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Democrat Senator Carl Levin: "Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
http://michiganmessenger.com ^ | Feb. 2, 2010 | By TODD SPANGLER

Posted on 02/02/2010 11:40:56 AM PST by Maelstorm

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, opened hearings on the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy by calling for the repeal of that policy and for gay and lesbian soldiers to be allowed to serve openly. The Lansing State Journal reports:

Opening a hearing on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gays in the military, Michigan Democrat and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said it’s time to repeal what he considers a discriminatory policy that hurts military effectiveness.

“I did not find the arguments used to justify ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ convincing when it took effect in 1993, and they are less so now,” Levin said…

“Thousands of troops – 13,500 by one estimate – have been forced to leave the military under the current policy,” Levin said. “Certainly that number includes many who could help the military complete its difficult and dangerous missions.”

It looks as though repeal of this policy is inevitable. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a Republican holdover, is firmly behind the change. And over the last 17 years, dozens of high ranking military officials have likewise come out in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
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To: Maelstorm

From one angle it looks like Senator Levin has “come out” himself. However, that would be wrong. His interest is sexual sadism ~ which he undoubtedly enjoys to the degree possible. Otherwise, he’d realise a relaxation of the current policy will simply lead to more folks of the sort who sexually abused the prisoners at Abu Ghraib trying to enter the military.


21 posted on 02/02/2010 12:15:25 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Maelstorm

What in blazes does Carl Levin know about anything...let alone this issue?

Putz.


22 posted on 02/02/2010 12:15:40 PM PST by RexBeach ("Those are my principles...if you don't like them, I have others." Groucho Marx)
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To: Maelstorm
I guess the US Army can cow have a Queens Regiment (like the Brits, with a new meaning).


23 posted on 02/02/2010 12:16:22 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Maelstorm

After putting a goodly portion of their voters in the PO’d column after stimulus, cap & trade and ObamaCare, they are trying to reel back in their fragmented, bought-and-paid-for, fragmented hodge-podge of a compilation of a base.


24 posted on 02/02/2010 12:22:01 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: kabar

When is Debbie up. And she is not Little Debbie any more.


25 posted on 02/02/2010 12:29:56 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Maelstorm

Ahhh, I can hear it now . . . the embellished history of the mighty Fighting 69th - Charge of the Fudge Packer Brigade. A unit of Fighting Fairies in the Airborne ranks. . . .

Imagine what kind of coverage they will get in the selected revisionist history books compiled for our unsuspecting children in public schools. . . . disgusting . . . once again, Rats putting our national security at risk for political purposes.


26 posted on 02/02/2010 12:32:24 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: RexBeach

Well, fur shur, it’s a problem he toys with.


27 posted on 02/02/2010 12:36:00 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: kabar

With any luck the idiot will croak before then.


28 posted on 02/02/2010 12:39:12 PM PST by Mich Patriot
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To: kabar

I personally don’t know why they think it will help. It just further solidifies their opposition. Gay activism isn’t a winning issue.


29 posted on 02/02/2010 12:42:49 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: Maelstorm
I really don't think Americans are concerned about Don't Ask, Don't Tell right now. They are interested in the economy and national security.

Obama is taking the easy road by addressing the gay agenda. It doesn't require him to balance a budget!!!!

30 posted on 02/02/2010 12:50:49 PM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT (Hey General, I would be honored to have you call me "ma'am" !)
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT

He is making a mistake. His focus on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is just another indicator that he doesn’t get it.


31 posted on 02/02/2010 12:54:48 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: Maelstorm

Obma driving another nail in the coffin of the US.

Look at the stupid things this man has done. No one can be that stupid. It is a conspiracy by a Muslim traitor to destroy America, and the Democrat party is in it with him.


32 posted on 02/02/2010 12:57:35 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Servant of the Cross

Senator Carl Levin, scumbag, MI


33 posted on 02/02/2010 1:03:59 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Ben Mugged

Hear, Hear! From an airborne infantry veteran. 1/325, 82nd ABN DIV, 1982-1986.


34 posted on 02/02/2010 1:11:13 PM PST by gatorhead
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To: Maelstorm

I say repeal it too. Back to what it was. The military should not be some kind of BS social expirament.


35 posted on 02/02/2010 1:44:14 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: Ben Mugged

This may be the best arguement I have heard. VERY well stated.

Question: Does anyone know of any studies that would support the theory that gays in the military would increase casualties?


36 posted on 02/02/2010 3:18:25 PM PST by Steve Newton (Pappy)
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To: Maelstorm

What would Levin know about homosexuals in the military? To the best of my knowledge, he has not served one day in uniform.


37 posted on 02/02/2010 6:00:26 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Travis McGee

“It’s Cloward-Piven Strategy, military branch.”

Exactly.


38 posted on 02/02/2010 6:27:35 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Ben Mugged

That is the precise reason homosexuals should not be allowed to serve in any branch of the military!

Furthermore, women should not be allowed to serve in ships or combat units for the same reasons.

You can take this to the bank (or the Court Martial): Sex in the ranks (Officer or Enlisted - makes no difference), be it hetero or homo, has a serious negative effect on morale and unit cohesiveness.

You are precisely correct: Social engineering has no place in the military.

The military exists to kill people and break things in pursuit of National Defense objectives. Degrading that primary purpose with social engineering stunts puts our military and our country at grave risk, and should not be allowed.


39 posted on 02/02/2010 6:46:04 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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