So what's changed?
Shaliksashvili:"Our military has been stretched thin by our deployments in the Middle East, and we must welcome the service of any American who is willing and able to do the job."
In short they need more warm bodies -- any bodies, gay, straight, whatever, just more.
If they wanted to create a modern “black sheep squadron” of gays and don’t-cares, I’d hold my nose but say go ahead and do it if you must. It’s when they are mixed with those who are definitely not don’t-cares that the trouble happens. You have de facto sexual harassment of the straights.
The backbone of our military forces is, and has always been, socially conservative Scots-Irish males from the South. How do you think this sort of social experimentation will affect their willingness to stay in the military?
There is no excuse for Cheney stating this. What an a hole!
Obama is doing this just to demoralize our military. Obama belongs in jail!