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Title: Rice Pressed On Fired Gay Linguists
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 01:44:33 PM
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 01:44:33 PM
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Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" more than two dozen Arabic translators have been dropped since the war in Iraq began.
"It seems that the Defense Department has a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' when it comes to homosexuals. You don't have such a prohibition in your agency, do you?" Ackerman asked Rice.
"No, we do not," Rice replied.
"Well, it seems that the military has gone around and fired a whole bunch of people who speak foreign languages — Farsi and Arabic, etc.," Ackerman told her.
The Congressman said that they had already been trained at government expense and had passed security tests.
"For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists," Ackerman said.."If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad."
The remark drew some smiles from fellow members of the panel, but Rice was stone faced.
He then asked directly why the State Department had not looked at the fired gay linguists.
"Can we marry up those two — or maybe that's the wrong word — can we have some kind of union of those two issues?" Ackerman asked.
Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" more than two dozen Arabic translators have been dropped since the war in Iraq began.
"It seems that the Defense Department has a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' when it comes to homosexuals. You don't have such a prohibition in your agency, do you?" Ackerman asked Rice.
"No, we do not," Rice replied.
"Well, it seems that the military has gone around and fired a whole bunch of people who speak foreign languages — Farsi and Arabic, etc.," Ackerman told her.
The Congressman said that they had already been trained at government expense and had passed security tests.
"For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists," Ackerman said.."If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad."
The remark drew some smiles from fellow members of the panel, but Rice was stone faced.
He then asked directly why the State Department had not looked at the fired gay linguists.
"Can we marry up those two — or maybe that's the wrong word — can we have some kind of union of those two issues?" Ackerman asked.
Title: Re: Rice Pressed On Fired Gay Linguists
Post by: Hazumu on February 08, 2007, 09:37:39 PM
Post by: Hazumu on February 08, 2007, 09:37:39 PM
It's not about fighting terrorism, or "GWOT" ('Jee-Watt', Global War On Terrorism,) as it's called.
It's about promoting an ideology rooted in absolute morals.
I hereby increase Congressman Ackerman's Karma by one.
Karen
It's about promoting an ideology rooted in absolute morals.
I hereby increase Congressman Ackerman's Karma by one.
Karen