OK, I gotta say it. Women don't belong in combat.

[MADem]

68. You do know that sperm can be damaged and mutated by exposure to toxins, too?

Agent Orange did a real number on a lot of guys.

And, FYI....Many women service personnel are married to ... male service personnel!

Dual service couples are quite common--and could account for some of these issues.

I think you'll probably want to produce a link regarding the teenagers sitting on DU crates. I'm just not feeling that anecdote as delivered.

I think you don't quite "get" that women are already serving in "combat zones." They just aren't serving in "combat specialties" even though they are often doing the very same work and not getting credited for it.

Do you think Tammy Duckworth was at a garden party when she got her legs shot off? She was IN COMBAT.

If you have "extremely mixed feelings about women in Congress" you really need to get up to speed. Was that a Freudian slip, perchance?

Finally, you DO realize that our military has been an ALL VOLUNTEER FORCE since the seventies?

If the draft is reinstituted, though, no one will get a pass, and that is how it should be. Women deserve to be treated as equals in this nation, and equality means equality in responsibility. This is long overdue.