John Kerry: Republicans Attack Military Leadership to Defend Ban on Gays

[ObamaKerryDem]

Stunning. That was my reaction when I listened to a freshman Republican Congressman rebut the principled position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and the Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, that the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" needed to end and that gay members of the Armed Services should be able to serve their country without fear that just being who they are would end their service.

It was especially alarming to hear the judgment of Admiral Mullen and Secretary Gates dismissed so easily as 'biased.'

Anyone who knows Admiral Mullen or Bob Gates knows damn well that neither of them say what any Administration just wants them to say.
This is, after all, Secretary Bob Gates - a lifelong Republican who was appointed to positions of high trust and leadership by President Ronald Reagan, President George Herbert Walker Bush, and President George W Bush. This is a Defense Secretary who planned to leave government and had to be talked into continuing to serve in a Democratic Administration. He is doing his duty today out of patriotism, not political ambition or partisanship.

More here: http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3687

[Luftmensch067]

1. Thanks for posting!

Same article posted here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/republicans-attack-milita_b_448103.html

[ProSense]

2. Excellent piece.

Posted it here

[karynnj]

3. broken link

[ProSense]

4. Oops,

here

Sorry.

[karynnj]

6. Wonderful article

Although it would serve no purpose, I really wish that 1993 testimony and any questioning by Thurmond was available on line - as they are now. It would be entertaining.

This is an action long past due.

[MBS]

5. this is great-thanks

the Republicans and the military on opposite sides. Excellent :popcorn::rofl: