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2010-02-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

Gates Backs Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-02-02 12:44|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Everything Gates is doing is in lock step with todays Commander in Chief. So all the reports with Gates name put out by MSM should in reality read "~~Gates~~ Obama".

Posted by ~~war on terror~~ 2010-02-02 13:11|| 2010-02-02 13:11|| Front Page Top

#2 a sad day........time to drop my retirement papers and withdraw from this Charley/Foxtrot.

what a bunch of losers

Posted by armyguy 2010-02-02 13:45|| 2010-02-02 13:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Thinking ahead. Gay and lesbian promotion and retention goals... how can we best attain them? How can those who have been historically victimized catch up? [cynicism off]

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-02 14:11|| 2010-02-02 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't do anything unless both houses of Congress actually pass this thing, armyguy. They haven't had a good record of doing so, not since the stimulus bill.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-02 14:16|| 2010-02-02 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 TW is right armyguy. No sudden moves. The Army and your Ranger buddies need you now more than ever. This too shall pass.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-02 14:19|| 2010-02-02 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Not before November, anyway. They're already in enough trouble over ObamaCare. Here's hoping that after November it won't be possible either.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-02-02 15:05|| 2010-02-02 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone in the WH fails to notice [besides the growing Tea Party movement and the decline of his party's propaganda arm, MSM] that the military is one of the few government branches that has an incredible level support of the American public. Do something that will drive middle grade NCOs and Officers out faster than you can replace them during the time of war may sell to the senior politicized General Officers across the Potomac but it won't save your hide when the big one hits. Anyone in the Gay community who thinks they'll be able to come out and survive the counter 'revolution' when the Obama leaves is kidding themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-02 15:38|| 2010-02-02 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Gates and Mullen are either weasels or out of step. In any case both are Idiots in my book. Wait until the left tries to compare exclusion of gays to the exclusion of blacks 70 yrs ago...they'll shoot themselves in the foot when they piss off the blacks with that straw-man. Comparing a sexual behavior to race is foolish but the leftist meme is forthcoming. Obama really wants to be a one-termer.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-02-02 16:06|| 2010-02-02 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 "Obama really wants to be a one-termer."

Never thought I'd have anything in common with Bambi, Broadhead.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-02 16:26|| 2010-02-02 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Him to come out with this at a time of terrorists are knocking on the door an we are bankrupt, is like Capt. Smith asking his men to paint over the skid marks left by the iceberg before manning the lifeboats.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-02-02 19:37|| 2010-02-02 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Beoserker - I hadn't thought of that - quotas for gay officers and more lefty crap - This will finish us.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-02-02 21:12|| 2010-02-02 21:12|| Front Page Top

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