It’s about respect.
Posts Tagged ‘DADT’
John McCain flips, flops and flaps.
With all due respect to Senator McCain, it is impossible to “honor the service and sacrifices” of LGBT servicemen and women, and in the same breath ask them to lie to their comrades, their commanders, their families and friends.
My Thoughts Recent Events
Here’s how I see it.. My thoughts on the topics we’re being forced to think about (and on some topics we actually should).
A Comment (literally) on DADT
… I believe that we wrongly assume that all of the service members discharged under DADT are out, proud LGBT’s. I believe many of them are probably conflicted, scared possibly barely-twenty-years-old kids…
Hell, Frozen Over: Ted Olson Suing to Overturn Prop 8.
George Bush’s Solicitor General, Theodore Olson, is suing the State of California in Federal Court to overturn Proposition 8. …I have no words…
Dear Mr. President…
…when the final polling results came through… It felt like the beginning of something new, a sea change in our national direction. …[I am] rapidly growing disenchanted with your administration as its rhetoric grows ever more hollow.
AMC Calls Robert Gibbs Bluff
I’m guessing that fear of the Rachel Maddow / Anna Marie Cox double whammy keeps poor Robert Gibbs up all night.
White House Spokesman Lies About DADT
Air America reporter Ana Marie Cox asked White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs “Is their [Choi, Fehrenbach] dismissal a part of his national security strategy, or is their dismissal itself a threat to national security?” Gibbs reply was a blatant fabrication.
Yet another hero falls victim to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
First Lt. Dan Choi, now Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach. God only knows how many other gay soldiers have been booted out of our armed forces, unremarked, between these two. Apparently we’re supposed to believe that firing 18-year veterans with millions of dollars in training is going to help keep our armed forces ready to defend us..
