Reply #80: Shortage of Arabic speakers on September 10, 2001, warning translated on 9-12-01.

[bluedawg12]

I watched an interview with Nathaniel Frank, the author of Unfriendly Fire - How the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America a book about the consequences of DADT to our military and the discharge of over 12,000 military members, many of whom were considered “mission critical” personnel, since this ill conceived law went into effect.

It was the most appalling thing I had heard in a while. After discharging hundreds of Arab speakers and translators who were outed as gay as a result of DADT, the US intelligence intercepted a message from Al Queda on September 10, 2001 and it read, “tomorrow is zero hour.”

Due to the shortage of Arabic speakers, even as gay Arabic speakers were being discharged to create that shortage, the message was not translated until September 12, 2001.

Frank also said, that many of top brass who were involved in that policy making admitted that the data to support DADT wasn't there and they were acting on their own beliefs ( insert: prejudices) and now regret it.

The policy also destroyed unit cohesion by forcing members to live a lie and then further damaging cohesion when they were yanked out of their unit for discharge.