My earlier post about changing how the military treats women included a link to a Salon article about women and war. While much of the article is good, it does include a claim by Janis Karpinski, a former general who was in command at Abu Ghraib when many of the worst abuses there were committed, that female soldiers were dying of dehydration in Iraq because they were afraid to use the latrines. Like every other word that passes Karpinski's lips, that's a lie, and Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority has the goods on this one.
That doesn't take away from my piece, nor the rest of the Salon article's accounts of some of the many problems female soldiers face, but I would rather chew my own foot off than even suggest Karpinski might be in any way, shape, or form credible, as I noted in an earlier comment.