General John Sheehan Says Gays in Military Would Spread AIDS

[unhappycamper]

General John Sheehan Says Gays in Military Would Spread AIDS
Waymon Hudson
Posted: June 18, 2010 12:48 PM

General John Sheehan, retired four-star general of the U.S. Marine Corps and former Supreme Allied Commander for NATO, is back in the news with more bigoted anti-repeal talk about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Readers may remember Sheehan as the man who while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in March suggested that the integration of gay soldiers in the Dutch Military was responsible for the Srebrenica massacre.

Sheehan said that the Netherlands' allowance of gay men and women to serve openly caused them to be ill-prepared on the battle field and unable to stop the Srebrenica genocide by the Serbs in 1995. He later had to walk his comments back after the Netherlands slammed his absurd comments, saying that his memory about the massacre was "inaccurate."

Now Gen. Sheehan is back, having teamed up with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins in an op-ed on Politico. His assertion now?

Sheehan and Perkins go way down the rabbit hole in their op-ed on Politico, throwing everything they can think of against repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell":

Yet homosexuality carries with it profound behavioral implications. Sexual attraction among members of the same sex -- living, exercising, fighting and training alongside one another in the closest of quarters -- could devastate morale, foster heightened interpersonal tension and lead to division among those who, more than virtually any other group in society, need to act as one.

unhappycamper comment: Be sure to read the rest of the bigoted shit this guy spews at the link.

[leftofcool]

1. Yea, General, those boys fucking in foxholes while under

heavy mortar fire will most certainly spread AIDS. Oh, and General, here is a tip for ya: Put some blood tainted with hepatitis in one hand, blood tainted with HIV in the other hand, throw both in a swimming pool then jump in the pool with a small paper cut on your finger. I guarantee you 100% you WILL get hepatitis, HIV........about 000000000002%

PS: Poster does not wish to imply that a full transfusion of blood infected with HIV can not happen in the military or on the battlefield but wonders if the general knows that a wounded soldier can get HIV infected blood from a hetero soldier?

[roguevalley]

8. he's contemptible. history shows what gay soldiers can do. what

he's saying he's saying about himself. put those guys and me in front of all his shit and you can see that he's a little bitty coward.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Wow. That's just 4 star stupid.

[xchrom]

3. Wow -- are they spreading aids now?

Cause Teh Gays are there now.

[GodlessBiker]

4. This guy is such an asshole.

[Kahuna]

5. Stupid is as stupid does...

:scared:

[HillbillyBob]

6. Yea and straight boys never ever get HIV from

prostitutes or rape their fellow female soldiers...

[ashling]

7. A simple tool retools an old arguement

Yet integration of the races homosexuality carries with it profound behavioral implications.

Bonding Sexual attraction among members of different races the same sex

-- living, exercising, fighting and training alongside one another in the closest of quarters -- could devastate morale, foster heightened interpersonal tension and lead to division among those who, more than virtually any other group in society, need to act as one.

[Jefferson23]

9. It's too bad he can't be thrown out for being a schmuck....ought be a law for that. n/t

[donheld]

10. General John Sheehan in the military spreads Ignorance and hate

which is worse?

[Crowman1979]

11. Looks like he just pissed off 10% of the USMC.

I'd be more safe with someone on the battlefield who is LGBT, as opposed to an armageddon-happy christian fundie who doesn't give a shit about his job because the lawd is taking him up to heaven, even though he was banging some barracks ho and accumulating large amounts of debt before the deployment.

[sui generis]

12. like boning whores in the phillipines doesn't?

anyway, if I recall correctly, one can only "spread" HIV.

Sheehan, thou doth protest way the fuck too much. Got some hunky male skeletons in your closet or something? No doubt.

[Crowman1979]

14. Throw in Thailand, port prostitutes and off-base trailer trash while your at it.

[closeupready]

13. Tiger Woods. John Edwards. Eliot Spitzer.

n/t