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Thursday, March 31, 2005

FROM WWW.DAILYKOS.COM

On Language
by DavidNYC
Thu Mar 31st, 2005 at 16:00:00 PST

From today's WMD Commission report:

P. 322-23: "We have found that the [Intelligence] Community has difficulty in attracting and retaining people with ... advanced language capabilities."

November 14th, 2002:

Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.

The soldiers' dismissals come at a time when the military is facing a critical shortage of translators and interpreters for the war on terrorism.

Bastards. I'm still angry about those dismissals. Not only am I continually outraged by our military's antedeluvian anti-gay policies, but I'm also furious that they weaken our national defense.

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