Is Marine General Peter Pace part of the smoke screen to keep our attention OFF Bush's Gov't tragedy of war?

Question

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly.
A smooth tactic to get our minds off the imorality and deception of the Iraq invasion?

Chicago Tribune:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/03/12/3741608-ap.html

Thucyidide:
Is one unpatriotic because he wants to ask for the truth?
Leogirl0804:
This story is getting airtime to take our focus off of the mismangement of this war.
Sarita:
I give ppl credit for not being fooled by propaganda.

Casandra: I cry for you. After 9/11 Bush had the world on his side. His gov't lied and now who "in the world" supports him?

50 specialists who speak Arabic hv been let go because of this policy... we hv so many to choose from? This is the stupidity of this policy

cvq3842... it is all intent of the use of the word. To have a gay admiration for some one is NOT an insult used in the case on the site u provided...thxs 4 yr input!
No one on the site u provided said that gays DON'T belong...

Answer 1

Apparently, many on the left agree that there is something shameful or insulting about being gay:

http://newsbusters.org/node/11322

I'm not saying I agree with either of them. But it's disingenuous to criticize one and not the other.

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Answer 3

Actually, I would think that if an individual was enlisted in the armed forces and wanted to be discharged, could claiming to be homosexual (whether they really were or not) get one discharged?

I don't think that there is anything that anyone could say to get our minds "off" of the ongoing troubles in Iraq.....give people more credit than you are by believing that simple comments cause a deviation of total common sense! Did the comment serve to get Iraq off of your mind?

Also in in the future, you may wish to utilize the FREE spell check feature before posting. **imorality** immorality

Answer 4

The vast, vast majority of people in the world would agree with General Pace; I know I do, and I admire his courage. The really tragic thing about your question is that you think our military operations in Iraq are a tragedy. You’d better get used to this war, of which Iraq is just one small theater, because we in the West are going to be in it for most of your life. President Bush will be retired and clearing brush in Texas in two years; what are you going to cry about then? The government’s mistakes thus far have been minuscule compared to those we made in the Second World War, for example, but the Americans of yesteryear focused on victory not defeatism. The real and immediate threat to our way of life today is Islamic fascism and the terrorism it breeds (which I’ve personally seen kill people); that’s the inconvenient truth that so many cannot look passed their politics to accept. Get behind this president, get behind the next one, too (Democrat or Republican), because if we loose this war, our children will damn our memory as the cowards who failed them.

response to the asker’s additional details:

I’ve seen no evidence that President Bush lied about this war or anything else (in fact, his main problem as a leader is that he is ineloquent, to say the least, and can’t seem to tell even those little lies necessary for a politician to be truly successful). Are the liberal British Labour Party (and their prime minister, Tony Blair), and the Italian government liars, too? They all made the same pre-war claims about Iraq that our government made. What is a lie (perpetuated by forgetful people like you) is that the “After 9/11 Bush had the world on his side.” Don’t you remember people throughout the Islamic world cheering and celebrating 9/11 on television? I do. Or don’t they count as part of “the world”? Don’t you remember that the best-selling (best-selling!) book in France said that our own government perpetrated 9/11? I do. Don’t you remember media commentators and so-called intellectuals throughout the world saying, to this day, that 9/11 was somehow our own fault or our ally Israel’s? I do. Love America or hate America, but don’t kid yourself that half the world wasn’t happy to see us suffer on 9/11.

Answer 5

I praise the general for speaking the truth. If you’re a U.S. citizen, what’s really immoral is your lack of patriotism.

response to the asker’s additional details comment:

Personally, I thought 2003 was the wrong time to go into Iraq; President Clinton should have done it the first time Saddam fired on our planes patrolling the no-fly zone (though you probably don’t remember that Iraq had surrendered much of it’s sovereignty after loosing its war of aggression in 1991). Everyone agrees the Iraq campaign has been mismanaged to one extent or another (like WW2, as Cassandria notes), but “the truth” is that by undermining our commander-in-chief, you are giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Far more America soldiers (and both guilty and innocent Iraqis) than necessary have died because our enemies have come to believe because of Americans like you that they have only to wait-out President Bush’s term to win. Face it, if they had seen a unified America, Iraq would have been pacified years ago and our troops would have been freed up for other operations in this global struggle.

Answer 6

Ask his brother jerry or his other brothers and they will tell you there getting to old and there sons shouldn't read with there red book to people in hospitals and ask personal questions while people are asleep shave that blonde pace.Hows the Evans pace.Vietnam was over years ago band of brothers

Answer 7

No, he was just reinforcing the sentiment in military. You think their are martians under every rock?

Answer 8

And he was right. There's no room in civilized society for such people.