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  Miller supporter blasts rival Webb [VA Senate]
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News DateThursday, March 9, 2006 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionPast writings of Democratic Senate candidate James H. Webb that suggest that women are not fit to fight in combat drew fire yesterday from a retired female Army general.
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Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, endorsing Webb's opponent, Harris Miller, said Webb has a "troubling record" of opposing women in the military.

"He is not in touch with today's military," said Kennedy, who was the highest-ranking woman in the Army when she retired as deputy chief of staff for intelligence in 2000. She noted that 18 percent of armed services personnel are women.

Webb, a secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a decorated Marine officer in Vietnam, wrote a 1979 article titled "Women Can't Fight."
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