Dec 09, 2006Articles: SLDN Calls on White House to Re-Consider Anti-Gay ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Following Iraq Report
By vanrozenheim
(WASHINGTON, USA) - The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) is calling on President Bush and the White House to reconsider the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report. Warning that “all of our efforts in Iraq, military and civilian, are handicapped by Americans’ lack of language and cultural understanding,” the Iraq Study Group, a panel of ten bi-partisan experts convened to examine military strategy in the war in Iraq, emphasized in a report this week the importance of recruiting and retaining language experts.
