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what if those 265,000 resign from the military over the next short period of time? what are you going to do? if i believe that a quarter of a million people would leave the military immediately, if given the opportunity, i would certainly have second thoughts about this. but i don t believe that. secretary gates on the idea of mass depart tours. there s also the question of why now? why war time. should we be tinkering with don t ask don t tell? republican senator collins handled that one. admiral mullen, the second objection that we hear over and over and over is that we cannot implement this kind of change in the midst of a war. and i thought you made an excellent point that the opposite may be true, that war time facilitates change in some ways. and in fact, wasn t president truman s 1948 order to integrate

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lifted. what if it does happen? what if those 265,000 resign from the military over the next short period of time? what are you going to do? if i believe that a quarter of a million people would leave the military immediately, if given the opportunity, i would certainly have second thoughts about this. but i don t believe that. secretary gates on the idea of mass depart tours. there s also the question of why now? why war time. should we be tinkering with don t ask don t tell? republican senator collins handled that one. admiral mullen, the second objection that we hear over and over and over is that we cannot implement this kind of change in the midst of a war. and i thought you made an excellent point that the opposite may be true, that war time facilitates change in some ways. and in fact, wasn t president truman s 1948 order to integrate

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thought it should be ended. i think in effect doing a referendum of the service of the members of the armed forces on a policy matter is a very dangerous path. do you think the answers to the questions would have been different had we asked them outright? well, i think that as mr. johnson and general hamm have testified earlier, through the many questions in the survey, you get a pretty clear view of the views of the force in terms of this change. in addition, in his opening statement, admiral mullen pointed to polling done before integrating the military that showed 80% of troops then opposed it and many saying they would leave the service if it happened. today senator saxby chambliss of georgia raised that same concern. by his reading of the pentagon report, more than a quarter million troops might up and leave if don t ask don t tell is

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our forces actually fully implemented during the korean war? well, admiral mullen said yes, in fact it was, and far from being a bad time to implement change it was, in his view, ideal. we have changed dramatically as a military since 2001. which i would argue puts us in a good position to facilitate additional change. there couldn t be a better time to do it. we are better led at every level than we have ever been led. so leaders can do this. we are able to take advantage of our ability to change and sustain that combat readiness, and i believe making a change like this makes us better. it doesn t make us worse. finally there s the question of legislative timing. many senators want to delay a vote on don t ask don t tell until the new senate is seated. they say there simply isn t enough time in this session to

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