Breaking: Compromise on DADT

[blogslut]

Rachel is reporting it just now:

Congress will repeal DADT possibly this week - will not take effect until next year

Here is a link to the amendment - pdf:

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Lieberman_NDAA_DADT_Amendment.pdf

And a link to an ABC report from Jake Tapper:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/white-house-supports-dont-askdont-tell-repeal-with-compromise-timeline.html

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Will there be a moratorium on additional discharges?

[blogslut]

2. I don't know

My guess is there will be more complete details soon.

[QC]

3. That's the big question, isn't it? n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Right. It seems pointless if people are going to continue to face persecution for the next year.

[QC]

6. That would make it nothing more than cynical triangulation.

I truly hope the discharges will stop right away.

[leeroysphitz]

7. Pointless?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Well, not pointless but seriously flawed

So they're planning on losing the midterms and they want to pass this now. I get that. But what's with the idea that it has to wait a year? Why wait until the study comes out if the result is a foregone conclusion? And even if you must do a study (and so the idea is that nobody knows if this should continue) why should people be punished while they wait for this stupid study (which doesn't matter anyway because the result is a foregone conclusion)

[jp11]

9. I hope the study helps convince them they need to train their recruits better and work on acceptance

for those that are intolerant, as well implementing whatever changes they find are needed to bring a more understanding state of mind to officers/etc. The last thing I'd want ending DADT doing is bringing a new wave of assaults on openly non heterosexual service men/women, seeing as how there is already a large sexual assault problem for women as it is.

[grantcart]

4. that is what was reported earlier

[Bluebear]

10. It's disgusting. Full of the same "unit cohesion" codewords.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8409776