Apparently, it was more than just words. Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic blogs:
Before President Obama announced last night that he would work with Congress and the Pentagon to end the military’s ban on service by gays and lesbians, the White House consulted Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to sign off on the language he planned to use, administration officials said. They did. “The Pentagon is with us,” the official said.
Because homos want to go to foreign countries and kill people for the oil companies too, dammit!
This article appears in January 29 • 2010.