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Greetings,

Oh, sorry about the poltically incorrect subject headings.  Since we
often think of surprise as an essential element in humor, it may be
inappropriate to view the congressional response to Clinton's plans
to command the military to end its discriminatory practices toward
gays.  Still, it is clearly ironic that the same irresponsible twits
who've consistently avoided exercising their constitutional
duty to declare war by conferring on one president or another bogus
power to make undeclared war by invoking the president's status as
commander in chief are now reversing their positions and making bogus
claims that congress must have input into this process.

Of course, it is equally unsurprising, hence unamusing, that (as several
commentators have observed) the reasons used by the homophobes are
strikingly similar to the reasons invoked by those who opposed racial
integration of the military.  I very much enjoyed learning that Strom
Thurmond, who has served since the 40s was saying the same things about
racial integration that some of these scumbags are saying about sexual-
preference integration.

Marty (who knows plenty of heterosexuals he'd much prefer to avoid bunking
with)