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Obama Invokes 'State Secrets' Claim To Dismiss Lawsuit Against Targeting Of U.S. Citizen

Sunday, September 26, 2010


Have you been diagnosed with a learning disability?  I ask in all seriousness, because the quality of your thought processes come across online as impaired.  You are replying to my comment without your having read it or the links I included.  Had you read them all, you might have understood my comments.

Obama can end DADT for the duration of his term in office with an executive order.  While DADT is suspended through executive order, Congress can continue to "work on" repealing its legislation, and the various court cases challenging DADT can also work their way through the judicial branch of our government.

This past May, the House and a Senate panel passed a plan to repeal DADT, but with the usual slick out-clause or backdoor -- The plan has always been to kick the can down the road as long as possible, keeping Gay Americans disenfranchised and politically active as long as possible.  


http://articles.cnn.com/2010-05-28/politics/gays.in.the.military_1_larger-defense-authorization-bill-repeal-white-house?_s=PM:POLITICS>
One way to take much of the energy out of the opposition to repealing DADT is for the president to issue an executive order which would have the effect of getting people used to it so that when the vote does come after the Pentagon's report at the end of the year, deflating hom0phobes' worst fears.

WIth a stroke of a pen, Obama (as the Commander-in-Chief) can go a long way to healing some of the problems in this country in many different ways.  It's good for gays, it's good for the military (we're having problems retaining troop strength, and gay soldiers skills' sets save all soldiers' lives), it's good for the war effort (it is "war time", or so we've been told often enough), it's good for the American people, and it's good for the world.
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