Posted on 05/27/2010 7:33:43 PM PDT by markomalley
markomalley just pinged me that it’s the whole house. I believe it.
Dems only lost 26.
World’s going to hell, but at least gays are in the military. :)
It’s the HOUSE COMMITTEE, not the House. The committee is stacked with marxists. I doubt this passes the House.
House voted for it after the house committee.
I saw. Thanks. Grrrrrrrrr
Repubs voted aye:
Biggert, Cao, Djou, Paul, Ros-Lehtinen.
The Paul-Bots should be proud!
November can’t get here soon enough!
People are stupid. Yes they are, but Satan is very smart, or can you not see that?
Not a single country with homosexuals serving openly in the military to win a war since this became the Leftist’s cause.
The IDf has this policy, got waxed in a slog in southern Lebanon, then lost their nerve and withdrew and tried to use air power to win...and it failed.
Homosexuals in the military are a outward sign of the rot of a Society, the Military that allows it is no longer a Ethical Institution, it is a social experiment.
For a good example..how many UK soldiers are in Iraq again?
Djou is off to a crappy start as well.
Our military will soon be a joke. We used to be proud of it but you cannot permit this kind of decadent behavior and maintain discipline. I view this as a disaster. These damned perverts will be waiting in the showers like vultures. I think this country is just about history.
This is what they call bi-partisanship, eh?
I call it: Bull Crap.
American needs to turn out each and every DemocRAT and RINO this coming election.
Thank God I am no longer in the Military. Now you are going to have openly gay homos hitting on men in the shower stalls. I see this causing A LOT of problems in the future.
This should create some jobs and get the economy going!
Are you saying we should give up? That he is too smart to fight? That is depressing.
Now we know why Levin refers to him as RuPaul.
Senate Testimony: European Militaries Are Not Role Models for U.S.
At a March 18 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, two former service members who had been discharged for homosexuality focused their testimony on their own personal stories. The third witness, retired Marine General John Sheehan, came across as a credible grown-up with more serious concerns on his mind.
Having served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and as Commander-in-Chief for the U.S. Atlantic Command (1994-1997), Gen. Sheehan was uniquely qualified to provide strong testimony that weakened the claims of civilian gay activists who want America’s military to be more like European forces.
Referring to the military officials from nations that Sheehan led as NATO commander, Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) asked whether the general had discussed the issue with them. “Did they tell you that they had unit cohesion or morale problems?” Much to Levin’s surprise, Sheehan answered “Yes” and proceeded to provide details.
After the Soviet Union dissolved, Sheehan said, European nations began focusing on peacekeeping because “they did not believe the Germans were going to attack again or the Soviets were coming back.” After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and other European nations came to believe that there was no longer a need for an active combat capability in the militaries. “They declared a peace dividend and made a conscious effort to socialize their military - that included the unionization of their militaries; it included open homosexuality.”
He continued,
“That led to a force that was ill-equipped to go to war. The case in point that I am referring to is when the Dutch were required to defend Srebrenica against the Serbs. The battalion was under-strength, poorly led, and the Serbs came into town, handcuffed soldiers to the telephone poles, marched the [Bosnian] Muslims off, and executed them. That was the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.” 1
Chairman Levin asked whether Dutch leaders had told the general that the inclusion of homosexuals had contributed to the military debacle. Unlike some news reports’ descriptions, Gen. Sheehan chose his words carefully, saying that commanders he had spoken to “included that as part of the problem…. [T]he combination was the liberalization of the military, a net effect, basically of social engineering.” 2
http://cmrlink.org/HMilitary.asp?docID=378
Idiots. It’s not like they don’t have more important things to worry about.
So which was it? A vote in committee, or a House vote? 16-12 does not add up for a House vote.
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