Col. Janis Karpinski, the one-time general whose supervisorial failures were revealed to the world when the infamous Abu Ghraib photos came out, is making the anti-Iraq War rounds peddling a new lie.

Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.

This is absurd for countless reasons - the most obvious being that death by dehydration takes a little longer than a couple hours without fluids, even in the hottest conditions.

But this fabrication has an interesting source: Col. Janis Karpinski, former commander of the unit responsible for torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. And she's found a sympathetic forum in which to tell the story: The "Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration" - a mock trial sponsored by "Not in Our Name", a group originally founded by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party to protest the US-led war in Afghanistan.

Problems?

Well, the first one is that according to Karpinski, one of the "victims" was a female Master Sergeant. Unfortunately for Karpinski, not a single female master seargant has died in Iraq.

One of the commentors over at the Mudville Gazette also notes that it's highly unlikely that any woman who has made the E-8 rank would be the sort of shrinking violet that would be afraid of this -- and that they all carry sidearms.

The lengths that some people will go to get "revenge" is appalling.