Pentagon urgently needs more soldiers -- but get lost if you're gay!

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FROM N.Y. TIMES 9/14/06

As the Pentagon’s search for soldiers grows more urgent, gay rights groups are making the biggest push in nearly a decade to win repeal of a compromise policy, encoded in a 1993 law and dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” that bars openly gay people from serving in the military.

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A 2004 report by the Urban Institute concluded that at least 60,000 gay people were serving in the armed forces, including the Reserves and the National Guard. But since 1993, at least 11,000 members have been discharged for being openly gay, among them 800 in highly crucial jobs, according to the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative arm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/us/14gay.html?hp&ex=1158206400&en=c51f3ff0f2068574&ei=5094&partner=homepage


From left, John Alaniz, Derek House and Justin Hager all showed up at a recruiting center but were turned away because they are openly gay
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Yes, of course I'm not sure why anyone would want to be associated with this criminal administration's policy of killing people en route to its ultimate goal of world domination.

However, that's really not the point. It's simply unfair that decent Americans are being turned away simply because they're gay.

Theoretically, they should be signing up anyone who has two arms, two legs, a head and a pulse.

And kicking out all of these gay linguists who speak Arabic and Farsi.....well, that's outrageous and tremendously irresponsible.