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Defend America on Monday, March 01, 2010 11:17:47 PM
McCain won’t reconsider ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ until military
releases report, despite Mullen’s ‘personal belief’ on repeal of policy
By Alex Pappas — The Daily Caller 03/01/10 at 1:51 AM
ohn McCain said in 2006 that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
towards gays in the military should be changed if leaders of the armed
forces say it should be — but now that some of those leaders are for
repealing the policy, McCain is still not necessarily for it, instead
saying the military should be “very careful as to how we move forward”
on the issue.
McCain, on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, was reminded by moderator
David Gregory of his 2006 quote when he said, “The day that the
leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to
change the policy,’ then I think we ought to consider seriously
changing it because those leaders in the military are the ones we give
the responsibility to.”
Even though General David Petraeus said last week that he’s not sure
if soldiers on the ground care one way or the other if their comrade in
arms are gay or lesbian, and Admiral Mike Mullen said it is his
“personal belief” that allowing gays and lesbians “to serve openly
would be the right thing to do,” McCain is not persuaded.
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