Apparently, Bush wanted a Virgin General not a Surgeon General. So it seems. First, he'd considered putting Dr. David Hager in the post who, by Bush's criteria, had all the requisite qualifications. Pro-abstinence-until-marriage, anti-science (tough to find in a doctor). But Bush had other important work for Hager, halting Plan B, it turned out. And also Hager did on the face of it look extreme. So instead Bush went with Dr. Richard H. Carmona who seemed by his credentials to be a legitimate science based doctor. Problem for Bush is that Carmona was just that. So, inconveniently, the ideology had to be imposed on him -- the Hager ideology. Yesterday Carmona came clean, telling more details about the war on sex and birth control, and the imposition of theology and ideology on science. Naively, Carmona, the Times reports, "wanted to address the controversial topic of sex education. Scientific studies suggest the most effective approach includes a discussion of contraceptives. However, there was already a policy in place that did not want to hear the science but wanted to preach abstinence-only, but I felt that was scientifically incorrect," explained Carmona. (Once you get hooked on empirical evidence it's a hard habit to break). But as a General in the war on sex, the first thing Carmona should have factored is that questioning the abstinence-only dogma and encouraging contraceptive use would be treason.