Facts Can't Get in the Way of What's Right, Damnit

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Remember when McCain was a "maverick" of a moderate?  Now he just seems more like a dinosaur (literally) of a conservative (not quite paleo) everyday.

Moving on...

What would it take then to make this work, and allow openly gay citizens to serve in the military?  If the study had been done the other way around then McCain et co. could simply have stated that this should not have been done as a referendum, because policy decisions should be made top down.  Honestly, I think he secretly agrees with the way it was done, given the way he so quickly deferred, not to the study, but to the Chiefs of the individual branches of the Armed Services.



My point is this -- you can't INSIST on a delay of a vote (to be fair the dems really fucked it up in their own court, but that's to be expected) on whether to repeal DADT until the Pentagon completes its own study, and then entirely dismiss the study itself simply because it doesn't agree with you.

I hate to say it, but military culture, and well the entire culture of the United States, has changed since the 1981, when McCain last served in the Navy.

I just hope Bradley Manning doesn't become America's Dreyfuss (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, look up the Dreyfuss affair).

Is there ever going to be any sanity in this debate within the actual political sphere?

-- Knuttel