Marla Ruzicka

Posted by Moonage on 18 Apr 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Marla Ruzicka was killed in Iraq over the weekend.  This has spawned two polar opposite interpretations of her image:

An all-American angel of mercy from New York was killed in an Iraqi terror attack over the weekend, cutting short her amazing one-woman mission to help people caught in the crossfire of war, authorities said yesterday.

Marla Ruzicka, 28, who died when suicide bombers struck on Baghdad’s notorious airport road Saturday, was a gorgeous blond who somehow enlisted the support of senators and four-star generals alike for her unlikely campaign.

( Thanks to Storm. )

AND:

Two years ago, a young activist named Marla Ruzicka sat in a Senate hearing room listening to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld testify about the war in Afghanistan. She had come to Washington to try to urge greater U.S. attention to civilian casualties in that war, and Rumsfeld barely touched on the topic.

Ruzicka, then 25, had already forged a reputation in leftist circles. She once had disrupted a speech on AIDS by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Another time, she was hauled off by police after she ripped off a sarong — which inside had a protest statement — during a speech by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

( Thanks to ledgerpl. )

Which generated this analysis from Little Green Footballs:

Marla Ruzicka was a contributor to the World Socialist Web Site and an admirer of Fidel Castro, as James Taranto pointed out in July 2002.

Sounds like a complicated woman.  I don’t have a problem with that.  It was also pointed out that her organization was primarily funded by George Soros.  Although I have a lot of issues with Soros, this sounds like one issue that he might have gotten it right on.  It then also points out she received a ton of funding from the US government through the support of Senator Patrick Leahy, who, like Ruzicka, was an ardent anti-war activist.  So, this woman who openly antagonized the Bush administration, got support from anti-war activists and extremely liberal financiers, sold out to the US government and went to Iraq to assist war victims and promptly got herself killed.

I see conspiracy theories screaming to be dreamt up here.

Bottom line, she wasn’t there for the Iraqis, she was there to further her anti-war agenda.  She got herself killed because of that.  This is no hero story.

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