To the quoted experts, the incident represents "a serious breakdown of military discipline"; for Michelle Malkin, it "confirm[s] the worst fears of military watchdogs who have long warned about the disaster wrought by social engineering experiments on our troops" (that is allowing women into armed forces); but the top brass, paralyzed with fear after the Abu Ghraib fiasco, seems to be most concerned to reassure the public that Iraqi prisoners held at Camp Bucca were not within the ear or eyeshot of the revelries, lest presumably they get psychologically scarred for life by the sight of females engaged in mud-wrestling.

Chrenkoff further offers:

Should we throw the offending soldiers out with the mud-water? One of the female participants has already been demoted from a specialist to a private for exposing her's. As she's the only one disciplined so far, this will provide further ammunition for the feminists who argue that when the proverbial hits the fan it's the male participants who always seem to get off lightly (no pun intended) while women get punished.

Other coverage - Democracy Project, Michelle Malken,

(A) LOVE the title! Why didn't I think of that?

(B) As for the significance of this story in general - I can't get upset about it. I think the participants are silly people, but it's not on a scale with - say, stuffing classified docs down your pants or taking money from a mass-murdering dictator.

Tempest in a D cup, indeed.