The “Virgin Mary” Defense?

(6:00PM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)

By now you no doubt read that U.S. Army General Cucolo has issued a policy statement concerning U.S. troops in Iraq; “get pregnant, face possible courts-martial“.

For the first time in history, our troops are to face a courts-martial for getting pregnant?

This begs the question; just who IS in charge in Washington, DC????

As Commander-In-Chief, a person who has the Joint-Chief’s on speed dial, you’d have thought the minute this was made public that President Obama would have had this policy announcement nixed.

Sex in a war zone?  Never happens!

Enlisted aren’t even allowed to socialize with the Officer corps — by regulation.  You can’t be married to a person in your chain-of-command — by regulation.  Of course, you aren’t allowed to sexually harass military members, either — by regulation.  And, anyone who has ever served in our military knows that these regulations are rarely, if ever, enforced.

But, get pregnant now and you can face a courts-martial proceeding?

Is President Obama in charge of ANYTHING?  

Let me tell you how this will play out.  The very first female to get sent to a courts-martial because she got pregnant is going to set off a media firestorm.

The military will have to backtrack, claim ignorance, shyly say, “ummmm… we’re sorry… we didn’t really MEAN to courts-martial her, just forget that it took X number of months of this ‘policy’ being in place and a media firestorm for us to see how wrong we were”.

Because sex NEVER happens in a war zone!

And if President Obama and his Joint Chiefs don’t get out in front NOW, it will simply be a PR nightmare for his already floundering administration.

When I was in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield, we had female military members be shipped back to the State’s because they were selling sex to the men.

When I was in Iraq in 2006, men and women military members were “hooking up” in vacant bunkers for sex.

Sex in a war zone happens.

Sending people to court-martial for getting pregnant?  THAT doesn’t happen.  Until now.

So, who IS in charge in Washington, DC?