Report: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Cost $363M

[kpete]

Report: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Cost $363M By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
23 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Discharging troops under the Pentagon's policy on gays cost $363.8 million over 10 years, almost double what the government concluded a year ago, a private report says.


The report, to be released Tuesday by a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission, questioned the methodology the Government Accountability Office used when it estimated that the financial impact of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was at least $190.5 million.

"It builds on the previous findings and paints a more complete picture of the costs," said Rep. Marty Meehan (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., who has proposed legislation that would repeal the policy.

Congress approved the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in 1993 during the Clinton administration. It allows gays and lesbians to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps as long as they abstain from homosexual activity and do not disclose their sexual orientation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_gays

[adarling]

1. umm yeah that needs to go

it is a sick policy that does not belong in the armed forces. Not to mention that the money used on that could be used for body armor or something that could help the guys over there.

[Wickerman]

2. Senseless - that is money that Halliburton could've siphoned

:grr:

That is a policy that has to be ended.