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The Senate vote was 65-31. The House had passed an identical version of the bill, 250-175, on Wednesday.
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Sen. John McCain, Obama's Republican rival in 2008, led the opposition. The Arizona Republican acknowledged he didn't have the votes to stop the bill and he blamed elite liberals with no military experience for pushing their social agenda on troops during wartime.
"They will do what is asked of them,'' McCain said of service members. "But don't think there won't be a great cost.''
In the end, six Republican senators broke with their party on the procedural vote to let the bill move ahead and swung behind repeal after a recent Pentagon study concluded the ban could be lifted without hurting the ability of troops to fight.
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Fuck you John McCain. Elite liberals as well as the majority of every branch of the military, right? Fuck you for flipflopping on this issue so much you're like a dying fish.
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Adm. Mike Mullen and Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, respectively, have said the fear of disruption is overblown. They note the Pentagon's finding that 92 percent of troops who believe they have served with a gay person saw no effect on their units' morale or effectiveness. Among Marines in combat roles who said they have served alongside a gay person, 84 percent said there was no impact.
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All I have to say is ABOUT DAMN TIME.
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