Reply #8: I think Obama got the Pentagon to sign on - as shown when Gates and Mullen testified to Congress

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that DADT should be repealed - and what he gave them in return was the time to do that survey.

As Nancy said, DADT will be gone in December (after the survey comes in).

Obama knew that getting the Senate to vote to repeal DADT with the Pentagon objecting was going to be practically impossible. He had to get Gates & Mullen to go along with it to be able to get it passed.

As Biden told Rachel Maddow when asked why discharges could not be stopped now while efforts to repeal the policy continue, Biden attributed it to “compromise.”

“That’s the compromise we basically had to make to get the votes to finally repeal it,” he said.