John McCain wants study of DADT study
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But at this point his objections are starting to have the ring of French farce. Complete with slamming doors and raised voices in his own home, presumably.
What McCain's really looking for, it seems clear, is to keep gays from serving openly without the threat of DADT.
"Once we get this study, we need to have hearings. And we need to examine it. And we need to look at whether it's the kind of study that we wanted," McCain told the press yesterday. "It isn't, in my view, because I wanted a study to determine the effects of the repeal on battle effectiveness and morale," McCain added.
Remember this is the same man who said that he would listen to our troops. McCain knew that the study was developed to look at how to repeal DADT, not to ask if it was a good idea.
"McCain is telling the Pentagon: keep working until you produce the outcome I'm looking for," Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, told the press last night.
If McCain is serious about studying the effects of having gay soldiers serve openly, perhaps he should fly to England and spend the entire trip taking showers with the British Army. The Brits integrated their own army without even one incident of the kind that McCain and Gen. James Amos, the new commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps, live in notable dread of.
McCain said he wanted to hear from the troops. They have just told him they have no objection to the lifting of the ban. Neither do 70% of the American people. Those are not the answers he's looking for, clearly.
Someone should remind him that civilians have control of the military, not the other way around.
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seanomelbourne | Nov 16, 2010, 05:51 PM EST
My opinion on what Maloney??
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maloney | Nov 16, 2010, 05:39 PM EST
irishfez..I'm glad he's not Pres. also. But better McCain than obama ten fold. Right on rcrdskpr.
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irishfez | Nov 16, 2010, 11:35 AM EST
So glad he is not the President. What an idiot.
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rcrdskpr@aol.com | Nov 16, 2010, 09:12 AM EST
i wouldnt want someone serving next to me who's idea of "war paint" is lipstick and eye liner; and not camo.
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maloney | Nov 15, 2010, 07:51 PM EST
seano...I don't like McCain. Sure you don't want to rethink your opinion?
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seanomelbourne | Nov 15, 2010, 05:27 PM EST
McCain seems to be hiding his homophobic bias. His position on gays in the military is comedic and he fails to see that he is the clown.
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NOLAN651 | Nov 15, 2010, 02:20 PM EST
Since this is a Irish American web page aomiller I care . And I am sure there are other people on here who care .
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aomiller | Nov 15, 2010, 01:38 PM EST
I've watched this DADT story play here for several days (weeks, years, eons?!) now. And I wonder: who the hell in Ireland CARES at all about the gender-identity-makeup of the U.S. Military forces and Senator McCain's opinions on the topic? It's a strictly "inside baseball" topic that's raising temperatures inside the U.S.A., to be sure. But surely it has no bearing on daily life in Ireland. So why is it playing so constantly here? Give us another mashed-potato recipe, instead, will ya'!
tony
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hollabackgurl | Nov 15, 2010, 11:59 AM EST
I think Thanksgiving at the McCain residence is going to be tense. Why hasn't his daughter Megan chimed in today? Her opposition to DADT and her lawnguy Dad's homophobia are well known.
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errigal | Nov 15, 2010, 09:29 AM EST
We the people don't want any more stinking studies. Listen to the people. Better yet get to know the people.
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mayoman | Nov 15, 2010, 09:21 AM EST
Let's hope that retirement is soon, very soon in Senator McCain's future. We've all suffered him quite enough, thank you.
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knockatee | Nov 15, 2010, 09:09 AM EST
McCain has become such a disappointment.
Cahir, the apostrophe doesn't belong in "wants."
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