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Originally Posted by raymor
Indeed. Don't ask don't tell was Clinton's policy. Bush appointee Robert Gates sought to do away with it while Obama fought to delay it's end even after the court ruled it unconstitutional. After a court battle trying to drag his feet on eliminating
it, when he could delay Obama saw the polls and announced he had ended DADT. Liar. The court ended DADT while he appealed.
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A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period.[4] A July 6, 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members.[5] President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.[6]
Also, you say it's "Clinton's policy" without clarifying that it was a compromise as Clinton wanted anybody to be able to serve as gays were prohibited from serving. His opposition (including those that flooded Congressional phone lines) put up a fight (and was winning), so they came up with the good intention-ed DADT, compromise, which in hindsight, wasn't all that great. If Clinton could have had his way, everybody would be serving openly like today. If nobody opposed him, DADT would have never had to happen.
Before you say "it's Wikipedia, get a real source," follow the sources if you do not want to believe wiki... it's just a good congregation of links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell