{"id":21274,"date":"2010-11-20T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2010-11-20T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T14:23:50","slug":"boxer-with-dadt-us-is-like-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21274","title":{"rendered":"Boxer: With DADT, US is like Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara &#8220;Call me Senator&#8221; Boxer compared the Armed Forces policy of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; in regards to gays in the military now puts this country on the same level with Iran, North Korea and Pakistan according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/11\/19\/boxer-compares-iran-n-korea-pakistan-military-gay-ban\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe now stand &#8212; with this rule &#8212; with countries like Iran, North Korea and Pakistan in banning gays and lesbians from military service<br \/>\n,\u201d Boxer said as Lieberman, an independent who aligns himself with Democrats, nodded his head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we treat gays just like they do in Iran (content warning below the fold);<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iran_hanging_outrage_2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iran_hanging_outrage_2.jpg?resize=360%2C525\" alt=\"\" title=\"iran_hanging_outrage_2\" width=\"360\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iran_hanging_outrage_2.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iran_hanging_outrage_2.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara &#8220;Call me Senator&#8221; Boxer compared the Armed Forces policy of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; in regards to gays in the military now puts this country on the same level with Iran, North Korea and Pakistan according to Fox News; \u201cWe now stand &#8212; with this rule &#8212; with countries like Iran, North Korea and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5x8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}