The Brigadier General's DADT YouTube question and Duncan Hunter

Bigots in uniform, and out...

I read Pat Buchanan's comments about Kerr in amazement. Right wing thugs like Buchanan, Clinton supporter Rupert Murdoch and sows like Anne Coulter put the neo in neo-Nazi. They have no business commenting on elections, even the bogus fixed elections in the US.  

Especiially a chickenshit chickenhawk like Buchanan. Like most right wingers in the Democratic and Republican parties he prefers to let others do the fighting. But all is not lost. Buchanan can renounce his cowardice and join the Blackhaw mercenaries; with all their recent scandals they must be behind in their murder and torture quotas, If we're lucky the Iraqi resistance will find out when Buchanan arrives and arrange a suitable welcome. It'll probably be more ka-boom-ba than koom-by-yah. 

I wonder why Kerr says the bigoted brass of the armed forces are now 'professional enough' to end the bigotry of Bill and Hillary Clinton's DADT. My evidence is purely anecdotal but it seems that most are still bigots, dangerous bigots. They supply the Shiite and Sunni jihadists with the arms they use to hunt down and murder GLBT folk in Iraq. Bigotry in the military will have to be supressed with long sentences to the brig at Ft. Leavenworth, loss of pay and pension and revocation of rank. Bush won't do that and neither will the Democrats.  

Until he retired recently General Peter Pace was the Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama pigheadedly refused to criticize his outrageorus bigotry. It got so bad that even the gutless wonders over at HRC HQ had to demand that they repudiate him. When they did it was a slap on the wrist. Why isn't Pace in Leavenworth?

I'm glad Kerr is against the open bigotry of the Clinton's DADT becasue we should all oppose discrimination in the armed forces, and the accompanying violence that bigoted laws like DADT breeds. But I can't help thinking it would have been better if he'd opposed it before he retired on a brigadier generals pension.  Kerr is a general and they don't get the same harsh treatment that was given seaman Allen Schlinder and private Barry Winchell, both hacked and bludgeoned to death by bigots emboldened by DADT. 

Generals don't have much in common with privates just as Frank, Pelosi, Feinstein and the Democratic and Republican candidates don't have much in common with working people or GLBT folk. I hope that before enlisting GLBT folks will remember that most to the 650,000 plus civilian casualities in Iraq are due to the invasion. We don't want to be part of that.

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

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by: donal1944 @ Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 20:39:44 PM CST

Can't watch the question on CNN.

From Media Matters:

CNN expunged "don't ask, don't tell" question and answers in rebroadcasts of debate -- without disclosure

Summary: Rebroadcasts of the CNN/YouTube debate for Republican presidential candidates omitted a question from a retired brigadier general about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, as well as the candidates' answers to the question. CNN did not note the omission.

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~~Autumn~~

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
--Henry David Thoreau

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by: Autumn Sandeen @ Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 21:03:03 PM CST

Nor online

I downloaded the mp3s of the debate for chopping up and playing on my radio show... no Kerr question.  I made a really big fuss about that -- CNN had to kill the Kerr question because it was asked by a Clinton supporter, yet Grover Norquist's question stays?

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Sun Dec 02, 2007 at 10:42:50 AM CST

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I have the debate saved on my DVR

   Don't know why, but it is still there, I will look to see if I still have that question there.  And figure awayto record it and up-load it here at Pams.  Just let me know.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Sun Dec 02, 2007 at 12:00:23 PM CST

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Disgusting.

Even if the people in uniform are professional enough to tolerate a change in policy, these potential Commander in Chiefs aren't.  Didn't we have this same discussion about people of color in the 40's, and women since the 60's when they ended up in combat zones?  La plus ça change...

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 23:50:39 PM CST

Hunter gave the only honest answer

 

The question was why didn't they trust our soldiers to be able to function with openly gay co-workers.

 Hunter answered that it was because the majority of young people entering the service were religious conservatives (i.e. bigots).

 He may have his facts wrong ( he does, it is a small minority who are christian conservative bigots ) but at least he answered the question - whereas Huckabee, for instance, flat-out lied.

Huckabee gave a re-cycled-christian answer that it was "about behavior" and that "anyone could feel anything" but they had to police behavior

Whereas DADT specifically says that one cannot even SAY that one is gay, and it has nothing to do with behavior.

 

They are all bigots but you have to give Hunter credit for being the only honest bigot in the bunch.

 

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by: tiponeill @ Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 07:54:08 AM CST