US ex-general apologizes for Dutch gay comments

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Google/AP

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A retired American general has apologized for a remark to the U.S. Senate suggesting that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for the Srebrenica massacre by Serb soldiers in Bosnia, according to the Defense Ministry.

The comment by retired Gen. John Sheehan during testimony opposing a proposal to allow gays to serve openly in the U.S. military caused an uproar in the Netherlands, where discrimination against gays is outlawed, including in the military.

The Defense Ministry released an e-mail Tuesday from Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired from the military in 1997, to retired Dutch Gen. Henk van den Breemen saying he is sorry for his statements to the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 18.

In the e-mail, Sheehan says the 1995 murder of some 8,000 Muslim men in Bosnia's Srebrenica enclave "was in no way the fault of individual soldiers."

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"I am sorry that my recent public recollection of those discussions of 15 years ago inaccurately reflected your thinking on some specific social issues in the military," Sheehan wrote to Van den Breemen.

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[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

hmmm

[Seedersandleechers]

2. I wonder why

this General was motivated to lie and therefore make a fool of himself. Did someone pay him?

[DuckyCase]

5. I wonder why he's apologizing. Wingnuts lie everyday.

[h9socialist]

3. What a jerk!

Why isn't this bozo Beetle Bailey out in Nevada at the Tea Party, with also those other socially-challenged morons?

[Toasterlad]

4. Asshole.

[pattmarty]

6. Pull that cocksuckers pension. Shitbag.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Kill his pension because we don't like his opinions?

[pattmarty]

12. It's more than his "opinion" and you know it. It's over the line calling..........

...........another nations basically "fagot cowards", or like you calling our President the "N" word. Fucking over the line.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. What line is that?

He can express obnoxious opinions. His pension has nothing to do with that.

[pattmarty]

14. When the fuck does an "obnoxious opinion" become hateful or...............

.............instigating violence speech? I believe in "free speech", but you very well fucking know that you cannot say ANYTHING you want to, there are limits. I am sure you know the old adage "crying fire in a crowded theater"? Okay, mr blogger, YOU tell us when speech becomes dangerous. Hint: teabagging. I'll let you expound on that.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. You're rambling

You still haven't told me what in his statement justifies killing his pension.

Now you seem to be saying that he's inciting something. What is he inciting? And is there a law or regulation that says that incitement is reason to cancel someone's military pension?

[zelta gaisma]

16. if he WERE a cocksucker he wouldn't have put his foot in his mouth

[WinkyDink]

7. He didn't "suggest" it; he stated it outright. And his "apology" isn't.

[Ian David]

8. I still say it's because the enemy heard their wooden shoes coming from miles away. n/t

[greiner3]

10. He'll be a faux contributer next week;

[Jennicut]

11. Too little, too late and not sincere.

Idiot. He is still a homophone anyway.

[tedk_355]

17. what an ass