“God bless all the gay man and women in the United States Armed forces”.

Being ‘retired’ from the US Military means you still have to play by a set of rules. Sitting in front of Congress and outright lying? That’s a big one.

For a retired General to make a false official statement to Congress is egregious and subject to the UCMJ. “Retired”? Doesn’t matter. He’s made disparaging comments of one of our allies that is damaging to our relationship with them. The Netherlands do not nor should not do anything. Our Congress should look in to the matter and decide whether or not to censure or punish General Sheehan.

And this only makes me more disappointed with President Obama. He keeps quoting Harry Truman’s phrase “the buck stops here” but hasn’t grasped why Truman pushed desegregation with an executive order. If Truman hadn’t we would still be having Congressional hearings on whether or not desegregation was right for the US Armed Forces.

Furthermore, as the General should know, both Canada and the United Kingdom have allowed open and honest Lesbians and Gay Men to serve in their armed forces for some time– without any negative effects.

During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower gave an order for Lesbians and Gay Men to be named with the idea of discharging them. When he discovered two of his key aides were Lesbians, he immediately gave a new order to disregard his previous order. The fact is that LGBT people have been members of the armed forces of the United States since there were United States Armed Forces. Unfortunately, laws have compelled them to lie in order to serve their country.

Agreed. Now some of our allies may become reluctant to support us when we need it in far away lands. And that puts our men in danger. Sheehan needs to be barred from ever again testifying at armed services hearings as a disgrace and a disservice to our country. The world is watching us on TV and knows what is said about it.

Wake up, people! Gays are causing the decline of the world!

My thanks and hats off to our allies in the Netherlands for standing up to this dimwit and not allowing him to use you for undocumented hearsay.

Unless Sheehan or his handlers can produce documented proof that supports his claims, he’s just a barracks politition bumping his gums and lying to the American people to advance his own un-American agenda.

The Dutch were already likely to pull out of Afghanistan. Now this bonehead opens his mouth and slams a longtime ally, which also makes it that much more likely that US exposure in Afghanistan will become worse. More casualties. Sheehan–retired for thirteen years–has pretty much just told one of our allies to pound salt (or paint their toenails, as he would have it).

Somebody needs to make a formal apology to the Dutch government and people. NOW. Whether it’s the President somebody else, they need to apologize for allowing Sheehan to wander away from the assisted living facility.

There is one good thing to this. Bama-stu mentioned that there are a good number of high-ranking military staff who think gays will hurt the military. Most of them seem to have enough functioning brain cells that they don’t mouth off about it. Sheehan made such an ass of himself that anybody else following him who opposes gays in the military is going to come off as being another wackadoo. It isn’t easy to find somebody who can not only advance your point by making the opposition look bigoted and insane, but also manages to create an ill-timed and exceedingly embarrassing international incident in the process. And he did all this as a retiree! Oh–almost forgot–he did all this AND pretty much put American military personnel in Afghanistan in even greater danger. Isn’t that verging on treason (giving aid to the enemy)?