Comment by wingnutt

Keep waiting nutzo. How you follow along behind bushco is a mystery nobody can understand. Nutzo’s start wars and send other kids to fight it. Sounds like a chickenhwak to me. No Nutzo, you keep waiting for mr bush to do something right. You may have to wait a very long time, but it could happen. Progressives will be here to help you find your way back.

I might also add that since “don’t ask, don’t tell” has ruined so many lives and careers, how does that translate to working “just fine”?

Until you can say it is OK to enforce the “don’t tell” policy across the board to include all soldiers regardless of their sexual orientation, “don’t ask, don’t tell” remain a discriminatory policy exist for discrimination sake. If you want gay soldiers to never tell any person in the army how much they miss their partners at home, then you also need to come up with a way to make sure straight soldiers do not talk about their wives/husbands at all, on and off duty. I think that would be a fair price to pay in order to enforce your “keep your sexual preferences to yourself” idea in a non-discriminatory manner.

When I served in the Army, I had to listen to my roommates tell me about their girlfriends and who the “loose” women were. They should have kept their heterosexuality to themselves and shut the hell up! (Based on your opinion.)

“Don’t ask, don’t tell has worked just fine for 200 years.”

Slavery worked well for a few thousand years until it was abolished in the 19th century. Why don’t we go back to what worked in the past?

Simple: gays shouldn’t have to hide their sexuality to honorably serve, just as straight people shouldn’t have to shove their sexuality down my throat by constantly talking about their relationships and spouses.

Actually, maybe I am into beastiality. I’ve been accused of that on occasion with some of the gals I’ve taken home from the bar. I’ll say it again, as I did in post #45 that Republican smear conveniently overlooked. It is not anyones business what you are into, be that fettish, bondage, gay relationships, or women’s panties. Nor do I want to know what my roommate is into. Its all BS.

You want to enlist? Then keep your sexual preferences to yourself and don’t try and force them on everyone else to accept them. And as long as you conduct yourself with honor and in a military manner, its not the governments business to know if you are straight or gay or want dwarfs for sexual pleasure.

Don’t ask, don’t tell has worked just fine for 200 years.

homophobe – fear of the same, specifically fear of one’s own gayness.

Words mean something and this word does not mean fear of homosexuals. Personally I couldn’t give a rat’s behind about this issue, it’s all a smokescreen anyway.
Want to open things up let athsmatics like me or other less physically fit people into non-combat jobs. Not everyone in the military needs to be fit for battle, let those who cannot fight support those who can, including gays.

Whatever. I guess some of us are biased in some ways and not as pious in our beliefs as other pompous asses.

About 7 percent of the U.S. military are not citizens. There are about 30,000 foreign soldiers in the U.S. military from more than 100 countries; more than a third are Hispanic. To encourage recruitment, in 2002 the Bush administration made it easier for foreign-born U.S. troops to become naturalized citizens. Now, any legal resident who joins the military can immediately petition for citizenship rather than wait the five years required for civilians to start this process. They do not even have to pay the several hundred dollar fee for this process.

On top of this, these foreign-born soldiers who achieve U.S citizenship are being recruited to work as prison guards in the over 120 FEMA detention centers being built around the country. These camps are supposedly being built to house Illegal aliens that cross our border, but most are housed in states that don’t have an Illegal alien issue. Those of you who believe that FEMA camps are to house Illegal aliens have to ask yourself why? By googling “REX84″ you will find out why these camps are being built. They are being built to house dissenters against this government. First foreign-born soldiers will not hesitate to fire on American citizens, and with 30,000 naturalized citizens coming to America would jump at the chance to take this position at all cost. Something to think about n this new Amerika.

Comment by Tom

haha. you and your conspiracy theories. how long down the road with no draft until you admit you’re wrong? you’re one of those people who thought a bush reelection in 04 would equal a draft… aren’t you?

still waiting…

Comeuppance is tough, is it not?

this was the one thing Clinton did that I disagree with, but what choice did he have? it was the best he could have hoped for…

one last thing: once this war is over, will gays be expected to go back to second class status, the way women who helped with the war effort were after WWII?

To be serious here, I agree and know that as well. As a matter of fact, I was aware of several gays who were damned fine soldiers. I really had no problem with any of them any more than I have had a problem with any out here in civilian life.

Still, I think the don’t ask, don’t tell policy was just fine. Who gives a crap if you have a thing for your own sex? Or a guy who likes skinny chicks or some gal who gets off with dwarf men? It is not anyones business what you are into: fettish, bondage, etc., so why do gays seem to feel the need to announce to the US Army or Navy what they prefer.

Like everyone else, they can and should keep their sexual preferences to themselves.

So, it’s obvious that it’s American childish homophobia that makes up lame excuses for keeping American gay people out of the military.

British gay soldiers are already fighting side by side with our strictly heterosexual army. Has anyone heard that this is a problem?