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Barack Obama to make military life more tolerable for gays

Calcutta News.Net
Friday 11th April, 2008

Senator Barack Obama has said he will possibly repeal the “don't ask, don't tell” policy for homosexuals in the military if he is elected president.

The Democratic presidential front-runner has told The Advocate, a gay magazine in the US, that he wants to repeal the policy, which was brought in when Bill Clinton was president.

He said his priority for the Joint Chiefs would be the security of the country, not their position on the policy.

He told the Advocate: "We're spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays and lesbians out of the military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn't make us more safe."

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Anonymous
04-12-08, 01:04 AM

Dead Wrong

Mr. Obama is clearly an intelligent man who has much time thinking about what America wants and needs. Unfortunately, he has picked a topic which he can personally know little about. I am a criminal defense lawyer for the US Army — thus I unfortunately must deal with the worst the Army has to offer. I have been both a Marine and a Soldier — an officer and enlisted. As the adage goes, you can take the boy off the street but you can’t take the street out of the boy . . . I know how Soldiers think and I know how they react. There’s a really good reason why Clinton put into place the policy he did in the 90s, because if Soldiers knew that “one of their own” was not really “one of their own," they would pounce on their brother in arms. The Army is not too terribly different than prison in many ways. These guys don’t want anyone in their unit who is in the least bit effeminate. These “kinds of guys” are detrimental to good order and discipline and have never been accepted by mainstream Soldiers. So you can use the military as a social barometer all you want, but the only thing that will be accomplished is higher rates of assaults and lower morale. On another note, what evidence do you have to support that the Army is spending “large sums of money” to kick homosexuals out of the Army? In my 10 years I have seen one “Chapter 15." For those not familiar with a “Chapter 15," it is a chapter from Army Regulation 635-200 (enlisted separations) that permits a commander to separate a Soldier who has engaged in homosexual conduct. So, I don’t know where this information put out by the Obama campaign comes from, because I handle Army separations every day (and have for many years), yet I’ve seen 1 (out of thousands of discharges). The reason? Commanders are terribly afraid that they will inadvertently discharge a Soldier who has not engaged in homosexual conduct, in obvious contravention of Army policy. Bottom line: Mr. Obama’s plan clearly shows he has no “real” knowledge of how the US military works and operates, for if he did, he would not envisage such a ludicrous and unrealistic policy.

Alan Srout
04-11-08, 08:47 PM

Obama Truth File

PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS OUT **NOW** TO YOUR FAMILY, CO-WORKERS AND FRIENDS AHEAD OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AND PUERTO RICO PRIMARIES!!

Obamaâs Pastor Celebrates 9/11 (explicit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco

Obamaâs Racially-Divisive Pastor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA

Obama Disrespecting U.S. Flag and Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo

The Audacity of Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs

The Audacity of Barack Obama 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k

Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Wright & Senator Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4

Obamaâs Pastor - 9/11 Fault of Israel Association

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s

Obama - Cult of Personality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk&;;;;;;;;

Name Obamaâs Accomplishments if you can #1

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Name Obamaâs Accomplishments if you can #2

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Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU

The Two Things Senator Obama Accomplished

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/27/obamas-empty-change-message/

The Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg

Obama â We Are Building A Religion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xtNr5-up0U

The Obama File

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

Anonymous
04-11-08, 12:36 PM

Barack Obama to make military life more tolerable for gays

American people ought to open theirs eyes and ask Barack Obama about the Jails agenda what a black RAPper Obama going to issue the too crowded Jails for the blacks, the Latinos and the white re-necks.

Spiritrace
04-11-08, 09:59 PM

Obviously he has not spent any time in the military.

bashmentyard
04-11-08, 01:37 PM

Blacks need to stop acting like niggas, and committing senseless crime and sellin drugs, and then blame the system. Education is the only solution and pride in their heritage. AND I’M BLACK

http://bashmentyard.com

holybeggar
04-11-08, 04:16 PM

Education a threat to black leaders

Can you imagine intellectually developed African Americans will do to the Black leadership like obama, jesse jackson etc.? The fuel that kept their seats warm is a total breakdown of education for the blacks. These leaders racked in tons of money at the expense of the poor black people. What phonies.

Ravagesavage
04-12-08, 01:05 AM

Barack Obama to make military life more tolerable for gays

The fuckin gays should remain in the closet. These retarded Bastard should be booted out of society.

oh_whoopss
04-12-08, 11:11 AM

gays

this is real sad. Gays/Lesbian they also are PEOPLE its just they have a different of opion. not im not gay or lesbian but who says they can’t fight this war & more to come. who knows naybe both won’t come to fight the war @ the sametime. there nice PEOPLE but if point blank don’t touch me or come near me,they will give the Respect. that is 1 thing sucks abt the world all over people alway judge gays/lesbians/bi-sexual/ most of all the color of their skin. like said everyone is a people but just in different ways. if “GOD” didn’t want people like mention above they wouldn’t b here today. Get a clue & just admit plz nobody is perfect which includes you & me.


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