in my view that s the cry of the chicken hawk who has no idea what it means to have the courage to put your life at risk to defend your country and its ideals. but the senator from massachusetts knows it all too well. when our country went to war in southeast asia, the senator from massachusetts enlisted in the navy, he requested to be sent to vietnam to fight for his country. the easy thing to do would be to simply vote for all defense bills, no matter what it says inside them, and pretend that these votes are the real measure of patriotism. that s what the chicken hawks do, that s the easy road. it is the same easy road we see when someone files for student deferment, then claims an old football injury should prevent him from fighting for his country. only a chicken hawk would attack a political rival. lost three limbs in vietnam as
happening in guantanamo. let s take this back to the fact that the president after the christmas bombing, the bomber in december, in to y2010 ordered at to anybody being sent back to yemen, specifically and that was more than 50 of these 86, who have been precleared by every intelligence agency and were told three years ago they could go back. now in the 2011 and 2012 defense bills, bills that congress knew the president had to sign, they put in more restrictions. and there s also an escape hatch. an escape clause if the secretary of state, secretary of defense wants to sign away that there is no chance these prisoners would ever go back to jihad. and it s not just yemen now, it s qatar and other places. that he would then let them go. is there any chance that the president will permit the secretary of defense to sign away this kind of thing, given the possibility that anybody in a foreign context would go back and do something?
to protect people who discriminate against gay troops. that s nice. and another amendment to further their support for the anti-gay defense of marriage act, which the obama administration says is unconstitutional. these are defense bills. and this was the middle of the night last night. it s almost like the republicans saw president obama doing something kind of nice for gay people with his comments in the afternoon, and they decided that they therefore needed to stick it to gay people in response. what can we do with that, what is it, a defense bill? what can we do in a defense bill that might hurt gay people? it hurts gay soldiers? i don t care. let s get em anyway! at one point, the debate over these defense bills, because they have been hijacked to become an anti-gay thing by house republicans, at one point, the debate devolved into a bitter fight over whether or not leviticus should be considered part of the bible, given that it is actually in the old testament. i would like to
their support for the anti-gay defense of marriage act, which the obama administration says is unconstitutional. these are defense bills. and this was the middle of the night last night. it s almost like the republicans saw president obama doing something kind of nice for gay people with his comments in the afternoon, and they decided that they therefore needed to stick it to gay people in response. what can we do with that, what is it, a defense bill? what can we do in a defense bill that might hurt gay people? it hurts gay soldiers? i don t care. let s get em anyway! at one point, the debate over these defense bills, because they have been hijacked to become an anti-gay thing by house republicans, at one point, the debate devolved into a bitter fight over whether or not leviticus should be considered part of the bible, given that it is actually in the old testament. i would like to say that if you read leviticus 20:13, you will see in there this issue of, they are to be put to dea
gay issues in politics would be to add two anti-gay amendments to this defense bill they re working on. one amendment to try to block gay soldiers to get married and to protect people who discriminate against gay troops. that s nice. and another amendment to further their support for the anti-gay defense of marriage act, which the obama administration says is unconstitutional. these are defense bills. and this was the middle of the night last night. it s almost like the republicans saw president obama doing something kind of nice for gay people with his comments in the afternoon, and they decided that they therefore needed to stick it to gay people in response. what can we do with that, what is it, a defense bill? what can we do in a defense bill that might hurt gay people? it hurts gay soldiers? i don t care. let s get em anyway! at one point, the debate over these defense bills, because they have been hijacked to become an anti-gay thing by house republicans, at one point, the debat