Saturday, March 13, 2010
News From Afghanistan
KANDAHAR PROVINCE. AFGHANISTAN, BVD News , March 13 -- Afghanis Disagree On Who Should Shoot Them - Civilians fleeing the NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan welcomed recent statements by Pentagon officials hinting that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell” will soon be rescinded.One woman refugee, who only gave her name as Naghma, said, “Of course I never understood the basis of Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C. § 654). Gay men and women should have the same right as straight soldiers to rain down ordnance on our towns and kill or maim us with their powerful small arms fire.”
But, said her cousin, Laila, “Until gays can marry and achieve full equality, we feel we’re being blown up by second-class Americans, and that just doesn’t feel right.”
After making this statement , The Pentagon went back to the more important business of how to put a woman on a submarine
