Mike Mullen Insists Marine Commandant James Amos Will Comply With DADT Repeal
PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 21, 2010
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is insisting that
the Marines will follow orders if “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” is repealed.
“surprised” Mullen. But in an interview Sunday on CNN's State of the
Union, Mullen insisted that there is “no question” that Amos would fully
cooperate if Congress lifted the ban.
“He said, 'if this law changes, we are going to implement it and we are
going to implement it better than anyone else,'” Mullen said of Amos.
Amos told the Los Angeles Times two weeks ago that repeal involved
“risk.”
“There's a risk involved,” Amos, who recently assumed the helm from
retiring General James Conway, said. “I'm trying to determine how to
measure that risk. This is not a social thing. This is combat
effectiveness.”
Conway also strongly objects to repeal of the 17-year-old law. “90 to
95 percent of the Marines” are against repeal, he told Fox News,
citing impromptu surveys he had conducted by a “show of hands”
at town hall meetings.
Democratic leaders have pledged to put repeal up for a vote after
the Thanksgiving break. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said
last week that he has more than the 60 votes needed for repeal.
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