Powell: Time to review ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’
Published: July 5, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Former State Secretary Colin Powell and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Sunday became the latest military figures to suggest that the US military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy on homosexuals in the armed forces may have run its course.
Powell told CNN’s State of the Union that the Clinton-era law, designed to end a ban on gays in the military, was “correct for the time” but that “a lot has changed with respect to attitudes in our country, so I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.”
Adding to that sentiment were the words of Adm. Mullen, who told CNN’s John King that, while the military will continue to enforce the policy so long as it is law, “it’s clear what President Obama’s intent here is — he intends to see this law changed.”
This video is from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast July 5, 2009.
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Don’t get too excited, Powell is a water carrier and he always has his finger in the wind. If he were in Saudi Arabia, he’d be extolling the virtues of cutting off the hands of thieves and making women wear two burqua’s, just to be safe.
He’s a snake.
Interviewed as he was about to enter a Cher concert.
To paraphrase Doug Stanhope, “Anyone stupid enough to join the militart…let them!”
Who cares what his lying asshole has to say? Who can believe him after his UN invade Iraq presentation farce?
Forget don’t ask , don’t tell. Just don’t enlist.
Give Colin credit: He knows how to hold his finger to the wind.
not very interested in what Poweel ahs to say, when he was the Ghief? He was AWOL on this matter, a bit hypocritcal now I say.