Sunday, February 11, 2007

Dearth of Cunnilingus in Washington

According to Wikipedia, in 2005 742 active duty soldiers where discharged under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, Don’t Harass” (a.k.a. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell) policy; a policy costing the U.S. government nearly 200 million dollars since 1993. More recently it has been reported that this policy has significantly effected the number of trained military translators and linguists who are of key importance for the war in Iraq. For some reason it seems that closeted gays and lesbians seems to gravitate toward linguist jobs when they enlist. I guess you could say us gays are naturally “cunning linguists” (get it?...sorry, I couldn’t resist). Anyway, this past week Rep. Gary Ackerman suggested to Condi Rice during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that perhaps the United States military seems more “afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they’re very brave with the terrorists…” Ackerman went on to suggest that “If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they’d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.” What a sight that would be! I wonder if Condi was thinking she should be the commander of this platoon?

Well, suprise, suprise. It appears that Secretary Rice doesn’t think a platoon of lesbians is a bad idea. Well, by a platoon I mean a cohort of lesbian and gay translators who were discharged from the military under “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell.” Apparently, the State Department doesn’t share the military’s fear of gays and lesbians and Rice has been reported to be “seriously” considering Ackerman’s suggestion to snatch up all those unemployed queer linguists and put them to work at the State Department (also suffering from a shortage of translators). The “foggy bottom” will never be the same. 

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 02/11 at 09:53 AM
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