Nunn: Time to revisit military policy on gays

[unhappycamper]

Nunn: Time to revisit military policy on gays
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jun 5, 2008 7:30:37 EDT

The former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman who forced President Clinton to back down in 1993 from plans to allow homosexuals to openly serve in the military said Tuesday that it could be time to revisit the issue.

Sam Nunn, the former Democratic senator from Georgia who left politics in 1996, said Tuesday that after 15 years on the books, the “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” policy he helped to enact could stand to be reviewed.

“It is appropriate to take another look at it, see how it is working, ask the hard question, hear from the military,” Nunn said at a national service seminar held in Atlanta.

Nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit group that works to reduce the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, an issue he was heavily involved in during his 24 years in the Senate.

He has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., but Nunn said he does not expect to re-enter political life.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/06/military_dontask_donttell_060408w/

[Captain Hilts]

1. Nunn, personally, prevented a more practical and progressive policy in the early '90s.

His record of being anti-gay is a long one.

He helped poison this pool of debate.

And what's he doing being so tight with Obama, who's supposed to be progressive? Nunn's a true Dixiecrat.