Robert Gates: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now, Before GOP Takes Control Of Congress

Black Christian News.com ^ | Nov 7, 2010

[demkicker]

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military.

He, however, did not sound optimistic that the current Congress would use a brief postelection session to get rid of the law known as "don't ask, don't tell."

"I would like to see the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" but I'm not sure what the prospects for that are," Gates said Saturday, as he traveled to defense and diplomatic meetings in Australia.

Unless the lame-duck Congress acts, the repeal effort is considered dead for now....

[JohnnyP]

But, we’re going to be safer, now that women will be on subs. /s

[tlb]

>>> You no longer have a job why???

Beats me, since he is gainfully employed for the foreseeable future. The post of Secretary of Defense is not vacated by a midterm congressional election loss. The Cabinet isn’t subject to a popular vote.

[roaddog727]

“Barney Frank?”

Yeah, I can just hear it now:

Don’t leave your Buddie’s behind.....

Argh....

[A.A. Cunningham]

He’s a political hack and did he ever serve?

In 1967 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and served as an intelligence officer at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

[Let's Roll]

Yeah, repeal it and put a target on the backs of those who will be back in January for 2012.

[tlb]

>>> He’s a liberal in a uniform, and it not one of America’s fighting men.

The Secretary of Defense is not a uniformed position, although looking it up Gates was a former Air Force officer assigned to the Strategic Air Command.

[Sacajaweau]

Thinking of McCrystal...oops

[huldah1776]

I’m a believer in simple eye for an eye. If this does happen, all those who vote to repeal the law should have to sleep on the street or in a park in San Francisco without police protection. A simple online search of gay cruising parks would suffice. If they leave, they go to jail. Even better!

[huldah1776]

Wow, what if he is in the closet?

[hosepipe]

[ Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now ]

Does this make "swishing", "mincing", and "Lisping" disappear?..
-OR- make being "butch" the proper demeanor?..

[broken_arrow1]

Gates is probably spending a lot of time with Collin Powell at Barney Franks place these days doing the Cha-Cha.

[achilles2000]

He should never have been President of A&M either. Typical Bush appointment...

[FrankR]

The garb is not important; if Generals can design their own uniforms, certainly this guy can wear a civilian suit...but the effect is the same.

I was also in the Strategic Air Command, big deal, but I'm not advocating gays in the military.

[apocalypto]

Who knows what skeletons are in Gates’s closet.

[demkicker]

He is bent on destroying our military by making it so PC (more than it is) that if we got into a head to head fight with the Netherlands, it would be a toss-up to see who wins..

It will be worse than that. If the swishers get to act openly and with impunity, our military will turn into a protected haven for their misfits and will drive off our manly men - and it will literally destroy our military. I pray to God this will not happen.

[Mr Rogers]

Perhaps a year or so after he became SecDef, I saw a copy of secret decision briefing given him. It laid out the options, explained the pros and cons, and left him to decide. About a month later, I watched him publicly blame the military for carrying out his decision, and blasting us for not ‘caring enough’ about our fellow soldiers and marines.

I’ve despised this buttboy ever since. I will lay claim to being one of the first on FR to loathe him, but then, I saw the classified briefing so I knew what happened behind the scenes. All I could do in public was warn FReepers that Gates is a liar.

[demkicker]

Thanks for additional proof that Gates is a lying POS.

We’ve fallen off a cliff - Our President is a terrorist loving Marxist intent on bankrupting our beloved country and our Secretary of Defense wants to destroy the mightiest military in the world. There are many others in this administration that could be mentioned - The battle is on to take our country back from these vermin!

[Mr. Wright]

Setting himself up as the Terry McAuliffe of 2010 — who can forget the then-DNC chairman’s defiant ebullience in the face of Democratic loses in 2002? — Vice President Biden on Thursday promised that Democrats would retain their majorities in the House and the Senate this fall.

“I guarantee you we’re going to have a majority in the House and a majority in the Senate. I absolutely believe that,” Biden said at a morning fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) in Chevy Chase, Md.

[headsonpikes]

“It will be worse than that. If the swishers get to act openly and with impunity, our military will turn into a protected haven for their misfits and will drive off our manly men - and it will literally destroy our military. I pray to God this will not happen.”

Instead of despairing, take consolation in that truth - every Socialist State contains the seeds of its own destruction. Tyranny has a limited shelf life.

[demkicker]

Thanks for posting the DISGUSTING way the honorable Lt Gen Mixon was treated over this. There must be a huge battle going on within the military and it seems the top brass needs to be flushed. I just hope it can wait for two more years....