U.S. woman who brought Christmas cheer to Iraq killed by suicide bomber

[quaoar]

http://www.newsday.com/ny-liiraq0104,0,7412839.story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines

BY ANN GIVENS
STAFF WRITER
January 5, 2005


With Tracy Hushin around, Christmas in Baghdad this season felt as festive as it would have in Rockefeller Center.

Hushin, who was working for an American consulting company, had her family and friends in the Islip area send holiday decorations. She decorated the rented houses of her co-workers with wreaths and ribbons, and threw a massive company party, complete with three shipped-in artificial Christmas trees.

"On the outside, Tracy was a real powerhouse," said Kate Thompson, who worked with Hushin at BearingPoint Inc. in Baghdad. "On the inside, she just had a little cupcake of a heart."

Hushin, 34, an Islip Terrace native, was killed along with three others Monday when a suicide bomber rammed into her car as she drove home from Baghdad International Airport. Hushin had been in Baghdad for about a year, working under a contract for the United States Agency for International Development, providing economic advice to the new Iraqi government.

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[Cha]

3. Bad politicaholic!

I hope she wasn't one of those gung ho.."let's get sadam because of 9/11!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. That's IT!

You just won free legal advice for the rest of your life.

:)

[SoCalDem]

2. If she "decorated" where it was visible from the street,

she might as well have painted a bullseye on the place :(

I am sad for her and her family, but a low profile is necessary if one hopes to have a chance of staying alive :(

[trumad]

4. I'm sure her family will sue...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-bk-lawsuit010505,0,1110860.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[Gman]

6. One moment we're running around Baghdad building our resume

with all these "accomplishments" providing economic advice, oblivoius and not caring about what we've done to that country and the next moment BOOM! That resume ain't worth diddly anymore.

I guess I'd feel more sympathetic if the article had mentioned anything about humanitarian work anywhere in the world she had been. Apparently, she ran around the poorest countries making money and building her resume.

[katinmn]

7. Very sad. Did you notice the slip of the tongue in the article?

"She was the first contractor in the company who was killed, so this was a real shock,"said Hushin's friend Ken Dorph of Sag Harbor, who worked at McLean Va.-based BearingPoint with Hushin. The consulting firm offers business and technology help to government agencies, companies and other organizations, according to BearingPoint's Web site.


The first.


I'm very sorry for her family. It's hard to lose a loved one, especially in a violent manner. I wish America's hearts also ached for the Iraqis, who through no fault of their own, have lost countless loved ones.

[sphincter]

9. Well said.

"I'm very sorry for her family. It's hard to lose a loved one, especially in a violent manner. I wish America's hearts also ached for the Iraqis, who through no fault of their own, have lost countless loved ones."

Very well said. Could not agree with you more.

[katinmn]

10. Thanks.

Doesn't it seem that we have a lot of heartless people in this country?

[Must_B_Free]

13. Jeez

That's like telling your wife "I always wanted my first marriage to be special..."

[Deja Q]

15. No fault of their own? Bull. But I grieve for her family.

See my other post as to why "no fault of her own" is the biggest M$M lie of 2005, so far.

But I do grieve for her family. Stupid idiot or not, her family shouldn't have to suffer for her wrongdoing.


Edit: Added 'have to' in above paragraph.

[riverwalker]

8. A "massive company party"

I guess plastic fake trees and a fat man with a white beard and red fur boots seems kind of grotesque when the people outside the green zone are starving, imprisoned or burned to death with white phosphorus.

[deminflorida]

11. Really Bad.... I was a contractor in Italy after I retired from the....

Navy. American communities become close when deployed. She was there for a good cause, economic development is a good cause, it's not the War.

I believe in my heart, (even though I did not support the invasion in the first place), that we should have withdrawn the American Military in force after the downfall of Saddam and only left people like her under the command and control of the U.N.

Maybe things would be different, but I just don't know.

[quaoar]

12. Couldn't have been much worse

But people like her are our best bet to make something good happen from the colossal mess that Bush has created.

[Cheswick2.0]

16. people like her are there to make big bucks

They get paid a fortune to consult over there...with out tax dollars. That is why she was there.

[JetCityLiberal]

17. whatever

sickening analogy quaoar

:puke:

keep regulating the 'well armed militia' as the constitution states.

JetCityLiberal

[Deja Q]

14. Let's see: Christian flaunting big-time in a very fundie nonChristian area

DUH

Sorry, but she was playing with fire.

How would Mr. Alabama Redneck k00k like it if some Muslims invaded America based on lies and deception and went into his half-wrecked town hanging up Muslim thingies about and doing Muslim things?

Hell. Most of Christmas has nothing to do with Christ anyway! The trees, lights, wreaths. All of that nonsense had been devised by PAGANS.

The problem here is (a) not respecting peoples' boundries, (b) general immaturity, (c) two clashing faiths in amidst of a war that both sides now see as being "The New Crusades", and (d) religion in general. Humanity is so splintered that even if we all tried to live in tolerance, some ass-backward dipshit (I can name 6 in America right now, probably more) would try to incite destabilization.

Bush, the anti-Christ? May not be true, but you won't see me arguing against the concept. Not after 03/12/2002 when * openly declared that OBL didn't concern him. (Never mind his amusing stories on 9/11 that suggested he's either a total dimnit or a very bad liar, concealing the most horrendous involvement in a horrendous act, you heard me.)

I cannot grieve for one person when the surrounding situation is so complex. Especially when they pull shit like she had. DUMB!.


Hell, I could use the gay card too in terms of perceived flaunting and what happens to those who appear to. Even if they're not gay.


Tell me again how we're not occupying that country but instead are liberating them. :crazy: