Aug 24 05:57 PM US/Eastern
General James Conway of the US Marines
The top US Marine said that most Marines would prefer not to share a room with gay comrades, despite plans by President Barack Obama to lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military. General James Conway, pictured in 2007, said if the law is changed the Marine Corps might look for volunteers willing to share quarters with gays as some “very religious” members objected to rooming with homosexuals.
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Aug 24 (Reuters)
USMA Commandant General james Conway
President Barack Obama’s July 2011 date to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is giving the Taliban “sustenance,” the head of the U.S. Marines said on Tuesday.
The comments by Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway are the most blunt comments by a top military official of a timetable widely criticized by opposition Republicans, who say it empowers the Taliban to wait out an eventual U.S. withdrawal.
“In some ways, we think right now it is probably giving our enemy sustenance,” Conway said of the July 2011 deadline.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Sue Pleming; Editing by Bill Trott)
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