Fox News military analyst announces support for DADT repeal

[babylonsister]

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Fox News Military Analyst Endorses DADT Repeal, Criticizes McCain For Flip-Flopping

This morning, Fox & Friends Weekend hosted Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, to discuss whether to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

According to his bio on the Fox News website, Hunt is a retired colonel with “over 29 years of military experience including extensive operational experience in special operations, counter terrorism and intelligence operations.” Hunt generally adheres to the conservative line on national security matters. For instance, he was an advocate for attacking Iraq. And instead of encouraging dialogue with Iran and Syria, Hunt said in 2006, “I think we can talk to them when we line them up and kill them.”

This morning, however, Hunt sided with progressives who are advocating repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Hunt called the discriminatory law “an abject failure” because “we’ve lost somewhere between 11 and 14,000 soldiers.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/fox-news-dadt-repeal/

[CrownPrinceBandar]

1. I like the headline on the chyron.........

"Could the policy FINALLY be abolished?"

Looks like someone is trying to sneak back onto the right side of history here. DADT is DEAD and Faux news wants to cover their asses.

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3. yup, and then they'll blame Clinton for creating it - it's a win/win for Fox to get ahead of

I'd love to go back and find all their earlier screen text floating across the screen and compare it to today. No doubt it was as brash as McCain today, if not more

[Hyper_Eye]

2. Off to the greatest.

This is blunt and I like it. Stating so clearly on Fox News support for ending DADT takes cahoonas.