it.”
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