Freeper: No DADT repeal "Unless you can show me where military readiness would be enhanced"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Had a hard time figuring out what "YankeeReb" meant with this one. My best guess is that if you have TEH GAY you can SENSE trouble like Lassie did when Timmy kept falling into the old well.

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To: Red Steel

If this is such a necessity why isn't the military clamoring for it? If they wanted a repeal I'm sure the military would make it happen. This is all about 0blahblah paying back one of his few remaining constituencies. If I were a senate Republican I'd say screw this unless you can show me where military readiness would be enhanced. This is what we should be asking of these progressive hacks. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO THE MILITARY OF A REPEAL? If the only answer is "It's a matter of fairness" or some such pablum, then no repeal. This goes for the other issue not getting as much air play, allowing women to serve aboard submarines.

6 posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 2:07:04 PM by YankeeReb

[EmilyKent]

1. Well the millitary would have more people

for one thing, and they'd have more trained people.

Remember all those Arab translators that were let go because they were gay? Well lots of trained serving members were removed for the same reason.

[Journeyman]

2. Were DADT repealed years ago, we'd still have quite a number of Arabic speaking translators. . .

who were discharged instead because they were gay. Can YankeeReb effectively argue that the loss of these soldiers enhanced our military effort?

Here's just one link of what are undoubtedly many: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/14/attack/main529418.shtml

[RZM]

5. Very true

Of course those folks were but a drop in the bucket. Perhaps not in terms of Americans trained in Arabic, but from what I hear, the military/intelligence community uses a lot of native/heritage speakers of Arabic, of which the pool is exponentially deeper.

Still, it's a good argument that can be deployed in favor of repeal.

[RZM]

3. Sounds like he's grasping at straws

The anti-repeal crowd doesn't have a whole lot of cards left to play.

[NuclearDem]

4. Isn't the military...gee, I dunno, clamoring for it now?

Or is the SECDEF and the CJCS not enough for YankeeReb?

[Xicano]

6. Just shove the constitution in this dipshit's face

And ask what part of equal representation does his feeble little brain not understand. Other than that tell him to stop hating on America and love it or leave it.

[marybourg]

7. If we cared what freepers think, we'd go to their THEIR website.nt.

[petronius]

8. "Not excluding qualified personnel in time of war" equals "enhancing military readiness."

That wasn't so hard, was it it, freeper? Unless of course your appeal to military readiness is just nonsensical pablum to cover up your real thought processes...

[U4ikLefty]

9. delete

translators already mentioned...sorry