Reply #70: Actually, she was right. [View All]

I, at least, was not responding because I had other things to do. In fact, I still have other things to do... so I'll expand my Spanish vocabulary between instances of asking you what you are talking about.

I saw the clip of Anna Marie Cox asking Gibbs "... are the dismissals of these soldiers a part of the President's strategy to keep America safe, or are they a threat to national security"

As I recall, Gibbs' response was a repetition of what he'd said before. "As I said, when asked that question, last week I believe it was... the President believes that DADT should be reversed, but he's looking for a long term solution, rather than a long term fix... and he feels that Congress is the place to make those changes."

Both those quotes are actually paraphrases... but I'm watching last night's show... I'll edit to get exact quotes once I come across them (I notice you did not include any link or quote...).

In other words: Gibbs just repeated what he had said before. He didn't, as I recall, say that the Pentagon was wrong... and in any case, if you looked closely at the story, the Pentagon said that they had had "The initial stages of a preliminary conversation..." which, as I have argued, is really a very negligible amount of work for 4 months if it was in fact a priority...
Further, the Pentagon has said that it is not doing any work currently to prepare for repeal of DADT. They have also said that they are not even asking military commanders for opinions on the subject.

So, what are you talking about? Please provide some sort of link that suggests that the Pentagon was wrong...

On Edit: here's the clip on Rachel.